Erica’s Blog

Lookie what ‘Nette gave me last night as a belated bday gift:

 Yupp, a Namaste Executive Bag.  Wow!  I feel so…so…hip and cool!  I love that it’s a combo knitting bag & purse.  Way better than tossing my wallet, keys & cell phone into the depths of my current bag.  The only bummer will be not having my family pictures on my bag like I do now.  I’ll have to figure this out…

THANKS, ‘NETTE!!!!  You are TOO generous!  (Not that I’m refusing the gift or anything.  )

This is the second of the Fun Fur hats for charity.  I’ve got one more on the needles now in some Fun Fur Stripes in Raiders colors, then I’m going to call it quits.  I’ve got far too many things on the needles right now and need to get back to some overdue promised things (Nana’s wreath, Scott’s scarf, Auntie’s mosaic lunchbag)…

I promised Kat the details on Baby Keiko’s kimono, so here goes…

Outside

 “Built-in” side ties.  This is on the left front.  When you get to the row where you want the tie (for the upper one, the row where you stop the increasing), on the end that will eventually be the seam side, you CO 30 sts.  Knit the next 2 rows, then BO the 30 sts.  Voila!  A tie.  When you do the seam, you fold the tie forward before you sew that section. 

 “Built-in” ties on right front.  On the row where you finish increasing, at the non-seam edge, you CO 30 sts.  Knit the next 2 rows, then on the next row (heading back toward the seam edge), you CO the 30 sts.  Do the same where you want the lower one.  Voila!  Built-in ties!

 The inside “built-in” ties.  For the ones coming from the left front (the solid white side), I did them like previously described EXCEPT, they’re only 2 rows, so you CO the 30 sts, then bind off the 30 right away.  I figured that thinner, less bulky ties were better for the inside.  B/c the ones on the seam side were an afterthought (if they were truly built in, they would have been knit when I did the back, but I hadn’t come up with this idea yet when I did the back), I just picked up 2 sts where I wanted the tie, knit for a bunch of rows, the bound off. 

 A (marginally) better picture of the afterthought ties.

And there you have it.  Knit on.