Moving !

Hi

I am moving my blog to http://yarnside.blogspot.com to accomodate more of the stuff I talk about. All the posts on this one will be deleted in two weeks. Please update your bookmarks and feed options.

I will be moving all the links to my videos, designs etc over there in the meantime.

My ravelry profile has also changed from eSSKnits to YarnSide.

See you there.

Stash Buster Camera Cozy

I remember when I had made my Thrifty Camera Cozy and taken it to office, one of my colleagues Stephanie had asked me to make one for her too. I promised to make her one instantly and even started one in pink. However, I did not like how it turned out so I frogged it. Later on with the turn of events, it so happened that now its been a year, I have moved to California from New York and Stephanie still doesn't have what was promised. Finally, now, after a year, I realized her birthday is coming up, so I am going to gift her a cozy.

I just randomly came up with this design while playing with some stash cotton ease. Love how it turned out so I went ahead a wrote a pattern for the same. It can be found here on Ravelry. Direct Download Here

In other new it feels great and encouraging to see more projects of my designs.

Crocheted Headband

Garnet

Hoping to see more soon.

Plus I have added two more crochet tutorial videos to my Youtube Channel. I hope you find these useful.

I went to Maker Faire

Warning: Photo heavy post.

All the while we were in NY/ NJ I used to read blogs about the fun people had at the Maker Faire and wondered if I would get a chance to see it.

Well this weekend was my chance and I made sure I used it. I dragged everyone at home along with me... MIL, FIL, Hubby and Baby :D and we all had great fun.

Time goes on...

and so does life... Baby is growing in all ways and has started responding to everything he sees :)

Meanwhile, my knitting/ crocheting has also been going on. I will try and talk about all of them in subsequent posts.

For today I present baby leggings. Ravelry Link here. Web Link here. This is a lovely pattern by Ruth Bendig and has kept my baby warm for days (yeah right, cause he grew out of them very fast. :P )

This is how they fit Ansh after a week of making them. Since he has longer limbs they were still a bit small. However, now they only reach below his knee. Still they were very warm and he was quite comfortable wearing them. If looking for a project for a newborn, this could be one possibility. I love them.

Hey Baby !

All Good News today !!!

Meet our son !

Since you can understand how much time I must have at hand to write a post, I am only sharing the basic recipe of the hats I made for him.

Abbreviations:

K  Knit

P Purl

K2tog Knit 2 stitches together

Requirements:

Sock or Worsted Weight yarn

4 dpns or circular needles in appropriate size.

Main Body of Hat

Row 1: Cast on a multiple of 4 stitches. I cast on 64 stitches using sock weight yarn and 48 stitches for worsted weight yarn.

Row 2 - 10 : K2 P2 around

Row 11: K all around

Repeat row 11 till the size is enough to cover the head of the baby.

Next row start crown shaping.

Crown Shaping for Sock Weight Yarn

Row 1: K8, K2tog

Row 2: K around

Row 3: K7, K2tog

Row 4: K around

Row 5: K6, K2tog

Row 6: K around

Row 7: K5, K2tog

Row 8: K around

Row 9: K4, K2tog

Crown Shaping for Worsted Weight Yarn

Follow steps from Row 5 of Crown shaping for sock weight yarn.

Finishing

Cut the working yarn leaving a 6 inch tail. Thread this through a tapestry needle and sew through the remaining stitches on the needles while taking them off the needle. Pull through and secure top. For added finishing sew a pom pom to the top of the hat.

Please email me if you have any questions.

As mentioned in the page footer, the recipe is for personal use only.