Cupcake Dishcloth

UPDATE!
This pattern is now available as a free PDF download on Ravelry.

Anyone who has been reading this blog for any period of time is not surprised that my knitting and cupcake addictions finally gave birth to a knitted cupcake. I present to you my knitted cupcake dishcloth and pattern:

Cupcake Dishcloth
Pattern by Carissa Bonham

***This pattern may only be used for personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of this pattern and the resulting cupcake including using the pattern for publishing or to sell patterns or finished products requires the specific written permission of the author***

Gauge = 17st = 4” stockinette (sz. 10 needles) although gauge doesn’t matter too much

Yarn = 1 ball Sugar’n Cream Brand cotton yarn in cream (color A)

& 1 ball Sugar’n Cream Brand cotton yarn in hot purple (color B)

Waste yarn in contrasting color from color A and B for provisional cast on

Notions: 3 size 10 knitting needles

Size H crochet hook

Blunt Needle

Bottom of cupcake

CO 24 stitches using long tail cast on in color A

Row 1 (RS): P1 *K3, P1* (5x), K2, P1
Row 2 (WS): P3 *K1, P3* (5x), P1

Repeat rows 1 and 2 six times more times. Set Aside

Frosting
Using crochet hook and waste yarn CO 24 stitches using provisional cast on

Using Color B, knit 2 rows of garter stitch (all K stitches)

Row 3: K2, SSK, K to last 4 stitches, K2TOG, K2
Row 4: K across
Row 5: K across

Repeat rows 3-5 twice more

*SSK, SSK, K to last 4 stitches, K2TOG, K2TOG
Next row: K across*

Repeat the two rows between the *’s once more

Next row: SSK, SSK, K2, K2TOG, K2TOG
Last row: SSK, K2TOG, K2TOG

BO remaining stitches

Joining the cupcake pieces

Turn frosting piece over and use knitting needle to pick up color B stitches from provisional CO
Count to make sure you have 24 stitches
Unzip provisional CO
Set aside

Pick up the bottom piece of the cupcake set aside earlier
Join color B and knit across one row

Hold the bottom and frosting pieces, wrong sides together, with the needles pointing the same direction.

Use third knitting needle to knit through the first stitch on each needle and drop off original needle

Continue across until all stitches have been knit onto the third needle

Frosting Ruffle
This might be a little different than anything you’re used to but I think it provides the best ruffle effect.

Hold the knitting needle with the live stitches in your left hand and hold the crochet hook in your right hand. Using the crochet hook as if it were a knitting needle, knit the first stitch off of the needle

You will now have 23 stitches on your needle and 1 loop on your crochet hook

Use crochet hook to SC three times into the base of the knit stitch

Once again, *use crochet hook as a knitting needle to knit the next stitch off the needle (there will now be two loops on the crochet hook), wrap yarn from back to front on crochet hook and draw through the two loops on crochet hook (there will now be one stitch on hook), work 2 SC into base of stitch*

Repeat directions between *’s until no more stitches remain on knitting needle.

Break yarn and draw through loop.

Finishing
Weave in ends

If anyone decides to knit this, please let me know! I'd love to see pictures.

To contact me regarding permission to use this pattern for anything other than personal, non-commercial use, please contact me by posting a comment in this post (being sure to fill out the e-mail address field).

Thanks!

A Sweater Grows Near Boston

Progress on my Wicked Sweater by Zephyr for the SKC KAL:

JANUARY 14, 2007

JANUARY 23, 2007

The color is more true in the first picture (hubby forgot the flash on the 2nd one). But the sleeves are off and now I'm working on the main body. (If you missed the previous sweater post, I'm doing it in Paton's Classic Merino in "Denim")

My sad little intarsia project

Sassy gave me this sweet knit dish cloth for Christmas. I really like it and decided I needed some new ones so that I could have more dish cloths to wash with while the first one is being washed. I made a plain raspberry one but then decided I'd try a skull.


I've never done intarsia before and (stupidly) I didn't bother looking up directions I figured I'd just tie on my other-colored yarn and go. I had the vague impression that I was supposed to be carrying the yarn across the cloth, but being a dish cloth, I didn't want to have extra bits of yarn to snag. So...I didn't do that part and sadly my cloth 1) has holes in it and 2) I messed up the counting or something becasue he looks like his jaw is displaced or something. sad.

I am not defeated! I will try again! And maybe this time I'll read some directions...

BookWorm Hats and Free Pattern

BookWorm Hat Pattern
by Carissa Bonham
***This pattern may only be used for personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of this hat including using the pattern for group knitting, publishing or to sell requires the specific written permission of the author (that would be me)***

Gauge = 8st = 3”

Yarn = 1 ball Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick in Pine 182 (color A)

& 1 ball Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick in Grass 131 (color B)

Needles: sz. 11, straight needles or size needed to optain gauge

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Cast on 59 stitches with color A

Work in St. st for 4 rows

Switch to color B for 4 rows

Alternate 4 row sections of each color until there are 6 stripes worked or until unrolled hat measures 6”.

Switch to next color and K1, *K6, K2tog* seven times, K2

Purl across

K1, *K5, K2tog* seven times, K2

Purl across

Change colors and K1, *K4, K2tog* seven times, K2

Purl across

K1, *K3, K2tog* seven times, K2

P2, *P2tog, P2* six times, P2tog, P3

Change colors and K1, *K1, K2tog* seven times, K2

Purl across

K1,*K2tog* 8 times

*P2tog* 4 times, P1

Leaving an 8 inch tail trim yarn and thread through remaining stitches on a blunt needle, pulling tight.

Alternating the yarn (so that colors match up) sew up seam with mattress stitch being careful to be sure stripes match up across seam.

When you get to the last stripe along cast on edge, sew seam on WS so that it doesn’t show when edge is rolled up.

Weave in ends

**Tip: to decrease the amount of finishing work required, instead of cutting and re-tying yarn at each color change, allow the color you are not working with to dangle and allow it to run along the side (it will be hidden inside the seam when done).

If anyone decides to knit this hat, please let me know! I'd love to see pictures.

To contact me regarding permission to use this hat for anything other than personal, non-commercial use, please contact me by posting a comment in this post (being sure to fill out the e-mail address field).

Thanks!

Christmas Knitting Round 3: HatMania

Hats Hats Hats!!!!

I sure hope people like hats because it looks like that's what almost everyone is getting for Christmas this year.....

Purple Fuzz

This is the Lion Brand Velvet Spun hat I made for my Husband's Aunt in Lavender on size 11 needles. Loosely based on the kittyville hat pattern (see below).

My husband calls this the
"Hospital Patient Hat"
(I don't think it's that bad!)

Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick and Quick in Sky Blue for my Sister-In-Law Crystal. Knit on sz. 11 needles. Loosely based on a modified version of the top-secret meathead hat pattern

Matching Acorn Hats

These are matching hats for my nephew and his dad (that would be my brother-in-law). Hats were free-styled out of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Chunky Yarn in some brown color (I lost the label) on size 11, 10, and 9 needles (decreased the size as I got further up the hat).

Falicia's Kittyville Hat

Kittyville hat made for my brother's girlfriend out of Red Heart Yarn in black on size 7 DPN's.

BookWorm Hats

These are complementary hats I made for my husband's parents out of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick yarn in Grass and Pine on size 11 needles. I came up with the pattern myself and will list it in my next post.

And now it's time for Carissa's Infamous BLOG QUIZ!!!!!

Christmas Knitting, round 1

I've been doing a lot of knitting for Christmas. A lot of it is a bit hush-hush (the recipients either read or know about my blog), but some things are not-so-secret. This is one of my latest Christmas Knitting creations:

It's called a "Meathead hat" (don't ask....I don't know where the name comes from). The pattern is by Larissa Brown and I made it as part of the group of test knitters for a knitting book she is doing.

I was originally thinking I'd give it to my 9-year-old sister for Christmas but then Cambria (the 22-year-old sister) called and said she wanted it instead. Hmmmm.

Since there is still the possibility that I might need to send it to Larissa to take pictures for her book (I'll know by the end of the week) it might turn out that nobody will get it for Christmas.

I guess it will be one big surprise.