Emotional Support Chicken #3 has moved to the chicken breast portion.
These short rows really do have me counting all the time. It is fairly ingenious construction with a nice finished look and short rows in garter are my favorite. I need to complete another step and then I think I will work in the darker brown.
This chicken will go to another work friend who could benefit from an office support chicken. I just need to get the gift package together…
Happy Knitting!!
I still have some Emotional Support Chicken mojo after finishing #2. So here comes #3!
I had PB and Jellybean pick out the the next handspun. PB picked some Romney 2-ply and I grabbed the leftover of the unknown brown 3-ply and the creamy romney white leftovers. I managed to get the tail feather completed and connected.
I think I am going to mix the accent colors of the white and dark brown colors against the main medium brown color. I have enough to play around with color on this one. And still have leftovers for #4.
Happy Knitting!!
I have decided to swatch for my Love Note. And I learned some lessons.
First up, this is not the fingering weight yarn I plan to make the sweater out of. I will be playing yarn chicken with my Old Rusted Chair sock yarn so I pulled some fingering scraps from my leftovers to swatch with that has the same yarn base.
I knit the top swatch first with the pattern recommended gauge. And boy howdy….was she tight. I was easily 4+ stitches over gauge. So I went up from US 7s to US 9s. And a bath for both led to me to understand that US 9s are what I need. My row gauge is off a little but I can account for that.
Just need to get my other WIPs clear so I can start this! Happy Knitting!!
Emotional Support Chicken #2 is done and stuffed!
Pattern: Emotional Support Chicken by Annette Corsino (Rav link)
Yarn: My own (early) handspun
Needles: US 7s
Mods: None
This finished chicken used up just slightly over 200 grams of handspun yarn. I have a nice size chunk of the cream left and a tiny knob of the brown. I think the finished chicken looks nice but is a little body heavy. It was interested to stuff compared to the first one. I ended up using more stuffing to create a more balanced chicken.
PB has named this one Ruby and she is a little harder to find a nice pose. But I am getting ready to box her up and send her to Aunt Barb.
Dare I knit a 3rd chicken? Happy Knitting!!
This is my finished Crown Town Hat!
Pattern: Crown Town Hat by Carina Spencer (Rav Link)
Yarn: TreasureGoddess Merino Sport Treasures is Poseidon’s Trident and Making Waves
Needles: US 5s
Mods: So many. I knit the colorwork backwards, I added unnecessary rows to the main body, I worked the KC as stranded colorwork, and I decreased at a faster rate to mitigate the elongated body.
It really turned out okay-ish. It is just a big hat. Which should be fine since my dad has a big head. The finished hat used just over 200 yards of yarn between the two colors and the finished hat weighs 75 grams.
I do think I will attempt a second one to see if I can get it right and follow all the rules this time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn!
Happy Knitting!!
In addition to working my Crown Town Hat, I also grabbed my Conference 2025 Hat to finish. Felt fitting to finish this at a conference. I really didn’t have much left to do, just a little hat body and then the crown decreases.
I didn’t blog much about this one. It has been my work backpack knitting for the last several months. A few stitches here and then and finally wrapping up in a days long conference had this done.
Pattern: My own 88 stitch beanie “recipe”
Yarn: Malabrigo Rios in Ankara Green
Needles: US 8s
I used roughly 80 grams or 168 yards of yarn to finish this hat. It finished out and blocked out to be a nice adult medium to large ish hat. I just need to install a label on this one and put in my hat stash. And pick out my next skein of yarn for my next backpack project.
Happy Knitting!!
Okay, I have regrets. I definitely added more rows in the body of my Crown Town Hat that I should have. This hat is looking…..big….
I attended a women’s conference this week and tried to finish my hat WIPs sitting in big ballrooms. My Royals hat was first up and I finished the “crown” colorwork. I still have the crown decreases to finish and that is also going to add length. So this will be an adult LARGE hat. Sigh….I should have not listened to my anxiety and followed the pattern.
Good news, I have enough yarn I think I can make a second hat. Then I can fix the inside and backwards words/colorwork and then make the right size.
Mildly Happy Knitting!!
Emotional Chicken #2 has reached flat chicken status.
I really like this mix of colors for this version. The red and yellow especially pop against the cream. I do think I possibly messed up the breast section. This chicken looks a lot deeper and rounder than my first one.
I still need to knit the bottom piece and do a lot of seaming. And procure more poly-fil as I used up my stash on the first chicken. That bag lasted me more years than I care to admit. I’m interested to see if new or better options exist now!
Happy Knitting!!
My second Emotional Support Chicken now has a prominent…..chest….
I am working on a deadline so it feels great to make it past all these short rows. I don’t mind short rows in garter since they just disappear. But man, it is a lot of counting. I need to find the contrast color and get started on the chicken’s neck. I did make one modification, I didn’t crochet the tail together and I chose to three needle bind off them together.
Turns out I will still have leftovers from this chicken as well. I was sort of hoping to use up this stash so a third franken chicken might be in order….
Happy Knitting!!!
The rear end of Emotional Support Chicken #2 is done and now I’m moving into the body.
I have been weighing my handspun as I go to make sure I won’t run out. I thought it might be prudent as I’m using up the partial skeins from my first one. I am progressing well far and shouldn’t have play “yarn chicken”. I think the pun applies well to this project!
Happy Knitting!!
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