I have finished my own half a ball of yarn wonder :) I certainly know what to knit with toes leftovers now :) Steps!
The self-striping yarn was the left over ball from a friends project. She knits after patterns and didn’t have a suitable pattern for only the one ball of yarn. Since I seldom knit from patterns she gave it to me so I could experiment with it :) Considering I didn’t like the colours the first time I saw the yarn I am very happy I knitted the steps. I think they turned out beautiful \o/
The yarn is Sisu Fantasy in 9367 buy the way. The producer Sandnes Garn doesn’t seem to have an English page. But there seems to be a lot of places on the nett using English selling their products. I think the quality of the Sisu yarns are very good, and use them quite a lot. I knitted my steps on 2.50mm bamboo needles. I do have small feet (European 35, UK 2.5, Japanese 225, and I can never figure out what in US size), but I am impressed by the amount of yarn left over after finishing both my steps:
The leftovers are in bits and pieces because I had to fiddle to get all the colours in the yarn on one step. And then I had to fiddle some more to get the second step equal to the first one :) But the leftovers are soon to be a cell phone cover and an mp3 player cover….
3 Comments
January 4, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Those are so cute! Was that your own pattern?
January 5, 2008 at 3:45 am
yes they are my own pattern :)
January 7, 2008 at 7:43 pm
these are adorable! I love how the self-striping yarn turned out. Thanks for visiting my blog — I will most certainly post some pictures from those pattern books. looking forward to carving out some time to sit down and comb through them for inspiration.