I went out on Thursday and picked up a stamp that said Hello Spring and I'm starting to believe it! But last week my brain didn't believe that Spring would ever come so I started knitting an ear warmer! I know! Crazy!!!🙄
It has been too warm lately for my touques that I knitted and thought that an ear warmer would be the next step down from that. I had picked out this pattern called Cozy Posy Ear Warmer but after I made four mistakes in the first ten rows I quit! I know. I'm a quitter. But not totally! 😉 I just decided to revise the pattern. The original pattern called for seed stitch(knit1, purl1, you knit the knits, purl the purls)worked over an even number of stitches and you alternate between row 1 and 2. This is fine if you can read your stitches or remember where you stopped, but I'm obviously not that person. I thought I was reading my stitches right and staying in pattern but when I looked back everything was wrong. Wrong wrong wrong!
I pulled the whole thing out (not very much) and decided to start again, but this time in my own pattern (pattern is at bottom of page!). It was just seed stitch but over an odd number of stitches (13). This way my pattern was knit 1, purl 1, repeat to the end, then knit 1. So you are always knitting the same row, while knitting the knit stitches and purling the purls. There is so guess work at all!!! 😄 Much easier for me!
This ear warmer knit up extremely fast. Maybe an hour and a half total and that was while talking and watching Canada's Worst Driver! I love this show on Crave TV! I made the ear warmer a little wider than the other pattern as I like my ears completely covered and I didn't actually measure it. I just kept wrapping it around my head as I knitted it and stopped when it felt long enough without being stretched too far. It will stretch a couple of inches! I ended it by wrapping yarn around the middle until it looked the way I wanted it to and tied off the yarn.
It has been too warm lately for my touques that I knitted and thought that an ear warmer would be the next step down from that. I had picked out this pattern called Cozy Posy Ear Warmer but after I made four mistakes in the first ten rows I quit! I know. I'm a quitter. But not totally! 😉 I just decided to revise the pattern. The original pattern called for seed stitch(knit1, purl1, you knit the knits, purl the purls)worked over an even number of stitches and you alternate between row 1 and 2. This is fine if you can read your stitches or remember where you stopped, but I'm obviously not that person. I thought I was reading my stitches right and staying in pattern but when I looked back everything was wrong. Wrong wrong wrong!
I pulled the whole thing out (not very much) and decided to start again, but this time in my own pattern (pattern is at bottom of page!). It was just seed stitch but over an odd number of stitches (13). This way my pattern was knit 1, purl 1, repeat to the end, then knit 1. So you are always knitting the same row, while knitting the knit stitches and purling the purls. There is so guess work at all!!! 😄 Much easier for me!
This ear warmer knit up extremely fast. Maybe an hour and a half total and that was while talking and watching Canada's Worst Driver! I love this show on Crave TV! I made the ear warmer a little wider than the other pattern as I like my ears completely covered and I didn't actually measure it. I just kept wrapping it around my head as I knitted it and stopped when it felt long enough without being stretched too far. It will stretch a couple of inches! I ended it by wrapping yarn around the middle until it looked the way I wanted it to and tied off the yarn.
Tada! Finished product! I love it! And now that it's Spring I have to figure out what the heck I'm going to knit next. Any suggestions?
Have a great week!
Aynsley
Have a great week!
Aynsley
My Seed Stitch Ear Warmer
Materials: Size 6.0 mm straight needles
Any color Bulky Yarn
(You can change these materials to suit your needs, just remember to measure your work!)
Pattern:
Cast on 13 stitches
Row 1: *Knit 1, Purl 1*, repeat to last stitch, Knit 1
Repeat this row until the Ear warmer fit around your head. (Or if doing this for someone else about 18-20" is the right size for an adult as it will stretch. For a teenager 18", child 14-16".)
Cast off with long tail after.
Seam the cast on edge with the cast off edge.
Take a long piece of yarn and wrap around your seamed edge (doesn't matter what side is the front as they are identical!). Keep wrapping around the yarn until the center looks right. I made my big as I didn't like it with only a few yarn wrap arounds. I wrapped my yarn approximately 20 times.
Tie your yarn off to another piece of yarn in the wrap around.
You're done!
This is very versatile as you can make the width bigger or smaller depending on your needs. Just make sure you cast on an ODD number of stitches!
Any color Bulky Yarn
(You can change these materials to suit your needs, just remember to measure your work!)
Pattern:
Cast on 13 stitches
Row 1: *Knit 1, Purl 1*, repeat to last stitch, Knit 1
Repeat this row until the Ear warmer fit around your head. (Or if doing this for someone else about 18-20" is the right size for an adult as it will stretch. For a teenager 18", child 14-16".)
Cast off with long tail after.
Seam the cast on edge with the cast off edge.
Take a long piece of yarn and wrap around your seamed edge (doesn't matter what side is the front as they are identical!). Keep wrapping around the yarn until the center looks right. I made my big as I didn't like it with only a few yarn wrap arounds. I wrapped my yarn approximately 20 times.
Tie your yarn off to another piece of yarn in the wrap around.
You're done!
This is very versatile as you can make the width bigger or smaller depending on your needs. Just make sure you cast on an ODD number of stitches!