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Violin Chin Rest Cozy

free knitting pattern for a violin chin rest cozy

 

Knit yourself a cozy for your violin’s chin rest. The sample cozy fits snugly on a standard full size violin chin rest.

YARN: Leftover sock yarn, <50 yards, i.e. this sample was done with Knit Picks Stroll in black.
NEEDLES: Size 2, double pointed (DPN) for knitting in the round.

  • Row 1:  K12 across the first needle; K12 across the second needle. It’s tight here, but a third needle is added in the next row.
  • Row 2:  K1, Kfb, K4, using a third DPN for ease: K5, Kfb; K1, Kfb, K9, Kfb;
  • Row 3:  K14; K14;
  • Row 4:  K1, Kfb, K11, Kfb; K1, Kfb, K11, Kfb;
  • Row 5:  K16; K16;
  • Row 6:  K1, Kfb, K13, Kfb; K1, Kfb, K13, Kfb;
  • Row 7:  K18; K18;
  • Row 8:  K1, Kfb, K15, Kfb; K1, Kfb, K15, Kfb;
  • Row 9:  K20; K20;
  • Row 10:  (K1, Kfb, K17, Kfb) x 2
  • Rows 11-13:  K22; K22;
  • Row 14:  K1, SSK, K19; K20, K2tog;
  • Row 15:  K21; K21;
  • Row 16:  K1, SSK, K18; K19, K2tog;
  • Row 17:  K20; (K1, P1) x 10;
  • Row 18:  K1, SSK, K17; (K1, P1) x 9, K2tog;
  • Row 19:  K19; (K1, P1) x 9, K1;
  • Row 20:  K1, SSK, K16; (K1, P1) x 3, BO8, P1, K1, K2tog;
  • now work back and forth
  • Row 21:  K18; (K1, P1) x 2, K1, Sl1;  turn
  • Row 22:  (K1, P1) x 2, K2tog, P1, P2tog, P12, P2tog, P1, P1, P2tog, Sl1; turn
  • Row 23:  K21, P1, K1, Sl1; turn
  • Row 24:  K1, P1, K1, P2tog, P1, P2tog, P11, P2tog, P2, Sl1; turn
  • Row 25:  K20, Sl1; turn
  • Row 26:  K1, P2tog, P1, P2tog, P14, Sl1; turn
  • Row 27:  (K1, P1) x 9, Sl1; turn
  • Row 28:  K1, (K1, P1) x 8 K1, Sl1; turn
  • Row 29:  (K1, P1) x 9, Sl1; turn
  • Row 30:  K1, (P2tog) x 9; turn
  • Row 31:  (K2tog) x 5;
  • BO all stitches; (5 stitches)

key:
CO = Cast On
K = Knit
P = Purl
Kfb = increase a stitch by knitting into both the front and back of a loop.
K2tog = Knit 2 stitches together
SSK = Knit 2 stitches together with the opposite slant by slipping 2 stitches knitwise, moving them back to the left needle, and knitting them together.
P2tog = Purl 2 stitches together
(bla)x3= do “bla” three times
Sl1 = Slip 1 stitch purlwise and leave the yarn in the front for a clean edge.

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Trick or Treaters

Jaywalkers knit with Light Brown Hare’s Three Hares sock yarn, colorway: Prometheus Fire.

 …my life now lies in your hands
…If I would confess I should save my life
Oh Lord help me
I am wholly innocent of such wickedness
God knows I am innocent
I do plead not guilty
I can deny it to my dying day…
I am no witch…

photos taken at the Salem Witch Memorial and at the Bewitched statue at the other end of town by Aram Comjean.

See more Jaywalkers on Ravelry:
And have a look at LBH’s otherhand dyed yarn.

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Tea Time-Lord Cozy

Tea Time Lord Cozy

This one has been in my queue for a while. I have always wanted to make a tea-cozy but didn’t want to do the regular one everyone expects to see. And I’ve always wanted to knit up the tardis chart by Penwiperbut didn’t want to have a stuffed plush around collecting dust.  It all came together when I found this white Denby teapot.

Tea Time Lord Cozy with Denby Teapot
Tea Time Lord Cozy with Denby Teapot

It knit up rather tall, even with edits to the orignal chart, but it worked out in the end because I can fit my square tea tin in the top to fill it out so it stands up right.

Tea Time Lord Cozy with Cup
Tea Time Lord Cozy with Cup

Yeah… luv it. 😉

Tea Time Lord Cozy
Tea Time Lord Cozy

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Mom Likes Blue and Asymmetry

Who likes taking photos of their knitting projects? I do! I do!

Thought my Mom would appreciate some hand-knit socks; blue is her favorite, and she was always a big fan of asymmetry… (is that weird?)

How’s this for a lesson in depth of field?

I don’t care that the table cloth is wrinkled… I like this photo.

Not much else to say … this pattern is Cookie A’s Rick from her book “Sock Innovation”.

Have a look at all the other version of this pattern at ravelry:

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Badminton Baktus

A KAL for the BSGFPB in May, the lovely and simple Baktus. I had some cotton sockotta yarn I bought ages ago that I never felt compelled to use for socks. After seeing all the work people do with sock yarns for scarves on ravelry.com I decided to join in on the knit-a-long with this stash buster. The pattern is available for free at flickr, where you can see many other versions with all kinds of yarns, and also look at ravelry.

I love it, it’s a nice, light scarf for the spring, summer, and fall. It’s low maintenance since I can throw it in the wash, the tassels won’t even fray. They are the “gossamer tassel” from the Vogue book, Knitting on the Edge.

my baktus scarf

EDIT: I lost this in the wind at Logan Airport. … such is life.

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Mini Mochi Akimbo

This may be my favorite project ever, I loved the yarn, I loved the simplicity of the pattern, and I couldn’t stop taking photos of it.

Here’s how it went down.

Taking a weekend away to drive up to New Hampshire, we stopped in Newburyport for a late breakfast. I pulled out my ‘yarn store finder’ app from the ravelry.com people and discovered I was 43 feet away from a yarn store, A Loom with a View.  Gotta buy something, it’s vacation, right? 43 feet? Hell ya.

So I came out with 2 skeins of Mini-mochi and one of a Madeline Tosh Sock yarn. I took these photos with my iPhone using the white bag they came in as a lightbox, I uploaded them to flickr right away.

In New Hampshire I surfed ravelry and found a lovely triangular shawl someone did with Mini-mochi and figured I’d skip socks this time and try my first shawl. Once I got back home I made my shawl decision, Stephen West’s Akimbo shawl.  I worked with it as the Mini-mochi colors came, and decided I didn’t like it enough. Meh…

So I pulled it all out, down to a nub, and then considered speaking to a therapist.  I cut out all the blue after seeing that there was more orange and pink than blue after looking at the color cards.

Then I went to town on this, keeping the blue aside until I got to the contrasting colors. Eventually I realized I needed to order a 3rd Mini-mochi skein from the store in Newburyport to finish this project… but here’s how it came out. Love, love, love it.

I used this for my March project in the BSGFPB game we have going at ravelry. And it ended up winning me a hand dyed skein from Kesten. (!!) So awesome.