The Butts

In my journey to become a well refined artist, I am attempting to knit the world "Butt". So far it is not where I want it to be. I still have yet to learn more about intarsia and fair isle knitting. With the first Butt, it curled a bunch especially between the two Ts and the U and T. I had to cut them in the back order to make it more legible. I don't know how to make these without curling them so much. I want them to be flatter. I think the second butt should have been thicker. I'm going to do some more research for intarsia and fair isle and see if there's a way I can write Butt without pulling so much in the back. 

AHH

Hello, fans. I am back again! I have used the technique of intarsia to create this small square that say the word, "AHH" on it. I think I would like it better if the lettering were thicker. I think it would make it more legible. I made the lettering myself by making a chart on paper first. I started with the purl stitch to set it up and then set it with the knit stitch. this was made using the stockinette stitch. It's really fun doing intarsia! You combine the two (or more yarn) you use and twist them when you use them intermittently in order to prevent holes. I think I should have used fair isle knitting, however for this because intarsia is typically used for a block pattern. For example, if the AHH was just a square, intarsia would work really well for this. Using intarsia for this made it so that back was scrunched up a little. It was mostly fine, though. I am still trying to figure out intarsia and fair isle more. I'm going to try out fair isle knitting, perhaps tomorrow. I think this is cool! I like it and I'm so excited to learn more about this!

My First Cable Hat!!!

I'm so excited! I completed my first cable hat and I really like it! I learned to cable awhile back, but never put it on anything. It turns out that it's not as hard as I thought. I decided to put my cables on a hat because they're fast to make, I know how to make them, and I can wear it now! A big mistake I used to make while cable knitting was not being consistent with putting the stitches on the cable knitting in font and then the next one in back, when it should be consistent with in front or in back. The brim of the hat is knit behind the stitch and purl one. Knitting behind the stitch is so cool! Instead of going through the knit stitch through the front, you go behind! 

I really love this yarn that I used for the hat. It has a very beautiful earthy tone and I like how the other colors work into it. It looks very pretty, especially with more complicated styles of knitting. Cables are not so complicated to me, now that I've practiced them a lot. Isn't that so wonderful to be able to say that now something that was once hard now comes more naturally to you? I love that! It's such a nice moment to finally get something that you've been trying to work on for a long time. It happens a lot with knitting and it's so satisfying when your frustration becomes satisfaction. 

I've really been enjoying the song from the movie Coraline called Exploration. They play it when she's exploring the house because she's bored in the beginning of the movie. It's a really sweet song. The Laika films (the production company that created Coraline and other amazing films) is so fantastic. They so carefully produce every item with so much detail and work hard to create their films. It's so wonderful to see and makes me want to work that hard on my art. That's why I'm going to keep pushing myself in my knitting. Knitting is very special to me and I haven't had that much time to work on it. I am still working on my sack, however. It is about halfway done. I left it at school so that I can focus on more complicated projects during winter break. 

What's That? A Hat. A Crazy Funky Junky Hat.

Good evening, folks. 

Welcome to another entry of Sarit Knits. At the beginning of November I made a hat for my sibling for our birthday! It is red because red is a color I associate with them. I started with ribbing for the base and then did a knit one, purl one for the rest of the hat. Maybe they're both called ribbing, but the base of the hat is knit two, purl two. I really like making hats because they're fast to make and easy to make, once you know how. This is not a crazy, funky, junky hat, but a regular one. For my siblings' birthday (and also mine), I wanted to do a theme for presents. This theme was "warmth" because I believe we all need warmth. This hat was an example of it. I had to do a pretty basic format because it was while I was in school and I didn't have much time to do something complicated. Having a basic form allows you to make something while doing other things.
Some things you can do while knitting something pretty basic:
1. Watch TV
2. Talk with friends
3. Knit and eat (high level stuff)
4. Knit while walking and then have people say "What are you doing" and then you not responding.
5. Knit while eating at the cafeteria so that you don't really have to participate in conversation, but can choose to from time to time. (See number 2 and 3)
and finally:
6. Knit while talking on the phone so that you can have a conversation, but also can zone out and focus on your knitting if you so choose.

Here are the lyrics to the song I am referencing in the title. It is from the TV show, Wizards of Waverly Place: 
What's that? A hat. Crazy funky junky hat
Overslept, hair's unsightly
Tryin' to look like Kiera Knightly
We've been there we've done that
We see right through your funky hat