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Baby Ripple Hat – Crochet Pattern

Geek2Nurse — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:20:07 +0000

Adapted from Lyn’s Baby’s Round Ripple Afghan pattern

Baby/sport yarn with an F hook makes a newborn-sized hat

Round 1: Ch 4, join. Ch 3, make 13 DC in loop, join. (14 St)

Round 2: Ch 3. *In 2nd st from hook, DC-Ch 2-DC (V-stitch made)* six times; DC in base of starting Ch 3, Ch 2, join. (7 V-stitches)

Round 3: Sl St in first V-stitch space, chain 3, DC-Ch2-2DC in same space. *2DC-Ch2-2DC in next V-stitch space* six times; join.

Round 4: Ch 3, 2DC-Ch2-2DC in V-space, DC in next st, *skip 2 st, DC in next st, 2DC-Ch2-2DC in V-space, DC in next st* six times; join.

Round 5: Ch 3, DC in next st, 2DC-Ch2-2DC in V-space, DC in next 2 st, *skip 2 st, DC in next 2 st, 2DC-Ch2-2DC in V-space, DC in next 2 st* six times; join.

Round 6: Ch 3, DC in next 2 st, DC-Ch2-DC in V-space, DC in next 3 st, *skip 2 st, DC in next 3 st, DC-Ch2-DC in V-space, DC in next 3 st* six times; join.

Rounds 7-16: Repeat round 6 ten more times. [Corrected 1/5/10]

Round 17: Ch 1, SC in next 3 st, 2SC-Ch2-2SC in V-space, SC in next 4 st, *skip 2 st, SC in next 4 st, SC-Ch2-SC in V-space, SC in next 4 st* six times; join.

Mittens

Round 1: Ch 4, join. Ch 3, 9 DC in loop, join.

Round 2: Ch 3, DC in same st. *DC in next st, 2DC in next st.* Repeat around; DC in last st, join.

Round 3: Ch 3, DC around as in Round 2 (alternating 2 DC & 1 DC). Join.

Round 4: Ch 3; 1 DC in each st around, join.

Rounds 5-10: Repeat Round 4 until mittens reach desired length (mittens in photo have 10 rounds of DC).

Round 11: Ch 1, SC in each stitch around, join.

Finishing: Weave narrow ribbon or baby elastic through 2nd from last row to hold them on baby’s wrists.

Single-Bed Machine Knit Sock Pattern

Geek2Nurse — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:50:56 +0000

As I mentioned, I’ve been working on coming up with a pattern for socks I can make on my knitting machine without a ribber. Here’s the result!

Download it here: Single-Bed Machine Knit Sock Pattern

My Latest Obsession

Geek2Nurse — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:45:33 +0000

With nursing school behind me, I’ve finally found time to set up the hand-me-down knitting machine my mom gave me some 20+ years ago and start figuring out how to use it. As always, when I find something new to do, it takes my life completely over for a while, so knitting is pretty much all that’s been happening around here recently! Jeff the Great Enabler has cheered me on, sought out new yarn stores to take me to, and enthusiastically praised each item I’ve produced. I *do* love that man!

Today I put the finishing touches on version 1.0 of my first original knitting machine pattern. Original, in this context of course, means “using the best ideas from a dozen or so other sources and combining them into something I can call my own.”

For whatever reason, one of the first things I decided that I wanted to knit was socks. This was a problem, since I don’t have a ribbing attachment, which means I can’t knit socks “in the round,” or without seams in them. Since I have ADD, I can’t stand to have any sort of annoying lumps, bumps, scratchy bits, or labels in my clothing, so I really didn’t want any seams, but for now I’m stuck with them and have to make the best of it.

In spite of having made it all the way through nursing school, I still have a lot of engineer-type traits, including always looking for better ways to do things. So my challenge was to come up with a sock pattern with the smallest, flattest seam possible, so that until I find that elusive ribbing attachment that will work with my Brother KH-588 machine, I can still knit serviceable socks. As of today, I can now produce socks on my knitting machine which pass the ADD test — I can wear them all day without noticing the seam. Yay me!

I’ll post the pattern shortly. First I need to sleep. Stay tuned!

Evening at Home

Geek2Nurse — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:07:18 +0000

A long day at practicum… I decide to ignore the huge writing assignment looming over me and spend the evening goofing off. I’ve been trying to learn how to knit socks. It’s a coping mechanism for dealing with my ever-advancing case of senioritis. I pull out my sock project and the cryptic unillustrated completely impossible to understand instructions, and start trying to make sense of them while simultaneously not poking out either of my eyes. I’m soon engrossed, my fingers tangled in what looks like a hopeless snarl of yarn, tiny double-pointed needles, and something that, if you squint and hold your mouth just right, might actually be starting to resemble a baby sock. (There’s no baby. In totally amateurish fashion, I misled myself into thinking a little sock would be easier to make than a big sock. Ha.)

Jeff comes in and starts channel-surfing, occasionally glancing over at the snarl in my lap. Suddenly his voice breaks my reverie. “So why is it so hard to knit socks, anyway?”

I return, with some effort, from my hyperfocus universe, and look blankly at him for a moment. (This is mainly because I’ve momentarily lost contact with my speech centers, which are nonessential for knitting tasks.) Finally I find my voice. “Because. They have to be shaped like feet.”

“Oh…yeah,” he says, and flips the channel again. Dorothy and the Tin Man vanish, replaced by a bloody-faced Rocky Balboa, winning his 6,982nd fight. I return to my knitting. Life is good. Quirky, but good.