Friday, August 04, 2006
Help requested re: bib
Hi, all.
I finally got a chance to try the burpcloth pattern (I love it, although it's more dull to knit than, say, a ballband....) and I wanted to make a bib to match. I thought it would be cute to do a bib in one color with the other color border all around. But I'm not a talented-enough knitter to figure out how to do that. I started with yellow and knit 3 rows on the bottom of the bib, then decided to do a 3 stitch yellow border on each side, with orange in the middle (see pic). But I immediately figured out that the two wouldn't be attached. So I started just wrapping the yarns around each other but that looked messy, so I decided to alternate 3 yellow stitches and 4 yellow stitches, but that's showing little jogs on the right side... :(
So do any of you have advice for me? I'm not too far in now and could frog at this point, but I need to get it done for a shower gift this weekend!
Or any other ideas (other than striping) to use both colors for the bib would be helpful, too. I don't have enough of either yarn to do a full bib in each color, unfortunately...
Thanks in advance--SOOOO much! :)
bfmomma
I finally got a chance to try the burpcloth pattern (I love it, although it's more dull to knit than, say, a ballband....) and I wanted to make a bib to match. I thought it would be cute to do a bib in one color with the other color border all around. But I'm not a talented-enough knitter to figure out how to do that. I started with yellow and knit 3 rows on the bottom of the bib, then decided to do a 3 stitch yellow border on each side, with orange in the middle (see pic). But I immediately figured out that the two wouldn't be attached. So I started just wrapping the yarns around each other but that looked messy, so I decided to alternate 3 yellow stitches and 4 yellow stitches, but that's showing little jogs on the right side... :(
So do any of you have advice for me? I'm not too far in now and could frog at this point, but I need to get it done for a shower gift this weekend!
Or any other ideas (other than striping) to use both colors for the bib would be helpful, too. I don't have enough of either yarn to do a full bib in each color, unfortunately...
Thanks in advance--SOOOO much! :)
bfmomma
# posted by bfmomma @ 11:07 AM 
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I made a bib using the baby genius design-- see my pic a ways below. But if you are short on yarn you may not have enough for a full bib in that pattern. I did another, shown in the same picture, where I knew I only had a bit of blue. It is striped but sort of randomly so and the amount of blue worked out just right with only a smidge left over. There is always intarsia- but I havne't ventured there yet. Or maybe you could add a couple other coordinating colors and make a log cabin bib? I did a log cabin dishcloth and adding straps would be a snap.
oooh.. log cabin sounds like a neat idea! I never thought about that! :) Those two colors and maybe white or cream or even red! cool!!!
and picking up stitches sounds good, too. Thank you! I swear my mind just does NOT function sometimes... :)
You could always use the border technique used for the Moderne Baby Blanket in the book. It makes a nice, crisp edging.
It appears that I was "intarsia-ing" correctly, but is it possible that it's because I was doing garter (and not stockinette) that's why the edges looked so funky?
and I decided to try to log-cabin it. Gotta get this thing made this weekend. I'll try to post pics when finished. Thanks for everyones help!
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