A friend was having a Housewarming/Christmas party so I picked up this bottle of wine as part of a gift. The bottle looked a little bare though so I whipped up this cute hat and scarf set for him. :)
A fun quick pattern and great use of leftover yarn. The pattern is Chilled Wine Garb (rav link), also available here. The yarn was leftover Red Heart Ltd. Sport Solid in Cherry Red and Paddy Green. The scarf is just straight stockinette stitch and rolls itself into a nice tube. I simply carried the alternating colors up the side, weaving them to the edge as I went. A clever small pom-pom tutorial using straight needles was given by the pattern designer as well.
And what was the theme of this party? Ugly/Tacky Christmas Sweaters! Haha. Mr. PieKnits and I had fun looking through all the over-decorated sweaters of yore at the thrift stores trying to find the most obnoxious ones. The one I'm sporting he found, it has lots of bells, bows and baubles all over it (and shoulder pads, wow). I kept thinking how much I looked like my grade school teachers! It was quite hilarious though and I plan to re-donate the cloths and consider it part of my Xmas charity.
I also knit the little santa hat although I'm debating what to do with it. I was going to felt it but ran out of time so just wore it as-is and was thinking of just keeping it that way. But now I may rip it and reknit it in a slightly different shape to felt it. Hmmmm...
A fun quick pattern and great use of leftover yarn. The pattern is Chilled Wine Garb (rav link), also available here. The yarn was leftover Red Heart Ltd. Sport Solid in Cherry Red and Paddy Green. The scarf is just straight stockinette stitch and rolls itself into a nice tube. I simply carried the alternating colors up the side, weaving them to the edge as I went. A clever small pom-pom tutorial using straight needles was given by the pattern designer as well.
And what was the theme of this party? Ugly/Tacky Christmas Sweaters! Haha. Mr. PieKnits and I had fun looking through all the over-decorated sweaters of yore at the thrift stores trying to find the most obnoxious ones. The one I'm sporting he found, it has lots of bells, bows and baubles all over it (and shoulder pads, wow). I kept thinking how much I looked like my grade school teachers! It was quite hilarious though and I plan to re-donate the cloths and consider it part of my Xmas charity.
I also knit the little santa hat although I'm debating what to do with it. I was going to felt it but ran out of time so just wore it as-is and was thinking of just keeping it that way. But now I may rip it and reknit it in a slightly different shape to felt it. Hmmmm...
You can never go wrong with an ugly sweater party!! Great sweater choice.
Ugly Sweater Party? OMG.. that's GREAT! Your sweater is quite... uhm.. special. hee hee hee. I'm glad you're going to release it back into the wild after your done with it.. a sweater that amazing really needs to run free!! (snort)
Haha, you look like mom.
I hope you won the sweater contest; that sweater really is obnoxious!
As an aside, I made your Salted Nut Roll Bars from your 2006 blogiversary post, and Oh My Gosh how good they are - I'd forgotten (or maybe I'd blocked it out, because I knew if I made them myself I'd eat a whole pan...) They're going to be a hit among my folks this year, I know it!
That wine bottle lil' hat & scarf is just too cute for words! Definitely a small enough project to add to the que for Xmas!
I made your candy-corned peanut butter cookies for the office crew, and have had several nice comments on them. Thanks!