Convention Knitting

It didn’t seem like I got a lot of knitting done over the weekend, but maybe that’s only because I made four small items rather than one big one. The socks and tea cosy I’d been working on were too complicated for travel knitting – when checking charts constantly is inconvenient. I needed something simple and easily memorised, so I took a new project: the Modern Cabled Baby Bib:

The first was easy and fun, but I could tell I was going to get tired of the pattern if I was going to churn out lots of bibs. So I tried a plaited cable:

Then I switched the side the cable was on and tried both a different cable and stitch pattern:

And finally, an oxo cable on the left with a checkerboard stitch pattern.

The Patons Aran Washed Haze is nice to work with but, like a lot of cottons, a little splitty. I love the blue:

After the fourth bib I’d had enough of bibs and started a neck warmer. While cowls don’t appeal to me (I think they’d be drafty) sometimes – like when you’re gardening – you want something that’ll stay put around your neck, with no dangley bits getting in your way. Something so firmly in contact with my skin would have to be made from a non-allergy-sparking yarn, and Washed Haze seemed ideal:

I used a simple mistake rib on 21 stitches. Not sure which buttons to use, though. The blue ones are exactly the colour of the yarn, but I do like the idea of the mis-matched white ones.

What do you think?

4 thoughts on “Convention Knitting

  1. I love the bibs – very clever design.

    Hmmm, not sure which buttons on the cowl. I think the blue, but I can also see the appeal of the white. Sorry, that probably wasn’t much help. I’m leaning towards the blue…

  2. We’re white buttons! (But only if you want people to notice the buttons)
    Maybe you should do some murder mystery knitting books!

  3. I think the blue checkerboard is my fave!!!

    buttons…hmm, maybe a set of novelty gardening implement buttons???
    😛

  4. I like the blue buttons.

    The bibs are so cute! Love the original pattern and the blue checkerboard one especially. Who are the lucky babies?

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