Category: Crafts

Finished Object – Lachlann Baby Set

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(Another one from the “I swear I set that to publish” set. Originally written to be posted February 5, 2023.)

A gray and white striped set of a cabled baby hat, cabled baby sweater, and stockinette knit baby pants.

Recently, my mother asked me to make a pair of pants to go along with a baby sweater for a baby that is due in March. It quickly turned into a matching set of sweater and pants when they realized the sweater they had was going to be too big for a newborn.

Gray and white striped cable knit baby hat

I calculated the amount of yarn I needed, ordered one extra of each color, and still ended up with at least twice as much yarn as I needed, so I made up a hat to go along with it (again, at my mother’s request) using the cable pattern from the sweater.

Front view of gray and white striped cable knit baby sweater with white buttons

By far, the sweater took the longest, but overall everything took about two and a half weeks from start to finish.

Back view of gray and white striped cable knit baby sweater

I really liked the construction of the pants, going from the bottom cuff upward, even though the sewn hem felt like it took forever.

Plain knit gray baby pants with white striped ankle cuffs

Now for the details:

Pattern: Lachlann Baby Set by Jen Hagan

Size: Newborn

Yarn: Comfy fingering weight from Knit Picks
-Whisker: 112g for pants and sweater, 18g for hat
-White: 21g for pants and sweater, 5g for hat

Finished Object – Betty Boyfriend Sweater 2

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I am continuing playing catch-up with my backlog of finished projects this week. Just giving a heads-up that these pictures are not recent. I am not wearing sweaters and jeans to take photos right now, even inside. This finish is from February 2023.

The torso of a white woman wearing a seafoam green crocheted sweater with dark blue ribbing at neckline, hem, and sleeve cuffs, facing the camera.

I made my first Betty Boyfriend Sweater by Talia’s Crochet Creations a few years back, and I loved it so much I had to make one in another color. I had an abandoned project with a large amount of Comfy fingering weight yarn, which I held double to match the pattern gauge.

The torso of a white woman wearing a seafoam green crocheted sweater with dark blue ribbing at neckline, hem, and sleeve cuffs, facing away from the camera.

I sized up for this one to be more of a top layer than a wear-alone sweater like the original. However, I didn’t take notes on the sizing, so I don’t recall if I made the size large or if I just made my gauge slightly larger and used the size medium numbers.

A seafoam green crocheted sweater with dark blue ribbing at neckline, hem, and sleeve cuffs.

I used all the Seafoam yarn I had (452 g, about 9 skeins) and 77g of the Planetarium yarn (about 1.5 skeins). Again, not much help if I can’t remember what I did about the sizing, but maybe it can help someone with their sweater planning.

Finished Object – Roblox Pillow

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(Note: I swear I published this back in September of last year, but it was still in my drafts folder and the link lead nowhere when I pasted it into a private window, so here it is. Originally written to be posted September 12, 2022)

The littlest turned 10 a couple of weeks ago and had a simple request – a Roblox pillow with the logo on a black background.

Friends, they do not make Roblox pillows at all, so it was time to make one. At first, I was going to cross-stitch the name on one side and the logo on the other. Never mind the fact that I was starting this less than a week before his birthday.

I showed him one of my cross-stitched pillows as an example to make sure it was what he wanted, and he said it was, or it could be a soft pillow like his favored pillow he won at a carnival game at a theme park this summer. That would be much easier than cross-stitching two whole sides of a pillow anyway.

My original thought was to punch needle the logo side so it would be soft, but I didn’t actually have the appropriate fabric, and what I had that I thought would work did not. In the end, I ran up to JoAnns, bought an 8th yard each of black and white fleece, and appliqued it together using my sewing machine on the zigzag setting on the shortest stitch length.

I was also originally going to cross-stitch the entire back and line it with the fleece, but I messed up the colors (don’t color match after dark, friends) and had to start over when I was almost done with the lettering, so I abandoned that idea as well and just did enough of a border to be able to also applique that piece to the black felt.

Sewed everything together inside out, turned it right way around, stuffed it with pillow fluff and the scrap threads, and managed to give it to him the day after his birthday. Bonus points, it turned out the exact perfect size for the little dog’s head, so he lays on it every time he hops on the bed and it is adorable.