Another weird Fishy

No, of course mrs. T. 's 13-year old son will never wear a Fish hat in public! He's a teenager, don't you know? But still he likes the hat and is proud of his mothers 'knitvention'. So yes, he would really like a fish hat of his own - to wear in the secrecy of his home (or just to have laying around). Grey and black are his colors, but it is okay that his mother added blue and white to it. And the eyes? Not dead, not groggy, but just very odd: a big and a small pupil, looking in opposite directions. "Okay son, your wish is my command!"

Tropical Fish

After blueish and greyish fishes, mrs. T was in the mood to catch a very colorfull one. This tropical fish is knitted from acrylic left overs.

This time mrs. T. crocheted the eyes instead of using pieces of felt. She is not a very skillful crocheter, so they didn't turn out very flat. No problem, these popping eyes look very funny!

Do you notice something strange about this fish? Yes, you're right, the dorsal fin is placed too much in front! After knitting 9 fishes already, mrs. T. can't blame her mistake on unexperiencedness. It's just stupid! The fin is easy to frog and to reknit, but right now mrs. T is not in the mood for frogging.

There is other knitwork to be finished, like Hallowig and Baby Chicken Viking Hat.

Groggy fish for Raphael

Did this fish get a bang on the head ? Or did it smoke some pot? At least it looks very groggy!
Mrs. T. knitted this fish hat for her nephew Raphael, who likes to catch fish in the river Seine. In France, cause that's where he lives.


This is the seventh Fishy mrs. T catched on her 4 needles, with the best fishing rope there is: knitting yarn!!!!

The stripes are the the same as those on the Kiki Mariko rug (Knitpicks). For the smaller stripes pattern mrs. T changed colors after 3 rows i.s.o. 5.

Quicky

Quick knit rib hat (c.o. 56, k2,p2, 35 rows, start decreasing) from left over yarns. (Red from two Capitáns, multicolor yarn from 'recycled' hats.).

Some reading is allowed

Of course, reading is too time consuming and shouldn't be encouraged amongst knitters. But what if the book is about knitting? In that case the occasional reading is allowed. Especially when the book was a gift from Sinterklaas! So mrs. T ignored her knitting needles and read 'De vrijdagavond vriendinnenclub' (a.k.a. The Friday Night Knitting Club) by Kate Jacobs.

In the Dutch translation the word 'knitting' is left out the title. The publisher must have thought the word would scare away readers under 75... This tells a lot about the way knitting sometimes still is regarded in this country.

Mrs. T. 's opinion about the book: "Quite nice, but somehow the characters didn't come to live...Still I would love to see the movie too. Then I can knit while watching!"

Another Capitán

Knitted on special request : a Capitán hat for Luca's little sister. Mrs. T. made it a bit longer than the pattern calls for, so the girl will keep her ears warm. It's the third Capitán on her F.O. list and she still wouldn't mind knitting it again. (But of course, there are so many other items to knit too!).

Hand dyed, hand knit mittens!

From the orange yarn mrs. T recently dyed, she knitted these warm mittens. There is enough orange yarn left over to knit a matching hat, which will follow soon (she hopes).

"It's the first time I knitted mittens in a grown up size, wíth thump. I loved to knit them and think I might knit a lot more mittens. But I'm afraid of the Second Mitten Syndrome...."

Mrs. T. used a pattern from an old craft book (simply titled 'craft book') written by Jutta Lammers, ánd a free pattern found on Ravelry somewhere, telling how to make mittens exactly fitting. (Yes, yes, she'll give the link when she finds it back again....).