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a bapsicrafts birthday giveaway!

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As of today, I will have been running my little knitting business for a whole year. To celebrate I’m going to give away this lovely blue washcloth set to one lucky winner. :] Just follow the instructions in the rafflecopter widget for your chance to win. The giveaway will end on July 11th of this year. After that, I’ll randomly choose the winner of this beautiful pair of hand knit blue washcloths, so be sure to check back around that date, just in case you win. International entries are welcome. :] a Rafflecopter giveaway Also! From now until the end of this giveaway, I will offer this coupon code to you awesome readers of Bapsiknits/fans of Bapsicrafts! HBDBAPSICRAFTS will get you 15% off your $21 minimum order of anything in the shop. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your love and support!

tink tink tink

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So after exactly 48 rounds of the foot of my sock, I realized my gusset decreases were way off. There was no way around it. No notes to make for the next sock to match, no nothing. I had to rip back. And then the rows were gone. It’s crazy how all my hours of work can quickly be undone–just like that. I know this isn’t the first time I’ve experienced this frogging frustration, but I struggle to remember exactly which projects left me feeling that way. The joy of binding the projects off seem to overwrite the memory of all those little [and big!] drawbacks, and knowing that is enough to help me feel better about the mistake. All I need to be is a bit more careful next time, and count my stitches often before proceeding to the next big step in the pattern or lack thereof. Besides, I had a great opportunity wind a nice little cake out of my yarn, and while digging the winder for it I found a second …

marly nillas and another wip already

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pattern : TDTU Vanilla Sock by Rachel Roue  yarn : Patos Kroy Socks FX in Grey Brown Marl  needle : US 1[2.25mm]  size : 9.5 This is my second project using Rachel Roue’s fantastic and easy to understand pattern and I had as much fun with it as I did the first. What really added to my enjoyment was seeing how each loop coming from the skein translated into the stripes I see now. There’s really something about seeing self striping yarn transform into these lovely unique things that I find really hard to explain, but I know that I’m going to see much more of this type of yarn in my stash box in the future. The cuffs for these socks reach up to about mid-calf, which is quite a bit shorter than I expected them to be while still knitting them. I owe it to both the small gauge throwing me off and the length lost when the ribbing stretched to fit my legs [by the way. the idea to learn Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy …

duckies

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pattern : duckies by samantha hayes yarn : knitpicks comfy sport in sweet potato needle : US 3[3.25mm] size : 9.5 I actually finished this pair in mid-april but it slipped through the cracks because of the rush of finals in school [passed all of my courses, btw. WOO] These socks have been resting on top of the yarn basket for a while just begging to be worn, but I promised to not wear them out before photographing them, so here the photos are–and the socks haven’t left my feet yet! I found this free pattern by Samantha Hayes on ravelry–it looked just challenging enough to bust some more of my stash of comfy sport. The stitch definition is really beautiful with this yarn. I can’t stop staring at how nice all of my handiwork turned out, and the color really knows how to shine when bits of sun hit it in my room. I learned just how much the yarn likes to pill, though from the last pair of socks I made, so the …