Heart Motif in Laceweight

I’ve just finished another heart motif (I’ve made a few now -really useful for cards with a more personal touch) but this one is in Rowan Kidsilk Haze, which is approximately laceweight.

A Little Knitted Heart Motif in Kidsilk Haze

I bought this yarn to make a floaty scarfy thing which I haven’t started yet and couldn’t resist trying it out making a little heart. I really love how it’s fluffy and hairy! So soft too!

theknittedcupcake x

Free “A Little Knitted Heart Motif” Pattern

Recently, I wanted to send a friend a card for her wedding but couldn’t find anything I liked in the shops that didn’t cost the Earth. So, I thought I’d knit a little heart motif.

I searched for a pattern, but couldn’t really find what I was after so I thought I’d have a go at creating my own.

This is a pattern for a little heart motif, which measures approximately 4 x 4cm depending on your gauge. You can make it in all colours. The idea is that the motif is used to decorate a card but it probably can be used for whatever catches your imagination – decorated jeans, t-shirts, bags etc. The idea was originally for a wedding card, but can also be used for christenings, birthdays, anniversaries, births and anything else you can think of!

Have fun, and let me see your pictures! Feel free to knit this for personal use or for charity, but as with any of the patterns we’re posting on this site please don’t use the pattern for personal profit or reproduce without permission.

The Ravelry pattern link is here. You can see my one knitted up on Ravelry here.

A Little Knitted Heart Motif

A Little Knitted Heart Motif

Equipment:

Small amounts of DK wool in chosen colour

2.75mm knitting needles (UK12, US2)

Stitch holder

Needles

Cotton (in matching colour)

Beads or other decoration

Method

Cast on 1 stitch in chosen wool

Rows 1-19:

Row 1 and all odd-number rows: purl to end

Row 2: Make a stitch by knitting into the front and back of the stitch (kfb) (2 stitches)

Row 4: kfb, k1 (3 stitches)

Row 6: kfb, k1, kfb (5 stitches)

Row 8: kfb, k3, kfb (7 stitches)

Row 10: kfb, k5, kfb (9 stitches)

Row 12: kfb, k7, kfb (11 stitches)

Row 14: kfb, k9, kfb (13 stitches)

Row 16: knit

Row 18: knit

Rows 20-end:

Row 20: k1, k2tog, k2tog, k1 (4 stitches on the right needle. Put the remaining stitches on the stitch holder and continue knitting with the stitches on the right needle only)

Row 21: purl to end

Row 22: k1, k2tog, k1 (3 stitches)

Row 23: purl to end

Row 24: knit to end (3 stitches)

Thread yarn through remaining stitches and bind off, taking care not to distort the shape.

Take the remaining stiches off the stitch holder and put back onto the needle.

Row 25: cast off one stitch, k2tog, k2tog, k1 (4 stitches)

Repeat rows 21-25.

Tie in loose ends, taking care to keep the shape of the heart. Cover with a damp cloth and lightly press with a warm iron. Do not press too hard, or the stitch detail will be lost.

Using the cotton and a needle, decorate with beads.

Your heart is now ready for use. I use a few dabs of a strong glue to stick it to a card.

theknittedcupcake x

The Knitted Sackboy is Finished!

Hi Everyone,

Just thought I’d let you know that I’ve finally finished the knitted Sackboy. He was really good fun to knit, I particularly liked the arms. He’s a little smaller than the pattern intended (the link for the pattern is on the previous post and on the yummy recipes page), but just as cute. Hope you like him!

The Knitted Sackboy

Love from theknittedcupcake x

New Year, New Knitted Sackboy!

Hi Everyone and Happy New Year. We hope that 2009 brings lots of lovely knitted things. We got some good books/knitting notions for Christmas and are looking forward to putting them to good use! Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas also. This blog has been slacking in the last month or so – we’re putting it down to the rush of the festivities – but it is our New Year’s Resolution to try harder in 2009 (I give it a week!).

I’m currently knitting a lovely ski hat with a spiral pattern in a charcoal and pink wool. It’s not a pattern of my own, you can find it on Ravelry, but I had to adapt it as the sizing was a little odd. It’s knitting up pretty quickly on a lovely pair of bamboo circular needles, but I’m really desperate to get it finished as I’m off skiing a week on Sunday! It’s done in two colours, which makes it really thick and warm. I made it in colours to co-ordinate with my skiwear, so I’m hoping the final FO fits ok!

This is the spiral ski hat in its early stages!

It’s actually nearly done now, but I’ll add a photo when it’s completed.

Another thing I’m really excited about knitting is Sackboy from PS3’s LittleBigPlanet! I played the game recently at a friend’s house and fell in love! For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, I’ll explain. LittleBigPlanet is a 3d game on the Playstation 3, which I won’t claim to fully understand, and you run around in a little world trying to solve puzzles with logic to progress. “You” are a little knitted creature – Sackboy -(although I think you can be a Sackgirl too), and you can dress up in different clothes which you collect as you progress in the game. It’s really cute. Anyway, the day before yesterday I woke up with a sudden urge to knit this creature! I did the usual searches for the pattern, but they were pretty useless and due to copyright etc. I couldn’t find a free copy. I frankly couldn’t be bothered to sit around writing the pattern.  However, I did notice that Alan Dart had written an ‘unofficial’ pattern in Issue 49 (January 2009) of Simply Knitting. I was upset to find out that this is generally sold out and that many knitters have been unable to obtain it. However,  happened to be in WHSmith the day before in my local town and had briefly picked up a copy of Simply Knitting. The free gift had fallen down to obscure the advertisement for the Sackboy pattern, or else I would have bought it there and then! So I frantically went back to town, hoping that no-one had bought it! Thankfully, they hadn’t and I secured the last copy!

Sackboy - how cute is he?

So, I’ve bought the zip and little buttons for his eyes and as soon as I finish my ski hat (hopefully later today if I get my act together and stop writing rambling blogposts) I am going to start Sackboy. I can’t wait! Has anyone else knitted a Sackboy? Please share your photos! Hopefully I’ll make some clothes for him if I have time. I also want to modify the pattern to make a smaller one.

EDIT – Simply Knitting have just teamed up with The Sun newspaper and released the Alan Dart Sackboy pattern for FREE download. I have checked and it is all authorised so anyone who’s been struggling to get hold of the pattern can get it from there! Just wished it’d happened a few days before!

Anyway, hope everybody has a fantastic 2009!

Lots of Love,

theknittedcupcake x