Kim Werker

Casting on to Knit a Sleepbot 3000

July 15, 2014

Back when I was finishing up the capybara I made for my friendâ€™s daughter, Owen got hold of the book the pattern was in â€“Â Huge and Huggable Mochimochi, by Anna Hrachovec. When he saw the utterly adorbz robot pillow in there, he asked me to make it for him. Disinclined to travel anywhere with a 20â€x26â€ pillow, I ordered worsted weight yarn for it instead of chunky, and MondayÂ night I cast on, using 3.75mm needles instead of the 6.5mm ones called for in the pattern. I want this pillow to be small enough not to be a total pain in the ass to tote around.

Iâ€™ve never done intarsia, kids. Iâ€™m half excited and half petrified. Got tips? Iâ€™d love some.

2 responses to “Casting on to Knit a Sleepbot 3000”

Queen of My World
July 24, 2014
Intarsia is harder to say than it is to do! Just remember to ‘wrap’ or cross the yarns when changing colours so that you don’t end up with a hole. Happy ‘Intarsia-ing!’
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1. Kim Werker
  July 24, 2014
  That’s the part I found surprisingly easy! It’s the same thing you do if your stranded-colourwork floats are too long, so I’d already figured it out. I’d thought there was some sort of intarsia magic I’d have to learn, but there isn’t! Huzzah!
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Casting on to Knit a Sleepbot 3000

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