Marni
09-09-2008, 10:19 AM
This is Bear #6, Freddy Bear. He was double-knit feet up inside out up to the sweater where I switched to dpns because the yarn is self striping. Sounds weird I know, but it was faster than double-knit right side out since there's all that yarn positioning to do.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2842270599_cfcff47866.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23276140@N08/2842270599/in/photostream)
Now meet Charlie Bear. He was knit flat and seamed together. Why did I torture myself with the seaming? Because a friend of mine was talking about how relaxing she found seaming. Yah, about as relaxing as sitting on the beach during a hurricane. Anyway, I finished bears 4, 5 and 6 before I finally finished this poor guy; tells you a thing about me and seaming. He doesn't even look right :-P Oh well.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2843104110_1f7d05f69f_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23276140@N08/2843104110/in/photostream/)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2842312549_3dc33f6852_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23276140@N08/2842312549/in/photostream/)
The bears knit in the round are larger than those seamed so there's more bear for your buck. Although the ones I've completed with double knitting were done on size 2 circs and size 6 dpns for the sweater they are considerably larger than the bears totally knit in the round on size 7 dpns. The flat knit one, Charlie, is small compared to Freddy who was in the round.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2842270599_cfcff47866.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23276140@N08/2842270599/in/photostream)
Now meet Charlie Bear. He was knit flat and seamed together. Why did I torture myself with the seaming? Because a friend of mine was talking about how relaxing she found seaming. Yah, about as relaxing as sitting on the beach during a hurricane. Anyway, I finished bears 4, 5 and 6 before I finally finished this poor guy; tells you a thing about me and seaming. He doesn't even look right :-P Oh well.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2843104110_1f7d05f69f_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23276140@N08/2843104110/in/photostream/)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2842312549_3dc33f6852_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23276140@N08/2842312549/in/photostream/)
The bears knit in the round are larger than those seamed so there's more bear for your buck. Although the ones I've completed with double knitting were done on size 2 circs and size 6 dpns for the sweater they are considerably larger than the bears totally knit in the round on size 7 dpns. The flat knit one, Charlie, is small compared to Freddy who was in the round.