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| | I need to fossick for my double ended pins and make a start on the Pineapple bag. My tennis elbow has finally settled down enough for me to risk knitting - it's been almost 4 years.Though as I'm not using yarn as fine as the original pattern, I'll adapt the pattern so that it's fewer stitches around. I really need to get my head back into the knitting space. I keep forgetting to buy double ended pins so that I can start knitting the Pineapple reticule. I've had the knitting cotton for a year now, and I think my subconcious is trying to get out of knitting in the round. I've also got tennis elbow, so I don't think I'll be able to start until that's gone.Mood:pensive Here's where I am with my pineapple now - nearing the ends of the leaves.I've made a few modifications to the pattern so far:Instead of knitting the first row with the straw-color and green, I knit it with just the straw-color.After knitting the first row of green with beads, I did a single row of purl stitches and centered the beads in each pearl bump for a neater effect.To soften the color transitions, I'm alternating color rows at each blending point. I'm also planning on inserting an eyelet row between the leaves and the fruit to thread the drawstring through. About 10 rows in now, and already found one error with the pattern. If you're working off the chart, I think it's okay, but if you're following the written directions it's messed up from row 4 onwards. Row 3 is: *k6, sk2tog psso, k6, yo, k1, yo* repeat 10 times from *. For the remaining rows of the leaves, she simply tells you to repeat row 3. However, doing that results in the decreases and increases being off one stitch and the whole thing skewing sharply to one side and generally ugh. In order to keep the increases and decreases centered in nice neat lines, the pattern has to jog back one stitch on each successive row. For example:Row 3: *k6, sk2tog psso, k6, yo, k1, yo* repeat 10 times from *Row 4: *k5, sk2tog psso, k6, yo, k1, yo, k1* repeat 10 times from *Row 5: *k4, sk2tog psso, k6, yo, k1, yo k2* repeat 10 times from *etc.Or you could simply add an extra stitch so that you are working with 177 stitches instead of 176, which should induce an automatic shift.I'm currently keeping stitch markers at what is now the end of each round for me, and at what would have been the end of the round using her instructions, since I'm not sure which mark I'll need when I get further in the pattern. I suspect that the body of the fruit probably has the same error as the leaves.Other than the pattern errors, it's going quite nicely so far. The DMC thread is a dream to knit with, and so pretty! koshka_the_cat nudged me towards this community when I mentioned my latest project. I hope you don't mind me disturbing the quiet!I'm just starting on the notorious knitted pineapple reticule. I'm using this pattern, which is based on the pattern from The Lady's Assisstant and the Kyoto pineapple. The original pattern calls for silk, obviously, but for availability, price, and range of colors, I'm going with DMC Pearl Cotton (size 5). Mrs. Gaugin calls for four colors of yellow (check!) and four of green (I had to settle for three). I also picked up some seed beads to accent it with. Pretties!( Thread picCollapse ) I went downtown in hopes of finding a purse frame for the pear, but most people have no idea what I'm talking about and the few who do only sell purses already made that I'd have to rip apart to get the frame from. I first found some really beautiful one of a kind purses with perfect frames but I wasn't willing to spend 160toripitaparttomakemylittlepear.ugh.Ifinallyfoundacheapbeadedpursewitharoundeddecorativeframethatwillwork.Thatwas160 to rip it apart to make my little pear. ugh.I finally found a cheap beaded purse with a rounded decorative frame that will work. That was 160toripitaparttomakemylittlepear.ugh.Ifinallyfoundacheapbeadedpursewitharoundeddecorativeframethatwillwork.Thatwas20; much better. :-) And it had a beaded handle that I like. I picked one in brown so the handle will still look appropriate as the stem. The only snag now is that it's about 5" across when the bukram base I made was only 6" across (I was hoping to find a 4" max frame) so now I have to make a bigger base or there won't be enough difference to give me a good pear shape. Off to dig through my rose bowl vases for a better size... I'll be travelling around a bit over the next few days and wanted to take some handwork with me, so I thought it might be the perfect opportunity to get stuck in to that fruit reticule. I have been pondering it for a while and am much inspired by this four-sided reticule. I also want to try stumpwork and like the idea of doing berries, as in this garland. Here's my sample piece - I didn't have the right thread for the leaves, but it arrived this morning (yay!), so hopefully it will look a bit better. And I didn't have time to trial any of the fruit, but it looks straightforward enough. I don't think the lettering is going to work out, though. I can't find a font that I like enough and that is easy enough to embroider. I hope it's not breaking the fruit reticule rules too much to make one that is embellished with fruit rather than actually fruit-shaped?Mood:chipper I bought 3 different types of green velvet today for my pear. My idea is to make a bukram bowl for the bottom and either drawstring or get a curved purse frame for the top, so I'll have to make it with 6-8 gores and I want teh seams to show as little as possible, hence, 3 types of velvet. My favorite is a linen/cotton velveteen that has a nice sheen to it and a slighly grained appearance. I think the grain will hide the seamlines well but the sheen might give it away. I also got a cotton/poly imitation of the linen that is not so shiny so it has teh graininess but no sheen disadvantage. Then I also got a plain, smooth all cotton velveteen.I didn't find a bukram bowl shape that would have worked so I just got the yardage and will try to shape it myself. LOL! That should be fun *cough* *cough* Is there a point at which something is too large to be considered a reticule? Or unfashionable for the time? If I use a purse frame, it will have to be at least 3" wide or I'll never be able to get anythign into it (no more than 4") but that means the bottom will have to be close to 6-7" in diameter, and close to 8-10" tall. Too much? Okay, I'm 'diving' in, per se. ;-)One of my favorite memories from when I was little were the mornings I would wake up and go outside with my grandmother to her blackberry bushes. We would pick as many ripe ones as she could find and then take them inside and wash them and get the big seeds out of the middle. Well okay, so she would do all that and I would watch - I was still only 2 or 3 years old at the time. Then, she would make up some fresh whipping cream - yum!!! I loved feasting on fresh blackberries and cream when I was little, and I still love them fresh or in a good cobbler. So, I'll do a blackberry. :-D Not sure how yet, although I'm sure it will be made from fabric as I'm not brave enough to attempt something like that as a Very First Crochet attempt.Mood:thoughtful in reference to bauhausfrau & gilded_garb's recent entries about making whole ensembles inspired by their fruit reticules--maybe there should be a sister community for such projects.I have accepted the challenge of creating a cherries reticule and have the cherry(ish) fabric that I could use to make a dress and I'm quite tempted to add it to the to-do list...I'm sensing another trend...Mood:contemplativeMusic:how soon is now - the smiths Oi! I thought I joined this comm as soon as it was set up, guess not...no wonder I haven't been hearing anything about anyone else's plans. Well, I was just reading love3angle's post about finally getting to work on her pear reticule, and I thought I might do a pear when I first decided make a fruit baggie...I also thought I'd take bauhausfrau's challenge of tackeling the banana, because a peeled banana could look like a fleur de lys, but seems like I already have a yellowish bag....hmmmthen there's the coveted pineapple, which I totally love the idea of and of course it started this whole mess ;D but again, yellow....I also thought about cherries, because as I exclaimed on the fabric tour, "I LOVE CHERRIES" but this may prove a little difficult...well...I might stick with a pear since it was my first inclination, there can be 2 pears in a fruit basket, can't there??now, a kiwi would just be plain funny! hehehe!Mood:perplexed I was thinking of a pomegranate but tattycat already took it. I may do it anyway... I like the peach idea since it would require some dying/painting/staining to get the color right, or the strawberry with beaded seeds is also cool. Grapes or some kind of blackberry is attractive - a lot of bang for the buck, I think. I LOVE Michaela's kiwi idea... hmmmmmm, maybe a blood orange so I could use a really great color lining. A banana won't hold much more than lipstick-shaped things unless it was hilariously large.I love pears, maybe a pear. Then again, the narrow end would have to be at the top... maybe a small hinged clasp... I prefer to eat bosc pears but the color wouldn't be right for this... light green would be nice...Yeah, I like that. I'll do a pear.Mood:relaxed I would like to make an apple. Not sure if I will knit, or crochet it, or make it out of red velvet.Mood:thoughtful heileen, you stole my idea. However, I'm still doing a grape reticule out of shaped silk satin to go with the grape embroidered voile regency gown I've already started working on :o)Yay for fruit themed purses!Mood:creative I've decided to make a peach out of cotton velvet that Im going to hand paint myself to get the lovely blush effect. Yes, I know its crazy, but for a small project I think it will be fun to try my hand at a new skill. I hope to have this finished by CC next year (hopefully I will get to go). More details later. I think I will choose a crocheted grape. I'm dreaming of doing a white voile regency dress with grape embroideries, and a grape reticule would be perfect ! I call an Orange. I admit to being fascinated with L'Orangeries in Chateaux in France, so if I can figure it out, that will be my reticule :) Well I suppose there really is only one fruit baggie I can make.A kiwifruit.Please note. This is the Kiwi. This is kiwifruit. *points to icon* even this is a Kiwi. Please do not mix them up.Even though overseas the kiwifruit was known first it was named after the oh so cute fluffy bird. You can imagine the horror when I heard people were cutting "kiwis" up and eating them.*pats a Kiwi* *eats a kiwifruit*The shell will be brown fur, velvet or plush. I should have enough of the plush left over... the lining will be vibrant green.What size are people making theirs? I'm thinking this will be simply for show as kiwifruit really are not that big at all, unless I scale it up a bit... 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