You may remember my daughter was diagnosed with asthma a few months ago and well, smoke isn't good for her. So when the wildfire moved into town and started burning down homes, along with it being very scary and stressful, the air quality became dangerous. We needed to move up our vacation. So we hopped in the car and drove to NC to visit my family (then I got to sneak off for a week in Italy with James). While I've been enjoying the travel this summer, I haven't been crafting. Anyway, I'm back now and feeling inspired to craft things again.
You know how you get an idea in your head and completely drop everything else to start working on it? Yeah, that was me yesterday. We got a birthday party invitation for a sweet almost 5 year old we know. It's a Knight and Princess party and I immediately became all sorts of consumed with making a knight costume. (We've got the princess thing covered already) I found all sorts of amazing inspiration online for chain mail, helmets, armor, sword, scabbard, and shields. Here's where I started...
Knitted chain mail arm bracers.
Now I am still just a beginning knitter and I wanted these to be quick and easy. Could they be done in the round? Of course. But I went with a rectangle that gets sewn together on the long side. Easy.
For my 6 year old (who is on the small side - but don't tell him I said that) I used US13's and loosely cast on 30 stitches. Then I just did the garter stitch until it was about 5 inches long un-stretched. Bind it off leaving a long tail and sew the long edges together. Done! This was so simple and so fast and I'm not a very fast knitter yet.
I think we'll do this costume together in stages...
Back on the crafting wagon,
Kristin
