Bike Stuff

A long time ago, I started knitting a sweater for my bicycle. Today, because I had the bike in the house doing some maintenance, I decided to put the sweater on the bike. I don't care much for the look of it, and I think I am going to do something else, but I will leave it on for a while to see if it grows on me.



Out of curiosity I went on Ravelry to see what other people might be doing for their bikes and of course I found a lot of projects. All images link back to the profile pages of their creators on Ravelry and I don't think they will work if you aren't logged in.

More Bike Cozies



Seat Cozies



Bike Racks



Locks



Attempted Helmet Improvements



Baskets and Such



Other Cute Stuff

Skyline Hat

I've been intrigued by double knitting for a while now. It's a process where you knit with two colors to make a doubled, reversible pattern. The same technique can also be used for doing things like knitting two socks at one time.



About two years ago, my friend Eric was going around town wearing a grubby old hat with a huge moth hole right in the front of it and I said that I would knit him a new hat. Of course, his wife replaced his hat well before I got around to knitting one. I decided that fulfilling my promise of hat creation could be a good opportunity to also learn this new technique, so I went on Ravelry and found this excellent hat pattern, uncreatively but descriptively called double knit earflap hat.

This is an excellent, excellent pattern. The shape is great. It looks good on a kid or a grown up. It feels wonderful on your head. I am definitely going to be using this one again. It was $5 very well spent.

The designer is called Giftable Designs.

My Friendly, Friendly Device

I have this adapter which allows me to talk on my phone using any normal headphones. It has a mic and a volume control, and a button that answers the phone. It's a great iPhone accessory. Unfortunately, it's a bit shabbily put together, and the wires started to pull out down near the jack that goes into the phone, so I had to repair it with electrical tape. To hide the repair and to protect the tape from coming off, I knit this cable cozy, which I think wonderfully compliments my cork cell phone case.

Lemony, Non-Scratchy Cabled Scarf

The first scarf I made for Vigo this year failed for reasons of itchiness, so I made him another scarf, in his favorite color. Unfortunately, his favorite color has changed from yellow to fluorescent green in the time it's taken me to knit the scarf. But actually, I'm happy enough not to have been working with eyeball-abusing fluorescent colors this time.

The scarf has three cables on one side and two on the other, so it's not all cabled and pretty on one side and ugly on the other. I really feel like scarves should always be pretty on both sides. It's a big gripe I have with cabled scarf patterns.