Just Knitting Around

Here is a pic of Katie in the shrug I knit for her graduation. She just needed a little coverage on her shoulders for church. Pattern is Little Silk Shrug by Pam Allen in Lace Style. Yarn is Cotton Classic. She picked the pattern and really likes it. She usually […]

Trekking100c

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I love Trekking XXL sock yarn. This is color 100.

HH1st blocking

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Here is HH in all her glory. I forgot to post her final pic. Now I just have to get the right outfit to wear it with this spring.

Hemlock Ring 1

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This is the Hemlock Ring Blanket, popularized on Ravelry by Jared Flood. I have included a 6-year old boy for scale. It took the full 500 grams of Cascade Ecological Wool with about 30 inches left after binding off. I started the second ball of yarn at […]

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Here she is pre blocking. She will look much better when she is properly blocked. Hoefully I’ll get to do that today. HH was a fun knit, and will probably be one of the most beautiful things I have ever made. I think I caught most my […]

I am such a geek. I am knitting Hyrna Herborgar from the book Three-Cornered and Long Shawls. I started a group on Ravelry to knit through the shawls in the book. A friend in my knitting group who also has the book mentioned she would like to know the stitch counts for […]

I finally got aroung to writing up my Hand Towel pattern knit way back in July of 2006. I was inspired my Mason-Dixon Knitting to whip out my stitch dictionaries pick an easy to memorize stitch pattern and knit away. So for your knitting pleasure, here is the Easy Grid Hand Towel.

Zach’s Stocking

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Here was my Christmas gift to my nephew. He has a better stocking than my own kids do. I didn’t knit when they were small. Now I have to start making more stockings. The pattern is Evergreen from Annie’s Woolens . I knit it in about […]

Zach’s Santa Hat

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Here is the little Santa hat I made for my newborn nephew. He was a little preemie, so I just winged a pattern based on his head measurement. Of course, I didn’t write anything down so I probably can’t repeat it. . It fit him very well […]

Lendrum

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Meet my blind date for Saturday.

Christmas Gifts 2008

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The DH did good this Christmas. He can follow a Christmas list very well. No ad libbing when it comes to knitting gifts. Just in case you cant figure out the cone, Take a look below.

That’s 2.86 miles of laceweight yarn and a pattern that will use […]

I was just notified I was a winner of Cascading Fuschias Market Bag pattern in a contest on CraftGossip. I am so excited. I just finished knitting and felting a bag for my mom fron the Noni Vintage Bag pattern. I bought it on a trip to Chicago at Sister Arts Studio […]

Scaruffle

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Here is my complete Scaruffle. (Ravelry Link) from the Knitters Book of Yarn. I need to weave in the ends and block it a bit. I really like it, and my mom just loves it, so I think I will give it to her. Since we live […]

Elaine Beaded Coin Purse

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I have started a beaded coin purse, its really easy, you just have to use really tiny needles, 0000! The seed beads came on a hank that you transfer a bunch at a time to the yarn by tying the bead strand to the yarn and sliding them. […]

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Finished about 1:30 am last night and blocked this afternoon. I had less than 7 yards of yarn left. I was worried I would run out, and bound off a little too tightly to make the “peaks” come out as shown in the pattern. I should have taken out […]

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It’s about 12:30 am, and I think the nupps ate up the yarn quicker than the Shawl Progress Calculator could account for. I have two rows and the bind off left at this point, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-3 grams of yarn. Some decisions need to be made. […]

I had begun to worry if I would have enough yarn left to finish Swallowtail. I used the shawl progress calculator at Rose Kim Knits. According to that, I am 75% finished with the shawl and according to my scale and calculations, I have used about 67% of the yarn. I think […]

Swallowtail and Habu Silk

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I started this Swallowtail (free .pdf) while on vacation a couple of weeks ago with my souvenir Habu silk bought at Knitch in Atlanta. The pic is from shortly after I got home. I am now on the first Lily of the Valley chart […]

Summer Shawlette Blocking 2

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Here is what I made with the remaining yarn from my Faux Russian. It’s the Summer Shawlette from Knitting Daily by Sandi Wiseheart. I upsized it a little since it was lace weight instead of fingering. I kept doing increases until it looked like it was […]

Black Russian 2

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Finished! It’s Blocking! Next stop–New York City!!