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

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.

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 row 26 of the feather and fan chart and bount off after row 50 of the chart. It was origianlly a doily pattern knit with very thin yarn on very tiny needles. Cascade Eco-wool is a bulky weight yarn and is knit on thick needles. I makes a very pretty throw.

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 mistakes within a row of making them and was able to correct all of them with only having to tink significantly once. It is easy to spot when something is out of whack, and often it was those pesky double YO’s.

Edited to update: there was an error in the chart, it is now fixed as of 2.18.09

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.

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 five days. I ordered the pattern on Thanksgiving and had it finished by The Feast of St. Nicholas. It is stranded knitting for most of the colorwork. The name and heart are duplicate stitched.

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 and he was the cutest baby in the NICU.

Meet my blind date for Saturday.