contest

http://berroco.com/knitbits/html/KB270.html

contest

http://www.crochettoday.com/pdfs/heartcontest.pdf design a 12" square with hearts being the theme.
http://www.berroco.com/win.html win a free sweater kit

contest, books

entered a contest from debiie macomber site.

listening to a book on tape called: The Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs

contest, pattern, knit, prayer shawl, flowers, seashells

http://www.crochettoday.com/ enter a square for the chance to win. i won't show the one i'm submitting but i've sent an email to them allready.

this is a knit prayer shawl using bamboo sample from Granny's Garret in Austria. There were many different stitch patterns there that I thought would make a good shawl. http://www.grannys-garret.com/

notice i have two landlines, even though it's not a lacy pattern if you do miss a yo here and there the whole thing gets messed up.

spring has arrived in RI. it's way early LOL Some parts of TN are getting snow today, it could be us but storm goes the northern most route for past week or we'd have 3 feet of snow now.

More flowers to come, can't wait to see the tiger lilly tulips.

sea shell pencil holders. these are fun to make, even getting the shells on the beaches. the problem was what to use for the putty stuff. some stuff i had bought never hardened. this stuff does and i do have spray to use to keep it shiny. hope it doesn't discolor and turn yellow. We got reservations to goto the island for the 15th.

new and ongoing projects, charity, knit, crochet

ongoing projects: crochet contest, hospital charity booties, more patterns to check out, another prayer shawl (maybe using one of the new stitches) a cockatoo bird to put on an afghan: note fluffly yarn to bottom right and feathery type yarn that will go on top. bird shape itself is to left of all that.

finished knit prayer shawl, ripple pattern

. this is the back of the shawl.

Irish fisherman, knit, gifts, thanks, charity

greg (my husband) has decided that in his air conditioned office (Year round) that he needs another sweater especially for the winter. so i got the measuring stick out and it's a size 47 with 50 around the waist. Easy to incorporate that into an irish fisherman knit sweater. the pattern shown here is a diamond and the honeycomb center stitches. hope to have it done for our wedding anniversary feb 4.

this part of the pattern of the above sweater shows the seed stitch edging to the right hand side and the lobster claw stitch, then the diamond patterns.


making front and back at same tim so no issues with different lengths.





took wrap around sweater all apart, started, restarted it but kept the sleeves alone and finished. thought if i made the sweater with front and back at same time i'd not have such an issue with the lengths of the pieces. well then i gotta figure out exactly where to put the sleeves as these are drop in and not set in sleeves. and i'd lose the pockets that i really really really want in the sweater. so after 3 rows im gonna re-re-restart this sweater again LOL

these items came in a box from marie. I had seen she was running a contest at her website-you had to guess how many cookie sheets she has in her house. being a christmas cookie baker i could relate to her blog talking bout thousands of cookies done within a weeks time. LOL well i dint guess the right number but the first person optted to get a dozen or her cookies. so i got the hand dyed yarn, woohoo for me! this came at a critical time for me this week as i didn't win either of the 2 lion brand contests i had spent hours on entering them. also heard back from caron yarn and a few other ones that they had enough sample knitters but would keep my name on their lists. This package means i was RAK'ed. (Random act of kindness) I've often heard of what others get in their boxes when RAKKed.
Recieved a nice card along with Marie's business card and url's of where the yarn is sold. Also a special soap for the yarn. didn't really read the back of the package in detail. there was a plastic container but you couldn't see insude unless you opened it cuz of the waxed paper. wow chocolate biscotti homemade. let's just say i had a few bites BEFORE dinner and I'm so glad i did LOL Thank you super much Marie! Her links are: http://www.solarbrations.com/ or http://www.novicki.org/ and her blog is at: www.needleloca.blogspot.com

received this thank you card from the church in bristol for the prayer shawls we had made for them. because of this recognition by thanking us my mom and I will probably continue to make more for them, because they are most appreciated. A lot of the other charities we do/have done work for never say thanks or recognize the time we've put into some things we've made for them after years of working with them.

wrap around sweater

got 2 fronts done now. i will work on sleeves next, they are 3/4 sleeves but i'll be making mine longer.

got plans to make my grandson a pullover sweater -hes bout a size 3 now - waiting on the measurements. also got measurements to make my husband an irish fisherman pullover.

didnt win either the knit nor crochet a pattern a day calendar for next year so i guess the designs are still my own. wouldnt have been so bad if they had commented on the pocket irish fisherman scarf that they adored. i entered 2 lion brand contests: had to make a slideshow tutorial for one of the contests.

instruction video, scarf crochetted

read through one of my crochet digests today and found a link to do an instructional video and enter into 2 contests by doing so. so i crochetted up a scarf with the yarn i had just bought at michaels yesterday.

finished scarf, the yarn color is called seascape ombre by bernat berella 4

also worked on some light blue booties for the hospital today.

check ou the instrucitonal video and maybe you can enter the contests:
I just finished documenting my Instructable and thought you would like to be the first to comment on it. Link: http://www.instructables.com/id/crochet-scarf/

http://www.instructables.com/id/crochet-scarf_1/ is slideshow contest