jaunt around town, finished projects, new projects

gray shawl, blue shawl, red plush shawl, white braided cable shawl.

braided cable worked sideways on a prayer shawl.

coaster/trivet's for craft show

covered coat hangers for craft show in july.

irish lace popcorn squares to make into a shawl. blue one under is done using knit st every row, using red heart plush.

different view of the stack.

hat to go with poncho's.

multi color shawl

blue plush shawl

red using bamboo lace stitch

The one thing i dont like about the knit meter is it resets to 0 at start of a new month.

been REAL busy with prayer shawls lately.

Barbie doll clothes

packaged up for the craft show.

A line skirt.

barbie graduation cap and gown and diploma

prayer shawls

hospital booties, dropped off 17 on saturday.

prayer shawls

multi colored one in pastels came out a lot better than what i thought. currently working on pink/purple one.

book: The Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs, found this book on tape online for free. so far it's really good.

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.

progress on ongoing projects, new things, tools, pattern

ok get ready for the novel, it's been SO long so i've updated the site.

Jaunt around town: Mom came to the mainland on Wednesday and we went to drop off things I had made at senior center for their craft sale in December. We found out that they did not want them, nor do they want us to make anything more for them, nor can we take yarn due to not making items for them any longer. What a major disappointment, now what do I do with afghans, shawls, covered hanger and kitchen things.

TOOLS
I keep a lot of my knitting tools in this loose leaf binder.

First the needle guides, they tell me exactly which US/English needles I'm using.

There are many envelope clear plastic sections, one for each size needle that i've marked with black marker in bottom right hand corner.

The Land line method

shown here with white yarn threaded through each stitch, but continue knitting along incase you have to revert back you won't lose any stitches. This is the black knitting tote bag someone ordered recently.

This picture shows 6 crochet angel dishcloths from a recent order.

Knitted tote bag, front, back sections.

Idiot cord used for the tote bag shoulder length straps. I'm using my size 14 needles, these needles should be screwed into a cable needle but i just wanted to make the cord so i need the real short needles only. To make the cord, co 3 sts, * k 3 sts, push sts to other end of the needle and k3, rep from *, you are getting yarn from behind the sts on the needle and it will be pulled together to form a braided appearance.

tote bag completed.

gregs irish fisherman sweater with one landline, back section here, almost up to the armhole decreases.

the IF afghan in background it's an order i recently got. 3 skeins of yarn from hospital for booties. Also Joanne dropped off bags of yarn for Navy relief afghans also yesterday. That and an order for 2 afghans will keep me busy while completing Gregs sweater. No way can I have it done for our anniversary but I did manage to make his favorite oatmeal raisin cookies.

pattern, prayer shawl

got this prayer shawl done, using eyelet pattern. another eyelet pattern would be to use yo, k2tog across that row. then regular k/p rows.

7 squares done for the irish lace afghan. working on more this afternoon. might start another shawl for tonight.

tuesday escapades

Left this afternoon to goto Sears, scrach and dent store to look at a new gas stove. Well didn't stay there long but headed to Ocean state job lot and got some lion brand boucle for $2 a skein, they are 3 oz sizes and should make good prayer shawls.







then went to walmart and looked at the yarns they had but not many had wrappers with prices and most were a tnagled mess so they stayed at the store. wish i had a 501c status so they'd donate all the yarn to me to use for charity.






worked on a knitting prayer shawl where i cast on about 120 sts, k3 rows, then started with the pattern. k3 for each border, then d2tog, across. on back side M1 in between each st. then knit for 4, 6 or 8 rows, your choice and rep the eyelet row again. this is what mine loks like after working on it in the car for 20 mins.










progress to date on crtochet irish lace afghan:













Have 6 done so far for this crochet lace afghan. this motifs are so fun to make, i can make them now without the pattern.




also got the check from a customer who i had made an irish fisherman knit afghan for along with a lighthouse one. sent a boiy layette to her grand nephew in CA also.

crochet irish Lace Afghan

this is a new pattern to me, diamonds in crochet. never tried doing them, i know various ways to do them in knitting. got this pattern from herrscheners it was in a packet of yarn from local senior center. thought i'd make up this afghan for them to sell at their annual Christmas bazaar to raise money for the center and trips, etc.

i will have to rip this apart as the gauge is off but i wanted to see what the pattern would become. it's 9 rounds in total and another square will abutt the next one forming a diamond using popcorns. says it's to be 8' square and to make 48 of them. not sure if there's enough yarn for that but will make what i can.

starts out with popcorns and uses clusters for corners. while also making popcorns in the form of a diamond for the other ends of the square.

takes about 1 1/2 hours to do the full 9 rounds for one square.

http://www.herrschners.com/online craft site catalog # 20-3803 for kit

it is an older pattern.

cable on cable pattern

did this swatch last sunday while at a cookie swap party. on either side the cable is crossed making it universal. problem is it's very light weight yarn and i think it'd look a lot better using heavier knitting worsted yarn so this swatch will be unravelled. think i will use it for a diamoned popcorn motif afghan instead.