Tag: knitting

This summer I picked up Vogue knitting (Fall 2007) and fell in love with this pattern. It is free on the Vogue Knitting website. I was able to read about other people making this pattern on Ravelry and by googling the pattern name to see what issues people had when making it. I love the…

Buttons on and it was just cool enough to wear it the first half of today. I love it, and this time my sister won’t get it. ^_^

Wow I finally got onto Ravelry. I think I signed up on the waiting list several months ago. They are inviting 400 people a day and it took that long to get to me. This is the the coolest site. It is a place for knitters and crocheters to keep track of their projects; finished,…

I finished the Nantucket jacket from Interweave Interweave knits Winter 2006. Knit with Knitpicks Swish Superwash in Indigo heather. I added two inches to the body length since I am tall, but I think I could have added an inch or so more so that the flare would really fall on the hips. I added…

These are the Clessidra stockings you can find the pattern on knitty.com. I used Knitpicks Bare – Merino Wool/ Silk, fingering weight yarn. I thought knitting knee socks might be tedious, but these were great. The patterning of the cables kept it interesting all the way to the toes. These are the Embossed leaves from…

Finished just in time for my trip to Maine. This is the Soleil top from knitty.com knit with Knitpicks Shine sport. This is the second top I have knit in this pattern. I knit this one in the same size for the bottom half as my previous top but with a smaller size for the…

I am making the Clessidra stockings that can be found on knitty.com with Knitpicks Bare – Merino Wool/ Silk, fingering weight yarn.I love these. (It is not easy photographing your own leg.)I thought it would be awful making knee socks. The ankle socks I have made in the past seem to take an eternity. These…

I love this. Making the world a little more colorful one stitch at a time. This group based in Stockholm Sweden is adding their knitting to public places to make creative statements. See more on their blog Maquerade.

This is the Soleil top from knitty.com knit with Knitpicks Shine sport. It fits pretty well. Not something I have achieved with all of my sweaters. I think the shoulders could have been knit with some shaping though to rest flatter on the top of the shoulder. I love the bit of lace at the…

back detail. pretty on both sides ^_^I just finished this scarf from the book Stahman’s shawls & scarves. I loved the shaping of the neck with the ribbing and then the lace down the length. It is made from Knitpicks Gloss in Woodland sage with size 6 needles. Too bad I have to wait 5…

This is another felted hat just like my brown one (pattern from Fiber Trends. This one is knit with Knitpicks Merino Style wool. It is lighter weight and not as fuzzy as the brown hat knit with Lambs Pride bulky. It took about a skein and a half of the color Storm and I used…

Well, here is my second attempt to knit the Print O The Wave Stole by Eunny Jang. The top picture is the finished shawl as it came off the needles. Not much to look at. Once the shawl was blocked it was amazing how much bigger it got, this is a twin size sheet folded…

This is supposed to be the Print O The Wave Stole by Eunny Jang. I cannot believe what a challenge this was, how many times I ripped it out started over again and how many mistakes there are in it! The most glaring mistake is the border. I did not realize that you are supposed…

Yesterday my baby turned 17! And I gave her the goth insprired arm warmers I made. Perfect considerering it is 2°F right now and she is wearing a short sleeve t-shirt. I refuse to leave the house for the next several days, not until the temperature gets up to at least 10°F! I have never…

After 4 starts and stops I have finally made a fingerless glove arm warmer I am happy with. This comes up over Nina’s elbow to keep her arm nice and toasty. Now I need to finish the other one in time for her birthday in two weeks. I have been busy painting my new quilt…

The quest for just the right skeleton pattern. My daughters birthday is coming up next month and I am going to make her some fingerless glove arm warmers wih a skeleton design on the hand. Growing up in a warm climate has made it very difficult for her to understand that you wear long sleeve…

I have had a pattern for a felted hat by Fiber Trends for several years. The other day when I was looking at Jeri Riggs blog I saw the felted hats that she had just made and decided I needed to try one myself.I used Lambs Pride bulky yarn which felted up almost furry. It…

This is the sweater I just finished for my sister Deb’s grandbaby. I saw the sweater on Wee Wonderfuls blog and thought it was the cutest little kids sweater. The pattern is from Miss Beas Rainy day by Rowan a cute little book that I ended up ordering from Amazon UK, did you know you…