One baby blanket finished.. I will be donating it to charity.(I mentioned this before in a previous post) I was looking around for some little kitty or bunny dolls to make and give with the blankets. (some time in the near future there will be 4 blankets finished) Lion Brand just happened to all of a sudden have this little kitty pattern.. how convenient... Perfect for my project.





OMG new yarn... this is for a project I'm working on for my classes.. more on this later.





More yarn!! There was this really cute little kitty cat purse from lion brand also.. and I just had to make one..There were some other cute purses and little critters to crochet... check it out..(^_^) I start a new job tomorrow .. so the time I can spend knitting is going to decrease. I'll have to see how this effects the amount of projects I can finish before Christmas.. I will probably be adjusting my to do list very shortly.

no expiRation DaTe

It's a good thing that yarn doesn't have an expiration date...I think I might hold theworld record for the amount of time a yarn has been horded in a stash...the yarn store where I bought this yarn no longer exists and has been replace with a novelty toy store years ago... gezz I might be the only person in the world that still has this yarn... 0.0.. anyway.. after all this time .. years and years .. you would think that I could figure out what to make with it.. but no.. I haven't.. and I don't have any idea what to do with it... the yarn harlot mentioned some time ago that she waits for some yarns to speak to her from her stash.. ( something like that anyway) well this yarn is mute.. but you know what.. I will continue to horde it anyway.. some day.. sometime.. I will make something with it.. I will..!!



And as if that wasn't enough.. there is more!!!.. bags more.. at least I have a project in mind for this yarn... more than likely a sweater of some kind for Jayden.




yes this is from the same non existent yarn shop.. don't ever tell a child you are making a sweater for her/him and then ask them to pick out the yarn... this is what u get... well there was one good thing about this yarn and it wasn't the color.. at least it was on sale... and that's probably the reason I ended up purchasing it against my better judgement .. who can pass u yarn on sale... I just could never get myself to knit with it though.. I did make a sweater for the child that picked out this yarn.. I think it was gray, red and black.. and he wore the sweater often. Occasionally he asked me where his orange sweater was.. 0.0.. and.. yet I still have this yarn and have no idea what to do with it.. maybe if I get a job in construction or a school crossing guard .. I can knit a vest..





Well anyway.. here is my progress on the Mosaic Mitts.

Here is my project of the day. Mosaic Mitts from the IK Holiday gifts 2006 issue. They are surprisingly easy although they look intricate. I'm using 4 different color yarns left over from other projects.. but the pattern calls for only 2 colors... so far I love these mitts and if i can scrounge up more yarn will probably make some more for presents.



These are the machine baby blankets I made the other day on my knitting machine. I'm trying to use up all the left over yarn in my stash... I still have to crochet the edgings on all of them.. and when I'm done.. I plan to donate them to Project Cope ... I'll work on them here and there..crocheting the edgings is the mindless type of work and I can do this while watching a movie or something... Anyone interested in making one or some .. here is the pattern I'm using... Although I used a knitting machine.. these can be knit by had also..I hope to donate them near the holidays so there is plenty of time to get one finished (^_^)

sTufF

Someone has a new sweater..!!! I didn't sew the buttons on so she could adjust them to fit just right. It fits a little big which gives her room to grow.



I've been purging my stash..the knitting machine helps a lot. I can knit up large pieces of plain knitting really fast. This is a tote being knit up.. that I later felted.. and of course I didn't use a pattern...



The top edging was knit by hand and I added a pocket to the outside.



Here it is somewhat finished. I put it through one cycle in the washing machine and unfortunately I over felted it.. I should have checked it every few minutes.. I have felted this yarn before and it took 2 machine cycles to felt it to the size I wanted it to be... oo well.. I've been thinking of adding to the top somehow and of course handles. I would have liked the tote to be deeper and not as long... so it's just sitting there while I stew over it. The color is nice though. (^_^)



Last night I casted on The Mosaic Mitts from the IK Holiday gifts 2006 issue. This is another pattern I have wanted to make since I got magazine and it's so much fun. I'm using my left over yarn from the pinwheel sweater I made last year.. 0.0..!! pictures soon..

haPpy FeeT

I've been working hard to get some projects done the last couple of days. I need to get working on holiday knitting... here it is again.. "that sock".. one down.. and one to go but I don't think there is enough yarn.. (I told u that yesterday.. gezz .. I'm repeating myself now)




Happy feet.. one sock and a pair of slippers finished...yay!!.. I've been going out on interviews for the last few weeks.. sadly the pay rate seems to be going down instead of up.. I should stop before it gets any lower... 0.0.. I have loads of experience but never went to college... I would like to go college now that all the kiddies are gone... after I get settle in a job I'll look into my availability for school. I had wanted to go full time so I could finish faster.. but ... the thought of no money, electric or no food made me look for the job part first... so as I keep looking and going on interviews..(hopefully they will get better) .. I'm working on getting as many Christmas gifts finished as I can..

I've been working on a number of different projects lately. Here are a two of them. The first are the crochet slippers from IK holiday gifts. The yarn I'm using is of course from my stash. Some old some new. The older yarn is phildar pegase (sorry, all the links are in french)and the newer yarn is crystal palace Taos.
So far I have one finished and I just started working on the foot part of the second slipper. The fit is a little big for me so hopefully they will fit the person I'm making them for. I've been wanting to make these slippers since I got the magazine. I think they are kind of cute. Would I make them again.. yes.





You have seen this sock many times before. I really haven't spent much time on it. I carry it around in my purse and work on it here and there. This is sock #1.. getting closer to the toe.. But the closer I get to the toe... the more I realize that I do not think one skein will do it.. I hope my LYS has another... this yarn was purchased quite a while ago and I don't think its a popular color.. ;_; I'm also working on a felted tote.. that didn't turn out exactly as I would have liked and 4 quick machine knit baby blankets that I have to add crochet trim to. All that will be in the next post.

Movie report. This week I watched Ghost Rider which I thought was pretty good and The Last Mimzy which was very good(then again I'm kind of weird) and a documentary called God Grew Tired of Us, which is a true story... also very good and worth seeing.

Machine knit dishcloth Pattern

Knitting Machine Dishcloths

Just in case someone would like to make these, I cleaned up the pattern and explained what I did in more detail. These are so fast and easy to make. Everyone on your Christmas list can have a stack of new dishcloths!!

Materials:

2 balls 100% cotton yarn your choice ( I used Lily Sugar'n Cream, 1 solid, 1 varigated)

(This will make 2 dishcloths by reversing the color of the cloth and trim for the second one)

Larger gauge knitting machine (100 needle bed)

size H crochet hook

Tension 6.1

Gauge (16 ½ sts = 4”)

Cast on 35 sts using the cast on of your choice. I used the backward loop. Knit one row. Set row counter. Place weights.

Knit 57 rows. Bind off. I used a knit cast off rather than a chain off for more flexibility since cotton doesn't stretch. If you have trouble with that just slip the sts off the machine onto a size 9 needle and bind off by hand. Do not cut yarn.

Place remaining loop onto a crochet hook.

Edging:

(RS,working on side of dishcloth) Chain 1, sc in same space , sc in next row end.* Skip 1 row end, sc in next 2 row ends,* rep to corner.

2 sc in corner. Sc in each st across, 2 sc in corner.

Continue around, repeat the same as other side of dishcloth.

1 sc in same space as first sc. Slip st to join.

Next row (change color)

*Chain 3 , skip 1 sc, sc in next st. * Repeat around. Slip st to join.