WooHoo!
You can now purchase my patterns on line at Patternfish.com. I have my Noteworthy Fingerless mitts pattern up and ready to buy. I’m adding all my available patterns as I have time to do so.
Patternfish is a really cool site. It has over 4000 patterns for sale and more are added every day. You can find your favorite knitting designers there.
I look at their home page everyday because the new patterns show up and I like to see what folks are doing.
Check it out!
A lovely guitar playing friend of mine ordered a pair of my mitts. . . I’ve made quite a few pair of these and always in wool. However, my friend is allergic to wool. So I just jumped in and decided to knit them in cotton. I knit these fingerless mitts in Comfy Sport from Knit Picks – colors are Cypress and October.
I wasn’t sure how they would work up in cotton and I must say they are really soft and worked up quickly. Cotton sure doesn’t have the memory of cotton though. . . I’m afraid the ribbed cuffs might splay out on her. I did wash and dry these once and the blocked out nicely.
You can find this pattern in Ravelry
or at my Etsy Store
I am proud to note
A new knitter on the block
Niece Ellie knows how!
About a year ago I got a very long text message from my 14 year old niece, Ellie, asking me how to cast off her scarf. I laughed out loud at the prospect of “texting” back the instructions. Like most of my generation, I’m more comfortable and efficient with a phone conversation than hunting and pecking a text message on a phone. The letters on the phone are so small I can barely make them out!
Ellie taught herself to knit. . . back and forth for a very long time. . . but didn’t know how to stop. I helped.
Also, I just happened to draw her name for our Christmas exchange. Voila! I had the perfect gift! Knitting lessons!
Being a young city hipster, what do you suppose she wanted to knit for her first project? Wrist warmers, very long wrist warmers. Great! We knit a swatch, on which she purled for the first time. (a good knitter knows ribbing is required on wrist warmers) We measured her stitches and rows and decided how many stitches to cast on. Then I taught her to knit on two circulars. “Okay,” I said, “Call me when you want to start the thumb.”
She was on holiday vacation from school and had nothing but time. . . one week later she was ready to start the thumb gusset.
Now she knows how to increase (at least one way to increase). She knit the gusset during that night’s lesson and we put the thumb stitches on a piece of scrap yarn. “Okay,” I said, “Call me when you are done ribbing above the thumb”.
Well, back in school, she doesn’t have as much free time. It took three weeks to knit the 1 1/2 inches of 2/2 rib for the palm. Last night we knit the thumb. Unfortunately that was all we had time for, since her homework was calling. “What kind of homework” I asked. “Math, Biology, English, and History”, was the response. Oh how happy I am NOT to be in school and have nothing but time (ha ha) for knitting!
The results of Ellie’s knitting:
And a fuzzy picture of her gusset! (I can knit. . . but digital cameras tend to get the better of me. Sorry about the image quality)
Ellie, welcome to the fold!
Shawn
I was inspired by these fingerless gloves (scroll down her blog to find them) and just had to try my hand at it. Next I’ll try working some up in one color.
back to more knitting!!
Wow, it is hard to keep up with it all!
I’m just back from Flicker-land and feel a bit woozy. I posted photos that are on this site already. Baby steps. . . baby steps.
I also am on Ravelry If you are a member, my Ravelry name is Lulugal. Now there is a wonderland of knitters! Whew! I am so impressed with what people are knitting! It is AMAZING!
I also joined the Sock knit along from the Yarnery
I went and bought my sock yarn yesterday and am really excited about the pattern idea pattern idea I have.
I have also been knitting wrist warmers. . . wanna see?
Aren’t they fun? The first pair is knit using the same lace pattern as in the leg warmers.
I guess its time for me to jump out of this computer world and rake the yard.
Shawn