Project Accomplished

Ok, so this hat started as a project that was picked out by my botfriend. He is allergic to wool, and he bought some Alpaca, and then he found this pattern online at www.rosi-g.com/soapyknitter. The pattern was fairly easy to follow, it woulf have helped if I printed the page with the shortcuts on it. I spent a little over a week on it, since the holidays kept us pretty busy.

Hat Pattern...Free

OK, so I have not posted any of my patterns, and for good reason, first, I don't know if I may need it later....second, I don't know how much traffic I want on my website....third, I'm not really the popular type, but I do like to Figure thins out. So, here is the pattern for the hat listed below.

Quick Bulky Hat
Materials:
Size 13 needles, (doublepoints, or circulars)
LionBrand Jiffy Thick and Quick (color of your choice)

Directions:
Using long tail cast on
CO 60 sts, place marker and join
1st Round: Knit
2nd Round: Purl
Repeat for 2 inches
Switch to Knit every round for another 3 inches
Start decrease rounds
Every 5th stitch, k2t, (knit 2 together)
until there are about 8 or so stiches remaining
cut the yarn about 8 inches from the hat and use a neddle to sew through remaining loops and then weave in the end of the yarn.
Enjoy!

Picture Heavy, watch Out! Oops too late.

Can you believe that I have a lot more to post as well?

whoooow

Ok, so it been a while and I really do have a lot to show.... I made gloves and slippers and sweaters and hats.....

mmmwwwwaaaaaa

ok can you believe i am posting via free wifi? This is sweet!

Slippery Suckers

Here is the finished product. I made some of the slippers in the Knit 2 Together book, and here is one of them. They are safely packed in a box with my Dads gloves and are postmarked for west virginia. I would be happy to receive either of these gifts, especially since i made them, i try not to make things that i would not like to be given, because chances are that no one else will either, lol.

Angelina is finished

OK I finally finished it and if I can figure out a way to post from my phone I will. I am so excited that it is finally done, and I have moved on to work on my daughters new sweater for this year and next, so I am making it in a size 6. It was a pattern that I downloaded from Berroco, and I am adapting so that it doesn't look retarded, I swear some of the patterns that are out there are written so badly that you have to change them, or they are written taking for granted that you are doing something that they haven't put in the pattern. I would never start the back ribbing on a child's sweater and then decrease by 11 stitches on something that only had 69 to begin with after the border was done, can you imaging the ripples? This was originally a pattern for a boys sweater, and I am changing it. I think that I may actually publish a book that has all of my adapted and simple to use patterns at some point in the future.

you got me

Apparently, I have been tied up, and I am mostly done with my angelina sweater, I have another sweater on the needles, the knit in chunks, which I keep changing the pattern as I go since it does not count out right, and dads gloves, and oh a sweater from knitscene magazine a few seasons back, and I have been updating ravelry, and I have been searching tirelessly for a diagonal knit sweater that I saw in Loops in Tulsa, but absolutely cannot find online, ugh!

the neverending story II

That is what my kids are watching and I thought for a while that this sweater was indeed the neverending project. I like this sweater but the design takes forever, not to mention that I actually ripped out a sleeve needlessly...don't know what I was thinking. It just didn't look right, and well, that did waste a lot of time. But it is done, and now I can move on to something else. My boyfriend still wants me to knit him a cable sweater but not for now. We had plans to go to Ireland at the end of the month but it isn't going to happen now. Oh well. You live and learn. I trusted a lady not naming names;(Arcelia)at the Department of Education and she did not file my paperwork for me last year....meanwhile I never received a piece of paper in the meantime so I thought my hardship was filed correctly. They took my income tax refund. And now they are trying to help me get it back. Anyhow no trip to the motherland of knitting...and without further ado, my latest creation, pattern is online at www.lionbrand.com

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