Blogger Anne Marie of the Life in Yonder blog is having a Valentine's give away of 6 beautiful leather tags monogrammed with your initials. You can find out details on her blog post:
http://lifeinyonder.blogspot.ca/2014/02/valentine-giveaway.html
Good luck everybody!
Friday, February 21, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Ski Toque Available on Ravelry
I just published another pattern on Ravelry yesterday. It's a very fitted Ski Toque. I knit the entrelac band flat and then joined it to work the crown in the round. Please check it out. I hope you all like it.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ski-toque
You can find it at:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ski-toque
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Autumn Splendour available on Ravelry
I am very excited! I published my first pattern for sale on Ravelry on Sunday. It's the Autumn Splendour hat I made a few years ago.
You can find it at:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/autumn-splendour
I hope to get more of my patterns out there in the near future.
You can find it at:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/autumn-splendour
I hope to get more of my patterns out there in the near future.
Monday, February 3, 2014
I'm Back!
Hello Everyone! This is strange. It's been almost 4 years since my last blog post and I haven't even been able to visit Ravelry that often. I don't know where the time went. Life got so busy with work, family illnesses and deaths, there seemed little time for anything else.
I have been steadily practicing traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu karate under the guidance of the IOGKF (International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Federation) for the last 4 years which has helped me keep my sanity through the extremely stressful times. I just got my brown belt in December!
As my bio on the side says, I've also gone down to part time work so I could be there more for my family. I won't bore you with details now; that will come out steadily over time as I post more. This post is to update you on the three major knitting accomplishments of my last year.
My husband loves my hand-knitted socks. There was a cute kit called Sushi Socks at a local yarn store which has since closed down. Balls of yarn were died to look like sushi rolls. My husband chose the Ocean-Toes pattern from Cat Bordhi's, New Pathways for Sock Knitters Book 1. Of course, the fact that he has size 15, triple E width feet, means I have to adapt everything to fit him. I think it turned out quite well.
We love funky hats in our family. My son requested the Samurai Kabuto from Vicki Square's, Folk Hats.I substituted yarn, so once again, adaptations. I'm very pleased with the results.
My little princess chose the Frontière also from Vicki Square's book referenced above. Once again, I substituted yarn and therefore some re-sizing and some ad-lib knitting so it would fit her head properly.
The other little variation I did was to not use yarn to make French knots that would look like little pearls. I sewed on faux pearl beads. As you can see, she is ecstatic.
That's all for now. I plan to blog again soon with what I hope will be more interesting knitting for all.
I have been steadily practicing traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu karate under the guidance of the IOGKF (International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Federation) for the last 4 years which has helped me keep my sanity through the extremely stressful times. I just got my brown belt in December!
As my bio on the side says, I've also gone down to part time work so I could be there more for my family. I won't bore you with details now; that will come out steadily over time as I post more. This post is to update you on the three major knitting accomplishments of my last year.
Sushi Socks
My husband loves my hand-knitted socks. There was a cute kit called Sushi Socks at a local yarn store which has since closed down. Balls of yarn were died to look like sushi rolls. My husband chose the Ocean-Toes pattern from Cat Bordhi's, New Pathways for Sock Knitters Book 1. Of course, the fact that he has size 15, triple E width feet, means I have to adapt everything to fit him. I think it turned out quite well.Samurai Kabuto
We love funky hats in our family. My son requested the Samurai Kabuto from Vicki Square's, Folk Hats.I substituted yarn, so once again, adaptations. I'm very pleased with the results.
Frontière
My little princess chose the Frontière also from Vicki Square's book referenced above. Once again, I substituted yarn and therefore some re-sizing and some ad-lib knitting so it would fit her head properly.
The other little variation I did was to not use yarn to make French knots that would look like little pearls. I sewed on faux pearl beads. As you can see, she is ecstatic.That's all for now. I plan to blog again soon with what I hope will be more interesting knitting for all.
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