Green Scarf

It's nearly finished.

Justin will soon have a warm neck.

Scarves

I love knitting!

Knitting scarves is the most easiest thing.

They boys enjoy seeing me knit or crochet.

They understand it relaxes me.

All 3 of them asked in the last couple of days

if I could knit them a scarf.

So .........

Justin is first.

Green is his favourite colour.

Knitted Shawl

You might remember my post here where I had started my shawl.

Its now finished.

(Please excuse the photos as I used the boys bathroom to take them)

Back at it

Wow! Its been so long.
I'm 1/2 way through making a shawl.
Will hopefully be more regular with my blog again :-D
You wouldn't know it but there are over 100 stitches on that needle lol


Bonnie, this is the shawl we got the pattern and stuff for last winter hahaha

Knitting with Wire

Layout 150 beads

Start threading onto wire

You just know its going to look good

Get your 4mm needles

Start knitting!

Will post instructions in a bit :D

Knitting with Wire

I've been working steadily at building my lot of crocheted bracelets.

Some already belong to other people now :D

My niece came over the other day. She has one of my bracelets.

She is so impressed she has now challenged me beyond them.

"Can you make a knitted wire & bead bracelet?" she asked.

I thought, hmmmmmm wonder what they look like.

So here is what a couple do look like.

Rachel's Tears

I finally got this book last week and have now started reading. Already I'm enjoying what I've read so far. Can't wait to get a bit further and be able to start my review :D

I'm still knitting my purple scarf. I ended up pulling it out and starting over. I didn't like the width I'd made it.

I'm currently crocheting a face washer and instead of using cotton I'm using bamboo. It is so soft I can't wait to use it. Will try to get a photo of it tomorrow and post.

Dish Cloth - its finished

Yep I finally finished my first dishcloth :D

After pulling it out and restarting about 6 times, I finally persevered and finished it.

Even though it is now made up of different colours and textures, its done!

Even though I somehow doubled my stitches, I got it sorted and its done!

So, this is probably the ugliest little dishcloth you've ever seen but it is special, cause its my first. But, I'm glad its done!

What a good day!

The oldest two boys, second day at school. Cameron started kindy.

Wow! What an amazing experience to do grocery shopping without a child or having to rush home to look after a child while Gary goes to sleep (night shift). I almost felt guilty hahahahaha

Cameron had a great start to his kindy. Though he can be "determined" at times apparently. The centre has overbooked so I was asked if he could go Thursdays instead. Yeah! That's no bother to me :D

All my babies are grown now (don't know whether I should be laughing or crying)

This afternoon I went to a friend's house where we crocheted, well, tried to crochet. I'm not the best teacher so my explanations can be sometimes confusing. Sorry! But it was fun and we did laugh. And she taught me an easier way to cast on to knitting needles. I can't wait to start practising that lol

Dish Cloths - Part 2

Okay, with a little more research, I'm fairly confident on how to do the original pattern I found. I was a bit confused with the YO direction in the pattern. I had to look up exactly what that meant.

My one I'm doing now won't have the fancy edge unless I crochet one after I'm finished (which I will probably do) but it will look pretty none-the-less due to the varigated cotton I'm using.

Don't you enjoy knowing that I knit?

Go on, sure you do hahahahahaha

DISHRAG PATTERN FOR BEGINNERS

Requirements

1 ball of knit cotton

Directions

Cast on 4 sts.
Row 1: Knit one row.
Row 2: K2, YO, knit to the end of the row.
Repeat row 2 until there are 40 sts (for dish scrubber) or 50 sts (for face
cloth).
Next row: K1, K2tog, YO, K2tog, knit to the end of the row.Continue decreasing until 4 sts left.
Cast off.