Dishcloths Down

I needed to use up the rest of my cotton yarn after Beckett's washcloths so I made a dishcloth for me. Chris even agreed to participate by randomly selecting the pattern I would knit from Leisure Arts #3122 Nifty Knit Dishcloths. He chose "stacked barrels". I don't know what I'm going to do if I keep knitting from all my easy books. I won't have anything to break the tension from large projects in the months to come. Oh well, it's done now.

Library Felting Class

Westchester County offered grants to artists to help make our county more arty. There was a class on wet felting and I took it--for free! I'm not an expert, but I had fun felting my roving and when I got home Beckett looked at my project and said, "I'm so proud of you!" and then slept with it that night. So worth it. Here is my attempt at an abstract tie dye effect "peace flag". (Although the artist was inspired by Tibetan prayer flags she couldn't call them that for the class, we had to call them peace flags.)

You know how I love Ravelry? I also love Craigslist

Hip to Knit by Judith L. Swartz

Rowan Big It Up by Various Designers

Mission Falls Quinte Scrapbook by Mags Kandis

Cool Stuff Teach Me to Knit by Leisure Arts

The Knitters Bible Knitted Bags by Claire Crompton

Anticraft Knitting Beading and Stitching for the Slightly Sinister by Renee Rigdon and Zabet Stewart

Knit 2 Together by Tracey Ullman and Mel Clark

Chunky Knits by Carolyn Clewer

Easy Knits by Zoe Mellor

All for $30.

AWESOME!!!

Beckett's Washcloths

Ever since Beckett saw me making washcloths for Mother's and Father's Day he wanted me to make some for him. Unrelated to this a few weeks ago we were at Michael's and I was looking through the clearance yarn bin. Beckett started digging around and he pulled out this skein of yarn and said, "I want it!"

It was only $.79, plus I'm not one to turn down a yarn buying ally, so I said okay. Since it was cotton yarn it was rather fortuitous that he wanted a washcloth. This project helped me complete the book Leisure Arts# 4352 Baby Washcloths to Knit by Melissa Bergland Burnham.

I opened up this book and asked Beckett to choose a washcloth. He selected the rocking horse. It's a little tough to see as this yarn is a beige/white twist. Patterns like this are always easier to see on a solid color. But you can make it out. The pattern will pop more with use. It was less wrinkly when initially made but Beckett wanted to sleep with it last night.

Then he wanted me to make him a "B" cloth because he saw me make a letter "G" one. It's blocking right now and then I assume it will go into the bed as well. Cute.