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.

Anjali's Oriel Lace Scarf/Stole

I am a blocking convert. I was so nervous that this pattern wouldn't show up. It did not look pretty on the needles.

But I blocked it and literally 80-100 pins later it's looking great.

(My lovely blocking assistant. If by assistant I mean person who jumped on the bed but never actually jumped on the scarf so he could claim he was obeying.)

Not perfect, honestly, I could have used more pins, but I didn't have more. No wonder people use blocking wires. But still it's lovely and I'm happy to give it to Anjali to say thanks for all her hard work with Ciaran.

A New Member of the Family

Barnes and Noble was having a 50% off clearance. After diligent searching I managed to score a knitting book. Please welcome to the library family Hip Knit Hats by Cathy Carron.

I think I'll be going with the "Beth" or "Cosima" when time comes to knit from this book.

Father's and Mother's Day

I made a series of wash cloths for the boy parents and girl parents in our lives. Both sets got there after the holiday itself so I'm post dating this so the boy presents will arrive before they see pictures on my blog. 'Cause I'm pretty sure my father-in-law is addicted to my knitting blog.







There was one I forgot to photograph before mailing it away. I looked like this:

101 Designer One Skein Wonders: A Reprisal

So instead of working on new books in my library I decided to make another project out of this book. Ciaran's physical therapist is moving to Dubai so I wanted to make her a goodbye and thank you gift. I thought a nice light shawl might do the trick. There was a lovely pattern for an Oriel Lace Shawl in 1o1 Designer One Skein Wonders. However, I started it a little later than I planned and realized it wasn't going to happen. So instead I am making her a scarf in the same pattern. I chose a nice light cotton yarn, Paton's Grace in Sky. I think it's lovely and won't be too hot in Dubai's temperate weather.

Here is the work in progress.

It will definitely need to be blocked which I am a little nervous about. The first time I ever blocked anything was today and it was only a washcloth. I don't have mats and pins, oh and knowledge of technique so we'll see how it goes.