This blog is dedicated to my grandaughter. She is my pride and joy. And I have the honor & JOY of being her "Mimi". This is an adventure in knitting, not only for her when she was born Sept. 1, 2005, but my many felted purses, etc. I hope you enjoy visiting here.
Now I have to figure out what kind of handle I want. It turned out shorter than what I wanted and wider than I wanted. Oh well, live and learn. You can't see the dark grey underneath. Oh well, when I do it again, I'll know to add a lot more rows and maybe make it shorter width wise. Gotta go revise my pattern now, before I forget.
This is acutally a little off white bead on each end, with a shell added after that and then ( I guess), it's a stone in the center. You need to click on it to see the detail well!!! Kind of interesting. Good neutral color
One being the twist at the top that attaches to the "O" Ring. Can't seem to get those really smooth. This is "Just Silver". I'm thinking of naming my stitch markers. I started with twisting the wire to make the circle at the bottom, added a small silver bead, larger middle section, then another silver bead and closed it off. For the longer one, I've added three black beads to tell it apart. That being used to mark a specific place, like the beginning of a row.
Silverbeads w/ blue glass beads and paua shells. I've made one stitch marker longer than the others, in case for ex.: you need to mark the beginning of a row and then use the others to mark differences in the pattern. On this one I've added a dolphin, instead of the shell. Once again, the photo does not do this one justice. I think it's my favorite of all I've made
I just finished my 2nd. set of markers and posted them to the exchange site. Don't know yet when we're going to start the exchange, however I don't know that I'll use any of the one's I've posted so far. I would like for my partner to have a surprise when she gets her stitch markers. I'm off to Hobby Lobby tomorrow for more stones. I still have plenty left, however H.L. is having a sell. 50% off their stones. LOL> I want to have plenty of variety to chose from. Got several ideas in mind. Well it's late, so I'm off for the night.
Monthly Dishcloths ( a yahoo group) had a Knit-A-Long. The finished product was a surprise. You had to pick some yarn - any color- and then everyday, they would give you so many rows to knit. I got a little behind, what with keeping my "Lake" and then coming home to over 100 email to go thru. Whew!!!! That's from all the yahoo groups I belong too and then some personal ones as well. So I just finished my KAL. But I love the finished product!!!! I'll do this one again, although I feel like this one is too pretty to use. LOL. I picked a yellow and white varigated cotton thread. Don't know why, but I like it!!! I love this pattern. It's a mock cable. I only had to frog two rows and that's from watching TV and not paying attention during the hardest row. The one with so many changes. Oh well, off to work on my purse. I've just changed colors to the dark gray.
I'll have more info. up later on the side bar about this group and her blog site. I received a puffy ( a large envelope) with some charms in it to help me get started. I think to really get us excited and I AM>!!!!!!!!!! You will see 2 sheep, 2 balls of thread with knitting needles and 2, I love knitting. I had asked her about these particular chams earlier and guess what, that's waht I got. I love it. Thanks, Maile. I'm looking forward to this adventure with you and the rest of the girls. 
My partner for this exchange was Joye Summers from Gleason, TN. Didn't she do a fantastic job!!! She designed the scarf herself. I'm impressed!!!!! I don't know if you can see the colors well, however you can click on the photo and it will enlarge for you. It's kind of sherbet colored. It's two different yarns. One is a ribbon, called Ibiza and the other is Maxime, which looks like two yarns/ thread put together. Lots of fringe on it, which is totally me. LOL> She also wrote down the pattern for the scarf for me and sent the yarn that was left, so if I want to I can make my granddaughter something with it. She also sent my little "Lake" a peach and silver bracelet. I will tell her it's from Joye, however she's 10-1/2 months and will not know what I'm talking about. LOL. She also sent a pattern for the cutest hat to make for Lake. You'll see it at the top right corner of the photo. And a calendar photo album for 2007. You know who's photos will be in there. And last, but certainly not least she sent me my very first stitch markers in the cutest little silk satchel. Their green stones of various kinds. It's one of my daughters favorite colors, so I will have to watch them carefully. Just kidding, she does not have time to knit right now with "Lake" and teaching college part time. But she'll love the colors. Thank you so much Joye. I will enjoy everything you sent. I hope to be your partner again real soon!
was with Cindi Scruggs from KC, MO. Didn't she do a beautiful job!!!!! Look at the colors. I love them. She sent me a note that said she had a small ball of leftover yarn that she really liked and decided to make me the angel. She can make anything she wants for me with any leftovers she has! I've got the angel hanging in my kitchen. It's really too pretty to use. It looks like Ice Cream Sherbet. The colors in the round one are equally as pretty. I mean look at them!!!! I love them both. Plus she sent me three tea bags. I love hot tea!!!!! Two of the bags I have never tried before, so this be will an interesting experiment. Thank you Cindi for being my dishcloth exchange partner. I love them! I hope we will be partners again someday!
After felting, I plan to needle felt a photo of my Schnauzer. The one's that on a previous post here. Take a look at the photo. I'm planning on doing him from the neck up. Since he's a salt & pepper I think it will look good needle felted on the colors I've chosen. I'm working on this while I'm doing the dishcloth. I have not forgotten I've still have a hot pink purse from a previous post that I've not finished. It gets really boring just going in circles. So I have to have several things going at one time. I think that's why I'm enjoying the dishcloths, because I finish them so fast. I'll post some more as I go along.
This is the beginning of a mid July dishcloth pattern from a group called "Monthly Dishcloth Yahoo Group" of which ( of course) I'm a member of. The pattern is a secret when you start. Of course you have the opetions to participate or not. They give you the type of yarn, not color and daily instructions. 10 rows every day. It's exciting to see the pattern come together. I'm loving this one and will do it again. It almost looks like a cable. Click on the photo to enlarge.
The pattern comes from Leisure Arts, "Garden Dishcloths to Knit" by: Melissa Bergland Burnham. She has some wonderful patterns in her book and they are very well written from the one that I have made so far and the one's that I have gone over with full intentions of making. She has a wonderful Frog, really cute, a Hummingbird & Trumpet Vine, the Bee Skep, Sunflower, Rose, Topiary with heart, Butterfly, Michigan Cherries, Ladybug ( one of my personal favorites), Tulip, Cardinal, and a Birdhouse. Plus I like the fact that in the back of the book, she has written down the name of the colors she used. I might add she did a wonderful job of the color selection as well. At least that's the opinion of this humble knitter. http://home.earthlink.net/~oscarsdotter/id2.html. Go take a look!!! I think you will love them, if you like Dishcloths at all. I've posted two views of the dishcloth, hoping you can see it. You can also click on the photo and it will enlarge it to get a better look.
I had orginally intended to use as a dishcloth exchange. However it came out really large and open and you could not tell the details. So I made another one ( the bobble sheep) and mailed it off. But now that I have washed and dryed it, it shrunk and you can tell the details! Sorry the camera does not show it very well!!!! I first saw this pattern on : MesmerEyed Knitting Page. I have the link on the side of my blog on : "Sites I like to Visit". I fell in love with hers and she gave me the info to get the pattern from the lady that created it. Oops, Looks like I need to snip the end that's now hanging down after the washing and drying. I'm doing another one now that has a bee hive on it. I'm thinking about doing several different ones to give as little Christmas gifts to friends.
I'm a southerner, married 39 years, two children, three grandchildren and now 1 more on the way, due in Mid July. I've been knitting around 3-1/2 years now and have fell in love with felted purses and socks!!!!! Love the magic Loop tech. So you'll see several of them here.
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