Knitting Dragonflies

Just a small update on my progress on using my handspun for my lace shawl pattern: Free pattern here . Not a very good photo, but you get the general idea. House slippers done. And of course I have help: And more magnets, tee hee..... Technorati Tags: Handspun lace shawl pattern link , Knitted slippers , glass magnets

Thanks to Paula at The Quilter for the pattern , and to Phyllis at Spin, Knit and Life for a great link to all kinds of cool knitted slipper patterns! A Feather Adrift also has made these slippers and says she started from the toe down. Many, many thanks, I think I am going to urge my girlfriend to try and track down her long lost friend from collage. She says she moved to Guatemala . How fun it would be to help reconnect two lost friends. I decided to "mend" this slipper in a red and white yarn. It is on the bottom and I managed to get it fairly "flat" (who wants to walk on lumps). Also washed these as she was afraid to due to the unraveling. So they are ready to wear. Everyone likes warm feet, and its nice to have slippers than you can fall asleep in also. She says these fit snuggly and warm her heart. Here is a cool link for a knitted heart pattern that is woven, thanks to Noreen Crone-Findlay . Technorati Tags: A feather Adrift , knitted slippers , kn...

It's funny, when you have a knitted item you love, really love, sometimes there is no replacement. My girlfriend that I am teaching to knit brought me these slippers. And said "don't laugh, can you fix these?" She said they were a gift from a girlfriend 14 years ago, and she has been wearing them. She said "they have molded to my feet perfectly!" I recognized the pattern, thank goodness and offered to try and "mend" these but told her I will help her make another pair. Of course the variegated acrylic Christmas? yarn may be hard to come by.  I am going to try to use a plan red or white. It looks like it is knitted double stranded, and knitted flat with purls on each side of the foot to make it form the sides, toe is a k1, p1. I remember  making a pair of these many, years ago. I'm talking grade school. She called them Elf slippers. Anyone out there know a link to something like this? I am currently just thinking of actuall...