Knitting Dragonflies

Need some help finding patterns? Knitters Review gives us a lift of seven great little knitted items, hats, neck warmers and a cute little mouse. From Knitty Winter of 06 it’s Norberta the Dragon by Kate Kuckro, and her blog SimplyCrafted.com Kate also had her Toasty pocket creatures in Knitty winter 05, cute and quick From Crafts on Toast a super cute Bender pattern! (from Futurama) Who can’t use another HackySack ? This is a knit pattern for them from Sharon at ShazzasPatterns blog. I have crocheted them before but never knitted. From Cosmic pluto knits, here is a shawl pattern that only takes 350 yards / 320 m of fingering weight yarn, (you can use your handspun!) Reversible and fast and beautiful! It is the Milkweed Shawl . Destined to become a classic by anyone that knits it! She also has LOTS of other great patterns! I love this The Thing Pattern , for your comic book or Fantastic Four fan, by Knittycat.vox . Please check her blog out. From ChezPlum a sweet l

Fire Hooping, Barrington. Photo by Amanda Giles My girlfriend Rachel, who is my Henna sister, got a fire hula hoop for Christmas! While I’m still practicing on a standard hula-hoop, she has progressed to a LED hoop and now a fire hoop . I love the directions, it actually says, “at some point you will catch yourself on fire”, so someone stands by with a fire extinguisher while she hoops. Now that person should be sober! And you can’t really knit if you are the extinguisher person either. Red Hat pattern by Bernat , this is the second hat I have made with this pattern. Every month we get together to henna our hair, if you are interested in moving away from chemical coloring to henna, like many people are, (especially if you are being treated with chemotherapy or pregnant) the best website is Henna for Hair. Rachel before hair…light brown   and after….beautiful auburn We were both interested in switching to henna and started the journey together. She is a light brown, I

Burrrr……It is cold here! We have had about 2 weeks of very cold weather for Southern Indiana. With temps in the single digits at night and in the teens during the day, we are bundled up and ready for some warmer temps. As usual, we are the marathon dog walkers, no fenced yard, and large dogs equals our own exercise routine. This has resulted in a hat knitting binge for me. Quick and warm, everyone needs a hat. My mother always taught me that most of the heat escapes through your head, and you need to wear that hat to stay warm. Now I have read the study that determined that may have been misleading , but when it’s 4 degrees out and the wind at 30 mph, I’m not going out without my hat. When the temp dips this low it feels great to put on a knitted wool hat and bundle up against the winds. The pattern I used is a free one from Bernat for bulky yarn, I used Bernat yarn felting natural wool in color 94310, (a pink/purple blend). On size 8 US circular needles, using the magic l