Knitting Dragonflies

  1. You may be a knitter if, during a really bad movie you start looking at all the sweaters and knitwear and critiquing them in your head. 2. You may be a knitter if, you are constantly deciding if it will viewed as “rude” if you knit _______. (at a reception, meeting, church……) 3. You may be a knitter if, you can walk up to a total stranger, because you know they are wearing something hand knitted. Twenty minutes later you part, with info on the yarn, pattern, problems encountered during the knitting of it, and email address. 4. You may be a knitter if, you wake up in the middle of the night dreaming about knitting. 5. You may be a knitter if, you use the same adjectives to describe yarn as you would your favorite dessert. Have some of your own! Share them here…. Now go do some knitting Technorati Tags: knitting , knit

I started this shrug, quick knit but then never got around to quite finishing it. (photos are taken before I had everything woven in and shrug blocked) This was the beginning of my orange phase. You know how you keep buying the same colors, again and again? Well I decided to buy the one I would lease likely pick out. This was the beginning of a love affair with orange, suddenly everything I picked out was orange. I had orange fiber, I was dyeing orange yarn, buying orange clothes… Pattern: Lace Stitch Shrug, Designed by Melissa Matthhay, size M/L made, size was good. Yarn: Nashua Natural Fiber Sassafras, 50% cotton, 50% acrylic (ribbon yarn), 7 balls (I bought 8 balls and did use a fraction of the 8th) Needle: size 10.5 US circular, or one straight for body and a circular for ribbing. Gauge: 13 sts to 4 inches. Alterations: The only thing I did differently was add about 3 inches to the ribbing around the shrug, so it would fold back around the neckline. It was a f

  My DH bought me a Starbucks coffee cup, and the bag was so cute, and I was feeling creative. I decided it was the perfect size to carry some knitting projects to work and back. So I found this tutorial on how to harden paper bags , (with dilute glue), by Lauren Volk. So with a little addition of some stitching, (I stitched over the base of the handles to make them stronger) and I glued a few photos on (careful to remember less is more, don’t succumb to the Bedazzler syndrome, no one with a Bedazzler can put just one stud or rhinestone on an item)). I wrapped some ribbon yarn around the handles and secured it, and painted the whole thing inside and out several times with the glue mix. I did cut a cardboard base to glue into the bag. Careful to set the bag up and shape it as it dries, and there is a fine line between just enough glue layers and too many. (too many make your paper bag brittle) Happy with the result I decided to find some fun fabric and line it. I just trace