~ Ooops I'm Knitting Again! ~

I know I haven’t blogged in awhile but I’ve been a very busy girl. I’ve been knitting little projects like a fiend. I can’t show you them cause they’re top secret and I’d have to torture you by beating you with a wet noodle. LoL
However, I can show you my latest FO. It’s the Lacey round dishcloth by Rhonda White. I did it in the color " Playtime" by Sugar N Cream. It's bright ,fun and bit funky. Shaggy the Man child thought he'd wear it this morning around the house as a Jewish cap. I think he was switched at birth! LOL
If you would like to make this dishcloth you can find the pattern Here . It’s an easy pattern and it's fun to watch it come into shape. Give it a try and you’ll be pleasantly surprised I think.

Now, I have to stop playing and get serious with my knitting for a little while anyway. I have a baby sweater that I need to knit up for my new niece. I'll have to remember to take a picture of it when it's done so I can share it with you. I'm using the Little Lamb pattern from the Precious Layettes pattern book. I've knitted up a swatch and will be starting it here sometime in the next few days.



One more picture for your personal enjoyment. The Primadonna of the house. LOL Cheekie Kitty my furry baby girl.

~ It's finally Done! ~

I know it’s been awhile since I posted a blog entry (so, shoot me) I’ve been busy.
I’ve been working on finishing up this afghan of many colors for one of my nieces. The photo doesn’t do it justice but really how often do they? She saw this yarn by Red heart called “Embroidery print” when I purchased it and ohhed and commented on how much she liked it so she got it in a blanket (I’m such a push over). I still have to weave the ends in and wash it but it’s done being knitted finally (only took 10 months off and on). I let the yarn do the talking with this one. Here’s a better picture of the colors. I had to get up close and personal with the camera to get them to show up as they did.

Also, along the border I did a little something different. Instead of making the Garter stitched border even all the way around I varied it’s length up the left and right sides. So the ST. stitches plunged in and out of the border a bit. Here’s a picture of what I mean. It’s not the best but it’s as good as I could get.


The pattern is real simple and anyone can do it. You can make it with any type of yarn with any sized needles. My kind of pattern because I like to just wing it because that’s the kind of knitter I am. LoL

Sissy’s Blanket

With the long tail method Cast on as many stitches as you want the width of the blanket to be. I think I casted on 180 or 200 stitches (can't find the paper I wrote it down on) and used a size 7 US 29” circular needles for mine.

Then you knit for 12 rows (that will give you 6 ridges in garter stitch).

Section 1: row 1- Knit first 12 stitches and purl across row till you get to last 12 stitches and then knit those last 12 stitches.

Row 2- knit across entire row

Repeat these two rows in order 4 more times

When you finish section 1 you then do the next section.

Section 2: Row 1 – Knit first 8 stitches and purl across row till you reach the last 8 stitches and then knit those last 8 stitches.

Row 2 - Knit across the entire row.

Repeat these two rows in order 2 more times.

Once you finish this section you go back and repeat section 1 and you then move on to section 2 again.

So, Keep alternating between section 1 and 2 until the afghan has reached the length that you desire. Once it is as long as you want it then you will knit 12 more rows of Garter stitch (that’ll give you 6 ridges in Garter stitch) and then you will bind off using the two-needle method.

See I told you it was easy peasy lemon squeezy.

The reason I kept this blanket so simple is strictly because of the yarn I used. It is a variegated yarn and because of this more complicated stitch work was completely out of the question. The reason being that to use more complicated stitch work would be a waste of my time because it would of got lost in the yarns multitude of color. I’ve seen way to many pictures on and off line of objects with intricate lace and cable stitches done in variegated yarn and you can’t see the pain staking work that people put into them due to the yarn. Variegated yarns just don’t show those beautiful stitched works off to their full potential. Variegated yarn has its place and it is being the main focus of the project! If you want to do intricate stitch work stick with the solid colors cause only they can truly show off the beauty of your work in my opinion.

~ To Wax Poetic~

I would like to share with you one of my favorite poems and I hope you enjoy it.


~Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening~

by: Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

~ The Never Ending Skein ~

~ Written by: TopaazMoons ~



Grey clouds splashed across the cold January sky obscuring any chance of warmth the ground may seek to find. It was as if all hope had been sucked out of Anna as she looked drearily out her living room window at the snow. It was at times like this that she missed her Baba’ the most. As a little girl Anna would sit next to her grandmother watching her knit on long, dreary winter days. She remembered how hypnotic it was to listen to the magical clicking sound of the needles. Anna was always amazed at the fact that something as simple as two needles and a skein of yarn would eventually produce something warm and wonderful for the lucky recipient.

Her mother, Julia knew how to knit too but hadn’t picked up her sticks and a ball of yarn since Anna was a little girl. She can still remember her warm hand knit mittens that her mother had so lovingly knit for her. She can still smell the musky scent of the wool and see the colorful Fair Isle patterns as if it was just yesterday. No one else ever had a pair of mittens like Anna at school so it was always easy for her to tell which ones belonged to her. She was so proud of those mittens that were so magically knitted for her. Anna smiled as she reminisced about the mittens of her childhood.

When Anna’s mother was a child she had no interest to share in her mothers love of knitting. It wasn’t until Julia became pregnant with her first child, Anna that she asked Baba’ to teach her. The very first thing she knitted for the unborn child she so eagerly awaited to meet was a simple garter stitched blanket. She had to frog it a few times due to the magically appearing wholes from stitches she had dropped or she would come to find that an extra stitch had joined the group on it’s travels back and forth across the needles. Granted, it wasn’t anything fancy or awe inspiring but it was still beautiful and well loved. Unknown to Anna, her mother still has this first precious knitted item tucked away along side the baby sweater Baba’ had knitted for Anna, all for safekeeping.

It wasn’t till Anna turned 35 that she had decided that she wanted to learn to hand knit but Baba’ wasn’t there to teach her and Anna’s mother lived to far away to teach her at the time. So, Anna bought some needles, a skein of yarn and a beginning knitters book and began teaching herself. She started off easy with a man’s simple scarf and then moved on to an easy pair of mittens done on two needles and then to a simple poncho that she knitted in the round on circular needles.

That was two years ago when her first skein of yarn took shape. Now as she works on a blanket for her niece she thinks about how it all started with her grandmother’s first skein of yarn that simply morphed into new colors and textures over the years. Then like tying on a new skein Julia shared in the joy of knitting along side her mother. Which eventually lead to Anna tying on to the skein that came to join all three women together. So you see, the skein never ends it just simply transforms with each creative stitch into new colors and textures. And if you are lucky someone you love will tie onto that skein forever expanding its possibilities.