Baby Vol

This is for a friend of mine who has a shower coming up. I used Excel to chart out the "T" on the hat for the University of Tennessee Vols. To do this, change the row height to 10 and the column width to 1.5 and then fill the cells with color as needed. I used Ann Budd's hat pattern from "The Knitters Handy Book of Patterns" and I used the Class Cashmere Bootees from "Simple Knits for Cherished Babies" by Erika Knight (I love, love, love all of her books!). I plan on making something similar for the other people I know who are preggers (whew - and there are quite a few!).

Yummy Shrug

I made this using KnitPicks Andean Treasure in Lagoon. I love, love, love this yarn! It knits up very pretty and feels soooo yummy and for a pretty incredible price too!

I sort of used the free "Staff Shrugs" knitting pattern from Interweave Knits adjusting it for my guage and for a very simple stockinette stitch pattern with a 4 stitch border in seed stitch.

Three Strikes You're Out Socks

I call them that because it took me three tries to make these socks and if I had to pull them out one more time - I was going to give away the yarn. :-P

Needle Case

Here's my new needle case that I made.

Case closed:


Case open (flap down)


Case open (flap up)

Chickami Tank

Here's a tank top I made a while back from the www.chicknits.com Chickami pattern. I used some cheapo baby yarn from AC Moore and it is super duper soft.

Vest - Gjestral Naturgarn

I knit this vest using the vest pattern in the knitter's handy book of patterns by Ann Budd and Gjestal Naturgarn in Kelly Green #219 purchased from elann.com.

I used a pattern from knitty.com to guide my choices on the edging.

Here it is:

Felt Flock

I just love this - I used the Fiber Trends Felt Flock pattern and Lambs Pride Worsted in Brown Heather for the body and Onyx for the ears, face and tail.

Coasters

Here are some coasters I knit up a while back. To get the size right, I knit up a swatch larger than I wanted and felted it. Then I scaled back the numbers so I would end up with a 4x4 square. I can't remember the exact counts, but it was something like 30 sts by 17 rows - I worked the stitches in seed stitch. Yarn used: Lambs Pride
in Red Baron and Blue Magic.

Legwarmers

Here's my version of the "coming back into fashion" legwarmers. I used Filatura Di Crosa 127 Print in shade 23 - purchased at my favorite knitting store in Charleston, SC -Knit on Charlotte St (downtown). I used size 6 dpns - CO 52 stitches, worked 8 rows in 1x1 rib, then switched to stockinette stitch until I ran out of yarn (I used 3 balls total).

(and please - no comments on the lack of tan - it's only April for crying out loud. :-P)



Close up:

Lollipop Socks

Here's my third pair of socks (second pair for me). I used Opal Lollipop that came in a 100g ball. Surpringly I only used 50g - each sock is about 25g. I'm guessing this is because they're short socks and it's fingering weight. Anyway - I used a 3x1 rib pattern on the cuff and the top of the foot, otherwise following the Ann Norling #12 pattern (64 stitch).

Here's a picture of the pair:




And here's a close up of the stripes: