Grandma's Favorite Washcloth

Friday night my friend Courtney came over to "play" and brought her 3-year-old son to play with my boys. My projects that were being blocked were still covering my table. She saw this washcloth and said that she had been wanting to make a pile of white ones for her bathroom. Of course I had to pull out some needles and yarn to show her how easy this pattern is.

Now, I could have just unraveled the little demo triangle, and picked up Mikeys "feen" sweater or one of my entrelac blankies - but why waste the stitches? I am now making a variegated teal cloth, that may end up being one of many for my bathroom. I just cant decide on what the contrasting color will be - either brown or lime. We'll see!

I had received one of these cloths as a gift from my friend Alice, and improvised a pattern based off of it. I'm going to use the pattern along with a checkerboard washcloth pattern as the two "beginner" options for our first project in my knitting class that starts next week.

May 7th Bookmark KAL - Finally Blocked!

This has been one of my favorite bookmark KAL projects. I don't know why it took me so long to block it!

I use one of the small fancy embroidery skeins of size 5 DMC perle cotton in a beautiful Teal color on size US 1 harmony DPNs. I love this thread because it has a nice gloss to it.

I started using this bookmark after wet-blocking it, but I think I may use some spray starch as well.

Blocking Bonanza

I finally decided to dedicate my dining room table for blocking Jackson's sweater on 6/5. I ended up blocking the cabled bookmark KAL, and the Palmtree Bookmark KAL, as well as one other washcloth that I had forgotten to block.

The kids have enjoyed eating all of their meals in the living room for the past couple of days, but it is wearing on Jeff. I need to give the edges a good blast of steam before I am willing to pull the sweater up though. Maybe when the kids go to bed. . .

June 1st Dishcloth Finished

I finished the June 08 dishcloth knit-along on the 5th and blocked it yesterday. For an image washcloth, this one is pretty decent. I may end up giving it to Veronica at some point, since she loves green. I really like the border stitch, but wish that it was wider on the sides to match the top and bottom border.

Entrelac Bookmark KAL Starts Saturday!

I submitted a pattern a few months ago to the MonthlyBookmarkKAL Yahoo group that I joined last January. Brian, the moderator did a call out for submissions, and accepted my design. I just found out that they will be starting my bookmark on Saturday! Instead of doling out a few rows at a time without letting people know up front what they will be making, he is planning on sharing with the group up front that we will be doing entrelac, since the directions are a little out of the ordinary. I am so excited! There are 828 members of this group! I hope my directions are clear enough!

Dishcloth of the Month: CHEATING??

Do my KAL projects count as cheating on my current projects? I just printed off the first few rows of the latest KAL, and I just HAD to start!!

Mikey's "FEEN Yarn Jacket"

Mikey asked for a "Yarn Jacket like Jackson" but in "FEEN!!" (green). We checked 2 different Michaels and they were sold out of the apple green color that I wanted for his sleeves. After checking with my knitting buddies, Donna located a spare skein that she had left over from her Christmas stockings.

True to form, once I had that "feen" yarn, I had to start Mikey's jacket. EVEN THOUGH I haven't finished blocking and sewing Jackson's jacket first. EVEN THOUGH I will be using this project as the demo project for my class that starts in 2 weeks. I am justifying my early beginning as follows: I will not have time in class to do a lot of knitting, I also need to re-write the pattern for a size 3/4, I do not need to demo BOTH sleeves or BOTH fronts in class - just one of each, and my other projects aren't as portable for car rides right now.