A Jacket for Leroy

Hey guys, I just revamped the little coat I was working on for my nephew-to-be Leroy. I finished it with an I cord border, I finally learned how to knit one unto a garment! Then I did a little bobble button for the loop (I learned that from the knitting calander). I think it looks a bit like some of the costumes they have for civilians on Star Trek. Aaron thinks it looks a bit "green" or "hippy". It occured to me that if you could knit an I cord directly unto a garment you should be able to make celtic knots that way too... worth looking into.

Color Weaving, (aka Weaving in Ends)

Well we had another great meeting (to which I did not bring my camera. AAARRRGGGG!) I'm really bumming too because we had some neat stuff going on there. Kristi brought in the wool that her son had dyed for her (and it was lovely), and Amber had started this beautiful new texture in pretty muted tones. Well, no worries. If you have picks send them to me to post, or I can catch up with you later and get some pictures. We also tried some Color Weaving (I'm so thrilled about this one) and I think everybody picked up on it pretty quick. Here's the website I found that shows how to do the knit side for stock knit...

sockpr0n.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-weave-in-ends-while-knitting.html

I hope that made a successful link, if not there's always cutting and pasting to the address bar. This site has quite a few picks so it may take a while. I can't seem to find the one that showed how to do it when purling but it was a pain to read anyway so I might just post some picks of how it's done both ways later.

Savanna's "Princess" Hat

Well I've done several projects lately but I keep forgeting to get pictures of them before I give them away (silly me!) But this one I started on the loom just recently. I'd made a nice purple, green, and blue hat for my niece Mickia with a festive fur bottom. Savanna saw it and hinted that it was too big for Mickia's head (Savanna's been told by her mother that her head is fairly big for her age). Later when I gave Mickia the hat, Savanna came right out and asked if she could have it. Poor thing, I've been knitting a lot of things for her soon-to-be little brother Leroy too, and I think she's getting envyous. She told me she'd like me to make her a "pink princess dress". Well I've never knit a dress before and I told her so, but I did manage to start this pink princess hat before her dad picked her up and took her home. It has the festive fur too. I used a bluky pink cotton from a sweater I'd recycled. The hat is nice and thick and should give her room for growth. Oh, if anyone needs knitting graph paper to tool around with and make your own designs this is an excellent site...
www.sweaterscapes.com/grafpap-134.htm
Just print it out and you're good to go.

Knitting Group Meets Again...

Wow, sorry it's taken me awhile to post this. Well, our group met again (one member shy - Kristi wasn't feeling well, Get well soon Kristi, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE... we miss you.)
This is Amber's latest creation made on her knify knitter loom - wonderful slipper socks with fun fur tops. Such a neat idea, and it never occured to me. Yeah! one more use for fun fur!