Here is my latest FO. I love them but they are too big for me so I am gicing them to my mom for her birthday. The pic makes them look two different sizes but they are not

So I the professional procrastinator decided about 5 or 6 days before Christmas that I was going to knit the 3 wonderful girls I work with each a neck shawlette, and knit my parents, my brother and his girlfriend, my niece and my daughter all slippers too! Not just any slippers but the ugliest slippers I could come up with....that kind of backfired though, as they all looked pretty good! I also got this insane I dea to design and make custom tshirts for the guys I work with who are a worship pastor, a youth pastor and a media pastor. The tshirts are not knit of course but I will include a pic because they turned out super cute! I also knit up a baby sweater for the youth pastors new baby boy born in November, but I started it in November

Ok first off is a couple shots of the shawlettes, I made 3, pink shimmer, a purple and blue hand paint yarn, and a black tweed self stripping yarn.





Here are a couple slipper shots. I mixed patterns together and also just made them up as I went. Yarn used was wool scraps that I had leftover. You can see my 4 yr old niece's in the group shot, I made the elf slippers from Weekend Knits. Super cute!





Our youth pastor and his wife had a new baby boy in November and I knit them a sweater for their first two baby boys so of course this baby gets one too so here it is:



Ok here are the tshirts. They all say Priceless and each guys title

Have not posted here in a while but I just finished a sock in record time for me! It was Kai-Mei pattern and it is a great to-go project. I finished the right sock in under a week, I have never finished a sock in that short of time. I love this pattern.

Yarn is a wool bamboo blend.
Needles: I did go up a size because I am a very tight knitter
No other changes!

Minus the rain!

I fell in love with this pattern and knew I had to make them. They knit up quick and are not boring at all!

Pattern: Rainy Day Fingerless Gloves from Knit.1 Fall/Winter
Yarn: Berrocco Comfort DK
Needles: size 4
Mods: left out the rain drop embroidery and changed the upper finger color to white for the clouds instead of gray

Finally done! Love it, wore it, got compliments up the wazoo...it's all good!

Whole thing before blocking:


Detail of peplum:


Artsy fartsy shot with my new camera!

I started knitting The Cloud Bolero by Ysolda I think but ended up heavily modifying it. I love the end result and am so happy I finished it! I see on small flaw in the front I will have to fix that before I wear it again, looks like a small hole.

The yarn I used was Moda Dea Cartwheel and I knit it on size 10.5 needles.
Mods: Made half sleeves that flare out, made it full length switching to stockinette after raglan increases were completed. Button from bottom of ripple pattern to bottom of sweater.

LOVE IT!


Side view

I completed my first pair of real socks last night, I did them 2 at a time toe up using Knit Picks pattern. I only did them ankle length as I used 2 half balls of Lion Wool, and I did them on a 40" size US4 circular needle. Obvious errors including one line of twisted stitches where I had used the wrong working yarn and had to go back, and my bind off is always tight so I tried MI in between each bid off, and now realize I should have increased a row, knit one round and then bind off. But oh well they work and I already started my next pair since these took me less than a week!

I finished this last night, it was my first lace thing one and I made plenty of mistakes but it still functions so I'll use it I made it with Classic Elites Wool Bamboo blend and I love that yarn, unfortunately I only got the one ball because it was a closeout product at my local yarn store. BTW it still needs blocking.

Oh my I love these but alas they were a gift...will have to make me some though in green!





I used Woolease Think n Quick and followed the pattern to a T but left of the frilly crochet bits

I love these! I messed up a bit on the left glove(the first one I made). I have gotten a lot of compliments on these!

Pattern: http://craftycathy.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/craftycathysfingerlessmittens.pdf
Yarn: Lion Wool Worsted
Needles: I am tight knitter so I went up a size to 7's US