I recieved a skein of  Bernat Cottontots from my lovely secret pal, and I'm dying to make a summer top,but I'm worried that it's lack of stretch and such will make it unsuitable. Any of you make a tank top or something of the sort out of Cottontots? Any suggested patterns? I'd be so greatful!

Just finished these two. I think they look pretty cute, but aren't as "neat" as I would have liked, but I guess the homemade look is pretty cute. 

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This bear is my first try at toys, hehe. It's supposed to be a birthday present for my boyfriend, but I might try to make something else since I still have a month. Does anyone have any easy pattern suggestions?

I'm knitting a sweater flat (it's my first!) pattern #41 in REbecca 28, in case it matters and I can't seem to figure out how to bind off for armhole shaping! It says to bind off 3 at the beginning and end of the row, and then every couple of rows I have to bind one or two stitches off, but I don't get how I'm supposed to bind off at the end of the row and go back to knitting the next row? Do I cut the string and pick up on the next row or what? I feel pretty clueless!

Anyone interested in knitting this up?

I was inspired by Lazynono7's pictures of her sweater here:
https://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=77414.0

and I went and bought up a bunch of Lion Brand Kool Wool from Smiley's (for only 2 bucks a skein!!) and I'm all ready to start! I was just hoping someone else would wanna try tackling this with me!!

I'm trying to knit a scarf with some chunky yarn in two different colors. I tried to use the russian join to make the color transition look neat, but for some reason it isnt coming out as nice as I wanted. So, since I'm only doing 4 rows of each color, I wanted to try to carry the yarn along the side, but I was wondering if I can do that on something knitted flat. Where would the carried yarn go? I feel like this is a silly question, but the only way I can imagine the carried yarn not showing is if i knit two scarves and seam them together so that there is no "wrong side". Any hints/tricks/ideas for working with some chunky yarn?

I'm in RA for freshman at my college and I got a great idea for their door decorations. I want to get records for everyone's door and decorate them and put the resident's name on them. My only problem is that I need to find at least 25 records for really cheap. Do you guys know any places besides Salvation Army where I can get records for $1 or less? Specifically the NYC area, b/c I assume it'd cost a lot to ship them. Also, any ideas of what I should decorate the records with?