Languishing on the UFO Pile

This blanket has been on my UFO shelf for, I'm embarrassed to admit it, at least 3 years.

The center is a large felted, garter stitch rectangle with a pieced and quilted border. The Geckos are batik panels I bought somewhere, sometime. and the back is pieced as well.

I like it very much :D

It's here, and I made the cover!

I'm very excited about the newest edition of Living Crafts Magazine. My Blankie Baby design is featured on the cover. I designed this toy for my grandsons so that they could have a quiet, smaller, snuggle blanket. It's been tested, and approved! I love the little model on the front - isn't she adorable?

The pattern for Blankie Babies appears on page 30 in the magazine. I sincerely hope you will enjoy it.

A One Row Shawl

In an effort to plan some vacation knitting- by my definition knitting that doesn't require complicated stitching, pattern reading, or really small needles, plus I wanted a strong, servicable garment. After 6 or 7 attempts, I came up with this:

My One Row Shawl










I had this yarn, 2 balls of Melody and 2 of Mohair Royal




The Melody I used is color MS39, and the mohair color 12553.




I held one strand of the sock yarn together with 1 strand of the mohair on a size 7 needle.


I used the EZimmerman garter stitch edge, WYIF slip 1 as if to purl throughout. The finished garment 'cups' slightly and stays on my shoulders nicely.



One-Row Shawl Directions


Cast on 7 stitches

Knit 4 YO, K to last 2 stitches, YO, K2

keep repeating this row back and forth until your shawl is the size you are looking for. I added a 4 stitch I-Cord bind-off for a soft edge at the neck.
I'm gonna do this again with some handspun that I have- gotta love a simple knit! At least I do. :)

Easter and the Socks

I got a wild hare, no wait, I have wild hair but that's hair, not hare- anyway I decided everybody needed socks for Easter. The little red ones for Ethan helped compensate for his daddy's size 12 feet!

and here are our boys with Papa- Just Say Cheese!

Holy Snow, Batman!

Christmas 2010

Here's our family wearing my knitted love.

One on Me!

Okay - so the pants I wore the other day were 2 sizes smaller than I normally wear and I've probably only lost enough weight to wear pants that are 1 size smaller than I normally wear, so I pull my cell phone out of my pocket and discover that I've taken 34 pictures of the inside of my pocket.

Stop Laughing.

Happy Holidays,

Molli