acorn hat pattern

I plan on making this pattern available to be bought at a later time, but before I do I want some people to knit and critique the pattern (for design and the written pattern itself
) for me and in exchange the pattern will be free for them. If you are interested in following through this proccess reply to this post or message me on ravlery. 2 Spots still available as of 2/14/09.

Sylvi by Mari Muinonen

I bought my first PDF knitted pattern today. I think it is beautiful. It is called Sylvi by Mari Muinonen located on the website twist collective. It is $7 but I thought it was worth it, since I like it so much. I was thinking of making it in purple, yellow, or blue.

drinking lots of tea

On my fifth cup of tea the boiling water reminded me that I wanted to try and shrink my acorn hat. So I filled a sauce pot with water till it began to boil I placed the hat in the pot poking it under the boiling water with tongs. I let it soak for 4min. I poured out the water in the sink and with the tongs I placed the hat on a folded in half towel waiting on the floor. It was still steaming, so carefully I laid the scalloped edging out flat. The hat didn't seam to have shrunk much. I think it got larger... So I'm filling up my spaghetti pot this time, the sauce pot seamed to be a little small. Ok so I let the hat boil in the pot for 20 minutes. It didn't shrink at all. I guess Lion Brand fishermen's wool doesn't shrink. Well now I know. This time when I poured out the hot water in the sink. I have a double sink, so I poured out the water in one and had dilled up the other side with cold water. And placed the hat into the cold water after pouring the water out. I squeezed the water out being sure not to rink it out & then hung it up to dry. When searching for info on shrinking knits I found this wool crafting.

I added the acorn rib pattern around the edge. I decreased the rim from 106 to 81 stitches. And now it is a dread hat.

inspired to knit

Yay, so on Saturday I ordered "Inspired to Knit" from target.com and it came yesterday. I'm excited I want to start knitting the winter wonderland coat but I have to pick what yarn to use first. I don't know, I think I want it to be a vibrant red. We will see. I have to earn some money to buy yarn first. Anyways I'm excited that I have the book now. Here is a picture of the coat that shutter honey’s finished & posted on Ravelry.

Mr. Squid

I found the pattern for this in a craftster forum post . I thought it was really cute but I had no need for an I-pod cozy since I don't really use mine until my best friends boyfriend said he wanted me to make one for him when I was teaching her how to knit. I was really excited how quickly she picked it up. I decided on the squid pod cozy because he is a sculptor specializing in imaginary creatures in sculptie clay and the squid seemed to fit him. Anyways, the pattern is really easy, a one day project or a couple day project is you don't want to work on it all day. I changed a couple things in the pattern. The head shaping I decided to just repeat RND1 over and over instead of the RND1 RND2, RND1... I also added eyelets for button holes on the back flap. I added them in the 10th row down on the flap by (yo k2tog) for one side and (ssk yo) for later in that row for the other. And Like a real squid he has 8 little tentacles and 2 big ones with the fins. I used Fishermen's wool from Lion Brand yarn in natural brown that I got at Hobby Lobby and size US4 double pointed needles and for the gauge of making the 5" body it was 7 rows to an inch. In all I’m really happy with this project and I got to give it to him last night because it was his birthday. It was such a hit that another friend of mine wants one who is in love with monkeys. You know what I think I’m going to make him a sock monkey I-pod cozy that I noticed on Ravelry. Literally just thought of that, thanks God for the idea :)

new year = new projects :)

Hello all,

Happy new year, to you and you and you... Well online, scratch that because I've been online but I just haven't posted on my blog, my husband and I been taking advantage of Jesus' B-Day and the New Year to visit our families and I didn't bring my camera with me to take pictures like I like of the stuff that I've been knitting over the past week, so I've been MIA. But not worry, because me and my busy hands are back in action to show you what we've been up to. (Weeeee-booom) is me lighting a roman candle of excitement and joy that I finally received my invite to Ravelry. If you love to knit or crochet this site is awesome! And I really do mean the exclamation point there. I've been having a hoot. I only own a couple of knitting books, so I frequent the local Library for knitting books of patterns taking advantage of my tax dollars. On Ravelry they set it up so that you can see everyone’s finished product of any knitting pattern out there, ok so I'm sure not every pattern ever is on there, but if you make it, you can post where the pattern is from and be the first person to post about that pattern. I think that is pretty sweet and to my knowledge never been attempted before. So, I've been posting about my recent projects on there and learning about the website and surfing through the constantly uploaded new pictures of projects. Staying up many a late night eager to find just one more thing I want to heart, just one more...