Listowel Yarn Sale X2

I simply cannot pass up a yarn sale - no matter what the weather is. If you click here you'll see what I mean . . . enjoy!

Batman Two!

Two more batman heads - Kaleb & Jensen - big brothers to baby Chloe.

Meanwhile, I am busy knitting for some upcoming events. Must have one completed by mid week in order to start on the next one . . . why do I do this to myself ? (Only another knitter can understand)

Knitting Group Rules!

I know I haven't posted in a while. Kind of taking it easy after all that power knitting and posting during the holidays. BUT, how can I NOT show off these great FO's? First, here is Gloria in all her glory.


Isn't this top amazing ? ? She managed to complete this entire halter top with absolutely no pattern - beads and all. Way to go, Gloria. You win the January Knitter-of-the-month title! I'm scared to find out what your next project will be . . .


Here is Lynn, one of our new members, showing off the scarf she made for her granddaughter. I LOVE the colour combination. Congrats, Lynn - great job!


Here is baby Chloe wearing the Debbi Bliss sweater I made for her. I think you'll recognize her from other posts and can see how fast she is growing.








And last but not least we have BATMAN (also known as Graham) wearing the helmet toque I made him for Christmas. Little did I know his mom had made him the entire costume to go with it!

OK Gina, you are next girl - keep working those needles so I can post your FO next. Anne, Margie, Nicki, Pat A - get those knits and purls moving! Ricky, where are you? Pat B - come back to Canada soon - we miss you.

Our Knitting Group has started . . .

We had our first meeting of 2007 this morning. Gloria came with her daughter who is still on Christmas break. This is Vanessa wearing the sweater jacket that grandma Anne knitted for her. Isn't it beautiful? I especially love the ruffles she added to the sleeves and bottom. There's a matching scarf that really makes it a great outfit. Way to go, Anne! ! !

Pat A and Lynn joined us for the first time. Margie came too and has completed the back of her sweater for Garry and is now knitting a cable in the middle of the front. Zachary also joined us and just didn't get why we were ooing and ahhhing over the cashmere wool Lynn brought with her. We told him it's something you are born with . . .

So next week all the kids will be back at school and hopefully Gina, Ricky and Nicki can join us. I will be moving my office upstairs tomorrow and hope to make some changes to our library area which will be right outside my new office. I'm thinking of converting it (just a tiny bit) into a KNITTING ROOM! So, if you are reading this and have any ideas or suggestions, please let me know. For starters I want a bulletin board and maybe some pictures of our handiwork. Again, any ideas are welcome!

Three little bears . . .

Here are my three little bears from New England sporting their new hats, mitts and scaves that they got for Christmas. Love it!

Hat heads!

I have a "thing" about pictures of family and friends wearing the things I've made. My son, Jason, took this one on Boxing Day when we were together with my husband's family. It's a great picture!

Power Knitting for Christmas

If my records are correct I made 35 hats/toques, 2 adult scarves and 4 children's scarves. If you click on them you can see more detail or go to my 2006 link.

On top of that I also made 4 Christmas Tree hats which are posted below. Some of the projects were not photographed and so I'm hoping to take pictures of them with heads in them!

My daughter is showing off some of her Christmas knitting in a typical fashion. As usual, she did an amazing job!

More O Christmas Tree . . .

 

This is Miss Meli and little brother, Jake, in their Christmas Tree hats. This pattern is so much fun and so fast to knit - I just change the needle size and it seems to fit all heads. The pattern is HERE.

O Christmas Tree . . .

Guy is holding baby Chloe who is wearing her Christmas Tree hat. I will put the link to the pattern in my next post as I have two more Christmas Tree heads to share. She looks like a little dolly ! !

Show and tell . . .

Here I am with my newphew Niko who is wearing his truck sweater!










And here I am with niece, Erin, in her ladybug hat.







And this is Mackenzie wearing her Christmas Tree hat. OK - THIS IS WHY I KNIT ! !

Mary-Jane's by Irene

My amazing daughter is now such a pro. These slippers were made for a Secret Santa gift at her workplace. They are SOOOOO cute. I love the two colours together and the embroidery adds so much. If you click HERE you can get the pattern. I think I would enjoy making them too. Yay Irene! !

This is a picture of my newphew, Geoff, wearing the toque I made for him last Christmas. This pattern is so cool - I enjoy making it over and over with different colour combinations. Found it in some magazine a few years ago.

OK - this one is a bit strange but I feel obligated to post the link. My friend, Scott, sent it to me. Click here to see an old lady knitting . . .

Another great free pattern

From knitting FOs ...

This pattern was fun to knit and very fast. I found it here. I'm not sure but it may have been a link from Knitter's Review. Anyway, it knitted up in a week and I was able to give it to my friend, Susanna. She has a very CUTE little boy, Ethan. I will definitely make this pattern again. What I love about it is that it's made in one piece - no seams to sew - and starts from the top down. The pattern tells you where to put the button holes so you just keep knitting with no stops to calculate anything. My kind of pattern.

It finally made it!

I sent a package to our nephews in Australia on August 8 and 3 (yes THREE) months later it arrived ! ! ! I checked with the post office at 2 months and they said it was too early to panic. TOO EARLY! It's now summer in Sydney and I sent two sweaters - one made out of WOOL ! I've learned my lesson - no more Canada Post - from now on I'll be using FedEx or Purolater. I hope the boys don't grow too quickly or they may never get to wear the sweaters made for them by their favorite Auntie Kathy!

I also upgraded to the new Blogger. Hopefully all the features will work the same. It took me quite a while to get all my add on doo-dads to work and some don't work as well as I want. O well - it is a beta upgrade so I shouldn't complain!

Check this out!

I was on another blog and found this from YouTube about men knitting - It's great . . .

Remember me?

It's been ages since I last posted - yet I've been power knitting like crazy. Our Christmas Gifts for the homeless of our city (Toronto) need to be completed by Nov. 21. There are SOOOOOOOOO many of us knitting - myself included. We have scarves, hats and mitts galore. They are beautiful. Last week four of us worked on putting the sets together - we had SO much fun. We were trying on the hats and wearing them as we worked. Jennifer actually saw a set (or was it two sets?) that she couldn't part with. Now she's has to shop for something to replace it since it was intended to go in our Christmas packages! I believe they were made by one of our super knitters/crocheters Francette. I think Francette made at least tweleve hats & scarf sets. Ricky made about the same number of hats/scarves/mitts and Pat B made eighteen complete sets! I know we have over 100 by now the we have another week and a half to go. It's amazing.

PLUS, I am trying to get some Christmas knitting completed as well. My hands just don't move as quickly as they use to and it's getting me down. Thankfully, our weather hasn't been too cold so my joints are still working. I should have some pictures to post very soon. Don't want to spoil any surprises but - my niece, Erin, finally has a completed birthday gift - woo hoo!

Too Cute!

Here is Miss Meli wearing her Pooh Sweater. It's made from Bernat Chunky and I used the pattern on the wrapper. I've used the pattern several times and it's worked out well. Winnie's pattern is actually a cross stitch chart that I've used before. I wasn't sure he'd fit with this chuncky yarn - so glad he did. The biggest problem I had was with my tension. I used a 4.5 mm needle and didn't do the increases in order to get the proper size. The FO measured perfectly with the pattern's measurements. There's also a hat to go with this and I look forward to seeing Meli wearing it someday. Her birthday party was such fun . . . and now she's three! 

OK - here is the poncho that I crocheted for my niece, Sophie. Frankly, making this confirmed that I am a KNITTER! This was a bit too fussy for me - even though I was SO happy with the results.













Meanwhile, our cool Knitting Group has started up again. We met on Thursday and had "show and tell". Here Gloria is modelling her beautiful sweater - which was a bit of a group project (with Gloria doing all the work!). The photo doesn't really show the beautifufl cables and detail. It fits perfectly and we were all sooooo excited over it.

Great pattern

Here's a sweater I made for my new nephew "down under". I found the pattern online and really enjoyed making it. I'm all for no seams! If you'd like to see the pattern, click here.