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Location: Houston, Texas

About Me:: I'm back to knitting after many years--my favorite was fair-isle, working with Norwegian and Scottish designs and my own hand-spun yarns. I'm exploring socks with all of these great new yarns!!

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We meet at last!!--Cheryl takes a great picture!!

Cheryl and cellogirl finally realized they live less than 3 miles apart!!--Borders Book store was a great place to get acquainted face to face!!--we share so many interests!!

Posted on July 30, 2009 at 8:13am — 3 Comments

Yes, before coffee this AM, I pinned the newly completed Hemi to my bed--from head to foot, from box springs to box springs it laps over!! sprayed it good and turned on the ceiling fan. Hope that it, and the bed are dry before tonight!!
I'm sooo thrilled with my first piece of lace!!--Picture to follow!!

Posted on July 8, 2009 at 6:20am — 2 Comments

Thanks to Kelly's crew!!

Yeah, Yeah--Kelly's super efficient crew got my 60" extensions here 2 days before I expected!! that speedy response to my dire need to finish my hemi prevented another project from starting on my knitting deprived hands!! Thanks to Kelly's crew!!

Posted on July 3, 2009 at 7:46am — 1 Comment

A little Fair Isle

My experiment with neck down on EZ round yoke was a success!!--one Christmas present made!! Am started on all of those beautiful planned overs from the sip bag--the Palette FI Cardi is coming along--my goal is one pattern per day! Great fun!!

Posted on June 11, 2009 at 1:00pm — 6 Comments

Triumph at last!!

Finished up my Sip bag!! A huge learning curve with it's inside-out dps knitting with strands and the welts!!. Finished it with upholstery fabric lining, a zip pocket inside, zip on lining with commercial handle attached to lining, the additional knitted edge just back-stitched to the zipper on top. My first pair of socks, and latest sweater are also in the photo. The socks were a triumph as well--at least for me. I'm into EZ with all the books I've ordered from KP--I'm devouring her techniques-… Continue

Posted on May 20, 2009 at 6:09am — 2 Comments

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At 9:43am on November 14, 2009, PickleSue said…: Oh, that's so wonderful!! I really did think it would work. Thanks for letting me know! I will use that on my next Baby one. I have some lavendar and white self striping baby acrylic that will make a funny little jacket. Then I found some acrylic and nylon that feels like angora the other day- it's a lighter lavender, but I'm going to use it for the i-cord. I'm going to look for pictures of your adult surprise! Sounds great!

At 8:29am on November 10, 2009, palsknitto said…: one of my daughters and two of her friends go every year and have to call each other to find where they have wondered, they have actually stayed overnight and went back the Sun. she always manages to find a lot of really cute stuff. Knitting happily, Irene

At 7:07am on November 6, 2009, Marta said…: My 'super skill' with controlling striping--isn't! haha The pattern is a top down raglan cardi just knit back and forth so the stripes control themselves. I loved the way it looked as if I had done some engineering job on the sweater! What I did control was the placement of the lime green. I just let it happen in the upper section, but cut that color out of the yarn in the lower section. I thought it would be too 'jumpy' to have the green throughout. Also, the only 'add ons' were the front bands (no buttons). I chose where to start in the color sequencing so I had two slightly different purples. There, too, I wanted something quieter. I think much of this is on my Ravelry project page.

Glad you like so many of my projects. I'm slowly seaming the Noro tunic dress together. When it's done I'll have photos to share. Going back and forth between two balls of yarn is part of the pattern, but I'm using two of the same colorway instead of two different colorways. I also organized the skeins before I started so that I was using yarn which started in about the same place in sequence on the front and the back. There are actually places where the stripes sort of match! Ditto the sleeves. I wasn't trying to match everything, just make it not be all jumpy and crazy. I hate that in a pieced Noro garment.

At 6:52am on November 6, 2009, Marta said…: Hi! Check out my project page for the Cable Tank on Ravelry. I'm 'DrMarta'. There are a number of photos of the i-cord in progress, and the cables, and lots of project notes. I had to make some changes at the end, but the final product is gorgeous!

At 3:11pm on November 5, 2009, palsknitto said…: Thanks at one time I did a lot of different things,crochet, then got into needlpoint and I just loved it. Now it is hard to see the grafts, I never got into quilting, my mother quilted , but nothing like what is on displayed at quilting shows now, even in a small town,the quilts were beautiful. Houston't quilt is so wonderful, have you gone and gotten lost like my DD does, Irene

At 3:07pm on November 4, 2009, palsknitto said…: Hi Did you make those beautiful quilts, we recently had a quilt show here, I don't quilt but loved all the displayes. Irene

At 6:48pm on November 1, 2009, PickleSue said…: I really can't believe it... I feel like a dummy!!! I thought that Aster Doily looked really familiar, but I couldn't figure out why. I went to look, and I HAVE THAT BOOK!!! When you very first said McCalls- I was thinking the Needlework Magazines, for some reason. That's why I asked for the name again after I saw the picture because it didn't look like a magazine page. Oh, that's so funny/strange. After I found the book, I remembered getting it at the local thrift store about 6 or 8 months ago. And the doily was the main reason I bought it. I noticed the sweaters in there, but I wasn't really interested in colorwork at the time. Now I sure am!! How do you know they're EZ? I couldn't find any notes in there. I feel silly, but so honored that you would think of me when you saw that doily pattern. :)

At 7:05pm on October 31, 2009, PickleSue said…: Oh, that makes sense about the pictures now. I originally thought you were talking about your pictures!! I did get my pictures loaded to Ravelry. They're HERE. But it is before I sewed up the shoulder. But you can see the striping I dreamed up. I used a #4 yarn with #4 needles and tried to knit tighter than usual for me- and I think it's probably newborn to 3 mo size. By looking at it, anyway. It won't block since it's acrylic- but it would stretch to fit a bigger baby if they needed it to. I had another idea for doing the flat buttonhole. You could knit 2 of the body together with the i-cord, do icord plain for 2 or 3 or 4 sts, then knit 2 body together with the next icord row. That would move those 2 body cast off sts to the sides a little. I would have to try it to see if it would work. ;) That pattern sounds wonderful! Let me see if I can get that sent to you. Thank you!

At 9:59am on October 31, 2009, PickleSue said…: I just reread your comment to me and realized you said there were pictures?! of your sweater? I can't find it...

At 9:56am on October 31, 2009, PickleSue said…: I should have read your post on Knitter's Almanac KAL before I left you the last note. I think there is a way to bind off with icord and make buttonholes at the same time, but I don't know if I'll be able to explain it. I just read about it in one of EZ's books, I think. I don't remember which one. I'm going to go search!! It is on page 106, 107 of Knitting Workshop. Do you have that one? Her directions say if you have already cast off and are adding i-cord- you would 3-4 rows of i-cord and skip 3-4 garter ridges to make a flat buttonhole. It seems to me that if you are casting off too, you could slip the live stitches over one another until you're ready to join the i-cord in again. Her other option is a loop buttonhole where you stop joining the i-cord for (she says 9) rows and then join it back on again- and it will make a loop. I think that would work when casting off, but I haven't tried it yet. I wish I had found this before you cast off!! She also has Tab buttonholes where she cast on 3 sts, worked 10 rounds of i-cord, then took out the original caston and kept those 3 sts live in a row with the 3 at the end of the icord and knit 3 ridges of garter st on those 6 st. Then joined that little tab to the cast off edge on the front. The picture is cute. It sure would be fiddly. :) Hope some of that makes sense!