All Blog Posts Tagged 'afghan' (9)

Fall Felting

The weather is turning colder, and it's a great time to be thinking about warm slippers, hot cider, and snuggling by the fire under a cozy afghan. I'm busy with several felting projects at the moment, and fall is such a nice time to work on things like that. I've got 4 pairs of slippers in process (serially, not concurrently) - one pair in the Laced Slippers Pattern, and I'm working on the

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Added by AmyL on October 29, 2009 at 3:00pm — 6 Comments

Barbara's Blog - Look and Find

On Sunday we went carbooting for the first time in ages. Well I got lucky and found the main things I was after, and loads more. I got 3 huge real silk scarves from an Indian lady who seemed to be selling her entire wardrobe. These are to fray out and add to wool. I've decided to blend some of each colour with white wool, so it will have shimmery white, peach and red flecks. I also got a Sari length of red silk, woven with gold design. I think I will make cushion covers with this. I got the whol… Continue

Added by Barbara Longley on October 6, 2009 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

Baby presents finished

Finished two baby afghans, one knit (the pattern is Bright Baby Sampler by Sandi Prosser in the book Easy Afghans for Knitters):

This one goes into the "baby present stash" for the next friend expecting a baby. and one crocheted, with a knitted star baby toy:

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Added by mae on September 6, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

FO!

I finished the Diamond Lace Stole from the March 09 Creative Knitting for my best girl friend Erin. It is in Simply Soft in Violet. It is a few days after her birthday now, but she loved the socks so I think it is ok. I still need to block this and I really wish I had the blocking wires. I was conside… Continue

Added by Katylynn85 on August 28, 2009 at 4:08pm — 4 Comments

An offer I can’t refuse

Yesterday we went to our niece’s second birthday party. I was talking to my SIL’s FIL and he said something about how girls don’t take up sewing and knitting and crochet like they used to. I said I can knit and crochet and would sew if I could afford a machine. He got excited and asked what kind of things I can make and I told him I stick to smaller things like baby blankets and socks and such. He asked me to make an afghan. Avery, our niece, was his first grandchild and he had a neighbor make o… Continue

Added by Katylynn85 on August 23, 2009 at 5:05am — 3 Comments

Retirement Throw Update

Several of you have asked about the pattern for the dark red throw I received as a retirement gift. It turns out that it is a free pattern on Ravelry, so any one who would like to get it can: On Ravelry at: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bear-claw-throw

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Added by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on March 17, 2009 at 11:20am — 2 Comments

Road Trip Knitting

Over Thanksgiving, my parents and I drove down to visit my sister in San Jose. It's about 11 ho… Continue

Added by Tina on December 3, 2008 at 5:02pm — 4 Comments

Penguin Afghan

Christmas is soon approaching. i have all of my christmas shopping done except my husband. He always is so hard to shop for. He does have a penguin obsession so I figure I would knit him an illusion penguin blanket. There is a free pattern floating on the net of an illusion penguin scarf. I figure if I just make a ton of them I can make it into a blanket. So I went to www.herrschners.com and ordered an insane amount of berroco ultra light alpaca (thank the Lord it was 5.00 a skein) in winter sn… Continue

Added by Mrs. Marple on August 26, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Review of 2007's knitting

Hello, again. Since it's decided to rain off and on this morning in south Georgia, I'll keep going on my historical chapter of my knitting. In late 2006 I started an afghan for my niece's dorm room (she was off to college in 2007). This was one of the few things I've used acrylic yarn for since returning to knitting -- I'm having too much fun buying wonderful natural fibers that weren't available when I was knitting before. Anyway, I had more yarn than I needed when I finally stopped on the afg… Continue

Added by EO_Mason on April 26, 2008 at 8:29am — No Comments