A Knifty Knitter's Journal

A loomed doll

nobody@vox.com(Kim) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:02:16 -0800

Meet Loofah! I made this loomed dolly on the smaller (12 peg) flower Knifty Knitter. The pattern is Lulu the Loomed Dolly, and it's Bev's from Cottage Garden. She loom knits Lulu Dolls for charity. When I saw her dolls, and I saw the Lulu that A...

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Finished: shawl

nobody@vox.com(Kim) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:37:58 -0800

Last night I finished knitting this little shawl on the yellow Knifty Knitter.I used the pattern I listed below in a previous posting, by Rostitchery. Although I had some trouble decreasing, in the end, it turned out. Rowena had instructions to p...

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Dishcloth (knitted with needles) finished!

nobody@vox.com(Kim) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:25:36 -0800

It's a little bit crooked! And the edge that I ended on looks square instead of rounded. Oh well, here it is in all its glory: my very first knitted-with-needles FO. I enjoyed it, even with all my mistakes. The funny thing is that I see this part...

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Knitting Without a Loom (gasp!)

nobody@vox.com(Kim) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:41:00 -0800

That's right. I suddenly had an urge to give knitting with needles a try, so I checked out a video from my local library and I started making the first project: a dishcloth. So far, I've learned to cast on, knit in the garter stitch, and increase...

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Fair Weather Non-Knitter

nobody@vox.com(Kim) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:46:57 -0700

It just figures I'd go and be typical... when it's cold, I knit. When it's warm, I don't. Since we're creeping--no, make that speeding--toward the middle of August, I guess I can admit it! I'm a fair weather non-knitter. Non-knitting isn't all ba...

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Long Time No Knit

nobody@vox.com(Kim) — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:44:46 -0700

Can it really be that my last post was from March? Nope, I didn't drop off the face of the earth, nor did I decide to stop knitting--I moved! In mid-March, B and I received notice that our rental was being sold, so we needed to vacate. The past t...

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Antique store find: Handee Revolving Wool Winder

nobody@vox.com(Kim) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:44:28 -0800

Now here's a little item I'm sure will be "handee" someday--a wool winder. It was just $5.50 at a local antique store. I had just admired three or four wooden ones, all very pretty but expensive, rickety, and too big, when I spied this one still ...

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Big Bubba comes to visit

nobody@vox.com(Kim) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:15:23 -0800

So, what brought yarn kitty and yarn dog out of the house on a winter day? In the past week we've had 30" of snow, and yet there they were, both staring at something. Could it be? Could it really be that they spotted Big Bubba, the harbinger of s...

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Ziggy Zag Stitch

nobody@vox.com(Kim) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:10:06 -0800

I started a scarf using the ziggy zag stitch. (You can find written directions for this stitch in the Yahoo Decor Accents Group. Go to Files, and then Stitches. Isela Phelps has written them up.) To make this scarf, I'm using one strand of a be...

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Bunnies!

nobody@vox.com(Kim) — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:45:14 -0800

What better way to spend a snowy weekend than knitting a couple of cute bunnies? We may have had 20" of snow this weekend, but these little, cute, pink, fluffy bunnies didn't seem to care. I used the blue loom and the free pattern (PDF) from the ...

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