2011 Needlework Arts Challenge

[Debbie-cat]

Lindsay - love the bunnies! The mitten is wonderful. Love the colors.

shovelski - Great curtains! I am going to have to remember how you made them. What a great way to use up scraps. Ooooh, the possibilities.

[pollypurebred39]

Finished 2 new curtains from scraps

Awesome!!!!!!!!

[Debbie-cat]

Madhen - forgot to ask. Have you decided on what the January dishclothes will look like? I know you want to do a theme. Love the color of the yarn BTW.

[madhen]

I'm thinking of trying to knit a snowflake pattern into them. I have to sit down and write it out to see if it will work.

[Debbie-cat]

Great idea!

[frugalfranny]

Kmon....the mittens look good. Looking forward to finished project pic........they look so soft!

Shovelski --what a great way to save money on curtains. Looks great and very frugal!

MH......like that color.........hope you have enough for two.

[kmonokwe]

CO the Haruni for my mom last night. Knitting it in KP Shimmer (alpaca/silk). It is gorgeous and I love it! However, my size 4’s are occupied, and the closest thing I have is a 6. Knitting with lace weight rather than fingering (patt written with fingering and size 4), and its giving me some grief over whether it will be what I want in the end. I know gauge doesn’t really make a difference in lace knitting - but will it be too loose? Maybe I should just buckle down and finish Swallowtail so I can start this again with 4’s. Might give me some motivation to get through those nupps.

Here are some pics! Finished that felted bunny Planning on doing a few more in different colors (blue, brown, green). Also there are a few pics of my dyeing job! The lighter ones I'm planning on playing with a bit more - maybe overdyeing with a deep purple. I'm hoping not to lose the color variation. I've got about 200 yards in each, and its lace weight, so I'm excited to try some different things!

[YankeeMom]

That bunny is so freaking cute!!!
I'm with you on the Swallowtail. I'm past the nupps and I still can't motivate myself to finish it lol.

[AP102209]

I finished my thermos yesterday. I learned to make a placket and a sewn bind off.

Today I cast on for Kalajoki socks, with Knit Picks Gloss fingering weight in dusk. I'm just about done with the ribbing on sock one. I love the construction of it. Should be good practice with dpn's.

I ordered 3 skeins of kp stroll in "terrain twist" for socks for db which will be February. It is ugly something awful.

I haven't picked the pattern for the afghan square forthis month yet. As I was picking out the yarn db walked into the yarn store so I wasn't able to get it. I did however get a pair of nice scissors by bryspun and a set of two kniterella notepads. One says "if knitting were a drug I'd be checking into rehab" I forget what the other one says. And a set if tags 3 that say "just because it's hand made doesn't mean it was cheap" and the other three say "yes I made it hope you like it after all the work and thought I put into it you better" haha.

Were getting Internet (verizon fios!!) the 18th so I'll have photos (hopefully f/o photos!) then.

[mauimagic]

I'm still stuck on SABLE!! - so that's what DD has been nagging me about!!

[frugalfranny]

Cute bunny kmon........like the lace item.....that should be really pretty when finished........'airy and elegant'.........good luck with the dye jobs. Hard to really tell what colors they are........

Thanks for posting.

[madhen]

Found a decent snowflake pattern on line, so I'll probably just use that.

[frugalfranny]

Found a decent snowflake pattern on line, so I'll probably just use that.

Hey.........share where the pattern was.......well, if it was a freebie.

Or was it just a pic of a snowflake that you will use?

[madhen]

Free pattern.

Dishcloth Pattern Corner and Some Scrubbies Too: Snowflake Dishcloth

[madhen]

There is a cute bunny pattern there, too, that might be my April washcloth!