This is one of my first knitting projects. Created five or so years ago at the request of my teen-aged niece who wanted a Christmasy scarf. The scarf is made from a variegated three-color yarn with a bit of gold sparkle thrown in (I forget the manufacturer). It is quite long and thinner in the [...]
I’ve been embroidering a lot lately and experimenting with new stitches and fabrics. I’ve done a few items that are embroidery on knitted fabrics but no photos yet. The challenge I always seem to face with embroidery is transferring the design to the fabric. This is particularly troublesome with dark, heavy fabrics like something I’ve [...]
The second in my series of knit samplers I made in spring 2009. This sampler is also 9 inches square and is stockinette stitch bordered by garter stitch. I accidentally added a stitch in the stockinette section at one point and corrected it with a decrease. It’s visible if you know where to look (unfortunately, [...]
In the months before my mom passed away last winter, she felt well enough to take up her tiny crochet hooks and create quite a few little projects. Mom crocheted hundreds of snowflakes over the years and gave most of them away to family and friends. These 2 are now part of my collection. The [...]
Last spring, I began learning new knit stitch patterns and created a series of stitch samplers as 9 inch squares. This sampler is a simple series of alternating wide and narrow horizontal rows. The wide rows are stockinette stitch and the narrow rows are garter stitch. I used Red Heart Super Saver worsted weight yarn [...]
Happy holidays, everyone! I love the holiday season and I particularly love to use gingerbread people and houses in my holiday decorations. I cross-stitched this little gingerbread man from a kit several years ago. I backed the finished project with a piece of green felt and used the half-stitch in red, green and white to [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of embroidery projects lately and here’s another new one. This is a “shades of pink” embroidered eye I stitched from a pattern my niece designed for our etsy store (Eye #3 by Allyson Mitchell of Pink Tea Design). The fabric is a cotton kitchen towel and I used the following [...]