3 Nov
Boston is having the mayoral elections today..Voting DAY!!
Today’s calendar by the Yarn Harlot (Stephanie Pearl McPhee)
Tuesday November 3, 2009
GO Vote. Then ask whomever is elected to create a yarn
subsidy program.
I LOVE Stephanie. I got her calendar Christmas. I
didn’t actually get into it until around March. Now every day
is a surprise. I’ll post more [...]
25 Jul
I thought I’d post a couple of pictures of the
chemo caps.
These two can be rolled down over the ears or rolled up,
depending on how you want to wear it.
http://www.headhuggers.org/patterns/kpatt11.htm
It’s an easy fast knit. The cables take out the
boredom, of the straight knit.
It has a wonderful flexible texture to
it.
Actually it’s been easy to do [...]
25 Jul
The ball band recommends a 10 1/2 (US) size needle.
I used a 9..it worked out well.
Cast on 64 stitches and worked in the round for 3 inches
with main color
then added second color for three (3) rows.
Put a pale pink double strand of baby yarn, one row,
then the second color again for four (4) rows.
Worked main color [...]
10 Jul
My daughter in law, Leslie, is facing a round,
of chemo, treatments.
Yesterday they met with the
doctors to make a schedule
and detail the
course of action.
She’s young and full of life. Her attitude is amazing. She
has three young children. Too young to watch their Mommy
go through this.
I was able to hit a very nice Yarn [...]
17 May
Back in March I started a little sweater coat for a new Little Miss, 0-11 months.
Little Girls « Butterisafruit’s Weblog
I took the pattern from Patons Beehive Wee Wonders.
Book # 478, Mignonnettes, Beehive Astra.
If you look up you’ll see that
I posted the pattern on a separate page. (or on the side bar)
You’ll want to copy/paste it [...]
9 Feb
.
.
I’m finally using up some of the lovely yarn
I purchased during the fall. I did make some
children hats from the Misti Alpaca Baby,
yarn named Could Blue.
With the leftovers I worked on a pair of mittens.
This yarn is very soft and flexible. I found that working with size
3 (three) dpns was the best bet. Instead of casting [...]
15 Jan
I finally finished off a few chemo caps. I took the instructions
from Head Hugger Hats……..
(on the side bar)Head Huggers: Patterns List
The first is the “cable knit cap” #11
.
Then # 20 “The inside out knit chemo cap”
.
And this is a standard cap, it has a little ribbing, then plain knit.
I still have a full skein of [...]
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