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Finished Cable Knit Clutch

Here it is!!!

I ended up hand-sewing in the lining. I could not find magnetic snaps anywhere, so it has no closure. I used a dowel for the handles, though I wish I made them a teeny bit longer. I love it & hope that I actually use it. I especially like the fabric used for the lining. I made this about one cable longer than the one from the pattern

Here is the pattern that I used.

Here are some pics:

Finished Irish Knit Wrist Warmers & Cable Knit Clutch (WIP)

More cables...
THIS TIME it's the pattern based on the adaptation of the Irish Hiking Scarf, only this is for the matching wristwarmers. The pattern is here. I'm not the best sewer-upper... One thumb hole is a stitch or two tighter than the other. E kindly modeled them for me... Well, I said, 'here, try these on'... then 'oh wait, c'mere so I can take a picture' :)
Mom will probably temporarily steal them from me when she comes to visit next week because no doubt she will be freezing since it's probably no less than 80 degrees in Waikiki.... psssssshhhhh whatever MOM.

I'm currently working on another basic cable beanie in the same color as the wristwarmers.. I would also like to make a thinner version of the irish hiking scarf.






















Something that I've also been working on is a cable clutch. This is a fancy smanshy version of it.
I found that after I found THIS. I made mine one cable-length longer but am debating on whether or not I want to take out that last cable. I found two sizes of dowels locally for less than 50 cents. YAY. I have sandpaper and a mini saw... I'm just afraid now of ruining a pencil sharpener.. I'm afraid that it wont work... Anyay, I'm sure I'll figure it out. I made the bag out of LB wool ease thick & quick that I had in my stash from last yr or the yr before from when I first learned how to knit.

At first I found some red fabric that I thought may work... but THEN I found this purple paisley fabric for less than a dollar as well as some ribbon just as cheap @ Joann's.

I loathe sewing things so I think that's why this hasn't been finished yet. Also, I could not find magnetic snaps ANYWHERE locally. Maybe I'm subconsciously waiting for a sewing machine for christmas before I finish this w/ the lining. Plus, I need to go to the dollar store to get some glue sticks for my hot glue gun for the ends of the 'handles'...

BTW.. the seam job on this bad boy came out very neat. I should be glad for that at least.

Finished Basic Cable Beanie

Pictures of the finished basic cable beanie from Debbie Stoller's SNB Nation book.

I'm going to have to make another in a bigger size.. I really like it though. This is the first knit hat that I worked in the round and also the first knit hat worked on smaller needles. Bravo! Wait. Am I supposed to congratulate myself?... Bravo Anyway!!!

Crochet Cherry Goodness :)

Here is my crochet pattern for crochet cherries...

cherries (make 2):

red yarn (i used sugar n creme cotton in red)

using the magic ring method, 6 sc into ring (6 sc)2sc into each sc (12sc) finish off

stems:

darker green (i used rhss but i can not recall the exact color)

attach to a sc in the top row of one of the cherries, chain 16, attach to a sc in the top row of the other cherry

leaves :

lighter green (i used rhss but can't recall the exact color for this either)*ch 8, sc into 2nd chain from hook, sc into next chain, 2 sc into each of the next 2 chains, sc into next sc, 3 sc into last ch.

(Now you're going to single chain into the other side of the chain that you just did the sc's into, so you're kind of going around in a circle or rectangle. )

sc into next sc, 2 sc into each of the next 2 sc's, sc in next sc, 2 scs into last one (since there's already one there)*, chain one.

from there, take the cherries with the stem attached. slip stitch into the 8th and 9th chain on the stem from one of the cherries then chain one, and repeat from * to * and finish off.

a variation to the leaves could be making one double chain instead of two single chains

my new cable obsession - and I'm not talkin' t.v.

I have no idea where or when this started (well, some time last week). I NEEEEEEEDED to learn how to make cables. Now, to be quite honest, in the past year I've only knitted a pretty yellow dishcloth which I gave to my mom, BUT all of a sudden I needed to learn cables and needed to make cable things, so I searched the internet for a cable hat pattern. I rock at making crochet hats, but knitted ones? not so much. I like making things in the round and the only hats that I've made in knit were on straight needles, but I despise sewing things up. I don't like the seam. So anyhow, I borrowed Debbie Stoller's SNB knitting books from my local library, both of them just so I could learn how to make the basic cable beanie hat (or is it beenie? I think it's beanie). I gathered up all of my loose change and bought the right sized needles, well, it called for a sz 7 and 8 circular and size 8 dpn. I had dpn's sort of size 8 ish so I needed sz 7 and 8 circs. Don't you know that no one in my city / town / whatever had sz 7 or sz 8 16" circs. I tried JoAnns, Michaels, Walmart... I had to call AC Moore a few exits up the highway; they only had sz 7's. So, I got sz 6 and sz 7 because I figured that my knit tension is a little loose and it would be for the boy anyway, so I could go a little smaller.
Anyhow (actually, made two practice cable projects but more about that in a different post at some point.)

So, I started whipping up this bad-boy. Thes pics are close to the half-way point and are taken from my cam phone. I've since finished it (can you see bright lights and hear the 'aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh' of angels? I can.) I'll post finished pics when I get to it...

The only thing that I don't like about knitting this hat in the round is that it is knit from the bottom up. I like making hats from the top down because you can try it on as you go and you'll know if you need to increase more for girth or continue with more rounds (in this instance of ribbing or of cables) for extra length because the original from the pattern is rather small / short. Way above eyebrow level. The only other modification that I made aside from the change in needle size was adding 4 more rows of ribbing. The pattern called for six rows, I think, and I knit ten rows of ribbing.

I got some woole-ease in gray and red and am planning on whipping out at least two more of these for xmas presents (MAYBE) we'll see. But, that's the plan.

Crochet Hat - Boy Beanie from Debbie Stoller's SNB Happy Hooker Book

This was super easy to make. It came out really nice too. I'm either getting better at making hats or this was just a really good pattern to use.

I used a smaller hook - H instead of I. I ended up adding a sc row and dc row (or maybe it was dc, sc and another dc row). I forget.

THIS is Chowder AKA Chowda

Amigurumi Projects

This is my first attempt to make a post with a picture (or rather, pictures). Here are some amigurumi's that I've made. I made them from patterns that i found on the www. I learned of amigurumi's while searching for a crochet monkey pattern to make a stuffed monkey for my son. Little did I know, I'd be obsessively hoarding any kind of free pattern that I could find for cute crochet critters for weeks. I now have an enormous list of amigurumis to make, but here are the ones that I've done so far.

Mr. Monkey. He belongs to my son. He likes monkeys. He and this monkey are both very cute. Mr. Monkey does not have a tail. Maybe someday I will decide to 'finish' him by giving him a tail.:


Mr. Frog (This one went to my Nana who said that I did a really nice job, which actually meant a lot since she's an EXPERT knitter.) Nana loves frogs. I'll have to get a picture of Nana w/Mr. Frog.


Here's Miss Kitty. She turned out bigger than I had expected. Addy seems to like her. Well. She's ignored her ever since, but she was obviously interested in Miss Kitty or the 'thing' that I made her sit next to until I could get a decent pucture. Miss Kitty was a pain to put together, not sure why since Mr. Monkey was a breeze. I accidentally sewed Miss Kitty's tail where her arm was supposed to go. I fixed that though. Now her tail resides in its proper spot.






Here is a chihuaua. I had a good name for him, of which I've since forgotten. His new owner, who was SUPER EXCITED to get him (yay!) named him Taco. I can't believe that I don't remember it's name. It'll come to me. CHOWDER... His name was chowder, or Chowda, whichever you prefer. For some reason I can not upload the pic...

I'm feeling really positive about this

So... I'd like to start a blog. I'm a blog lurker, mostly looking for easy knit and crochet patterns to collect and / or make something from... Sometimes people's blog-lives or lives that they talk about on their blogs are interesting in a boring sort of way. It's like reading a book. Maybe I'll write about myself, my trials and tribulations, but maybe this will be only about crafting, etc.... We shall see!

I'm Tanya. I'm twenty-something. I hope I'm not destined to be single 4-eva.