Finished Bits

I finished the Skull Isle Hat and now I just hope it fits the little one. Yes that is right I knit it for a 2 year old (her parents will appreciate it). I think it turned out great and now I want to make one for myself. I don't really care for the top decreases, but what can you do when you have to get rid of over 100 stitches - the little pleats happen.

While home in Oregon I mostly finished my quilt. I still need to add the binding but you get the idea. I love how it turned out and look forward to doing more appliqué projects.



Head on over to Nancy's site - she is having a contest for 300th post. Tell her I sent you!

My knitting tips:

• This is actually a tip from my knitting instructor, but I will pass her wisdom along - use bread ties to hold up the extra yarn when doing a long tail cast on. It keeps you from using the wrong strand and keeps things neater.

I'm Rusted on an Isle

This week has been a learning experience. I was always scared of Fair Isle, that is until my star pupil decided to try her hand at it. So I too decided to bite the bullet and jump on board. The pattern is from Son of a Stitch and Bitch it is called, Skull Isle. Working with two colors so far hasn't caused me too many problems it is more of a question of where I am in the pattern. Now I just hope it fits.

My Rusted Root is going much better now. After ripping out for the 7th time, I cast on with a scrap piece of yarn to do the lace pattern. I did each row and wrote down the number of stitches that I should have at the end of each row. Now I am well on my way - it is looking great. But will it fit? I read up on those who were making the pattern and most of them said that they wished they had CO for the smaller size because the cotton/wool blend is super stretchy. So I cast on for a small rather then the medium so lets hope that it works for me otherwise my sister will be getting it for her birthday.


Off to knit...