1909 Gearhart knitting loom and 1870 Loom

Today at work they asked me to finish dressing this loom.  It is going to be a long process, because there are a lot of thin threads in the warp.  I look at it as a meditation.  It needs love and patience to finish. 

Also at work they have me learning how to use this 1909 Gearhart machine knitting loom.  I hand knitted the starter cap last week (the orange part), and put it on the loom yesterday.  I am now using sock yarn on it.  I could not get the ribber to work, because I couldn't find the right needles for it.  They have asked me to learn how to make a sock on it.  I'm just skipping the ribbing and going straight to turning the heel.

Easter Round Up

Here are just a few of the items that I have made for Easter within the last few years.

Chick / Duck Egg Cozy - 2013

Another duck egg cozy - 2013

Easter bunny and Spring Chick magnet - 2013

More chick magnets - 2013

Easter eggs - 2013

Crocheted Easter Eggs (ombre) - 2013
There is a plastic egg inside of it, so I put dried beans in it so that it rattles.

 Marshmallow Bunny Peep Magnets - 2013

More bunny peep magnets, this time stuffed. - 2013

Bunny Magnets - 2012

Best Bunnies - 2011

Two more best bunnies, for baby showers. - 2011

Raving Rabbit

Bella the Bunny

Ducky Momo - 2012

Easter Egg ornaments - 2012

Egg Coasters - 2013

Easter Egg Hot Pads

I put jelly bean stickers on a 5" x 7" magnet sheet, and then cut around them to create 27 magnets.
 2013

Sashay Scarf in Easter colors - 2013

Plarn Easter baskets:

With an I hook

• 8 sc in stitch to form a circle
• increase each row until you have 40 sts around
• sc in each st for 3 rows
• 2 sc in one st, skip stitch, repeat until desired length
• sc 3 stitches, ch 1, and turn
• work these 3 stitches for the basket handle.
• crochet into other side of basket
• weave in the ends

I spun the plarn and plied it with novelty yarn.  The base started with 6 stitches, and ended with 48 stitches.  The handle is 5 sc wide.

Egg Coasters and Triquetra Knot

Last night to take a break from bigger projects I made these egg coasters.  The pattern calls for stripes, but this yarn really didn't need stripes added to it.  Here is the free pattern.

The other day I crochet this triquetra knot using this free pattern.  To be honest I had issues with reading the pattern.  The chain amount didn't equal the stitch amount, so I just changed it to equal the stitch amount.  I think that next time I will loosely base what I do on the pattern.  I'm thinking of making a dpn case and sewing this to the cover. 

Chick / Duck Egg Cozy

In one of the ravelry groups that I am in, we are going to have an egg cozy CAL next week.  So that we have examples, I made this cute little chick egg cozy (which looks like a duck to me).  Here is the free pattern for it.  It is a really easy pattern, and it has 4 different hat options.  I did not sew on the hat, so I can change the hat when the mood strikes.  I used Caron Simple Soft Yarn for everything but the feet and beak.  For those I used Red Heart yarn.  

Flaunt Scarf

It took 3 skeins of this novelty yarn to make this fun scarf for my mom.  The yarn was ok to work with, but it was a real pain when I dropped a stitch.  I had to frog several rows before I was able to recover from it.  Another negative about the yarn is that when you join another skein to it, it is best to tie a knot so that there is no hole in it (it is not easy to weave in ends).  Although this scarf turned out nice, I don't want to work with this yarn again.  

Easter Sashay Scarf

This is my 4th Sashay scarf so far.  This one is a birthday present for my mom.  The colorway had Easter in the name, which is perfect for this time of year (if the snow will ever melt).

Round Ups

I will be slowly putting together blog round ups due to many of my blog posts disappearing.  Why are they disappearing?  Its because I used my instagram photos on my blog, and now that I don't agree with instagram's policies, I am deleting my photos from their sight.  As a result photos are disappearing from my sight.  I'm trying to replace a few of them with ones from my ravelry page.  However I can only replace the knit, crochet, spun, and woven projects.  I jumped the gun on deleting posts in January before realizing that ravelry renames the photos when they are uploaded onto their site (so I could have just replaced those photos with the ravelry ones).

So keep on a look out for the round ups.  I am currently putting together an Easter one, and I will be putting together a St. Patrick's one soon.  I have a lot of floral hot pads that I have made over the years, so I would love to showcase all of them.