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Knitted Kitty

Knitted Kitty side
Originally uploaded by mar1annec

This is an Auburn Tiger (Aubie) knitted kitty I have made for Melissa's birthday.

Here is the pattern: http://geobabe.livejournal.com/227621.html

(watch out for some language) I love this pattern and this is the third kitty I have made.

I have added this to the FO Meme on MamaMay's Blog.

Hot Inauguration Knitwear

From skulking around the Ravelry knit and crochet community I know I am not the only person who was watching TV today and ogling all of the ymmy knitwear on display in the crowd at the inauguration.

From Michelle Obama's knitted lace coat, to Aretha Franklin's felted hat with a large bow, to Pete Seeger's very cool knit hat, there's a lot of great stuff to look at.

 

Michelle's Obama's wool lace coat detail can be seen here.  Plus the bible Lincoln was sworn in with.

Aretha Franklin's felted hat.

Pete Seeger's knitted cap.

Knitted a Do Rag

knitted do rag

I knitted this great kerchief pattern from the Last Minute Knitted Gifts book that Jin bought me for Hanukkah. It took a heck of a lot longer than 2 hours, but its a great head cover for bad hair days.  I made it out of Bernat Organic cotton mill ends I bought from ebay.  The garter stitch of the kerchief looks good with the variegated yarn.  Although I have to pretend that the pattern does not really look like camo.  Which it does.  The yarn looks different on the ball than it does knitted up!

This is a great book, there are so many really nice patterns that you actually would want to make.

Knitted Dishcloths

Here are some dishcloths I am knitting.  The completed one is from the Grandma's Favorite dishcloth pattern, it is knit diagonally.  I was really surprised how fast this went.  I knit it all at once while I was watching tv.

The second is a pattern called Double Weave, or the Darrell Waltrip dishcloth. 

I am using up some variegated yarns I had bought and didn't really know what to do with.  Both of these patterns are great for self striped yarns and show off the patterns.

Knitted Kitty You'all

knitted kitty
Originally uploaded by mar1annec

Check out my cute little kitty cat toy I knitted. Its based on this pattern from Angry T Rex Roars livejournal page.  (warning some profanity in pattern)

This is going to be a present for my niece Lydia. I am making another one for Melanie. Oops - this might be ruining the secret. Well who cares anyway. It'll be something for them to look forward to when our tribe visits theirs for Thanksgiving. Yeah... the face is kind of funny looking but hey - I am not a professional.

How to make a knit dumpling bag

I have put together a squidoo lens all about the knit dumpling bag.

The Dumpling Bag by SheKnits was published in the Fall 08 issue of Interweave Knits magazine and has already spurred over 231 projects on Ravelry and is currently the 5th most popular pattern in Ravelry members knitting queues. (Ravelry is a fantastic knitting social community/website - check it out if you haven't joined yet!)

I have fallen in love with this cute little round felted bag and wanted to make a page where I could put together information on how to gather the materials and instructions to make it.