Happy Thanksgiving!

Hurry and get out all your acrylic and whip this beauty up to wear at the family table!

Or not.

Patterns I Love

Great way to use up some of that bag of acrylic your cousin got for you at Goodwill "because you knit, right?"

I bet these could be prettied up a bit with some ribbon and pressed into service as holders for notions, makeup (washable, so yay!), or almost anything!

Free pattern available here!

Scrap Yarn

ZOMGS BUTTONS!!!

Did I post this already?  I can't remember if I posted this already, but it is so cute!  Meli Melo has so many neat things on her blog...Check it out here.

This is a little bit more sewing and weaving in ends than I would usually do, but it is so much prettier than your average mug cozy... Instructables has tons of crafty crap beyond patterns for knitting and crochet, it's definitely worth adding to your favorites list.


                                 

Patterns I Love

Kelley Freeman's Zombie Jesus amigurumi is GENIUS.

Get it at her Etsy shop.  Hell, buy ALL THE THINGS, cause her designs are awesome!  :D

YARN!

Dancing Leaf Farm on Etsy has some really incredible colors...Seriously, look.  LOOK.  :D




She dyes both yarn and roving, though when I last checked, there seemed to be a bit more roving than yarn...This is not A Bad Thing, but you non-spinners out there had better get to shopping quick!  Though most of her fiber seems to be merino or plain Australian wool, her colors are just amazing.

Whatcha Doin'?

More horrific cell phone pictures...  :(

And yeah, I've been crocheting...Deal with it, Knittarzz!!  ;)

A stole I made so very long ago, and never finished up...I can't remember the pattern of course, but it's made from Socks That Rock by Blue Moon Fiber Arts...One of the Raven Clan colorways (bugger me if I remember which one!)  :D

And I finally finished the Cheche a la Sauce shawl!  This is in Misti Alpaca Tonos Carnaval (sock weight), in the Olive Tones colorway:

I love this so hard.  It is really soft (cause it's got alpaca in it, duh) and since I've turned the heat down in anticipation of a spring warm-up sometime soon, it's so nice to curl up in of an evening.

Scrap Yarn

If you're anything like me, you have 5,641 balls of scrap yarn cluttering up your yarn room.  I am loathe to just pitch yarn because...well, it's YARN!  So I started scrounging around to see what ideas I might be able to find on constructive ways to use up that last little bit of sock yarn, or the worsted left over from the pillow I made for Mum, or whatever...Just how many scrapghans can you make, really?  ;)


Even good ol' Red Heart has some cute ideas:

If you have a bit more than just a hundred yards or so, or maybe if you have some handspun that's gathering dust, check out this bag on the Kathryn Ivy blog...I love it!!

Indigo Muse Knits has a pattern for fortune cookies!

And I could NOT resist this Rav pattern by Saartje Knits:

For the ecologically minded, you can save up all the tiny bits and pieces cut off after you finish weaving in the ends, and put them out for the birds building their nests this spring:

Want

I need these.

Knitpicks is awesome.  :D

Whatcha Doin'?

In spite of the crappy cellphone picture, I am quite proud of this:

From a Michaels pattern book, done in Bernat Softee Baby, and I finished it the very day the baby was born!  :D