I love Knitting.

I absolutely just love knitting because there is nothing else like it.  It just brings me great gratification to know that I have the ability to make something both original and beautiful.

Pattern of the day time!!  Well after browsing some sites for patterns for this season I came across vogueknitting.com and fell in love with TONS of the patterns that they have there.  Now you have to sign on to their their website in order to get the free patterns that they have but I must say that its worth signing up for because there are just TONS of free patterns and FREE patterns is what I'm all about.  I'll be sure to post patterns of the day from other sites that don't require you to sign on to their mailing list as well but I couldn't pass these patterns up either.  And as a matter of fact I'll post two patterns because yesterdays pattern of the day was fluke because I couldn't get into the pattern myself once I double checked so I apologize for that.

Here is todays!  http://www.vogueknitting.com/free_patterns/wedding_shawl.aspx  this website will take you to where you can get access to this pattern and its just LOVELY.  The designer calls this a "wedding shawl" but I personally feel that one can use something like this for almost any occasion.   I'm not that advance yet in my knitting but let me tell you that I'm slowly but surely working on it, so if you're able to get this one done please post pics and tell me how you liked, or disliked this pattern!

Bonus of the day is the Aeolian Shawl.   http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring09/KSPATTaeolian.php    I'm glad that I found this link because this pattern is just as lovely and you don't have to sign onto a website to get it!!
 Well I have a lot of knitting and house work to do so I must be going.  Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!

What a beautiful Morning !

Goodness what a beautiful morning that it's turned out to be!  I have to say that God has been good, he's good now and he will ALWAYS  be good.  We just got the praise report that we have been praying for and I'm just overjoyed because when the doctors didn't know what else to do we stood firm in our faith and God moved in our favor.  Thank you Lord.

With that said (lol) I just wanted to update you on what's going on for todays blog.  I plan to share my pattern of the day with you and I want to share what the next project is for this week.

First:  The pattern of the day!!


http://www.knittingdaily.com/media/p/94323.aspx  This beautiful huntress shawl is abosolutely stunning and even though my knitting skills isn't that advance now I do plan on getting there soo.  AND this shawl is perfect for this season that we're in so PLEASE try this pattern out and post it so I can see your fabulous work.

Now onto the project for this week.  If you have read my last blog you will know that I just did a cable baby beanie for the very first time and I'm now working on a cable baby blanket to go along with it, so I'll try to get pictures up here as soon as I can so you can see the progress that I'm making .

Be Blessed & Be Inspired.

P.s  If there is any patterns that you think that would be fun to try please feel free to post them on my blogs because I'm ALWAYS looking for a new fun pattern to put into my favorites box and try.  Thanks a bunch!!

Crazy for Cables!!

Cabled Baby Beanie

Well Today is another day to share some pretty fun projects that I've been up to and I'm so excited because this is another project that I put together myself.  That's right!!  I didn't use a pattern except from the book " 99 Knitting Stitches" and that was to get the cable pattern and seed sttich that I wanted to use.

I've been pretty scared of trying to cable because it just seemed to complex and confusing to try so I stayed away from patterns that had anyting to do with it.  But today was the day that I decided to brave it out and try and it came out pretty awesome so I wanted to share what I put together with you.

Now I'm very sure that this pattern isn't perfect because I'm still extremely new to the pattern making process but I do promise that you will get a decent looking piece of work once you're done.

What did I try today that had a cable stitch included?  I went ahead and made an infant beanie mainly because I'm all about making hats and booties at this time to fill up my blessed box so here it is!!

What you need: Size 10 knitting Needle, yarn of your choice ( I went ahead and used Redheart ), measuring tape, ( you don't NEED it but its handy to have ), cable needle, and a yarn needle.

The multiple of  the Cable - Six Stitch Cable is 11 sts +1

 Cable 6 back (C6b) =Slip next 3 sts onto cable needle and hold in back of work, k3 from left needle, k3 from cable.

Brim

Cast on 34 sts( or however many you wish to co)

Seed stitch through rows 1-8

Main Body of Hat

Row 1 and ALL wrong side rows: P1, (k2, p6, k2, p1)across

Row2: (Right Side) K1,(p2, k6, p2, k1) across

Row4: K1, (p2, k6, p2, k1) across

Row6: K1 (P2,C6b, p2, k1) across

Row8: K1, (p2, k6,p2, k1) across

Continue rows 1 - 8 for pattern.  Continue until desired length( I went up to 5 1/2 inches.)

Start to decrease your work and then sew in your seams and ALL DONE!

Once can get batteries for my camera I will be sure to put a picture up of the hat that I did today.  Please let me remind you that I found the cable pattern in the knitting book I have called 99 Stitches so please be sure to get it and check out all the fun patterns that they have!

Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!

Working With A Straight Pair Of Knitting Needles To Make A Hat.

 Hats Hats HATS!

Before I tried doing this method myself I thought making a hat with knitting needles would be pretty difficult but it turned out to be very easy. Even though a lot of hat patterns call for a circular needle, due to the fact that I don't have one, I still see a straight needle as my preference.

For those who are just now trying to make hats on a straight needle here is how it pretty much goes.

 To get started you should cast on as many stitches as you're  going to need for your hat. Then depending on whether you decide to use stockinette stitch all the way through or whether you decide to do a brim at the beginning then work in your stockinette stitch, you're going to continue working on your rows.

 Once you have a good portion of the piece done and you happen to be in the the middle of the row that you're working on,  you can  put your knitting needles together to get an idea as to how the hat is going to look.

When you reach your desired length after measuring your fabric with measuring tape you will then start to decrease your work on the knit side little by little.

Then you will start the process of decreases your work on the knit side then purl across on the other side.

As you can start to see the hat is finally starting to take its' shape.

I tend to decrease until you have around 3 stitches or so then I'll start removing my work from the knitting needle.  But that's just me.

Side A

Side B.  This  is the side that you will sew your seam together:->  Sorry for the blurry picture.

Turn your work inside out and start sewing your seam together!!

Your seam will look something like this.

Turn your work ride side out and All Done!

Now I know that this picture doesn't show my best work but this is the basic technique you can try to make a simple beanie for a baby, small child or adult.

Hope that this was some kind of help to some of you.

Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!!

What's Going On This Week?

Well this week is going to be a pretty busy week for the knitting needles because I want to finish up a couple of baby hats, that will be different sizes, and I want to work on two different blankets in the midst of all that.  One blanket being my sons' sailboat blanket, and yes I have NOT forgotten about that, and a preemie sized blanket.

The pattern of the day moment has come and I want to share something with you that I have once again found on ravelry.com .  Since hats have been on my mind for the past week I decided to go ahead and make a hat pattern the day is the Garden Patch Hats which are found here http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/garden-patch-hats

I've yet to try this pattern of as well but after reading it through the directions look pretty on point.  Once I finish with the projects that I have I think I might do a couple for the blessed box, so if you decide to try this please make sure to post pictures and let me know how it comes out.  And please be sure to let the person who created this pattern or published it on ravelry.com know as well.  Well as you know I have plenty to do so Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!


















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Set #1 Is Complete!!

Preemie Set #1

Good evening  people!  I just wanted to share a picture of the first preemie set that I have completed.   Being that one set is done I will hopefully be making six or seven more sets so Lord please be with me!  If only I knew how to crochet or knit a pair of baby booties....Lol Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!

Baby Hats in the making!!

Well hello there and how are you doing?  I'm doing pretty well.  I"m supposed to be prepping for church tomorrow but I really want this one baby hat done before then so here I am.  Stockinette stitch is a pretty handy stitch to know and that's the stitch, with a tiny twist, that I'm using at the moment to finish up this hat. 

Being that I've never tried this before I decided to go ahead and hold two different color strands of yarn together to make this hat so the outcome is looking pretty neat. Whomever wears this will look absolutely ADORABLE!!


UPDATE!!  Here is the link to the site wher I found this pattern.  You must try this one because it's relaxing to do and its super easy.    http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lightning-fast-nicu-and-preemie-hats

Well it's super late so please Be Blessed & Be Inspired!!