Stash Buster - Bargain Yarn Blankie

A new baby at church needs a blanket to drag around during toddlerhood. Well, I'm just the knitter to provide one.

A lovely round blanket in the Spiderman Blanket Pattern which can be found here: http://muro73.googlepages.com/patternsinenglish

Only this one is for a girl baby! I'm thrilled with the results.

I found all the yarn at Big Lots last summer, and all of it was priced at $1.00 per skein. The green is a yarn called Phentex Fashion Thirteen. The Pink is Premier Yarns Eda, and the multi pom-pom yarn is Paton's Cici. I was inspired in the aisle of the big discounter and filled my cart.

Here's hoping the baby loves it!

Aeolian Update

Ravelry: IKnitB4ItWasHip's Aeolian Shawl: "I’m stalled on this, but wanted to post photos. All the beading has made it a handicap to it being a carry-along project." I got stuck when my family and I were at the end of the Race Across America Finish Line in Annapolis, MD. I pulled it out of the bag and need to re-do the last row. I hadn't worked on it in awhile because of a baby blanket I'm doing and I need to remember how to do the charts.

What's on your needles?

Is anybody knitting anything?

I finally worked up the nerve to begin the Aeolian Shawl. I must say, after studing the 8 PAGES of directions and charts, I still didn’t know where I was beginning in the construction. (Am I starting at the “point” of the triangle or where?) Hey, I may have KnitB4ItWasHip, but that doesn’t mean I know everything about it - even if my pride fools me into thinking so.

Now that I am in it, the pattern is very clever. The construction begins at the center of the LONGGGGG side(hypotenuse) of the triangle and the increases create the center point! Ha! I’ve got it.

I only wanted to put beads on the edge. However, I was snookered into the whole shawl being beaded ( because of the construction mysteries), but they make great stitch markers! Thanks to those little buggers, I have only been hoodwinked a couple of times on the repeats.
My first few hours of knitting have (K)netted this:

A Purple Swing

This is the latest. I dawdled finishing because I couldn't decide if I liked the buttons. Then, I stumbled upon a bracelet while shopping. I dismembered it and used the pieces for buttons and Voila! It works. Although, I'm not thrilled with the photos, in person, the buttons look great.

More Pics of Baby Ryan's Sweater

Ryan's Sweater

Frugal times call for frugal gifts - even if they are hand knit. The family down the street has a new baby and before he got too big I wanted him to have a hand knit sweater, The Baby Albert sweater by Sally Melville is just the right choice. Easy knitting for me and style to boot, this seamless sweater will keep little Ryan toasty around the house as he learns to crawl and sport with his brothers. I used 2 skeins of Lion Brand Wool Ease Worsted in Wheat - it didn't even cost $10.00. It is rugged enough for those boys who's dads want them to look "like a boy" and precious enough for all the rest!

Crazy People!

My mom said that I could post this picture I made called Crazy People. He looks like a cat, but with a triangle shape; he has buck teeth and his feet are connected. He has red nose hairs too. I want to say I got this idea from a picture that I did on Microsoft paint. So I want to thank Microsoft paint. Crazy People looks crazy and is crazy.