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Felted Slippers

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Ok. Here is the “after” picture.

So, I’m totally not thrilled with the pattern. They’re way too loose around the ankle, too tight at the toes, and the pattern was sooo insanely confusing. So, since I need to make at least one more pair, I think I will definitely try a different pattern and see where it takes me. Since these are for someone with a much smaller foot than mine, I might try felting them again, to see if the ankle part tightens up at all. Worth a shot, otherwise these might end up in the trash.

Felted booties and my half of the couch.

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Someone requested a few pairs of felted slippers. I haven’t done a whole lot of felting, but I already had a pattern for a pair, so I thought I would give it a try. They look absolutely ridiculous, so I am curious to see how they will look after felting.

Also, I wanted to have a little confession, lest you think my house is always clean, and that I bake apple pie pops for dessert every night. This very evening we had Hamburger Helper for dinner. It was one of those days. Also, I am a messy knitter. This here, this is my half of our couch.

So, what you see here is a set of knitted mittens, two knitted hats, one secret Christmas present, 1 set of size 6 dpn’s, 1 set of size 8 dpn’s, 1 cable needle, 3 crochet hooks, 1 size 8 circular needle, green and brown skeins for knitted slippers, purple and black skeins for knitting slippers, yellow for knitting a scarf, orange and white skeins from the Candy Corns (I think?) miscellaneous buttons (for iPod cases), JoAnn’s bag with some feltable wool in it, cable needles, yarn scissors, a bag of chocolate chips, bobby pins, my camera USB cord and lotion. Oh, and two headbands.

Yeah. That’s how I roll. (Never know when you might need another cable needle!)

Delurking.

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I know I missed the “National Delurking Day” (I think it’s sometime in January?) But my curiosity is getting the best of me, so I thought to myself, why not just ask my readers to let me know who they are? *

I know there are the faithful few who leave me comments, (Thanks, Mom!) but there are a lot of you whom I don’t know. So come on, here’s your chance to say hello! I promise if you let me know who you are, I’ll visit your blog (and comment!), too!

*Your regularly scheduled crafting posts will resume tomorrow.

 

Lemon Curd Scarf

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A work in progress, only about 1/4 done, made to go with the Lemon Curd Slouch and the mittens.

Poor picture quality…. too lazy to set up a nice picture!

Pattern:

2 Skeins Knit Picks, City Tweed HW in Lemon Curd
6.00mm needles

Cast on 40 stitches
Row 1: P3,  K6, P2, K5, P1, K6, P1, K5, P2, K6, P3
Row 2: K3, P6, K2, P5, K1, P6, K1, P5,  K2, P6, K3
Row 3: Repeat Row 1
Row 4: Repeat row 2
Row 5: P3, CF3, P2, K5, P1, K6, P1, K5, P2, CF3, P3
Row 6: Repeat row 2
Row 7: Repeat row 1
Row 8: Repeat row 2
Row 9: P3, CF3, P2, K5, P1, CF3, P1, K5, P2, CF3, P3
Row 10: Repeat row 2
Repeat rows 1-10 as many times as you’d like until you reach the desired length of scarf!

*CF3- Cable- slip 3 of your stitches onto cable needle, hold to front, knit next 3 stitches, then knit the three stitches from cable needle
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P.S. All of you who are wondering where the pattern from the mittens came from, THIS IS THE LINK TO THE MITTENS, unfortunately it’s not my pattern (I only say unfortunately because it’s a gorgeous pattern and I think the writer did a phenomenal job on these mittens, they’re absolutely beautiful!) and also I get asked about once a day where this pattern came from, so CLICK ON THIS LINK and it’ll take you to Subliminal Rabbit’s blog where she has graciously offered the pattern for free!

 

Lemon Curd Slouch

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This is the Lemon Curd Slouch Hat!

I pulled it out a bit in the back so you can see all the cable detailing. Cabling while decreasing is more complicated than it seems it would be.

Big thanks to Paul for being a good photographer. It’s so hard to take pictures of a hat on yourself.

I’ll  write down the pattern I made up for this hat. For some reason with every pattern I tried on this hat I couldn’t get it to be quite right, but I’m happy with this one!

Pattern:

1 skein Knit Picks, City Tweed HW in Lemon Curd

6.0mm DPN’s

Cast on 80 stitches

Row 1: K1 P1* rep to end
Rows 2-9: same as row 1
Row 10: Knit all the way around, while evenly increasing to 117 stitches (I did K2 M1 until the last 6 stitches and just knit the last 6 of this row)
Row 11-16: Knit 6, purl 3 *rep to end
Row 17: Pull 3 stitches onto cable needle then pull to front, knit 3, then knit the stitches on cable needle, purl 3*rep to end
Repeat rows 11-17 five times
Decrease Row 1: K6, P2T, P1* Rep to end
Decrease row 2: K6, P2T,* rep to end
Decrease row 3: K2T, K4,P1 *Rep to end
Decrease row 4: K3, K2T, P1* Rep to end
Decrease row 5: K2T, K 2, P1* Rep to end
Decrease row 6: K1, K2T, P1 *Rep to end
Cut yarn, leaving a long tail (several inches long), pull tail through all remaining stitches, pull tight, weave in ends.

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P.S. All of you who are wondering where the pattern from the mittens came from, THIS IS THE LINK TO THE MITTENS, unfortunately it’s not my pattern (I only say unfortunately because it’s a gorgeous pattern and I think the writer did a phenomenal job on these mittens, they’re absolutely beautiful!) and also I get asked about once a day where this pattern came from, so CLICK ON THIS LINK and it’ll take you to Subliminal Rabbit’s blog where she has graciously offered the pattern for free!

Apple Pie Pops

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I made some apple pie pops! They were insanely delicious.

(butter, lots of butter)

(lots of apples)

(Cinnamon deliciousness)

(halfway done)

(just before baking)

(Paul did the little pie-pop display)

The perfect 2 bite dessert.

(Apple Pie Pops, finished)

A few things…

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First! It was such a beautiful day here in Moscow.


(taken from my front porch about 7:30 this morning)

Second! My cactus is in full bloom! I am so excited about this, guys.

Third! I am attempting to redo that fail of a hat I made yesterday. Hm. Well, I’ll let ya’ll know how this one turns out.

 

White Lemon Grass

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Made another Lemon Grass hat for a Christmas order. The yarn I picked up was slightly bulkier than the green one, but I just did it on smaller needles and it turned out the right size.

It’s pretty slouchy!

Ok. Off to work! (less than a week and a half left! Oh my goodness!!)

Sometimes I fail.

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Major fail today in the knitting department. Good gravy, people, this is why you gauge! I am the queen of not gauging and hoping it all turns out well (Ok, so it’s worked on 3 sweaters for me so far, so I thought I had a good eye.. guess again.)

So, this is supposed to be a slouchy beret. But no. It turned into a skin tight beanie. An ugly one at that.

And lest you think it’s remotely slouchy in the back, I show you this.

Le sigh. Arg. So, I MAY have learned my lesson about gauge. But probably not. I rarely learn my lesson from failed knitting projects. I’ve already frogged the whole thing and cast on for another, hopefully, slouchy hat.

Candy Corn

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I made a couple of candy corns for my favorite little ladybug and mermaid (Louella and Chloe)

A little Halloween treat!

Although, I am aware that they do look a little bit like a Dorito chip.

Tools:
Size 3 DPN’s
White, Orange, Yellow yarn
Small amount of stuffing

Pattern:
Cast on 6 Stitches in WHITE
Divide onto two DPN’s
Row 1: Knit 1 Make 1
Row 2: Knit all
Row 3: K1 M1, knit to last 2, M1 K1
Row 4: Knit all
(Repeat rows 3 and 4, changing colors as wanted for how big you want your candy corn, mine were about 10 rows of white, 15 rows or orange and 10 rows of yellow)
Once your candy corn is as big as you want it then K2T all around your last row. Stuff to desired fullness. Then use a 3 needle bind off (I find that this gives it the cleanest edges) Or, if you don’t want to do that you can always just bind off all stitches and then stuff, then sew him shut!
Embroider face on and you’re done!
Enjoy!