I started this scarf back in November when I was at a conference in St. Louis Missouri. It is now April and I have finally finished it! The yarn is a wonderful blend of baby alpaca and bamboo and they are naturally undyed fibers. The yarn is incredibly soft and was very easy to work... Continue Reading →
Half double crochet knit stitch cowl
This project utilizes crochet stitches working in the round and the majority of the stitches are in half double crochet knit stitch also known as half double crochet through the third loop. Other stitches are single crochet and double crochet shell stitch for the edging. Materials, approximately 50g of Aran weight Irish wool, approximately 50g... Continue Reading →
Blue and green cowl
Made this cowl in half double crochet knit stitch. This yarn is great to work with!
Scrap Granny Afghan
Made this from a variety of acrylic "donations" to my stash that I would otherwise never use. The colors seem to actually go together quite well. Glad to finally have it done!
HDC knit stitch hat
Finished this hat and it's super thick because of the HDC knit stitch in the round. I ran out of green so added blue and went to 11 inches. Fits just fine!
V Stitch chunky scarf
Made this in a weekend! This bulky and incredibly soft yarn really worked up fast.
Malabrigo cowl
I made this cowl with two skeins of this lovely Malabrigo yarn. This was the first time I used the HDC knit stitch in the round and it turned out pretty good!
Mini bean brown scarf
I found four skeins of this yarn in my stash and decided to use the tried and true mini bean stitch with it and it turned out to make a great scarf!
Arts and crafts sale
Today is our annual staff arts and crafts sale! Here are the items I made. I did a much better job labeling them this year.
Conference Fiber Fun
I decided to do something completely different while I attended the Library Marketing and Communications Conference in St. Louis. I posted to our Facebook group page that I would be attending the weekly knit night at the Knitorious yarn shop and if anyone wanted to join to let me know. We ended up being six... Continue Reading →