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Katie and are I doing our first knit-a-long with this beaded lace scarf. We’re making the scarves with the hand painted alpaca/silk we got at the sheep and wool festival.

This is our first time working with beads, and lace is always a challenge, so it will be a good project. Since we started them together a few weeks ago, we’ve both ripped them out numerous times because of errors, changing needle sizes, and deciding on which beads to use.

Many profanities were exclaimed in the process, but I think I finally got a hold on the pattern and am on a roll! I’ve found the key to catching unseen errors is counting the stitches every 2 rows. This project requires all of my attention, so no working on it when I have to be social or pay attention to something else.

I haven’t posted a lot of knitting projects lately because I’ve been wrapped up in using Ravelry, which is like Myspace but way cooler (nerdier) because it’s for knitters. It’s fantastic because I can organize all my past/current projects with details and pictures, plus search for new ideas and patterns. Sadly there isn’t a public link to user profiles yet so I can’t share all of my lovelies with you. That being said here are some highlights of my recent projects:

	This iPod Nano sock I made for Amy has the coolest button ever! It’s so awesome and slightly creepy. I found it in a random bag of buttons that I got from the thrift store years ago.
	Here’s a super cute felted bag I made as a Christmas present for my Aunt.
	Nick’s awesome lightbulb hat!
	And a gorgeous hat, gloves, and scarf set I made for a lady at work!

I finished this simple brown hat this evening, using a design in the middle to spice it up. It came from the book mentioned in the previous post. It has a neat triangle pattern, but again, it’s kind of hard to see in the picture.

A soft and funky scarf.

Katie is modeling some “necks” aka cowls for me. Don’t feel like dealing with a scarf? Try a neck!

After some convincing, Wyatt got me to make this Jayne Hat for him to wear at Dragoncon this year. I love making things for him but couldn’t believe he actually wanted this goofy hat. It turned out to be super easy and fun to make so I’m glad I did! For those of you who don’t know what it is, the tough guy character Jayne, in the Firefly series, got this silly hat from his mother one episode.

I used Heather Hill’s pattern as a guide for my first hat. Using her pattern I got to do my first cable cast on as well as learn how to make my first pom pom. Pretty exciting advances in my world of knitting. (; It’s a great pattern but in the end a hat is a hat no matter how you put it together so I created my own version from that point on. My first change was to double up with worsted Lambs Pride because the shop didn’t have the bulky colors I needed, but I ended up loving that brand of yarn and how the two strands look together.

I got the request to make this Slytherin scarf from my friend Byron earlier in July. It was a nice change from only doing Gryffindor ones! I used Caron Simply Soft which has a nice sheen to it.

I was making a scarf but the yarn was driving me crazy, so I turned it into a cowl scarf aka a neck. You just put it over your head and around your neck, without having to deal with the scarf coming undone or hanging about. Cute stuff.

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