Autumn

misty morning



that's toast



pumpkin yummies




what we have

Tis the season

for keeping hands/arms/wrists warm!

I love making fingerless mitts. Fast, practical, fun to give away.

By Ysolda Teague, her Garter Stitch mitts



And my favourite pattern is by Clara Parkes, Maine Morning Mitts



For the gift reserve.

Ultimate soft

Sometimes it's nice to keep a cosy layer about the neck, without the cumbersome-ness of a scarf.

This was instant gratification.

Blanket Love

Our group project is done. It turned out SO well, what a beautiful combined effort by everyone.


I'm really happy with the corners:


My I-cord join is not perfect, you can see it next to Lukey's left paw. Let's just say Kitchenering a tube is not the same as the toe of a sock.


This is for Sarah.

Blanket Border

After the seaming (this is the BACK of the seaming - looks fairly neat with ends woven in)



....we had to decide on the border. What to do? I asked around at work, I talked about it to anyone who would listen to me.... everyone graciously deferred to my judgement. Ack! Garter border? Garter border with eyelets? Applied I-Cord? Picot edging? Crocheted edging?

Back to ravelry and googling. I dithered and pondered and experimented.

Applied I-Cord was my final choice since it is very sturdy and gives a very nice clean finished look to garter edges. I HAD planned on picking up one-half stitch along each garter ridge (as in the tutorial linked below), but I found the picked up stitch was not sitting comfortably on the needle....I did not want to work my SSK with it like that, so I sat back, deflated a bit. I dwelled on it overnight before my eureka moment. At work we decided to have a violet border, so using this, I picked up sts all along one side. Then, working from the other end of the ball, began working a 4-stitch applied I-cord from where I started to pick up.



I don't a have a photo of how I started, but here's the link that got me going. It uses a provisional cast on.

Here's what I did when I turned the corner.



Then I used kitchener stitch to join it together.



One more final wash before it's ready!

Before it rained

The chairs got stained, just in time!



They perk up the backyard, great contrast to the green (and brown)



Pink hydrangeas in full out bloom!

Over halfway

Here we are at 50% seamed:



ETA: When picking up stitches along the garter ridges of the sides of the blocks (vs the cast on and cast off edges), the number of ridges were not always the same between rows of blocks - since everyone's row gauge might be a little different, there may be more or less rows to make up an eight inch square. What I'm getting at is that the number of sts must be checked carefully moving from block to block because the 3-needle bind off only works when there are the same number of stitches on the needles.



Up close and personal with the first seam going the other way!
(Loving the intersection)

It's turning out to be a really pretty blanket, the weight is very comfortable on my lap, perfect for snuggles.