Picture Gallery — Assorted
Emmett has two new sweaters: one knit from River Twist (Mountain Colors) and one knit from Nature Wool Chunky (Araucania).
Matthew knit this reversible afghan for his cousin, Don, and his wife, Amy. He used Chuckanut Bay yarns from New Zealand and a (heavily modified) pattern from Lily Chin.
Kate knit a small bowl and a larger bowl from patterns in the Magical Knitting book by Cat Bordhi.
Accidentally spilling the buttons made a pretty mess.
Helen was relieved to know that she had picked up a doggie sweater and not a ski mask.
Tami designed our latest dishcloth pattern; she was out of town, so the webmaster had to take the liberty of naming the pattern for her. If she doesn't like it, look for the Rib & Ridge Dishcloth pattern to get a new name.
Matthew knit a sock-yarn doggies sweater (using Noro's Kureyon Sock yarn) for the beloved Edwina.
Kate designed and knit this lace collar for Jill. She is contemplating writing a pattern for it.
Janice knit a cover for a wooden bracelet, and we've been teasing her about her bracelet cozy!
CZ is the latest knitter to prove just how comfy the sofa is for taking a power nap when knitting up a storm.
This spectacular Illini afghan was knit as a wedding present for a cherished Nephew.
From the instance Janice saw this pattern, she knew she had to knit an afghan in Boku from Plymouth.
Ray knit this adorable dog sweater for his daughter's dog, Wrigley. The big blocks of color are done with an intarsia technique, but the smaller color changes in the logo were done with a stranded technique. Thanks also to Matthew for the charting job and to Edwina for modeling the sweater despite it's having been knit for a larger dog.
Audrey demonstrates the usefulness of her "miner's light" for knitting in the dark.
Lisa knit this whimsical sock necklace that uses a moebius construction technique; also, the socks are functional, so one could put little things in them.
Ray had been teasing Kim about never getting to see any of her work. So, she finally relented and brought in a number of wonderful things she had made, including this pair of afghans.
Matthew knit orange and blue I-cord, paired with a great orange and blue glass bead, to create this necklace for Sharon.
Every puppy needs a great wardrobe, and Matthew designed this aran sweater for Edwina "on the needles" using Galway worsted yarn with two strands held together. Although the sweater looks fantastic on Edwina, the effect when worn by the webmaster is just a little creepy — like we're all waiting for alien-eyes to poke out of the leg holes on long stalks.
You never know what you might fall in love with at the yarn shop. Diane, who rescues Boston Terriers, had a rescue puppy. Matthew took one look at Edwina, and it was puppy love.
Diane knit this wonderful pink & black "Good 'n' Plenty" cozy for Janice for her Birthday, specifically so that Janice can hide her beloved candy from the husband who does not like licorice. Diane even worked in her first initial.
Janice crocheted yet another gorgeous and wonderful afghan based on her theory that every color does not have to "go with" every other color perfectly -- they just need to look good with the adjacent colors or those worked in close proximity. While Janice did crochet afghans for each of her children, their color preferences also grew up, and so she finds herself now making them new afghans with sophisticated and mature color palettes.
Tina Johnson knit this adorable pumpkin using Cascade 220 for the main color and Plymouth Tweed for the stem. One skein of each is sufficient to knit two small pumpkins. The pattern is available from knitty.com.
Janice crocheted this glorious afghan using Cascade 220 yarn and a Ripple Stitch published in 200 Ripple Stitch Patterns by Jan Eaton (KP Books, 2006). Janice used the Soft Waves pattern (on page 19). She has provided the details in case you buy (or already have) Jan's wonderful book and want to make a Soft Waves afghan of your own.
Heidi knit this wonderful "Kilt Bag" with a dragon on it.
Jen knit this afghan for her sister's graduation from high school.
This necktie is probably the smallest gauge project Diane has knit in a long, long time.
I call these pictures "Bobbin Madness" as Kate is working with six bobbins of black yarn and five skeins of colored yarn, all being worked in each row!
Is it Nikki who's really small or Matthew's new knitting duffle bag that's really big? Or both! One of these days, we'll have to get Nikki to mail this off to Knitter's Magazine for their Where In The World feature.
Jen knit this amazing afghan out of Ecological wool (naturally colored, undyed wool). The pattern is called both Feather & Fan and Old Shale, and it is one of the older lace patterns.
Nikki knit this wonderful belt from Daria Multi, a new coton/rayon yarn from Noro. One skein yielded a belt that is 48" long (8 sts wide on a #7 needle using Linen Stitch). Rumor has it that this yarn is also fantastic for bags and purses, and I believe Nikki will be knitting a matching bag as well. At the left, Nikki is holding up the basket of all the glorious colors of Daria that we have, and at the right is a close-up picture of the belt.
Matthew built a blocking frame out of PVC tubing to block the triangular shawl he knit out of Koigu (the pattern is Charlotte's Web, which took 5 skeins of Koigu Merino). In the first picture, the shawl is being "stitched" to the frame with waste cotton. Then, the waste cotton is tightened to stretch out the shawl, opening the lace structure, shown close-up in the second picture. The final picture, to the right, shows the full shawl in all its glory. Of course, that last picture also shows how important it is to have your favorite Kitty come inspect your work!
It took two umbrella swifts to hold the extra long skein of opal sock yarn that Matthew dyed.
Pat proved to all of us that you can get a lot of knitting done with a cast on your foot.
Matthew knit this lovely tea cozy for his Mum & Dad. It was quite interesting that they both felt compelled to try it on. The first picture to the right helps explain why we are all calling this the "Garden Gnome" Tea Cozy!
Being a webmaster is hard work, so every so often, you have to nip off for a quick nap, as your webmaster is doing in this picture. I'm not sure Sharon had impromptu naps in mind when she put the leather sofa upstairs, but it sure is comfy!
Anna Maria knit this felted tea cozy for her mum, back home in England, and she has two more in progress.
I am very glad that I got a good picture of Mickey Pickle in her purple sweater while she was still with us. Our condolences go out to Diane for her loss. Mickey was a great traveling companion to and from the Shop from her home in Decatur. At the right, though, you can see K.C., Diane's new traveling companion, sitting in Tami's lap.
I don't think Ray really expected a "Yarn Ho" t-shirt as a birthday present, but if the shoe fits... just count your blessings that there are no pictures of the webmaster in the "yarn Ho" thong given to him as a gift on his 40th birthday from the same person!
Matthew knit this tiny sweater for one of his nephew's stuffed animals.
Kate knit this afghan by rotating different colors of Manos del Uruguy with different patterns, in strips, but she did not sew the strips together. Instead, she used Rick Mondragon's sliding loop technique to knit adjacent strips together. Don't you just want to curl up in this yummy afghan on a cold winter evening.
At the left are some pictures of painted roving (roving is a preparation of spinning fibers in which the fibers are combed out to line up in the same direction. The roving was hand painted by Kate. On the right is a picture of some of the yarn that Kate spun from her roving — how fabulous!
Just when you thought you'd seen it all... now you've seen the webmaster knitting while walking on the treadmill. For the record, the eliptical cross-training machine is the easiest on which to knit. The hardest exercise equipment to use while knitting is a (non-recumbent) bicycle.
Although the webmaster's recent trip to Ikea was not productive in terms of the bookcases that were the primary reason for the trek to Schaumburg, it was a minor stroke of brilliance to appropriate curio cabinettes (the model name is Nartorp) for sweater display, especially with the lights on top.
