My First Prayer Shawl

At long last I have a picture of Grandma and the Prayer Shawl I made her!  I finished this for her during Canadian Thanksgiving 2008.  In every stitch I put my love, thoughts and prayers for this wonderful lady.  I was very pleased with my first ever shawl and have since had several requests to make more.......

My Mom's cat afgahn.

This is another one of my latest projects. I honestly think that I have at least 5 on the go right now! LOL I used the bernat soft and am doing a mixture of e-wraps and the mock crochet. For the mock crochet I am trying it with the e-wrap instead of laying the yarn in front of the peg just to see the result. So far I am quite pleased with the result. I'll post pictures of the finished product hopefully in the next week or so.

Pom-pom yarn?

Here is a picture of what I'm currently working on.... or rather  a picture of one of the projects.  This is a scarf for  my daughter's principal at school.  It's been taking longer than expected because work has been so very busy!  This has been an interesting yarn to work with.  As I'm knitting with it the piece doesn't 'shrink' on it's own.  I have to sort of tug it  into shape.

ARGYLE STITCH

Noemi, a member of my facebook group suggested the name for this stitch.  A big hearty thank you to her!!  I think the name suits the look of the stitch.  Here are the pictures of the wrapping pattern.  Each stitch is alternated.  There are two stitches that make up the Argyle Stitch.  Pictures 3 and 2 are the first stitch and pictures 5 and 4 are the second stitch.  Picture 1 is the end result of the combination.  I've noticed that the pictures have sort of come up in the wrong order, but hopefully you get the idea.  I was trying to illustrate how the loom looks as it's being wrapped.  The pictures with every other peg wrapped are the first part of each of the two stitches and the pictures with the entire loom wrapped are what the stitch looks like completely wrapped.  Everytime I try to fix the pictures and the layout something goes horribly wrong, so I'm leaving it.  Sorry!

Wow!

I taught one of my co-workers how to knit on the long loom set.  This is her first completed project.  I think she did amazing!!  You'd never know she was new to knitting.   I was so happy that she gave me permission to post pictures of her throw on my blog!  She is working on another throw right now and I can't wait to see how that one turns out!

Well, my knitting season has begun full tilt! I've started with a prayer shawl for my dh's Grandma. I've just about completed the first panel..... once it's completely done I'll post pictures of it. During the summer rather than getting my own knitting done I've been showing others how to knit. I've also learned how to cro-hook. Once I start a project of cro-hooking I'll post pictures.

Been awhile........

I haven't posted for quite awhile.  I was busy with various life events as well as learning to cro-knit.  What an interesting craft.  When I have some time I'll take a picture of it and post it.

Cheers!