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Pattern : Beginner's Lightweight Socks #216 by Diane Soucy

Needle: US 0 / 2.0 mm
Yarn: Zwerger Garn Opal Petticoat - 1 skeins = 465.0 yards (425.2m)
Colorway: 1290

I made a mistake with the pattern. I did the 1x1 ribbing all the way to the heel, so it took me much longer, since ribbing slows me down. Very happy with outcome. Also have some yarn left over.

Fiesta Tea Set by Annie Modesitt
Needles: US 2 / 2.75 mm, US 4 / 3.5 mm
Yarn: TeDdy's Wool Super Cotton and a little bit of sample yarn I got.

A little bit of trial and error with the I-cord Cast Off and Horizontal stripe. Didn’t switch needles on account of fingering weight yarn.
it’s little floppy even after blocking, so I sewed felt on the inside of the cups and back of the saucers for a sturdier finish.

I made this Tea Set for my daughter, Emily.

Pattern: Umbilical Cord hat from Stitch 'N Bitch, The knitters hand book.
Yarn: left over of
Blue Sky Alpacas Organic Cotton
Rowan Calmer
Needle: US 6 / 4.0 mm ADDI turbo

Since I don't have this book, I guessed pattern, it's pretty basic, I’ve made a similar hat before.

I made this hat for Ayla's KAL, I read about it on Ravelry.

I'm not sure if you can view this link: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/over-the-fence/496870/1-25
[paste] Ayla is three and has Polymicrgyria. Every item sold by her Rainbow Foundation helps to fund Ayla’s therapy and helps her to attend a Steiner school where she is accepted and embraced. She needs full assistance with mobility and communicates with her eyes and her smile. The foundation will help pay for her education and medical expenses as well as help other families living with Polymicrgyria.
The idea is to do beanies first so that we can stock the etsy store with hats just right for the US and UK winter weather. We’ll do a KAL of the matching snail brimmed hats for warmer markets later.
So grab together your left overs or dye up some kiddy bright yarn and get ready for the Feb 1 launch date. Remember that there are some people allergic to wool so some 100% acrylic hats are fine as well.
The patterns are incredibly easy to change around to suit different tensions and head sizes and the snail is based on the age old pinwheel design, simple, quick and so easy to do and upsize.

Needles: US 4 / 3.5 mm
Yarn: Phildar Phil'Ruban
Colorway: BLUSH

Pattern: Free online, http://villapallonneuleohjeet.blogspot.com/2008/10/crown-hat.html

I’m burning up my stash. Decided to make this hat after I made the Strawberry hat too big and seeing the cute hat Alison from the Blue Blog made, I figured it would be a good way to use what I had left of my Phil’Ruban yarn.
I knit 8 points instead of 9 as that was enough to surrond my daughters head. After doing 1 and a half repeats of the lace pattern I realized it was taking too much time and barely noticeable with this yarn, so I just continued with plain stockinette.
I also knit the crown points in to place by picking up the stitches and knitting together (similar to 3 needle bind off)
Hat fits and is stretchy but I didn’t like the finished out come. Yarn isn’t showing up the crown so well.
I would recommend using contrast colors next time.
I ended up frogging the hat.

In my attempt to burn up some stash and also as appreciate to my MIL's efforts, she does help me, I made her a Hanukah gift. A one skein wonder if you will. A Claptois.

I think this is originally a sock yarn, though I couldn't find the label. Since I didn't have enough for the fringe I had to use some other yarn that matched for the fringing. Still I'm quite pleased with the outcome.
Very soft.

Pattern: Clapotis: Free on line at Knitty, designed by the talented Kate Gilbert.

This time though I decided to Purl instead of Knit through the Back loop.

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