Knitters’ Row

This works perfect for small coffee cups and water bottles.  I have also used it for storing my sun glasses in.

Materials:
1 skein of sock yarn (Tofutsies)
5 size 3 double point needles (or your choice for knitting in the round)

Instructions:
Cast on 64 sts
Knit in the round using pattern k3, p1
When you have reached the desired length start your decreases as follows
Needle 1; k1, ssk, k to last 3 sts, k2 tog, k1
Repeat for other needles
Alternate a decrease round and a plain knit round till you have 24 sts left
k to tog all the way around
k 1 round with no decreases
Slip all sts onto yarn and pull tight.

This will form the bind off and a flat square bottom.

This was made for my hand made bears collection.  I used the simple wash cloth pattern, decorated it a bit and added a bear head.  I look forward to making more of these with different animals and colors.  Although I don’t think that I will use fingering weight again, just DK or worsted.  The fingering weight took forever.  I used Plymouth Dream Baby Fingering Weight for this project.  It is a microfiber.

I knit this from one ball of the Pound Of Love in white with 1 ball each of brown and blue Paton’s Astra.  This is a very easy vest to knit.  I tweaked a normal vest pattern for a man so that I could knit it in the round and have no seeming.  It also did not have the argyle, so I added it.  He has worn this for Christmas, and I look forward to seeing him wear it more.

This was my first ever crochet project.  Super easy.

This was made from yarn I received in a trade.  A joy to work with and super warm.  I would like to get more of this to make a sweater.  Dimensions are about 4 x 4 feet.

Materials:
6 balls of TLC boucle
Size 7 circular needle

Pattern:
Cast on 3 stitches
Increase every other row 1 stitch on each end

Keep in pattern throughout entire blanket as follows:  right side (k1, p1) wrong side (purl) this will create a broken rib pattern so that it will look like ribbing without drawing in.

When you have finished the third ball, start decreasing every other row by knitting two together till you have 3 stitches left.

Bind off last three stitches.