Crystal's Crazy Rainbow Scarf

Two of the girls I work with have requested hand made scarves for Christmas and so that's exactly what they're getting.

Crystal is a lovely young lady with a whimsical flair to her fashion sense.  Earlier this year I made a black beret for her and thought I'd make a matching scarf, but when I started it in black it was way too bland for this vivacious young woman.  Instead, I did what you see here with two tiny black strips capping the ends.

What do you think?

    - The Knit Wit Boobie

Linda's Christmas Afghan.

Linda is John's mother. I am making her a Fall colored Ripple Afghan. I just hope that I can finish it by Christmas and get started on moms Afghan as well. Here is the start of Linda's Afghan.

The Knit Wit,

Booger.

It's my Hippy Hippy Shake Belt! (you know the song, hippy hippy... nevermind)

Hee Hee, I hate it when I try to be funny and it comes out lame! Anyhoo, here is a belt that I made for my over the average sized hips, I love it, I made a bit to big so I have to adjust it a bit smaller (never thought I'd say that about something going around my hips). So I have work quite a few times and have been complimented so I know I did a good job. Here is a set of pics, in which Cheyenne is helping me model in one of them.

The Knit Wit,

Booger.

Mr. Turkey!

I wanted a companion to join me for Thanksgiving so I made him, check him out, his name is Thomas, say hello Thomas. I hope you like him!

The Knit Wit,

Booger.

Its That Time of Year

Its that time of year in which we all start to think about what others might enjoy as holiday gifts.  Accordingly, it just so happens at the moment that every project I'm currently working on or have in the planning stages are gifts for the holidays!

Forgive my silence for a short time while I prioritize these projects and I PROMISE to do at least one block a week extra to showcase on the blog.

         - The Knit Wit Boobie

Baby Shower Favor Bag

Monie is throwing a good friend a baby shower and wants to give the favors out in mini lantern bags.  Using a full size pattern yesterday I was able to come up with this... what do you think?  Oh, and please excuse my messy desk!  In my defense, however, you can see most of it is crafting stuff, different yarns and crochet hooks and if you look in the far top right corner, the baby sock roses I made for Monie's hosted baby shower and to the left of the favor bag the florist tape involved in the process (not to mention CDs, a napkin and mailing labels - whew!).

Now, assuming this is truly what Miss Monie had in mind, I'll recreate it and actually write out the pattern and share it with you here :)

      - The Knit Wit Boobie

Traveling Scarf Panel

 

The two knit wits and their guest poster are making a traveling scarf!  Here is my first panel for this project.  I've finished two so far and sent them on but I want the second to be a bit of a secret so I won't post it here :)

Oh, and don't mind the blue bow, its just to mark this as the 'right side' for the next person in the chain!

    - The Knit Wit Boobie

2009 Special Olympics Winter Games Scarf Project

If you are interested in helping them with their goal of 5,000 scarves, see the attached flyer. Now you can make them in whichever pattern you like as long as the colors and yarn chosen are used.

http://www.crochettoday.com/pdfs/CTSO08scarf.pdf

Trick or Treat!!!!

It's my candy corn bag. So last year for Halloween I made pumpkin trick or treat bags for the girls, this year I have decided candy corn is the way to go. So I found this pattern on Lion Brand for them, however, it calls for felting the bag, and since I have never felted I left it just the way it is. I had to add on a few rounds to the bag, when I made it at first it was tiny, I think maybe 3 lollipops would fit in it. So me being the skillfull crocheter that I am (NOT!) I added the rounds and now it's a little longer than a food tall, just right to fit all the candy in the world. Well maybe not the world, but hey I am Cuban I am allowed to exaggerate. Well without further adooooooooooo, here it is.

The Knit Wit,

Booger

Candy Corn Pillow

So I was trying to make a candy corn Halloween trick or treat bag, but the pattern I have for some reason made it a bit small, as you can see, so I have turned this bag into a little pillow and gave it to my neighbor Brian. I fiddled around with the pattern that I got from Lion Brand and have made it bigger and now working on the first of five bags that I am making, of course, when I am done I will post it. Here is the pillow for now.

The Knit Wit,

Booger.

It's my first ever fingerless gloves.

So I saw this stitch (star stitch) and I fell in LOVE and I have always wanted a pair of fingerless mitss (why I don't know, I probably will never use them) so I made them with this awesomely beautiful stitch. They came out a bit small, so I am most likely gonna give them away or just keep them, since we all know how attached we are to our first attempts at new projects. I am gonna make myself a new pair when I am done with my next project.

Now for my next project, I am making candy corn bags for the wonderful kids in my life, last year they got pumpkins, this year it's candy corn. I am also working on the travelling scarf between Boobie, Monie and I. I am sure one of us will keep you updated on it. Til then I leave you with the pics of my mitts.

Love ya,

The Knit Wit Booger.

Bed Time Bear.

So I have been promising Keila her Care Bear for I don't know how long and it's finally done. I had a bit of problems with the nose, it kept coming out wayyyy to big so I redid it about a million times, I got it as small as I could and it still came out pretty kick ass. Well as usual here some pics of Bed Time Bear.

The Knit Wit,

Booger.

Open Crochet Panel

Having failed miserably in my lace knitting, I decided I still wanted to do a panel with an open feeling and so I did this in crochet from a "lace" pattern.  Again, this is better suited for a finer weight yarn but I actually kind of like the bulkiness of the worsted this time!

 

   -The Knit Wit Boobie

Lozenge "Lace" Knit Panel

This panel is no where near as pretty as the picture of the pattern I followed in my book.  Reading more carefully, I noticed that these patterns are better when using a smaller weight yarn (rather than the plain old worsted that I used).

Here it is any way!

 

   -The Knit Wit Boobie

Monie's Crocheted Cap

Monie's last guest post for the moment is this crocheted cap.

Monie says, "This is crocheted and there is actually plastic canvas in the brim to hold the shape.  I'm an intermediate crocheter and this is an intermediate pattern, yet I still managed to mess it up!  I would stress pre-planning as goes to this hat.  I had the pieces structured to pattern, but construction was more difficult than expected.  It should have been a one afternoon project and it took me nearly a day."

Topside:

Underside:

We can tell this one was a challenge for her, she had more to say about it than any of the others!

   - The Knit Wit Boobie for Monie

Monie's Modified Wavy Baby Blanket

Another pretty work in progress from our guest poster Monie.

This piece is one of the first times Monie's been able to follow a pattern but she did more than that, she changed it up in her own way so that it would be squared off!

Monie comments on this "I truncated the pattern to create a squared look but I've run out of white yarn so this one's on hold for the moment."

I think its adorable!

  - The Knit Wit Boobie for Monie

September 12, 2008 is Internation Crochet Day!!!

The title’s pretty much self-explanatory, isn’t it? :) September 12 is International Crochet Day, a day when crocheters everywhere are urged to do something crochet-related in public. You know, so we can hook others into it.

Some suggestions that have come up are:

Crochet in public
Teach someone to crochet
promote International Crochet Day in your blog
Wear something crocheted - and make sure everybody knows it!
Stand up on your crochet soapbox, hold your hook high and proudly declare that you are a hooker.

We gotta do something. Who's with me???

The Knit Wit,

Booger.

Monie's Bubbles

Here's a nice completed baby blanket Monie did.  This was done in squares that she then joined together and then put a lovely ruffle border around.

Monie remarks that this was "very simple and kind of boring towards the end."  Hmmm... where have I heard that before!?

 

  - The Knit Wit Boobie for Monie

Crochet with plastic bags

What a lovely green idea!  Use old plastic shopping bags to make a new reusable durable bag!

Check it out here!

  - The Knit Wit Boobie

Guest Posts

In July our friend Monie visited and we spent way too much time with yarn.  This resulted in a resurgence of interest in crochet and a new interest in knitting (she hadn't know how before).

Monie has graciously agreed to allow me to showcase some of her recent work here as she's become quite prolific in the past two months!

First, here's a knit project proving that I really was successful in passing on enough of the basics to get her started (in the round no less!):

Regarding this project Miss Monie says "Making round things is fun!"  She also goes on to mention that this isn't exactly the best train/bus travel project and thinks next time she'll use circular needles instead of worrying about poking passengers' eyes out!

  - The Knit Wit Boobie, for Monie :)

"The Last Knit"

How many of us can relate to this?  Notice at the very end how she just transfers her obsession to the scissors (like so many of us do from crochet to knitting or vice versa!)

- The Knit Wit Boobie

John Paul's Head Band.

My friend's son, John Paul, has asked me to make him a head band in red and black. So I got this yarn from his mother, who had it already to make for him. John Paul said she was taking too long to make it for him so I went ahead and stepped up to plate and made it for him. Here he is showing it off for you blog readers out there.

The Knit Wit,

Booger.

Baby Diego's Blanket

This blanket took me FOREVER and I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am that its finally finished!

Here's a more detailed close up:

Patterns for Traveling Scarf

So with my knitting/crochet group we are making a traveling scarf where we each make a square part of the scarf and then we pass it to the next person as we obtain a new square and just add to that. So these are two squares I have done, I have decided to use the slant one, although, I have to fix it. I need to make a bit loser to make it 5" X 4" long. Tell me what ya'll think.

The Knit Wit,

Booger.



This is my own personal made up pattern (well I am sure someone has it out there, but I did think of it on my own and put it to good use.)

Fatty Patty's Sweater.

Ok so mom has been bugging me to make the dogs a sweater so this was my first attempt hope you like it. I used a peach yarn and just did the pattern and sizing as I went I had to grab the poor dog a million times just to do the measurements correctly. Here is the outcome.

The Knit Wit,

Booger.

Afghan or Bust.

So I have been making this Afghan for a while now and I have finally dusted it off and finished it. It's very simple with no fringes or border. It's just the regular knitting pattern. I wanted something for me and loved these colors together. Hope you like it.

The Knit Wit,

Booger.

Finally!!!!

Finally I have finished Mel's scarf. Here are a few pics. I am so proud of it, I made the pattern up myself and I did fringes for the first time.





The Knit Wit,

Booger

Ravelry

Ravelry is this great site I found and it's a big knitting and crocheting community. So I have joined it.



The Knit Wit,

Booger

Tunisian Crochet

Monie taught me how to do a tunisian crochet when she was down here and so I've had fun making quick little swatches with different techniques.

This one is called Ploughs and Cables.

   - The Knit Wit Boobie

Diagonal Square

My first ever mass increase/decrease square... cute, huh?

 

  - The Knit Wit Boobie

Traditional Granny Squares

These are fun, fast and worked in the round.



-The Knit Wit Boobie

The Big Circle

I really like how intricate this block looks when, in reality, its quite easy to make!

 

 

   - The Knit Wit Boobie

Fun with crochet blocks

Over the next few days, keep your eyes open for some fun blocks I've been learning over the last few weeks!

 

   - The Knit Wit Boobie

Kei Kei's First Finished Project....

Oh Yeah!!!!!

I don't see your spikey ball, but I raise you a finished project from the one and only Curly Head. HA! Beat that.

Here is Kei with her ball...



The Knit Wit Booger.

3-D Crochet

Boog!  So nice to see you posting!

I see your cutie patootie octopus and raise you a spikey ball!!!

 

 

   - The Knit Wit Boobie

It's an Octopus!!!

You see I have not left you all, I have just been busy with life. I just recently made this octopus for my newest neice, Andrea, and it took a whole of 2 days to make. It looks soooo darn cute, I am very proud of it.

Things have been busy with me and work. Currently trying to find another one, I am tired of slinging pizzas around. I have also been busy with my mother, she became a bit sick and with a lot of the worrying and testing I have not been busy with my needle work. Things are well now and the scare is off but still keeping a watchful eye on her. I will keep you guys updated.

Sooooo, next I am working on my embroider stuff and see how that goes.

Here is the pic of the octopus......



Love ya'll,
The Knit Wit Booger.

ROFLMAO!!

I love this!

From WordToYour.com

- The Knit Wit Boobie

Stuck on a Stitch??

Often times, when trying to decipher a pattern, I'll find myself stuck on a stitch I'm unfamiliar with or terminology I don't know.

When I encounter this problem, I turn to my trusty friend, about.com.

Try both knitting.about.com and crochet.about.com to find answers when you need them, not only do they often have wonderful free patterns and projects, but their search function is top notch and I always find a tutorial on what I'm looking for on the first try.

Hope it helps you all!

- The Knit Wit Boobie

Amigurumi

I've become quite taken with Amigurumi as I come across it often in my online pattern searches and random research.  I am really trying to finish up a baby blanket for a Amy's friend before trying anything else but I'm really thinking it will be something from this talented crafter's site!

Does anyone out there have any experience with these kinds of things?  Booger's Care Bears come really close!!!

 

- The Knit Wit Boobie.

Two Great Needlecraft Books

I really love this book.  I've been using it a lot to pick up new stitches for the projects I've been working on.  Geri's Ridged Chevron Scarf came from a stitch in this book!

 

The hubby got this book for me for Christmas.  The Bubbles Blanket came from a square in this book I liked...

Any one else know of any good books out there?

-The Knit Wit Boobie