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.)