Bookmarks The Spot!

The secret is out of the bag, or wrapping paper in this case!  I made some bookmarks for the ladies at work.  These were very fun, & I used a lot of pretty lacy stitch patterns that I just loved.  I had some fine white baby cotton left over, perfect for bookmarkers.  I also used some multi colored sock cotton, but I didn't have a lot of it, plus it is a bit...wild!  Since they had few stitches they worked up very quickly & I was able to have them completed in a week.  Many thanks go to my sweet husband for making up little envelopes for them, since I was still knitting them late Tuesday evening! 

Many of these feature the lacy faggotting stitch that I fell in love with during my stitch pattern search.  All have relatively the same stitch count, but the sizes vary due to lateral spread of the lacy stitches.  I tried some different finishes also, some have tassels, others have beads, some have twisted cord, some have I cord.  Some patterns will follow!  Hope you all like these as much as I did!  Merry Christmas to all! 

Lace Bookmark Pattern

Newsflash!

All scarf knitting has been put on temporary hold.  I'm currently in the process of knitting some last minute gift ideas, but I don't want to spill the details here.  There might be prying eyes! 

I need to make 13 small objects, & I have 7 completed so far.  I started this past Wednesday evening, so I'm doing pretty well considering.  I trying to have them completed by this coming Wednesday.  I have to block the objects, so I need to be sure to have time for that as well.  I'm very excited by this project, so I'm motivated to complete them.  Of course, I will take pictures of the items & post them here after the recipients have them. 

Cross your fingers for me & say a little prayer to the Knitting Goddess above to grant me speed!

Offline to knit away!  Be back soon!

How Many More Times?

Well, maybe one more.  Again, I've started, gotten a good way in & realized I still won't have enough yarn to finish.  My daughter doesn't want a really lacy pattern, otherwise that would probably work.  So we settled on making it much narrower that originally planned.  

My discouragement with this project is reflecting in the fact that I just haven't knitted much on it.  I finally snapped pics of what I had, then...sigh.  I frogged it & started over.  I'm using the same stitch pattern shown here, just using only 2 repeats.  I'm a good few inches into it so far, but I'm not sure this pattern will work on such a narrow scale.  So that means more swatching.  Sigh. 

I'm sure we are all alike in that we want it to work the first time.  I was just going to settle for making a hat from this yarn, but I'll give it one more chance.  If it doesn't work this time...its hat city!