Hmmm...I guess it's okay...

Here is my first attempt at the lacey-type snood, ans as you can see it requires a ton of work, primarily in the headband, which is entirely too loose. My sister loves it, but I'm off to try a little something new. I've found the "Mango Moon Rasta Hat" Pattern, and it's working way better. Pictures to come when THAT is done.

A nice cable scarf!

Ahhhh. Much more interesting to knit, and infinitely more attractive then some lousy g@rter scarf. After learning to do cables from a book, I modified the learning exercizes into a pattern for a scarf. I learned how to purl and understand the basic formation of a cable.



CLOSSEY'S CABLE SCARF PATTERN


NOTE: I used 100% Acrylic Worsted Weight Yarn, but any Medium weight yarn works. I also used size 10.5 knitting needles, but you could probably use anything between 8 and 10.5 with no problem.

You'll need either a cable needle or some other straight/double-pointed needle for cabling. I used a size 6 knitting needle.in lieu of my cable needle ^_^

GAUGE: Gauge? It's a scarf. LIVE A LITTLE. But keep the knitting a little loose, this is not a pattern that you want to work tight with.


ABBREVIATIONS:
k = knit
p= purl
C3F = slip next 3 stitches onto cable needle, hold to front of work. Then knit 3 stitches. Then slip the stitiches on the cable needle back onto the left needle and knit all three of them.

CAST ON 30 stitches.

ROW 1: p3, k6, p3, k6, p3, k6, p3
ROW 2: k3, p6, k3, p6, k3, p6, k3
ROW 3: Same as Row 1
ROW 4: Same as Row 2
ROW 5: (cable row) p3, C3F, p3, C3F, p3, C3F, p3
ROW 6: Same as Row 2
ROW 7: Same as Row 1
ROW 8: Same as Row 2

Repeat these 8 rows over and over until the scarf is as long as you want, ending on Row 6.

Not another G-RTER STITCH SCARF!!

This here is the second thing I ever knit, a g-rter-stitch scarf in my sister's friend's favorite colors. (It's a gift for the friend) I have named this scarf "Calgary", after the friend's hometown in Alberta, Canada.




I originally was going to do this in all red, but got SO BORED and decided to try doing more than one color. Hence the big color blocks. I was actually pretty relieved when I completed this, because by that time I had mastered the knit stitich and was ready for something more complicated than some godawful g-rter scarf.

Knitted with 100% acrylic worsted-weight yarm on US size 8 knitting needles.

"Friendly", the first thing I ever knit.

This only took me 20 freaka frackin years to get uploaded! More coming in rapidfire sucession!!

Look at the cute colors. Look at how comfy. This is the first thing I ever knit, and I have named it "Friendly", because there is nothing so friendly as a scarf like this.




I made this the day my friend taught me to knit. I don't even remember how we got on the subject of knitting or why she even wanted to bother teaching me, but I caught right on and was absolutely smitten with it. Now I understand why she was so eager to teach me. There are some things you don't understand until you do them.

Friendly is 20-something stitches wide. It was knitted with a lightweight yarn with US Size 10.5 knitting needles. It's plain old beginner-style garter stitch the whole way through. All my beginner-style errors were nicely disguised by the variegated colors in the yarn.

First post ever. TIE ME DOWN.

Oh joy! The inaugural post of KNIT-IOTS! Hello, internet! I send you warm wishes from my quaint cottage atop the Pocono Mountains. Every morning I go out on my balcony and yodel, and shortly after that I start KNITTING.

This blog used to be "The Graceful Ghost", which chronicled my daily adventures, but I learned a few things from that:

1. I'm a boring git who no one wants to read about.
2. I couldn't be bothered to share my life with people.
3. I find it easier to write about things I like to do.
4. Great friendships can be made when you connect to people through favorite crafts!

FOR EXAMPLE:

FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN: (to nearby SATANIST) Turn down that rock music, heathen! Can't you see I'm trying to KNIT?

SATANIST: (gasping in surprise) KNITTING? I f**king LOVE KNITTING!

(The Fundamentalist Christian and Satanist become good friends that very instant. "You've got a Friend in Me" begins to play as they share patterns.)

This person here is me. Because you probably want to know what I look like.





Within a few days, knitting-related stuff should pop up. Feel free to harass me if I take too long.