Mini-Challenge #2

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn’t hurt the untroubled spirit, either. ~Elizabeth Zimmerman

Now that the holiday season is over, it’s time for new projects! Help celebrate Dewey’s love of books AND of knitting! This is a mini-challenge for those of us that are honoring her memory by reading the books she talked about on her blog, and who also share her love of knitting! How about dedicating at least one of your 2009 knitting (or other handwork!) projects to Dewey’s memory? Perhaps you would like to knit or crochet some things for a local charity? Or if you’ve never learned to knit, maybe it’s time to learn! Click on the picture to sign up for this challenge.

Another old project

I found some yarn while I was cleaning, so I started knitting over the weekend. Yes I know, I have other knitting projects going, I am tired of them all.

I am making the pattern up because I don't remember which afghan pattern I was using. So I started seed stitch, cable, ripple - solely because I like cables and ripples. I have changed it now, now I am doing seed stitch, big cable, little cables all across to big cable, seed stitch. I am doing a double cable or braided cable, I don't know the correct term. These pictures don't quite show it but you can at least see the color.

Going to the city in style

I just made this. Em and I are going to the city tomorrow and I wanted something sparkly for my ankle. I really didn't think I would get the beads in time, yet I did. So I put this together, and it is not one of my finest, I can see all my mistakes. Next one will be better.

Roadrunner

This is one of the first necklaces I made, I didn't post it earlier because my face is in the picture and I didn't like how I looked, then I learned to crop, in fact, I was cropping all the other pictures in this blog to show off the jewelry better when I found this and decided to add it. I made the beads with some bead stuff, its a polymer and you bake it, the road runner is from a necklace D got for me in Arizona, the chain it was on turned my neck funny colors. You could say this is the necklace that started it all, and I still have it.

S and T

These are the newest ones I have made. I made them for my nieces, whom I am going to be seeing very shortly. The pink one is for S and the blue one for T. At first I wasn't very happy with the blue one, but looking at it in this picture, I think it is very nice looking. I also like the way the colors in both necklaces play off each other.

Em's necklace

Em had a dress for the memorial, which she was going to in Florida. She wanted a necklace to wear with the dress. So she bought these beads and asked me to make her one. I made her one, but she didn't get to wear it, it got broken when her luggage was searched. I fixed it after she got home, and just recently I had to fix it again, it wasn't broken, one of the cords had come undone. So I redid it and secured it with my special adhesive.

More butterflies

Here is my butterfly bracelet. I had two, and I used to link them together. I lost them one day, so when I made another bracelet, I made it two in one, to be worn doubled. I couldn't decided which picture showed off the bracelet best, so I am posting both!