Easy Knitting

I am currently working with knitted blue squares and thought some knitted strips would go well between the blocks.
Here is a pic of the squares sent to me by the wonderful NAS Yahoo Group and my little garter stitch strip that I've been working on.

Went thrift store shopping the other day and scored these bags of lovely hexagons!   Washed one to check for fiber content and it's acrylic - no shrinkage.     Cost for both bags with my senior discount was around $2       What a find!

Circleghan Done

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving - I know I did!

Found some time to finish this Circle-ghan.  
It measures 50" x 72", which I think would be great on a twin sized bed or used to snuggle up on a couch.

Thanks to one of our generous members for crocheting most of these circles.   She sent a second box so I have enough to assemble another one of these beauties.

Pattern for these circles from Signed With an Owl - Squaring the Big Circle Tutorial.

Mad Hatter At Work

Slip Stitching From Your Stash

Well I love the outcome, but lost the enthusiasum 3/4 of the way.
Maybe I left it too long stewing  away all summer.
Got kinda lost in the pattern too.   I'm willing to give it a 2nd chance someday!
Pattern is free to Ravelry members and can be found here.

Quick Ear Flap Cap

This is a combo of 2 patterns but not hard to reproduce.
It takes 2 strands of worsted wt yarn.
Pattern is In A Flap Cap by Tammy Wright.

I made mods (of course I did) to make my earflaps longer.
This involves some short rowing.
I'd suggest you try her version first.
My version is on my Ravelry project page for this hat.

And if you noticed, I did a linen stitch for the body of the hat.

Teaser Alert!

This is what I am seaming up for our NAS group afghan.
Circles have been donated from members and I work the white around each one, squaring them away.  Then to join and seam.
Pattern for Squaring the Big Circle is from Kate Jenks.
She gives a great tutorial!

Now to thread that needle and seam!

Hatz!

As promised - hats

This is my go to small hat pattern.  It's the Itty Bitty Hat from Carri Hammett.   The sizes are from newborn to 24 mos.  You cast on 56, 64 or 72 sts.  I've made quite a few with 80 sts and a bit longer.

One can do so many things with this pattern.  It is great for fair isle or slip stitch patterns.      I try to use one main color yarn and then add those little odd leftover balls every other row or so.

The pattern is a free pdf pattern found at Cold Water Yarns .com
PDF pattern here.

Also great for small peeries

Made this Lion Brand 4x4 ribbed hat.  

Knit for 10" and then worked crown decreases which made for a nice 3" brim to fold back over the ears.
Pattern is on the Lion Brand website - Ribbed Hat #60814AD


Moving on to the Bob Hat.  

Pattern is  available as a free Ravelry download.
Very thick hat, knit with double strands of yarn.   Again I used leftovers of blues and browns.  Quite easy, but for some reason my fingers and hands hurt during knitting this up.  
Maybe I have to toughen them up - that's what one gets for not knitting as often as they should!

Now for one of my favorite, quick and easy crochet caps.

This is Melissa Malls Basic Baby Beanie.   I added the scalloped edging.  This one works up very fast and I've made many of these.
Pattern is on her site - Basic Baby Beanie


All the hats go into this box and when it's full I am mailing it off to the Rez!

Blankets Going To The Rez

As promised, more blankets!

This summer I decided to resurrect my sewing skills.
Using a 1/2 jelly roll I found at Joann's discount table I made this little quilt.

Then I got adventurous and made a disappearing 9 patch with a flannel backing.

Pattern was from this site - Cluck Cluck Sew


Here is another crocheted baby blanket that I mailed off to the Rez.

The above pattern is called the Never Ending Granny
From this site here - Never Ending Granny  at The Crochet Crowd.
There is a YouTube video that makes it easy to learn this technique.
3 Color Never Ending Granny video on YouTube.

Update:  I should say these have already been shipped and received at the Cheyenne River Reservation.

Stay tuned for my next post on hats I've been making.

Another Year Away From Blogging

Blame those Zynga games!
But I have been busy knitting and crocheting and working with the Native American Support Group on Yahoo Groups.

I've volunteered to seam up squares and circles and mail the resulting blankets to the Cheyenne River Reservation.

Most off the squares were donated by the wonderful ladies of Native American Support on Yahoo.  I add a few here and there to even things out.  Then do an edging around.

Here are some photos of the results.

Old Glory 

Early Spring

Lavender Blues

That's it for today - stay tuned as I have more photos, but I have to get the hang of Blogger's new ways.

Mitten Eye Candy

Second Set of Nine

Yup - that makes 18 pair and if you think that is alot, it's not.
One of the NAS gals has made 44 pairs already!

Details on my Rav Project page.