Actual yarn and patterns and project, Oh my!

 

 

Actual knitting chat? Here are three new projects. The Serpentine Mitts are from a Ravelry Pattern download, free. I've joined a KAL there to push my way through this one. The yarn for it comes from stash, a TrekkingXXL. The purse is called "Lily", and the pattern was purchased through download at Ravelry. This is a sweet, sweet!, beaded purse that I'll make in the two colors of perle cotton for my two oldest DDs. Did I say this is sweet? This is another smaller KAL with a knitting Pal - thank you Sandy! - who is encouraging me to get the Old knitting mojo back. The needles, well, they are just part of a needle building project for socks. A Gal has to have all her sock needles, after all.

The other strange object is half of a project to make crocheted cover for my earphones. It needs some elastic threads slipped through the back and is the bottom picture, if things work out right here. I think this one comes under "repairs". The black cushioning foam went all to pieces on one earphone, so this replacement came to mind. It's sock Panda cotton remnants. That black circular thing is the one foam that's left. This is very very easy to make.

The phone cover is made this way:

Do a 6 chain ring, join, chain 3
Jam about 16 dc's into it, join at the top of the chain three, chain three
Two dc in each dc around, join--as in round one above--,chain three
Two dc, then One dc, every other space. (This is an Increase row----and you do it this way....two dc in first dc, one in next --all the way around.) join--as in round one above--, chain three
One dc in every dc around .. EVEN row.. join-as in round one above, chain three
One dc ever OTHER dc... decrease row... join in the top of the chain, and cut yarn, pass the end through the loop on hook and tighten.

I'm going to run some elastic through it to make it stay tight, as I said. You will probably find that you need to make yours smaller or larger, depending on the size of your phones, so just add or decrease rows, or you can use single crochets to make it smaller. I wouldn't use triples.. they are too loose.


If I were a working Gal, today would be a "sick day", so I am just sitting around. I was stupid enough to eat a little salad that had some goat cheese on top. Duh! See how we torpedo our own plans? Today I was thinking of going out and looking for some matching beads for the little purses and all of my beads are too big. Isn't that nice? A reason to go bead shopping!