How I managed the yarn

This is how I managed the 2 balls of yarn without tangles or cat ingestion. I got these bottle "cozies" at Albertsons in the $1.00 bin. I used them for the 2 socks on 2 circular needles and for the double stranded clapotis. They work great!

Finished Clapotis

I knit this Clapotis with Just under 3 hanks of Knit picks Shimmer double stranded in Turquois Splendor. It is going to be a gift for my lovely Mother-in-Law. I knit it exactly according to the pattern except that the yarn is doubled.

clapotis stretched out

Clapotis close up

Finished Kitty Pi

Here is the finished Kitty Pi! I love how it came out. I used Caron Felt-it in the color Heather (on sale this week at Hobby Lobby for $2.22 per ball) with some kind of eyelash yarn in a rasberry color for the edges. It took 3 balls 93 yds per ball and just enough out of a 4th ball to do the last round. I made it a good 20 rounds bigger than the pattern as I have a full figured kitty! I also just went to smaller needles instead of decreasing as I was using my Denise interchangeble needles and I wanted th sides to be fairly stiff. I am going to make another out of Lion brand wool as kitty likes to vary her napping spots and this was such a quick and easy thing to make!

Nicely filled out Kitty Pi

You can see why I had to make an xtra large Kitty Pi-this Kitty is 15 lbs!

Pretty Kitty

Attack Cat!

Here is Kitty enjoying her new bed. She looks like she is about to attack but really she comes running whenever she sees the camera.

Kitty Pi blocking

She can't wait!!

Before Felting side view

Here is Kitty Pi before felting

Finished Socks

Here are my finished Socks!! They are the 1st ones I have done 2 at a time on circular needles. I wore them all day and they stayed up even when I ran on the treadmill. I combined techniques, using a turkish cast on, the heel flap from Diamante did my own little fancy ribbing on the top and used a russian bind off.

Side View

Side view of gusset. I really Love how the diamante gusset and heel turned out, No Holes!

Sock on Foot

Here is a picture of sock on foot!

Next Project

Now I am working on a pair of socks toe up 2 socks on 2 circs in Plymouth Sockotta yaern

Vegan Fox

Here is my rendition ov Vegan Fox. I did the ears and the legs a bit differently.

Vegan Fox

I Did the hair clip with a bone colored one so that it would look like teeth if it showed

Clapotis Finished!

Clapotis finally finished. I really like how it turned out.It used just under 3 skeins of Sinfonia.

Clapotis

Another View

Here is a reed difuser for home fragrance oils, lovely!

ornaments

Starting to get ready to sell some blown glass items for Christmas. Here are some packaged ornaments

Frog pouch

This one was a really fast project! Here is a link to the pattern http://www.knitlist.com/98gift/frognbeebag.htm I just used acrylic yarn. I used buttons for the eyes instead of embroidery or fabric paint.

Clapotis in process

I just started this project last night. I am just to start row 46 in section 2. I am using Sinfonia in Terra. It is a mercerized cotton. I got it at Hobby Lobby for only $2.39 a skein on clearance.

glass blowing in progress

Hubby blowing a glass vase

finished vase

A vase, the dark colors have sparkles which really didn't show up very well

Voodoo Wristwarmer

Another view of the wristwarmer

Finished Voodoo wristwarmers

Finished Voodoo Wrist warmers done in Wull. I had to reduce the stich count to fit the yarn. I bound off in a picot bind off, that was in Knitty fall06 techniques with Theresa.

A stemmed goblet

Here is a cobalt blue stemmed goblet. These are really nice.

Dog Sweater

This little dog is only 3.5 lbs! I hope the sweater that I made will keep her warm.