http://www.ravelry.com/stores/leila-raabe-designs
You need to be a member of Ravelry to see the pattern, so why aren’t you a member yet?! Right now, this looks like a trashy dress for a toddler, but it’s a great cowl. I used up one ball of sock yarn for it. Pictures are in my Flickr. When it’s dry, I might post photos of it on if I don’t look too ugly.
This was exactly what I needed to get some crafting mojo back. 
These are four dreadful sweaters made with lovely yarn. I’m going to see if I can’t unravel them and reclaim the high-quality yarn to use in patterns that will be long enough that I don’t want to waste my time on crap yarn but that I don’t have a home for; I only want to make them because they’re there, so no use spending good money on them. It’s a catch-22, but this is one way around it.
I ordered this from Legacystudio.ca and I am so thrilled with the colour. I’m afraid to spin it in case I screw it up, though. I’m going to try, after I watch a few more spinning videos and I might re-set my wheel because it’s on scotch tension right now and I may want something different. There’s 8oz of this wool, I plan to try for a fine single and then do a 2 or 3 ply yarn. i have some black merino leftover from the original owner, and it might look really good plied with the multicolour.
Legacy charges $15.95 for 8oz of yarn, but the shipping is a bitch. Still, it was less expensive than on Etsy!
I love my dog. <3 She’s SO cute.
American customer: “Your flag is just so pretty. I love maple leaves. Does it come in blue?”
Me: “Um, no, sorry, only red.”
American customer: “That’s a shame. My kitchen is blue, and it would look so pretty on the wall. You should make them in other colours.”
Me: “…”
Canadian customer behind her: “That’s a good point. I’ve always thought the stars-and-stripes would look great in earth tones.”
American customer: “Our flag is ALWAYS red, white and blue! Honestly, Canadians are so stupid sometimes.”
Red Emperor Chart A
bold: garter stitch selvage
italics: the ‘odd’ stitch, far-right stitch in the chart but not in the repeats
Kb: knit in the back of the stitch
YO: yarn over the needle to make a stitch
K2tog: knit two stitches together
P2tog: purl two stitches together
SSK: slip first stitch to right needle, knit next stitch, pass first stitch over and off right needle
S2K: slip two stitches as though to knit, knit next stitch, pass two stitches over and off right needle
SSK2: as SSK but knitting two stitches together instead of one
CL2/CL3/CL5: yarn back, slip stitches to r. needle, yarn front, slip stitches to l. needle, yarn back, slip stitches to r. needle; pull TIGHT, continue
Chart A
Row 1: K3, K1, [YO, [Kb, P3] x 5, Kb, YO, K1] x 4, K3
Row 2: K3, [P3, [K3, P1] x 5, P1] x 4, P1, K3
Row 3: K3, K1, [YO, Kb, YO, [Kb, P3] x 5, Kb, YO, Kb, YO, K1] x 4, K3
Row 4: K3, [P5, [K3, P1] x 5, P3] x 4, P1, K3
Row 5: K3, K1, [YO, Kb, YO, SSK, YO, [Kb, P2tog, P1] x 5, Kb, YO, K2tog, YO, Kb, YO, K1] x 4, K3
Row 6: K3, [P7, [K3, P1] x5, P5] x 4, P1, K3
Row 7: K3, K1, [Kb, YO, SSK, YO, SSK, YO, [Kb, P3] x5, Kb, YO, K2tog, YO, K2tog, YO, Kb, K1] x 4, K3
Row 8: K3, [P8, [K3, P1] x5, P6] x 4, P1, K3
Row 9, K3, K1, [K1, YO, K2tog, YO, K2tog, YO, Kb, YO, [Kb, P2tog] x 5, Kb, YO, Kb, YO, SSK, YO, SSK, YO, K2] x 4, K3
Row 10: K3, [P10, [K1, P1] x 5, P8] x 4, P1, K3
Row 11: K3, K2tog, [YO, SSK, YO, SSK, YO, SSK, Kb, YO, [Kb, P1] x 5, Kb, YO, Kb, K2tog, YO, K2tog, YO, K2tog, YO, S2K*] x 4, K3
Row 12, K3, [P10, [K1, P1] x 5, P8] x 4, P1, K3
Row 13: K3, K1, [K2tog, YO, K2tog, YO, K2tog, K1, Kb, YO, SSK, SSK, SSK2, K2tog, K2tog, YO, Kb, K1, SSK, YO, SSK, YO, SSK, K1] x4, K3
Row 14: K3, [CL3*, P7, CL5, P7] x 4, CL2, K3
Row 15: KNIT ALL
Row 16: KNIT ALL
*except in last repeat, which is K2tog
**except in first repeat, which is CL2
Red Emperor: Budget Royalty Version, originally uploaded by Machineplay.
So far, so good.
It’s cast on, and the first row is done. I’ve calculated that it requires 343 rows, which seems awfully small, but I suppose since it’s 95 stitches wide, that makes sense with the proportions.
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My Schacht Single Treadle Wheel, Martha
Magdalena, my Varpapuu Finlandia loom, not quite ready.
This was the good news from the other day, that I have both my new girls home. Soon, I’ll have pictures of Dorcas and Drusilla, my sewing machine and my serger.
