Ravelry

Ravelry is a free website for people who work yarn crafts and I have to say I love it. I can find other people who have worked the same pattern I'm about to start and read what tips they have about the pattern, like if there are any mistakes, how they might have changed it to work better for them, and as a beginner knitter this helps me out A LOT!!! I can see what other have to say about the yarn I'm using, I can keep track of what yarn I have, what size of needles I own, and I'm sure there is so much more to it but those are the features I basically use. I can post all my pics. there and make my own notes, I can save patterns for future use off of the internet, I can track my knitting and crocheting library. It tells me how many projects I've started, and which one's I'm still working on, which is 16 started projects and 12 finished, I think.

More Yarn

The two purples are for the cousins, and the green one is for my grandmother.

I have to laugh because my father were in Wal-mart to really just waste some time, so we went back to the clearance aisles when he spotted some yarn, it is similar to some I had used to make my Christmas shawls for my sisters, mother, and myself.  He made a comment that the colors would make some nice shawls...I let the comment go. Then I realized he was basically giving permission to buy more yarn, I realized that probably won't happen very often so today I bought some to make more Christmas shawls for two cousins, and my grandmother.

Socks, socks and more socks!!!

These are call soctopus from the book Thinking Outside the Sox.

I finished my first pair of sock, they're going to be to big for my four month old niece...but oh well, so much for using the yarn I have and not buying any more for the project.
Her big sister is getting these.

These are caterpillar lace also from Thinking Outside the Sox.

the original crazy quilt

The whole quilt...almost.

Some pictures to show the amazing details.

There is a feather stitch and a flower stitch in this pic.

Just look at all of the different stitches in this one pic.

The orange block has a flower stitch at the base of it.

A better pic. of the flower stitch.

My mother inherited a crazy quilt from her grandmother Runkle. I remember looking at it as a child and seeing the different embroidery stitches, and wondering how they were done. It intrigued me that you can take different shaped pieces of fabric, and stitch them together and make a beautiful quilt out of them. So I wanted to share pictures of where my inspiration came from to make my own crazy quilt.

Seed Stitch and Double Seed Stitch

Seed stitch is created by knitting one stitch, then purling the next one to the end of the row and the last stitch of the rows is the same stitch you start the next row with.

Double Seed stitch is created my doing two rows of the seed stitch  pattern the same then switching to the row of the pattern.

This now means I have enough blocks to do one complete row!!! Wow, that even surprises me, now I just have to finish some other knitting projects so I can get back to it.