Way out in the Middle of Nowhere

My Mom's birthday is a week away. Like most Mom's, you ask her what she wants for her birthday and she responds, "Oh I don't want anything." PFFFFT. That does not help! Mom's a big Packer fan though, so inspiration struck: I grabbed a skein of my Cheddarheads yarn, sold on http://ruddawg.etsy.com and knitted this hat in 4 hours. The hat will work on any worsted-weight yarn. The cheddarheads colorway gives it those cool stripes in the colors of the Packers. Ruddawg's Generic Watch Cap Materials needed: Size 8 Circular Needles + DPNs of the same size 1 Skein of Cheddarheads Worsted Weight 5 stitch markers crochet hook Gauge: 5 stitches per inch - 7 rows per inch The Pattern: Cast on 80 stitches using knitted cast-on. (For help with this technique go to: http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/cast-on and it's the technique 2/3 down the page called 'knitting-on') Making sure that the stitches are not twisted, use K2-P2 Ribbi...

My neice Kate was here last week to get new Garb made for SCA. The bodice took the longest time and 4 different fittings before I was satisfied with it. The pleating of the skirt and attachment took an hour to do......stitching by hand! Kate's going to finish up the underskirt and the sleeves by herself. Doesn't she look nice in it? It's crushed velvet with a silk chemise. If you're a SCA or Rennie, I'd recommend the silk chemise. It's worth the extra money and time. This is one I made some years ago out of silk from http://www.dharmatrading.com/ Buy the silk in 11 yard bolts and they are about 5 bucks a yard. That's cheap! I've been working on getting rid of that huge stack of fabric. The goal is to move the sewing area to Tim's room once he moves back with his folks. Right now, he's still in Boot Camp. I've not heard from him but his Mom has. But back to the fabric. I had an idea and sewed some recycled drawstring bags out of fabric that w...

Tigger9 Originally uploaded by ruddawg And how's your day going? Me? I've been sewing lots of things, and will be doing more tomorrow. Have a great day!

  I finished up the sweater I've been knitting for my honey and gave it to him for Father's Day. Now I know it's not sweater weather, but it will be! It was a bit of a rush at the last week, and there was a panic that I had not bought enough yarn. But I quickly basted together a sleeve and the front to the back. I found it to be about an 1" too long in the body and 2" too long in the sleeve. That gave me enough extra yarn to finish it and get the turtleneck done. Will I knit this one again? I lost the pattern! I even lost the copy of the pattern I scanned in case I lost the pattern! !! When my hard drive died, it went with it. Lion Brand yarn has a sweater close to it, but I have my thoughts on a cabled sweater next time.

My bloody hard drive bit the dust last week. I've been doing a lot of spinning and knitting since I can't surf. Dave's gonna fix it next week. I'm suffering from internet withdrawl. I've got the DT's "Hello, my name is Brenda, and I'm addicted to the internet." I want my ravelry!