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Just finished three afghans. This one was made from Red Heart Super Econo (variegated) yarn, Bernat 4 (cherry red yarn) and Bernat Super Value in beige, on the chunky machine. Colours are not exactly as shown - the light green is more sage. This afghan was done in Red Heart Comfort. Centre section to left is done with a lace pattern, light green sections have a cable and Tami Noboyuki's crochet cable technique is used on the other dk green stripe. This is a tuck stitch afghan done on the chunky machine with three colours of Red Heart Comfort and Bernat Super Value. I did the stripes horizontally, 100 rows of each colour, but I wish I had done vertical stripes of colour. Next time....

Cardigan knit on the chunky machine in Bernat Mosaic yarn which is self patterning - tried to match up as close as possible for the two fronts but as you can see it's not possible to have it perfect and that's the fun of it. Frilly short row scarves - fun and easy to make. Slippers to match the afghan above (colour has washed out when photographed. Original pattern was in Carriage Trade #13 but I have no idea of the author. I've changed the pattern a bit.

These helmet hats were all done on the chunky machine. The two photos on the left are of the same hat, just different views and show how striking multi-coloured yarn can be when used as the contrast in a fairisle pattern. The hat to the right of them is made of Bernat Mosaic and is self patterning.

Handknit from Fons and Porter's "Love of Knitting" magazine, Summer 2009 using Red Heart Designer Sport, 100% acrylic on size 4mm and 4.5 mm needles. I did try to knit the border slip stitch pattern on my chunky machine but wasn't successful so I decided to handknit the border and knit the rest on the machine. However, I was at a Farmer's Market when I finished the border so I just kept going and in the end I knit the whole thing by hand except for the part above the border on the hat - I did that on the chunky machine. Enjoyable pattern to knit; I especially liked the treatment of the neckband and button bands.

Once I finished the cardigan and hat I realized that I had enough to do a little sweater and hat if I didn't make the sweater too long. This was knit on the LK150 at T5. The border is worked in multiple rows of latch tool cast on (in other words, latch tool cast on in yellow, knit one row in blue, bring work forward and latch tool cast on in yellow again behind the knitting, knit one row in blue...continue this sequence changing colours according to what you fancy...I did two rows yellow, one blue, one yellow, one green and one final yellow RC6).

This cardigan and hat was knit on the Brother CK35 and the inspiration for it came from Patons Bright! Baby Brights done in Fairytale fingering. I used 4 ply on cone in cerise, turquoise and black and I made a one year size.

My mum needed a baby gift for a little baby boy and this is what I came up with. I liked the black ribbing on the cardigan above but I wanted something boyish so this is what I designed. Knit on the Brother CK35 with the smoke from the train being put in by hand afterwards. My only regret is that I didn't use the ribber to catch the floats as I spent quite a bit of time after the sweater was done catching down the floats on the inside.

Just a few photos of hats ..... ...all knit on the standard machine

I seem to have collected quite a few 6 inch squares so I decided to make some baby quilts with them. This is the most colourful one I have done - it's actually finished and for sale - and I have two more tops yet to sandwich and quilt, another fairly bright one and one whimsical one. When I go to the Farmer's Market in the summer time I usually take a few quilts and since quite a few babies have been born this past year in the family that has inspired me to make baby quilts.

This shawl was a special order done in one strand of Bramwell's Silky in white on a Studio SK 580 electronic machine. It looks best in a tuck stitch design that is not heavily tucked. After it is taken off the machine it is blocked with wires and pressed to "kill" the yarn. If you have been knitting awhile then you would have no trouble figuring out how to knit this shawl. If you are a beginner start out with waste yarn. 75-0-75 sts. Do a weaving cast on and knit 6 rows. Take your comb from your ribber and push it into (from the front - don't try to push it through from the back) the knitting a few rows down from the 6th row. Hold it in place while you pull the knitting towards you right along the width of the shawl. Insert the wire. Hang two large weights.

I arranged the machine to knit the tuck pattern over 73-0-73 so that two stitches on each side would not tuck. Knit a few more rows and then knit one row at T10 with ravel cord. Change to main yarn. Knit two rows at T3. Make eyelets across the row, starting with R3 and L4 and then every 6th stitch out to each edge leaving the empty needles in working position. Knit 2 rows. Start your tuck pattern on the next row. I used pattern 5:32 from the 890 series cards but any tuck pattern that is not heavily tucked will be fine. I did 960 rows of pattern in my shawl, then I finished with 2 rows of stocking stitch, eyelets as before and 2 rows of stocking stitch and then latch tool cast off.

It comes off the machine looking a mess but don't worry, insert blocking wires into the sides and bottom take it to the ironing board and iron it with steam. I found that I had to make marks on the ironing board with chalk for the width and then iron the shawl section by section out to that width. Because I didn't have enough blocking wires and I didn't have a large enough area to iron it on full-length I had to press it on the ironing board. I did fringes 17 inches long x 8 strands for each eyelet hole. Once you have the fringe in place lay the shawl flat and trim with a rotary cutter to even up the ends. As you can see from this photo it's fine enough to pull through my wedding ring.

The pink shawl was done in Bramwell Silky too but on a Superba Knitting Machine.

I knit this on the Passap Duo 80 with two strands of white acrylic 2/24 and two strands of green acrylic 2/24 using a motor. Width on bed was L90 to R89. I did 768 rows of pattern (my design). Size when finished and washed was 25 inches wide by 39 1/4 inches long.

A relative in England had a baby girl so I handknit this little jacket and hat in Paton's yarn (I've forgotten the name of it already!). It was lovely and soft to knit but it was a pain to see the stitches (no knitting while watching TV) it's so fuzzy.

Once in a blue moon I actually make something for me. These are my bed socks made with looser than normal ribbing. I really enjoyed hand knitting these (one of my take along projects). They were made with DGB Confetti Superwash yarn (75% wool and 25% nylon) which is a yarn that makes it's own pattern as you knit stocking stitch. 32 sts and 42 rows to a 10cm x 10 cm swatch.

Another little baby set. This one was knit on the Passap Duo 80 using two strands of 2/30 in white and two strands of 2/30 in pale blue. The pattern is from Passap Book No. 59 (5929). I made the hat bigger than called for as I thought it was too small - they suggested 40-0-40 and I used 50-0-50. Booties are from Mary Weaver's book, pg 230.

I particularly like making socks on the Passap Duo 80. On the left is a pair made with Patons Kroy Jacquards 4 ply (75% wool and 25% nylon). In the middle is a pair in 60%acrylic/40% nylon, Bernat Sox (Jazzy Hot is the colour mix) and to the right is a pair made out of wool that I've had for ages (I think it's Scheepjes Invicta Extra [75% wool/25% nylon] ) with a brown contrast edging of Lady Galt Kroy 3 ply (85% wool/15% nylon) also an old yarn.

Hand knit scarf - knit in 1 hr

Handknit wool hats - using up stash

Baby blanket - oddments of 4 ply

Ladies Raglan Sweater with lace scarf - Tamm Perla

Man's fairisle cardigan - made with Bramwell 4 ply in Oak plus Denim and Sable Nep

Betty's Trailing Roses cardigan - Bramwell 4 ply in Raspberry and White

Bramwell 2000 Jacket - done on standard machine (no ribber needed)

Hand-knit afghan - yes, I hand-knit too!

Afghan - done on chunky machine

Baby blankets and baby sets - done on a standard machine, a Passap and handknit

Square hats - done on a standard machine

"Scoods" - done on a standard machine

Morlean Jacket - done on a standard machine

Weaving (not on a knitting machine - on a floor loom)

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Just finished three afghans. This one was made from Red Heart Super Econo (variegated) yarn, Bernat 4 (cherry red yarn) and Bernat Super Value in beige, on the chunky machine.	Colours are not exactly as shown - the light green is more sage. This afghan was done in Red Heart Comfort. Centre section to left is done with a lace pattern, light green sections have a cable and Tami Noboyuki's crochet cable technique is used on the other dk green stripe.	This is a tuck stitch afghan done on the chunky machine with three colours of Red Heart Comfort and Bernat Super Value. I did the stripes horizontally, 100 rows of each colour, but I wish I had done vertical stripes of colour. Next time....

Cardigan knit on the chunky machine in Bernat Mosaic yarn which is self patterning - tried to match up as close as possible for the two fronts but as you can see it's not possible to have it perfect and that's the fun of it.	Frilly short row scarves - fun and easy to make.	Slippers to match the afghan above (colour has washed out when photographed. Original pattern was in Carriage Trade #13 but I have no idea of the author. I've changed the pattern a bit.

	Handknit from Fons and Porter's "Love of Knitting" magazine, Summer 2009 using Red Heart Designer Sport, 100% acrylic on size 4mm and 4.5 mm needles. I did try to knit the border slip stitch pattern on my chunky machine but wasn't successful so I decided to handknit the border and knit the rest on the machine. However, I was at a Farmer's Market when I finished the border so I just kept going and in the end I knit the whole thing by hand except for the part above the border on the hat - I did that on the chunky machine. Enjoyable pattern to knit; I especially liked the treatment of the neckband and button bands.
Once I finished the cardigan and hat I realized that I had enough to do a little sweater and hat if I didn't make the sweater too long. This was knit on the LK150 at T5. The border is worked in multiple rows of latch tool cast on (in other words, latch tool cast on in yellow, knit one row in blue, bring work forward and latch tool cast on in yellow again behind the knitting, knit one row in blue...continue this sequence changing colours according to what you fancy...I did two rows yellow, one blue, one yellow, one green and one final yellow RC6).
	This cardigan and hat was knit on the Brother CK35 and the inspiration for it came from Patons Bright! Baby Brights done in Fairytale fingering. I used 4 ply on cone in cerise, turquoise and black and I made a one year size.
My mum needed a baby gift for a little baby boy and this is what I came up with. I liked the black ribbing on the cardigan above but I wanted something boyish so this is what I designed. Knit on the Brother CK35 with the smoke from the train being put in by hand afterwards. My only regret is that I didn't use the ribber to catch the floats as I spent quite a bit of time after the sweater was done catching down the floats on the inside.


Just a few photos of hats .....	...all knit on the standard machine

	This shawl was a special order done in one strand of Bramwell's Silky in white on a Studio SK 580 electronic machine. It looks best in a tuck stitch design that is not heavily tucked. After it is taken off the machine it is blocked with wires and pressed to "kill" the yarn. If you have been knitting awhile then you would have no trouble figuring out how to knit this shawl. If you are a beginner start out with waste yarn. 75-0-75 sts. Do a weaving cast on and knit 6 rows. Take your comb from your ribber and push it into (from the front - don't try to push it through from the back) the knitting a few rows down from the 6th row. Hold it in place while you pull the knitting towards you right along the width of the shawl. Insert the wire. Hang two large weights.
I arranged the machine to knit the tuck pattern over 73-0-73 so that two stitches on each side would not tuck. Knit a few more rows and then knit one row at T10 with ravel cord. Change to main yarn. Knit two rows at T3. Make eyelets across the row, starting with R3 and L4 and then every 6th stitch out to each edge leaving the empty needles in working position. Knit 2 rows. Start your tuck pattern on the next row. I used pattern 5:32 from the 890 series cards but any tuck pattern that is not heavily tucked will be fine. I did 960 rows of pattern in my shawl, then I finished with 2 rows of stocking stitch, eyelets as before and 2 rows of stocking stitch and then latch tool cast off.
	It comes off the machine looking a mess but don't worry, insert blocking wires into the sides and bottom take it to the ironing board and iron it with steam. I found that I had to make marks on the ironing board with chalk for the width and then iron the shawl section by section out to that width. Because I didn't have enough blocking wires and I didn't have a large enough area to iron it on full-length I had to press it on the ironing board. I did fringes 17 inches long x 8 strands for each eyelet hole. Once you have the fringe in place lay the shawl flat and trim with a rotary cutter to even up the ends. As you can see from this photo it's fine enough to pull through my wedding ring. The pink shawl was done in Bramwell Silky too but on a Superba Knitting Machine.

I knit this on the Passap Duo 80 with two strands of white acrylic 2/24 and two strands of green acrylic 2/24 using a motor. Width on bed was L90 to R89. I did 768 rows of pattern (my design). Size when finished and washed was 25 inches wide by 39 1/4 inches long.
	A relative in England had a baby girl so I handknit this little jacket and hat in Paton's yarn (I've forgotten the name of it already!). It was lovely and soft to knit but it was a pain to see the stitches (no knitting while watching TV) it's so fuzzy.
Once in a blue moon I actually make something for me. These are my bed socks made with looser than normal ribbing. I really enjoyed hand knitting these (one of my take along projects). They were made with DGB Confetti Superwash yarn (75% wool and 25% nylon) which is a yarn that makes it's own pattern as you knit stocking stitch. 32 sts and 42 rows to a 10cm x 10 cm swatch.
	Another little baby set. This one was knit on the Passap Duo 80 using two strands of 2/30 in white and two strands of 2/30 in pale blue. The pattern is from Passap Book No. 59 (5929). I made the hat bigger than called for as I thought it was too small - they suggested 40-0-40 and I used 50-0-50. Booties are from Mary Weaver's book, pg 230.
I particularly like making socks on the Passap Duo 80. On the left is a pair made with Patons Kroy Jacquards 4 ply (75% wool and 25% nylon). In the middle is a pair in 60%acrylic/40% nylon, Bernat Sox (Jazzy Hot is the colour mix) and to the right is a pair made out of wool that I've had for ages (I think it's Scheepjes Invicta Extra [75% wool/25% nylon] ) with a brown contrast edging of Lady Galt Kroy 3 ply (85% wool/15% nylon) also an old yarn.