Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Aileens Blanket (The Ladies Circle)

I enjoyed knitting this blanket. The pattern is very easy. I did have to rush at the end because my sisters all came to visit and I knew I would never have time to knit while they were here.

By Aileen Doyle



Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Bettys Tablecloth (The Ladies Circle)

This is my tablecloth that I made.  I started off knitting it but the pattern I used made the tablecloth go all wonky...it was very wide on one side!  So I ripped it out and started again with another pattern - that went the same way!  So in the end, I decided to crochet it.  It looks fab on the table and I'm very pleased with the results!

By Betty McCreadie








Sunday, November 27, 2011

Kathleens Blanket (The Ladies Circle)

     Here is my finished blanket, also a picture of the wool that I used.  Fell in love with this wool when I saw it. But little did I know the amount of hassle it was going to cause. The original pattern suggested I cast on 80 stitches, but I found that extremely difficult to manage. Then having already tried and ripped it out 5 times, I decided that the only solution was to shorten it. I then took it back to 60 stitches and as you can see there is now an end result.

By Kathleen Murchie



Saturday, November 26, 2011

Beach Buddy (The Ladies Circle)

     I was very excited when my Auntie Chris told me about her knitting circle idea, nothing like a needle crafter with a mission!  I decided to crochet a circle scarf using some yarn I already had sitting in my basket.  The last foot of crocheting seemed to take forever but here is the end result.  I took a picture of it on the beach where it will spend most of it's life protecting my face and ears from the biting winter wind.

By Suzy Neary



Friday, November 25, 2011

Shawl We Dance Tra La La (The Ladies Circle)


      I decided to get in touch with my sisters and friends and ask them if they would be interested in a knitting circle where we would all knit something and start on a particular date and end on a particular date.  It was my way of trying to get us all to keep in touch more often, as we were kind of dwindling, well, they all agreed and I set a date for the last week in October and to be finished their project on the last day of November.
     So far a few of us have been keeping in touch throughout the whole project and I sent emails to make sure they were all busy knitting and it turned out to be a lot of fun and a lot of Skypeing.
     Here is my finished project,The Shawl for those chilly knights.  I am very pleased with it and it was very easy, just plain/purl and casting on at every end, I used circular needles as the shawl was getting too big for regular needles.  I dare say I will be wearing it when I am doing my next knitting project.
     Hopefully everyone else will be finishing their knitting very soon and getting it on this blog for all to see.

 By Christine Neary



Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Ice Plant

This is my ice plant.  I saw something similar in a magazine and thought it looked lovely so I decided to make my own.  I used a pretty tough wire but bendable and some glass beads and one pot.  I would bend some of the wire about 2 inches from the bottom and pop a bead on then about another 2 inches I'd bend the wire again and pop a bead on and so forth all the way up to as tall as you would like, and as many as you would like.  In the pot you would put a piece of oasis foam in the bottom and that is where you would stick all your branches with beads into, then pour the rest of your beads on top of the foam, when I got to that point I had many beads roll onto the floor and beads in places I didn't know until I stood on them, ouch.  I may make another one soon.
By Christine Neary

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween Costumes

 Viking Sam


Bill and Monica

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