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Green Bamboo Fan & Feather Scarf
Needles: size 9 (24" circulars)
Material: 1 hank of Bonnies Kettle Dyed Bamboo Yarn
Cast on 26 stitches
Rows 1-5: knit
Row 6: knit
Row 7: K3, P to last 3 stitches, K3
Row 8: K3, K1, *[K2tog] 3 times, [YF, K1] 6 times, [K2tog] 3
times* Repeat from * to last 4 stitches, K1, K3
Row 9: K
Repeat Rows 6 thru 9 until you are happy with the length
leaving enough yarn for the last 5 rows plus your bind off.
Rows 10-14: knit
Bind Off - weave in yarn ends.
Keep in mind that Fan & Feather is a one way stitch so your
scarf ends will be different, but that's what I like about it.
Abbreviations:
K2tog = knit the next 2 stitches together
K3 = knit 3 stitches
K1 = knit 1 stitch
K = knit
P = purl
YF = with yarn in front
We had a great 4th.
With regular gas "an arm", mid-grade "a leg" and premium at
"bend over", we decided not to do any traveling. My son
came over and we had BBQ chicken, baked beans and a brand new
pasta salad (recipe below) - it was ALL very good!
I finished up my bamboo
scarf and started on another scarf type wrap that I'm making out
of the sale yarn I mentioned below. I got tired of tearing
out that other pattern in the Little Lacy Knits book, so I
switched to something that I didn't have to pay that much
attention to. When I don't have the time to sit down for
hours and focus on a pattern, I need to be doing something easy.
I'm excited about it, because mom just finished one and it came
out beautiful.
Well, I hope this finds all
you Knitty Chick's having a happy and safe 4th of July. I
would love to see some of your projects. Email photos to
patterns@knittychick.com and I will post them anonymously
for everyone to enjoy!
Happy Knitting!
Primavera Pasta Salad
3 1/2" cups cooked bow-tie
pasta
2 cups snow pea pods (strings removed) frozen peas will work
also
2 large red, yellow or orange bell peppers cut into small chunks
2 medium carrots sliced
1/2 cup chopped fresh basil (don't used dried it won't taste the
same)
1/2 cup (or more) of shredded Parmesan cheese
1 cup (or more) of creamy Italian dressing (or creamy parmesan
dressing)
Cook pasta according to
package directions and drain and cool. Toss pasta in a
large bowl with the rest of the ingredients. Chill and
serve.
Optional ingredients: add chopped green onions and sliced
black olives or maybe throw in some chopped pepperoni, ham or
cooked chicken and make it a supper salad.
Have a FREE pattern you
would like to share with the world but no place to host it?
Not a problem :) Simply email it to
patterns@knittychick.com and I will be happy to put
it on the Knitty Chick web site for all to enjoy.
Bad
girl! Bad girl!
Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do
when the weather turns cool?
Bad girl! Bad girl!
What can
I say?! The weather goes from 92 down to 62 for five
minutes and where am I? Diving head first into the bins of
Bonnie's Kettle Dyed Bamboo yarn at one of my favorite local
knitty shops. And of course I had my trusty sidekick MOM
by my side egging me on. Really, she made me do it!
She's the yarn devil ya know. Yeah right, it's really the
other way around, but it didn't take much on my part to twist
her arm to go. I think I uttered 3 syllables of the name
of the yarn shop and she had already said YES before I even got
the rest out of my mouth. I probably could have just
stared at her and said nothing and she would have said "YES"
knowing full well what I was thinking. Us yarn divas have
the "gift".
We are
soooooo bad when we are in a yarn shop. We are like a
couple of loud drunks running around the place yelling at each
other over the top of the yarn displays. "Did ya see
this!" "Oh, what about this!" "Oh My God - would you
look at this - no get over here you gotta feel it!" By
that time, I'm down on the floor on my hands and knees digging
out colors for a project (that I will think of in a minute or
two). "Yep", I say to myself, as I'm tossing it around and
stroking it like it's a cat or something, "this is going to be a
scarf". Then I turn around, and like a heat seeking
missile, find the store owner and ask her to suggest a scarf
pattern that will make momma proud!
30
minutes, 4 hanks of expensive Bamboo, 10 balls of half off yarn,
1 scarf pattern and 1 Lacy Little Knits book later, I am
standing at the counter yelling out the needle sizes I need for
the patterns. If I hadn't made the shop owners rent
payment for the month we probably would have gotten thrown out.
Not! They LOVE to see US coming. We are such suckers for
the fiber, especially me. You could talk me into buying
wet dog fir if you told me I could knit it into something!
And of course I would have to have the special "dog fir"
knitting needles that you need to knit it up with at $40/pair.
But wait! There's more! I'm gonna also need some
extra balls of fir in case I decide to make it a little bigger
for my ample frame (I don't want to run out), and one size
smaller and one size larger of the needles just in case I don't
knit to gauge.
$200+
later I am walking out with one small bag and enough materials
and implements (which I'm sure I already have) to make 2 scarves
and a long stitch wrap. I'm so excited, and high from the
smell of fiber, that on the way out to the car I'm talking out
loud to myself, changing my mind at least 10 times on which one
I was going to start first. Of course mom is doing the
same thing and neither one of us is paying any attention to the
other. To the common folk (non-knitters) we looked like a
couple of babbling idiots in a parking lot trying to find our
car.
After
much deliberation, I decided to start the long stitch wrap with
the half off yarn that I got the great deal on. 10 balls +
$5.00 each half off = $50 for a wrap (that I probably will never
make). Sounds like a good deal to me. After all it's
"HALF OFF" . . . a knitters last words as her husband has her by
the shoulders trying to shake some sense into her (not really,
the hubby is on a business trip - but if he reads this there
will be a whole lot of shakin' going on when he gets home)!
After 2
hours and 40 attempts at starting the damn thing, I finally gave
up and busted out the hanks of bamboo and started on a scarf
from the pattern I purchased (that I am massacring as I go
along). I'm only 5 rows in and already I had to rip it out
and make it shorter.
Ok, ok,
I'm done babbling. I will post a photo once I get it long
enough for you to actually know what it is. Until then -
KEEP ON KNITTIN' CHICKS!!
Oh!
One last note (yep keep your glasses on). We went to
Applebee's for lunch, and of course we had to haul in the
pattern book with us to look at. Our waitress notices our
book and asks us if we know how to knit or crochet.
Apparently she used to crochet about 6 years ago and hasn't done
it in a while and forgot how. So she asks us if we could
teach her. I'm thinking what????? Is she serious????
Yep she was! Even after I told her that we do not have a
crochet hook, she asks if a paper clip will do. Next thing
I know I'm running back out to the car to grab a ball of yarn
and by the time I get back she has a paperclip fashioned into
the shape of a hook waiting for me on the table. I proceed
to show her how to make a chain, turn, and do a single crochet
back. It's amazing what you can teach someone with a
little string and a paperclip over the top of your appetizer.
Laugh!
It's ALL true!!
Recently
I've had quite a few emails asking me if I could fix a link or
send them a copy of the pattern to a link they cannot access.
Please
keep in mind that the links on this site are only a portal
to someone else's website and pattern. I do not own the
rights to their patterns nor their websites, so I am unable to
fix broken, missing or inaccessible pattern links nor can I send
you a copy of the pattern (I would if I could). If you
can't access it unfortunately I can't access it either :(
The only thing I can do is to delete the bad or broken link from
this web site.
I wished
I had the magic wand that could pop these patterns back to life,
because a lot of them are very cool patterns. I keep
waving my knitting needle at my computer screen hoping that
someday it will work, but no such luck - at least not yet :)
What's NEW?
Links to
knit & crochet dolls, doll clothes, knit animals and accessories
(including American Doll patterns).
http://www.knittychick.com/accessorize_me_free_knitting_patterns.htm
Also
knit and crochet pattern links for beginners:
http://www.knittychick.com/beginner_patterns.htm
Also
also patterns for baby items aka munchkin knitting.
http://www.knittychick.com/baby_patterns.htm
See
I do manage to update the site once in a while - LOL LOL
Happy
Knitting Everyone!
Ok now
that the weather is getting warmer, it's time for me to put down
the sticks and concentrate on my "other" job. I will be
making jewelry for most of the summer. So if you are in
the mood for something pretty or need a gift, be sure to visit
my on-line store.
I have over 200 items so there's lots of affordable gemstone
jewelry to choose from.
I
NEED YOUR HELP!
I'm trying to find out
which store sells this mirror!
OK
gals, now that you have had your laugh, remember... Breast
Cancer Awareness... Go have those boobs checked out and stay
healthy!
Begging your pardon!
I recently
received an email from someone who didn't sound very happy with me.
I want to apologize to anyone who catches
little mistakes on my website. HOWEVER, I would like to
remind those disgruntled persons that this site is my own personal
website (not a commercial site) and was started as a "blog" and a
place where myself, my mom and my aunts could swap photos of our
knitting projects.
When I added links to free felted purse
patterns for my family to access, others found the site and started
accessing the free patterns also. Which I didn't mind. As the
months passed more and more people started accessing the site. My
little "knitty blog" is now world wide and receives approx. 35,000
different visitors and over 1,600,000 hits per month!
This site is maintained by me only, when I
have the time. And costs me over $200 a year just to have the name
www.knittychick.com and to keep
it on the server.
I TRULY
APPRECIATE anyone who sends me an email with broken
links, missing links, moved patterns, new patterns, etc., as I would not
be able to maintain the site without your help. We do not have
high speed available in our area and it's virtually impossible for me to
check each and every link to see if it's broken, moved, etc.
I'm not looking for kudos or even
a thank you, but could you please add just a little sugar to your emails
- it really makes my day. After all it's FREE!
Thank you! And please keep
those emails coming! I do love hearing from you and answer
whenever I can :)
Kris
Patterns@knittychick.com
From my little corner of the world to
yours!
This is what we woke up to New Years Day (the
ground was bare the night before).
It snowed another 3 - 4 inches on top of this.
January 2, 2008
What's Knitty Chick up to these
days besides beading? Trying like crazy to knit up some of her
stash! Yep, I decided to go down into the depths of the basement and
bust out the stack of plastic bins full of yarn that's been there since
the time of Moses. I have to
admit that I stood there in awe at the stack of "under-the-bed" roller
bins full of yarn that went from the floor almost to the ceiling.
My first thought was "should I call
my insurance guy and take out a rider?" You
know, the kind that most people take out to cover their expensive jewelry.
Apparently my diamonds sit in plastic boxes in my basement. I'm in
clear competition for the "she who dies with the most yarn wins" award!
And my second thought was . . . how
come my husband hasn't seen these yet? They aren't hidden very well!
I'm sure I will hear it when we go to load up the moving truck and I
insist on taking every stinking one of these yarn bins with me. I
can hear him now . . . "do you really need to take
ALL of these, or can you get rid of some
of them"? Famous last words. We have already cleaned out two
20 yard dumpsters full of junk in the past few months! However not
one strand of yarn was trashed. I managed to justify keeping every
single tangled ball of yarn & every half finished project from as far back
as 20 years ago! I think that gesture alone qualifies me as a "true
knitter". Or at the very least a "stash freak" or maybe just someone
in need of medication?????
Anyhow, long story long, I am knitting
scarves as fast as I can to try to get rid of some of my stash. There's going to be a lot of people
getting scarves in '08 for Christmas! I hope they appreciate them,
because I have very expensive taste in yarns, and so far the material cost
for each scarf is coming in around $30 - $35! You would think that I
was knitting with spun gold or something. Come to think of it, spun
gold may be cheaper than some of these specialty yarns I'm using.
I have already given one to mom, and here is a photo of one that is going to my friend Wen in Arizona. I
know what you're thinking, and YES, they do wear scarves in Arizona.
They are freezing their butts off when it hits 60 down there.
It
hits 60 here and I'm stripping off my clothes and running half naked
through the yard. The neighbors don't appreciate it, but that's what
happens when we have a heat wave of 60 degrees after a long winter of 20's
(you saw the photo above) I go a little nuts, but at least I'm
wearing one of my hand knit scarves!
This is an 18 stitch wide garter
stitch knit scarf on size 10.5 needles and took approx. 2.5 to 3
balls of Trendsetter
Yarns "Pandora" (not Pandora Shadow)
in Color #15 Lavender approx $11.00 per 99 yard ball.
Mom's scarf was out of the same
material only in Antique Rose.
Nov. 28, 2007
So sorry. It's been a gabillion years
since I've posted anything to my blog. My jewelry business has taken
off and I have been making jewelry like crazy. However, I have found
time to knit up four hats in the past 2 weeks (one is not shown - I
already gave it to my mom). I am using Fiber
Trends Felt Hat II Pattern # AC-2. Typically I make the
medium size which fits just about everyone. It takes me about 3 - 4
hours per hat, depending upon what I'm watching on TV and how much
attention I'm paying to my knitting. I use the narrow brim version of
the pattern, however I did make a booboo and on the purple hat below
(center). I accidentally lost my place and ended up making the wide
brimmed version, which I really like. If you use Noro Kureyon for
this hat, keep in mind that it felts up much more "flaccid" than other
wools so your hat will come out softer and not as stiff. It's sort
of like a floppy hat, that's why I tend to make the narrow brim version so
it doesn't flop down into my eyes. Note: the hats come out of the
washer much fuzzier than in the photos. I shear my hats because I
don't care for the fuzzy look, but a lot of people like the fuzz, so if
you are one of those people, spare the clippers. Second Note:
Don't despair if your hat takes 4 to 5 or more times through the wash
cycle to felt. Noro seems to take longer than other wools to felt
down.
  
Click on the small photo to view the larger version.
Oct. 8, 2007
Wow! The Knitty Chick web
site received a record 25,406 unique visitors last month! Looks as
if everyone is looking for a project or two to start out the fall knitty
season!
One of my all
time favorite Knitty Shops is FOR SALE!
If you love the "yarn arts" and are looking for a great business
opportunity contact Lola for all the details.
Knits-n-Knacks
Lola Snell, Owner
216 E. Chicago St.,
Jonesville, MI 49250
Phone:
(517) 849-7838
Ok, all you FELTING FREAKS, Interweave
Knits Magazine has just come out with a special issue solely dedicated to
felting. It has 13 felted or fulled projects, plus felting how to's,
and much more. If you love to felt, you won't want to miss this
issue.Purchase off of
newsstands or
click
here to order.
July 6, 2007
What's up with the Knitty Chick lately?
She turned into a "Bead Babe" for the summer! It's just been too flippin' hot to even think about picking up something as hot as yarn.
So I pulled out all my beading stuff and started making jewelry.
I've been having lots of fun creating affordable jewelry. I started
out making stuff for myself and now it's turned into a mini business
- everyone is buying it! If you would like to get in on the action,
click on the "Jewelry" link above and check out what I currently have
available.
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