Wednesday, November 19, 2014

An Elephant for a new little baby boy - Justin

My grandson Patrick has a new little nephew - namely Justin.  Patrick asked if I would knit a hoodie or sweater for Justin and I decided I would add a little elephant toy for him as well.  Sweaters are in the works and should be done shortly.

The elephant I did after seeing a course to make "Wee Ones" on Craftsy.  I bought the program and thoroughly enjoyed working along making this little elephant.  You can watch or follow the pattern on your own or both - whatever works for you.

I have done a few of the courses on www.craftsy.com and although it is hand knitting I have learned all kinds of things that I either had forgotten or never knew anything about!  Such fun to have a hand knit project on hand when just sitting watching TV or waiting around while hubby has a doctor's appointment... 

Here are some photos of this little fellow/gal - you can also make a hippo or a bunny with this same pattern - that's three different heads that fit on the same body - just the tails and heads are different but lots of fun to make and super fast.
 
Front
 Side

 Back
Side with eyes!
 
Ready for his/her new home!


Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Christmas Stockings

Every year our Knit Club make up Christmas Stockings for the Women's Resource Centre to be filled by donations from local merchants.  So this year I did three and just have great fun playing around with designs.  Used my LK 150 mid-gauge machine for all three this year.

Here they are hanging on my yarn tree:
 
 
 The green one is the basic sock with a MK snowflake attached later
 Playing with fairisle using my fairisle carriage
 I really like this topper for the stocking rather than the picot one I have used in the past.
Some more fairisle and another topper - not crazy about this one but still something different.

If you want to make some of these up yourself here is the basic pattern. 

Basic Christmas Stocking Pattern