Pattern Retrospective, Part 3

Soap Scrunchies

I like double knitting. I like doing the same thing with weaving (two layers at one time) but that’s a different sotry. I think I like double kniting for the same reason I like knitting two socks at a time on two circs—when I’m done, I’m DONE.

This little guy was born of necessity: Christmas. Well, Christmas and teaching a class in double knitting. If you’ve never knit both sides of a bag at the same time, you’re in for a treat. This little, easy-to-learn-on bag is forgiving and quick to knit. I made a slew of these for Christmas last year and am currently panicking about what to do for this Christmas since I can’t really do this again.

Ah well.

The pattern is free and you can  download now.

Dryerball/pincushion

I needed to do something with my handspun. I have (ahem) a fair amount of small amounts of my yarn lying around here. It’s like living in a yarn store for The Borrowers. So I pondered and considered and dreamed and finally thought of a pattern that wouldn’t care if my early yarn was uneven—a feltable dryerball!

If you’ve never experienced a dryerball, lemme tell you—it’s nifty. Put some essential oil in there and you’ll never need Bounce again (unless you use the sheets to keep the mosquitos at bay).
The pattern was easily adjustable to a pincushion… so I did!

for 99 ¢ you can  add to cart

Hair Clip Cap

I really REALLY hate having hair on my neck when it’s not long enough to hang down my back. I love banana clips for two reasons

1. they keep the hair off of my neck
2. I can let my hair grow without paying any attention to it (which makes it seem like it grows faster under the Watched Pot theorum of hair growth.

This was fine and dandy when we lived in Arizona, but Virginia has winter. Not much of one last year, but still. If my ears are cold, ˆ am cold (under the transitive property of YourMomToldYouThatYouLose88%OfYourBodyHeatThroughYourHeadSoYouShouldHaveListened). I needed a hat—one that would fit over my hair clip, and I needed one fast and I needed it cheap.

¡Voici!

I love this  little bonnet! I also love that it’s a cheap and easy way to learn to steek (if you’ve never steeked before, you’ll need far less Scotch to wind yourself up to cut an 8$-skein-of-yarn-2-nights-of-knitting than you would on the $140-of-shetland-five-months-of-knitting project. Nuff said).

Instructions and pictures are included with all of my patterns so if I have something odd (double knitting, steeking, knitting a ball in the round) I have the how-to right there in the pattern. Need to get your hair off your neck this winter, just add to cart  for $4.