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I can't resist including my gold medal from the Knitting Olympics! Thanks, Yarn Harlot!
The photo on the immediate right is the front of the sweater/coat I made for the Knitting Olympics. The pattern is from Miss Bea's Rainy Day. I used Rowan's All-Season cotton - a terrific yarn. The next photo shows the part I'm proudest of. I changed increases to the arm tops instead of the edges, using yarnovers either side of the center stitch, and added a back panel to make it a little larger so it will fit longer than a few weeks. And look at the great kitty buttons!
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The fabulous birthday girl reading one of her cards and making the sweater look terrific.
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The adorable girl showing off the sweater - and showing that for once I made something large enough that it'll fit for longer than a week.
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The other CGITW wearing a Noro hat I made her mommy for Christmas. You can see the Little Flowers at the neckline, which worked really nicely.
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Same other CGITW in her own poncho set - in Karabella Aurora 8. I mixed and matched several patterns and made some modifications to come up with this set.
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Baby blanket made with four strands of Shepherd's baby wool together. Pattern by Knittingsmith, a yarn store in Cold Spring, NY (no website); you use
13 or 15 needles and your thumb, which gives one side this basket-y look and the other a garter stitch look. It's really textural and soft.
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Fluffy bunny in pink Berroco Plush
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Christmas stockings in thick-and-thin Lorna's Laces yarn. Note that the one on the right has an
angled short row heel - my first! 
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Bolero in flashy and white fingering yarns
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Crocheted star of David - for David!
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Fiesta La Boheme (Cool Breeze) in Knitty's "Tie one on"
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Pillow with entrelac on one side in llama + mohair and picked-up mitred side in llama on the other
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Blue bunny with red and white scarf; K.Gilbert pattern
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Halter top for one of TTCGITW
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Fair Isle headband in cotton; pretty although too thick and not very stretchy
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Nylon multi color string in loopy crochet stitch scrunchy
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Same yarn for Spring scarf for one of TTCGITW
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Same scarf on owner's cooperative and oh-so-attractive model
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Colinette Giotto yarn and pattern. Worked up lots more flexible than expected; used a "knit" cast-on doing knit/purl
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Another view
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Close-up of shell; bottom edge wanted to curl but a slip stitch crochet cast off solved it
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My first mitred square
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Cotton + 10% nylon in "gull lace" pattern from Socks Socks Socks
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Close-up of orange sock
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Greek mercerized cotton, shiny and dense, Minnowsuits pattern: red pinafore dress with scalloped and lace bottom edge
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Close-up of pinafore; bottom is a modified picot cast-on (cast on 8, cast off 2) below the lace panels, to avoid curl
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Bulky yarn, two colors; "reversible" knitting hat - carrying two colors as you work
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Berroco Zen knitted on one 17 and one 15 needle; thumb-knit-on cast-on
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Gauge matters if you need something to fit or want a specific size; these are
identical weight cotton thread, identical crochet hook, identical number of stitches
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Magic Stripes yarn, Barbie poncho pattern © Susan Pierce Lawrence
(with her permission; her informative and entertaining blog is at
i'm knitting as fast as i can)
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Magic Stripes in child-size hat and scarf; patterns from the yarn band
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More Magic Stripes, combined two fingerless gloves patterns and included
a center cable up the hands
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Superwash wool, mens sock pattern from On the Road
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Berroco brown Chinchilla, capelet
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Elements of a sampler sweater
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Berroco chinchilla
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Velvet Touch
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Sleeves - one in seed stitch and one in a lace variation
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Front - with stitch variations
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Back - with various stitches
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Berroco brown Chinchilla scarf in 3x2 rib (that didn't photograph well)
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Berroco tan Chinchilla asymmetrical poncho with turtleneck
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Berroco blue Chinchilla scarf, edging in Fun Fur
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White Sirdar Fun Fur border and pompom on Christmas hat
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Platinum Moda Dea accent on holiday pin
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Orange/red/brown Manos, no cast-on or cast-off because brim begins with provisional cast-on and is all cables,
grafted together; main part is picked up and knit up from there.
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Berroco Plush pink sweater, Christmas 2003
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Berroco Plush pink poncho, Christmas 2004
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Morehouse tan and brown wools
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Picasa and MS Picture Manager help make arty version Morehouse scarf
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Crocheted green sweater with ribbon closing
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Due yarn (Italian), King Charles cardigan
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Close-up of cardigan (looks less interesting in photo than in person)
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A friend in my work knitting group finished this hat without a pattern.
Close-up of newest blanket by one of my "students". The photos doesn't convey how soft it it!
A colleague at work joined our lunch knitting group only a few months before she retired and
caught the bug big-time. She crocheted this glorious afghan in Manos for the woman she'd worked with for the last nine years.
The stitch is a back-post double crochet and she also adapted it for the pillow she designed.
Last fall, I taught a colleague to crochet and look what she made for her brand new nephew!
Crocheted baby afghan made by one of my Metro-North commuter friends. You can see the train window on the left, if you look closely.
Close-up of afghan.
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