American Made, episode 1

Due to my industrial design background and design philosophy, which includes an aversion to cheap, disposable products produced in foreign countries, using what amounts to slave labor (rant). I decided to post about these American Made hoses by Dramm, that I just received from Gardener's Supply Company. They come in these great colors with nickel plated hardware. I think they'll work great.

Fetching Hand Warmers

I got a little carried away with this pattern from Knitty. These just seemed to knit up fast and look harder than they were. I knit a pair for my Mom, Aunt, and three sisters. The trim color on some was an embelishment I added.

Rachel's Hat

I knit this hat with a kind of diamond pattern on size 2 needles for my sister, Rachel for Christmas. I think it's a bit large for her though. I need to measure the size of all my sisters heads. I find it's hard to measure someone's head without giving away my plans to knit them a hat. Drawing an outline of their hands would be good for gloves and mittens also. Ring sizes would be good too.

Initial Scarves

I knit these scarves for my nephews, Brendan and Jerrod. It's just a simple k1,p1 pattern. They are supper soft and sized just right. I heard that Jerrod wanted "one of those soft things that go around your neck".

Urchin Hat

This was a fun hat to knit. The first hat I knit flat and seemed. I love this Knit Global Shetland Flame yarn. It's all lumpy and then thin, but strong, due to a thin nylon thread. I got the Urchin pattern from Knitty (mine's the blue one on the bottom). I've got another skein in a differnt color that I'm looking forward to knitting.

Stilt Walkers

Found another great animation.

Martha Negeley - Dahlias Curtain

I sewed my first curtains. It turned out not too be to hard. I plan to use some of this fabric in a quilt, if I ever get around to it.