Long time, no see!

Wow. My last post was…months ago! I almost forgot about my blog! ah well, nothing exciting’s happened anyway…I’m in a new test crochet for a baby’s viking hat(too cute btw)a new designers challenge is up(ideas to be in next post) ooh and I have one new thing to show you 🙂

My new coasters! Theres the Eye and two koala heads 😉 I’m putting out the pattern on Tuesday on Ravelry(no test crochet needed!)  My 18th pattern 🙂

Monkey Mitts

Ta-da!

In case you can’t tell, it’s a baby mitten with an intarsia monkey knit into it 🙂 This was(and technically still is{I havn’t photographed the second mitt}) a test knit for Vintagenettles(Ravelry) and the pattern(when it’s released) will be linked to these bold words: Animal Spirit Baby Mittens

That’s all I have to share today(unless you count this 🙂 )

~~~Eleni~~~

P.S. There’s a link up now!

Slowly Regaining My Accomplishments

 

I’ve finished my test-knit. Yay!!!! Let us rejoice 😀

Ahem, The Pattern is from Susy Romanelli, It’s called Hubby’s slouchy hat and has yet to be released(I was a tester)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mine is a little shorter than hers 🙂 Her pattern called for chunky weight yarn and I used worsted held doubled and, can you believe I had enough of one color???

I’m now enjoying my pride in accomplishment

 

And more knitting 😉

~~~Eleni~~~

 

Up-and-Coming

St.Patrick’s Day! It’s coming round the bend with all the leprechon’s prepared to whack you over the head with a sheleighly sticks(they are very temper-mental you know). So the question is…How are you really supposed to celebrate Saint Patrick?

Well, the one thing that has never failed me on a holiday is (a) Candy and (b) Decorations and nothing says, “Welcome, you crazy leprechon’s!” like four-leafed clovers!

When I was really little, I thought that it was three-leafed clovers that were the lucky ones and I could never understand why everyone always had such a hard time finding them! 🙂

So, now that I know that I should have been looking for four leaves, I’m going to make some to try and draw the little green Irish in my direction 😉 tonight I think I’ll make a clover chain to replace my Halloween paper chain that now swings atop my door 🙂

I’ll be using Julie Kundhi’s wonderful tiny four-leaf clovers pattern on Ravelry and joining them all with a chain 🙂 (this is where most of my creativity both begins and ends)

Look around and try to find the little greenies, they love to hide all around and study us you know 🙂

~~~Eleni~~~

Frogging Froglessly

Hehe! I hope that my title didn’t confuse you, did it?

Anyway, I just finished a test knit on Ravelry for Suzanne Nielsen(shezam on Ravelry) and it’s absolutely adorbs! I’m sure that you’ve guessed by now that it has something or other to do with frogs, and your right!

Isn’t he(or she) just the cutest? This wonderful pattern is called Froggy Cloth(there’s your link to the pattern) And it was pretty darn quick!

Suzannes’ pattern call for filling the eyes with ping-pong balls so that little froggy can float in the tub but, I did a little thinking and thought, “What If I filled the eyes with soap instead?” So now he gets a little foamy ’round the eyes when I use him 😛

~~~Eleni~~~

One Pig, Two Pig…

One day recently, I was sitting at my over abundant stash of really, really acrylic-y, disgusting yarns thinking, “What on Earth am I going to do with all this! There isn’t enough to make any hats or decorations(not that I need any more) and there’s too much to make any small toys(not that I need any more of those either plus, anything that would take that much is always doomed to be started but never finished {see my Granny Square Blanket started July 2010}) So I went surfing(web not ocean since it is winter and a bit too cold for my taste) on Ravelry and finally found the wonderful Chichester The Pig Pattern By Helen Apocalypse! Her Blog which she posted it too read exactly what I was looking for;

“Chichester the Pig was born when someone asked me for 26 knitted pigs for an event and I was forced to come up with a pattern that I could knit 26 times without it making me crazy.”

Perfection! I printed it out and knit up oh…2…or 3…or…cough, cough, 7, cough, cough. But in my defense one did escape my picture taking frenzy 😉 Here they are:

From left to right: Betty, Letty, Netty, and half a Jetty...

 

...Half a Netty, Jetty, Petty and Earl

 

 

 

 

 

The only piggy missing from this lovely family portrait is Jim-Bob III. He was light blue and the same size as Jetty!

 

~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~<3~

Happy (be-lated, or is it just lated?) Valentines Day 😀

~ Eleni

Challenge, Shmallenge!

^^^^^^I’ve completed my designer’s challenge as you can see ^^^^^^

Yippee, yippee!!! I’m putting pics up in the group as we speak…talk…type? Ah well you get the point!

          I will be, fairly soon, posting a “Call for Testers”(that sounds so official) in the Free Pattern Testers group on Ravelry if anyone is in the mood to test and are really really forgetful, feel free to use my contact info here, to reach me and I’ll remind you when I set up the thread 😀

          While we(meaning me) are on this topic, I’ll take this opportunity to bore you to death with lots of words with pretty pictures in between ;-D

I used a really…erm…well…different(?) technique for the “Blocking” part of the challenge

  I used stones to “full” the top of the mitten because I thought it looked a bit…Blauh before that 🙂

I wanted to add all sorts of little details to the mittens but that just made it impossible to finish! I wanted to have little windows and doorways and criss-crossy designs all over but then I remembered that I couldn’t with crochet So please imagine that these are the most intricate of intricate mittens that you’ve ever seen just to make me feel better 🙂

Thank you so much for looking 🙂 🙂 😛 😦 🙂 🙂

~Eleni

January, Post #2

Ideas are brimming! I’ve Googled famous architecture and finally narrowed it down to these three.

Tower of Pissa

The Kremlin

The Parthenon(Greece)

Can anyone guess which one I chose? Hm? Maybe you’ll find out soon 🙂

~Eleni

January, Post #1

January’s Challenge brought many things…Including a new design to be made!

The Challenge was is to create a:

Object: a pair of mittens
Theme: architecture
Technique: blocking

And you can win:

First place can win 4 skeins of Knit Picks City Tweed HW in “Marsh” and one skein of Malabrigo Yarn Merino Worsted in the colorway of “Pearl Ten”.

Second place can win one skein of Knit Picks Palette in “Mustard” and one hank of Malabrigo Yarn Merino Worsted in the colorway of “Mariposa”.

Yipee!!! Isn’t it exciting? If YOU would like to participate you can check out the thread here on Ravelry.

~Eleni

P.S. If you don’t have a Ravelry you might want to think about getting one :-).

P.P.S. Unless of course you don’t knit, crochet, spin or weave…then maybe you shouldn’t :-).