Knit Night 2012

Photos of this year's Knit Night donations are here: https://picasaweb.google.com/104631094803018833506/KnitNight2012

Quilts!

I attended the 2012 Heritage Day Quilt Auction sponsored by the Capital Quilters Guild at Historic Oak View Park in Raleigh, NC, and for the first time I participated as a bidder. This year the proceeds benefited both the Guild and North Carolina Coastal Pines Girl Scout Council (where my daughter works). Unbelievably, I won 3 of the 5 quilts I bid on! Here are photos of the quilts. My photos do not do them justice...they are so beautiful.

This one is "Color Karma" a 34" by 34" wall hanging in the Amish quilt style:

This one is "Hollyhocks" a 51" by 60" quilt that I also plan to hang. This is the front view:

This is what the backing fabric looks like:

This one is called "Lotsa Dots" and is 62" by 82". It's hard to tell by the photo, but every piece of fabric has a pattern of dots.

More dots are on the reversible back of the quilt. I plan to use the quilt on my bed. The colors will really brighten up the room.

Off the Needles: Amy's Shawlette

Here's what I made for my daughter out the the yarn she brought back from her trip to Alaska last year. The pattern is adapted from a pattern I found on Ravelry. The original pattern was in garter stitch and required some frogging to finish it. I changed to stockinette and made some other changes because I really can't see the point of knitting something and then unknitting a substantial portion...that's just crazy. The edging is about all it has in common with the original pattern. The yarn is wool and, although bought in Alaska, was made in Chile.

Off the Needles: KAL Mystery Shawl #3

Here's the 3rd and final shawl I made using the KAL mystery shawl pattern and the Stonehedge "Crazy" yarn. Still have this and another of the shawls to block. I think I'm tapped out on both the pattern and the yarn for now and am ready to move on to something else. The designer promises a new mystery KAL pattern in October, but if I do that one, I think I'll use some other yarn. I'm not as crazy for "Crazy" as I was when I started this knit along.

Off the Needles: Mystery Shawl #1

Just finished the first shawl I started after frogging the mistakes and redoing. Haven't blocked it yet. The yarn is the first Stonehedge "Crazy" skeins that I bought. Later skeins have not been such wild colors. I have one more that I'm working on and then that will be it for the pattern for now. It's been fun seeing how the color changes stack up against each other.

Off the Needles: KAL Mystery Shawlette #2

 This is the 2nd Knit Along Mystery Shawlette I knitted. I ran into some problems with the 1st one that will require some frogging. So I put aside that one and finished the second one which is now being blocked. I have yarn for a 3rd shawl as well.

Off the shuttle: Tatted embellishments on christening outfit

Years ago, my mother's hobby was doll making and sewing outfits for the dolls. She used some of my early tatted edging as an embellishment. Now that I'm so much better at tatting, I decided to make new edgings. The light blue edgings are DMC size 20 and size 30. The darker blue on the bonnet is a vintage thread in size 70.