Monthly Archives: September 2011

New Pattern – Olive Oil Drip Catcher

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Yesterday I posted a picture of a new pattern I made up using a suggestion from my brother:  The Olive Oil Drip Catcher.

In case you missed the post, it’s a small collar that fits around an olive oil bottle to catch the drips regardless of the “dripless” claim.

This little drip catcher uses 14 yards (depending on your mileage) of superwash fingering weight yarn perfect for all those bits of sock yarn you have left over wanting to be something useful.

Click on “My Designs” and “Olive Oil Drip Catcher” in the header bar for the link and let me know what you think!

Olive oil bottle sleeve

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When Mr. Aitch and I went to visit my brother and sister-in-law in New Hampshire last month, I took along some knitting.  We went on the Harley so it had to be small knitting.

That’s the knitting bag I won from Dyed in the Wool along with a pattern for a wine bottle sleeve, needles, notions bag, and yarn.

It all fitted in there quite nicely.  I knitted a wine bottle sleeve for them one evening after dinner.

And they actually use it!

My sister-in-law’s sister visited them last week and she remarked about how wonderful the wine bottle sleeve was for catching drips.  If it was a bit larger around and shorter, it would be perfect to catch the drips on a bottle of olive oil.

So I manipulated the pattern and came up with this:

It actually folds down so it’s got two layers to absorb the drips.  Plus it’s larger around.  And shorter.  And has a “fold” line knitted into it.  And the ribbing is different.  And uses less than 14 yards of sock yarn.

Do all those changes make it publishable?  As a free pattern?

Where has the time gone?

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I don’t know what happened.  It’s the middle of September already!

Our summer hours schedule ended last week and I really miss the extra day off. I don’t miss getting up an hour earlier and getting home an hour later.

Last weekend our daughter and the twins stayed with us and we all went to a birthday party for our son’s children.  It was back to work on Monday.  I’ve had something going on every night this week and it’s Friday already.

I finished the orchid hippo and should be able to take some pictures this weekend.  I also plan to finish some sewing/knitting projects as well as post a couple of tutorials.  Wow!  That’s pretty ambitious!!

The yarn for my class still needs to be wound into balls.  I prefer doing that by hand so I can find any knots or other problems before I knit with it.  Mr. Aitch is pretty good with helping me do that.  Sounds like an after-dinner project for tonight.

Postponed

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There was a message on my answering machine when I got home from work on Friday.  My felted bag class which was supposed to begin tomorrow has been postponed for one week.  Bummer.

The class has been extended one week.  Still a bummer since there is a two-day conference that I CAN NOT miss that very same week as the final class…unless I choose to not be gainfully employed to maintain my knitting habit.

Conference dates

There is a very slight possibility that I can still get to part of the final class.  We shall see.

On a happier note – I want to wish Mr. Aitch a very happy birthday!