Warmth

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

We’ve had some bitterly cold temperatures here this week. So to help heat up the house I made hamburger buns, dinner rolls and a loaf of bread.

Nothing like the aroma homemade bread to warm the soul.

Coaster corral

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

While the Double Dot socks were hibernating ~~waiting for me to address the twisted stitches,~~ I whipped up a corral for all those coasters I couldn’t stop knitting last year.

I combined the coaster pattern and the Drops Farmer’s Delight basket patterns to coordinate with the two-tone coasters. A provisional cast-on hides the seam.

I used four of the colors from the coasters for the corral, two blue shades, and two green.

The corral looks like a hat with a very deep brim that is folded down to cover the “wrong” side.

The bottom or wrong side doesn’t look that nice but it’s not seen even when empty.

This one holds approximately eight coasters and could be made it taller by adding more stitches for the sides/brim.

Double Dot socks

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

Thank you for coming up with names for the textured stitch! I liked them all and went with stgeorgeknits name for the textured stitch: Double Dot Stitch. Actually, that’s the name I thought of as well.

So the socks are finally finished! And will be on their way to the recipient soon. They almost match just like the first pair.

I still have some yarn left. 24 g (approx. 107 yards) of Beach House – the multi blue/teal and 22 g (approx. 98 yards) of the Hari Hari – grey. (I’m so glad I bought that scale!)

Two things I did differently were 1.) Twisted German aka Old Norwegian Cast-on and 2.) Eye of Partridge heel.

The cast-on is very stretchy or at least more so than the longtail cast-on that I usually use. The Eye of Partridge heel is very similar to the “normal” heel flap but I wanted to try it so I did. It looks more sophisticated.