Lace Curtains

Well, I got them knitted up, blocked and Viola! I'm still not done. This darned acrylic yarn just refuses to cooperate, my choices are either to kill it or add some kind of fancy edges to try and tame the curl. Other than that, I'm really rather pleased with them. I knit them on my Toyota KS858, I just love the way that machine handles the lace knitting and I'll be doing lots more of it.

The yarn is a 2/24 acrylic, low fuzzing which is ok for curtains. It would actually make a nice lacy baby afghan or a lacy shawl.

And here is the final product. I killed them a little bit with a steam iron and some light starch. I am happy with them now and will let them brighten up my little knitting room. Huh Oh! There's an uncovered window on the opposite wall.... here we go again :)

Didn't Shrink!

While I was in California this past winter, I knitted up a pair of the Pocketbook Slippers with Knit Picks Wool of the Andes. I figured I would just hand wash them since this was my felting yarn for clog slippers. The pattern http://www.knitwits-heaven.com/pocket_book_slippers.htm was a super quick knit and there is a machine version out there too, I just can't seem to find it at the moment.

Anyway, I accidently washed them today, warm water cold rinse and guess what? They didn't felt! They didn't shrink either, they came out just fine! Yeah! By the way, these little slippers fold up into each other and take up no space at all so I've been carrying them around in my purse (haha look like a pocketbook, fit in a pocketbook how very clever) because several of my friends and family don't allow shoes on their carpets. These are very cute and comfortable too and I just noticed that the pattern site has a toddler version. I'm thinking if I add a couple of stitches I could make a pair that will fit my granddaughter too, they look so much like little mary janes.

What I've been up to lately

Hi everyone, I thought I'd let you know that I've been sewing for my granddaughter and my hubby, I put up a few pictures of some nightgowns and one of the dresses on my sewing page if you want to see.

So, the UFO's that I'm currently in the middle of are:

2 more dresses for Trinity,
1 more pair of flannel pj bottoms for E.J.,
developing a hand knit summer cotton hat for E.J.,
another pair of felted clog slippers,
the lace curtain panels,
a hand knit Barbie coat and a couple more little tops for Barbie,
a felted hat (just have the swatch knit, will felt it to see if this yarn will work),
I've also made a couple of passes at knitting socks on the flatbed with ribber, no luck yet but I won't give up,
and I now have some mylars to see if that part of my electronic scanner box works on my White 1602 so want to get to that today too.

So, all in all, I'm still a busy little girl and I think I have enough on the table to actually stop starting and start finishing :) The last lace panel just got cast off the machine so I'll be blocking them and sewing the rod pocket and hanging them up soon. I'll be sure to post pictures when they are hanging merrily in my knitting room window. I do love making the lace!