No Place Like Home

This is a lovely pattern by Sue from the 2010 Knitting Calendar ~
"There's No Place Like Home" [October]





I knit mine in a sage green cotton yarn ~
[I wish the photo showed it better tho]

~ for more of Sue's terrific patterns,
and to see all her fabulous knitting,
visit her site :
Harvest Moon Designs.

Apple Season

It's APPLE SEASON here in New York State!

Soon, people will be heading to the orchards, to pick apples themselves ~
makes your mouth water just thinking of those fresh-picked apples made into pies and bread and eaten just as they are!

Knit this apple from Rhonda's Knitting Knonsense site ~ for a raffle prize for tomorrow - at our school we have Dress-Down-Fridays ~ you can *dress down* for the day, contribute $1, and the money goes to a local charity - and some of us provide small *prizes* that are won when your name is chosen from the tin. We are very happy with simple things - like a Snickers candybar - a plate of home-baked cookies - or, one of these knit dishcloths!

Knitting Needles

This week I received my 2010 Knitting Calendar! that is GREAT news for those of us in the Monthly KAL group ~ exciting to see the new patterns and ideas our group leaders were inspired to put together for our knitting pleasure!

I just finished this cloth - which was actually a freebie before the calendar went to press ~
*All Hearts Lead Home* ~ pattern created by Sue S., of Harvest Moon Designs. Thanks Sue!

My cloth was knit from P&C Shaded Browns - love the colors, makes me think of Autumn - rust, light/dark browns, beige...

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Yesterday I finished up this purple *house* cloth, sending it to the couple who own and run the Emerson House - a Bed and Breakfast in Vergennes, Vermont - and this looks so much like their place! We stayed there this summer, while vacationing ~ a beautiful B&B, and lovely part of Vermont, near the mountains and close to the river, too.

Save the Earth!

This is my finished *bonus* cloth for KAL from Monthly Dishcloths for August -

pattern compliments of Alli [from knitwitsalley]
~she contributed this as a bonus for our pre-Knitting Calendar for 2010 ~
talented woman, Alli ~

My cloth is knit in Cottonease, color is an avocado green [I lost track of the yarn wrap with color and info........when I find it, I'll repost with *official* color] ~

This cloth was fun to do - and the border was unique - in fact, I'm trying it on another cloth I just started.

Growing UP!

My latest dishcloth - pattern compliments of Janet at our KAL Monthly Group!
Thanks, Janet!

Favorites

Dishcloth Crazy! These are two of my favs -
have made a lot of the circle cloths - and hope to make more of the Granny square cloths soon.

Patterns -

Circle Cloth:
Monthly Dishcloths KAL group

Granny Square:
Harvest Moon Designs

Vine of Life

This is a design by Sue Schaefer -
Vine of Life, one of the Trust and Obey patterns.

It was a fun pattern to knit -
not difficult, but offered some stitches I don't ordinarily use.
I'm a bit disappointed because the stitching doesn't show up very well in this photo - I used a dark navy yarn.

Sue's work is awesome -
you can see all her wonderful patterns at her website -
Harvest Moon Designs

Windmill pattern

I love this pattern! it is a little different from other *circle* dishcloths I've knit - but very easy, yet it looks really elegant [too often, people say, Oh!~I can't USE it - it's too pretty!] ~
- used Dalmation, a black/grey variegated yarn, Peaches and Cream
- pattern [shown in sample, knit with self-striping yarn & it's gorgeous!]:

Sew-Funky - Windmill