Costumeing Again...

I'm slowly but surly working on the computer bag.  I finished the side/bottom portion. For the measurements I took the longest part of the computer and tripled it.  That gave me about 10" for the felting.  That should be enough... I hope the yarn all felted differently.  Now onto the sides.. MATH MATH MATH.  Glad I like MATH.    I cast on 45 stitches and just hope my math was okay.  Thats the risk we take when designing a pattern -- trail & error with hopefully little error.


Lil'Bit's costume is almost done I'm not going to do the cloud until tomorrow I wanted to make sure little hands don't wreck what I have done. She loves the halo and wants to keep playing with it.

If there is something you would like to see let me know.  Im open to any suggestions on what items you want to see done.

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MonthlyDishcloths (MDC) - KAL - Coffee Coaster

I completed the first KAL on MonthlyDishcloths. It went very quickly.  I didn't find a file with the whole KAL in the postings. So the messages are as follows -  #99, #141, #164, #187, #196.  Did some more work on The General,  and a few inches on the computer bag .  
I received my September 2011 issue of Creative Knitting.  There are quite a few items that I want to do, but which one do I start with. 

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MonthlyDishcloths - Yahoo Groups

I belong to the yahoo group MonthlyDishcloths. I'm going to go thru EVERY KAL that is in the group.  I will also do the patterns that are going to be added.  The group started in 2005 - that is a lot of patterns to go thru a good challenge for me.  Looking thru all the posts I found the first KAL - Coffee Coaster. It only uses about 25 yards of cotton yarn (good scrap user) and size 8 needles.  Now I just have to figure out what color to use. I think I will just stick my hand in the scrap tote and grab a skein/ball and go from there. --- I grabbed a ball of Peaches & Cream #194 York Town.  I love the way the colors remind me of Americana.  I'll work on it later tonight and show y'all tomorrow.

Also today I worked on my felted computer bag adding over 15" to the sides/bottom. I cant wait for it to be done.  I lost my last computer bag during a move... I think my truck ate it. 




 
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Felted Computer Bag

I'm going to start off with posting the project that I have currently in my knitting basket. 

I started out with some yarn that I had received off of freecycle.  IT is a mix of unknown skeins and some 100% virgin wool from Kmart Brand color 599 winter white, 2 skeins of Alafoss Lopi, hespu-lopi  from Iceland in a milk chocolaty color,  from Southern yarn dyers - cream and grey 3ply going to separate the plys , and a Dark Grey, and a tan and brown unknown that both feel like a wool.   I’m just going to grab 4 of the colors and just knit in garter stitch changing colors as I go. I want a tweedy look once I’ve felted it. I CO 10 using a long tail cast-on and 9mm (US13) knitting needles.  Going to make the small sides, bottom and handle all at once. (long scarf).

The Materials

I have been working on it off and on for a few hours and have completed about 10" of the 'scarf' I will post more pictures as I go with this project.  I'm hoping to have this completed and felted by Thanksgiving.   Tomorrow I'm going to be working on a blanket for my daughter that I will be giving her for Christmas and maybe some cross-stitching.

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