norahsknits

Three-layer crocheted headband - "solid" blue band is folded & seamed, and the multi-color band is attached through all three layers with buttons. 

Noro cotton yarn as edging to a scarf. The rest of the scarf was crescent-shaped using a pink yarn.  My first pair of socks, inspired by a knitting group at Thomas Dunn Learning Center in Marquette Park, St. Louis, MO. More crocheted potholders. I had a fair amount of all-cotton yarn to use up.   

  I've made crocheted potholders for a long time, but at a Weavers Guild of St. Louis event on Sunday, I learned a new method. These are made in a similar way to my crocheted handbags, starting with a chain that forms the bottom edge and working around and around in a spiral. When the item folds diagonally to form a square, you crochet the inside edges together (I used a chain stitch). 35 stitches for the starting chain, using a Size G hook and Peaches & Cream 100% cotton yarn yields a two layer approximately 6 inch square potholder. 

  Here's a link to information about the sale - over 30 vendors are planned, all with hand-made goods:   TDLC Nov. 26th Winter Market Photo above is of one of my hand-knit items, showing the Ostrich Plume lace stitch. 

 I will have hand-knitted and crocheted shawls & wraps in the sale, along with two of my crocheted bags. 

I've been working on a second pair of fingerless mitts using the same free pattern as the last post - St. John's Wort pattern. For this pair, I used size 3 double-pointed needles and made the mitts longer at the cuffs and at the finger-opening end. The pic was taken before the second mitt was finished and before thumbs were worked. (The thumb stitches on the first mitt are held on a short piece of black ribbon.) I'm enjoying this pattern and may make more pairs for family gifts. (I never sell items made from someone else's pattern.)

  The above - two hat and cowl sets - were knit from mohair & merino yarn from  Rainbow Fiber Co-Op . Interweave Knits mentioned the website in a recent issue. The yarn was lovely to knit.  The fingerless mitts below are from a free pattern from Webs:   Webs - yarn.com  I'm using Berroco brand Boboli Lace  , which is a single-ply fingering weight (despite its "Lace" name). The thumb stitches are being held on a strand of yarn - I'll work them both at the end, so that I don't forget what I did after the first one. The stitch is called "St. John's Wort" - I looked for it in the three Barbara Walker stitch books that I have, but did not find it.