More Projects

Here are some more things I've done.  I found the pictures taken by other people while my camera was in Texas.

These are wonderful photos taken by Becca of the potholders/dish cloths I gave her for her birthday.  I felt a little dorky giving her something so utilitarian, but she really likes them.  These are the best photos of projects I've done that I've ever had.

Here's another potholder I did.  I took this photo myself, so it's not as nice or pretty as the ones Bec took, but at least you can see what it looks like.  Both this one and the ones I did for Becca are done with Sugar-n-Cream yarn on 4.5 mm (US 7) needles.  They're knitted on the diagonal using increasing rows and then decreasing rows.  They take about 4 hours each to complete.

This is the heat curtain I made back in October, maybe?  I wanted something to hang in the kitchen doorway that leads to the foyer so that we could keep as much heat as possible in just the kitchen and family room.  We were heating just the kitchen and keeping a fire going in the family room, so I wanted to capture that heat as effeciently as I could.  The fabric is very heavy and really pretty lovely.  It does a really good job, too.

Now that we're into the coldest part of winter, I'm heating the whole house, so the curtain has come down.  Once the temperatures are consistently higher, though I'll probably put it back up.  We'll see.  If not, I think I'll turn it into pillows or a comforter or something.  The fabric was on clearance at JoAnn ($3 per yard!), and I really like it.

These are some kids' scarves.  They don't take long to make because they're shorter and narrower than the adult sizes, so I can finish one in a couple of evenings.  Originally the colorful one was for Audra, but I got the packages marked incorrectly at Christmas, so Georgia got that one.  The one on the bottom is Emma's, and the other blue one will be Audra's.  They're all done with Haute Fur yarn on 10 mm (US 15) needles.

Finally, here's a project Bill did on his own.  It was a real hit at the Colts/F-Pats game.  Other fans who were tailgating in the same parking lot actually asked to have their pictures taken with him because of the shirt.  He made templates of the letters, then cut them out of felt with iron-on stuff on the back and then ironed them onto the shirt.  Unfortunately, the shirt did not survive the first washing because I didn't sew the letters on, so next time, I'll do that.