**Calling All Pics!!!

Posted on December 30, 2007 by gettinitpegged

What a BEAUTY!!!“Calling All Project Pictures!”

As a new year approaches, I thought it would be a lot of fun to open a new page on the site.  This would be a chance for all of you to shine! 

I know that so many of you out there have purchased, or downloaded patterns from the many that have been offered here at the Loom Knitter’s Clique, as well as have attended my classes locally.  I would LOVE to see the finished items…and I know that everyone else would too!  I’m planning on opening a new page entitled…”Clique Pics”  (cute, huh?)  in which you wonderful loomers out there can feature your beautiful projects that have been offered here on the site.  It’s so encouraging  and inspiring to see what others have accomplished, and also to see how unique everyone’s projects turn out, even when using the same pattern.

To get the pictures to me, please send them in JPEG or GIF format, no larger than 600 pixels via email attachment to:

Bethany@GettinItPegged.com

Hurry!  I’d love to get the page up and going by the end of this week to begin the New Year with style!  Happy Looming…

Bethany~

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Mitts for Megan~

Posted on December 28, 2007 by gettinitpegged

Not to be left out of the mitt giving fun…Megan needed a pair of her own (poor thing had only been asking for them for about a year, but I didn’t have the chance to get to them before now!)  I made them on the sly, right in plain sight…when she’d ask what I was working on, I’d vaguely say, “oh, I have a class coming up…”  😉    So sneaky!  I even measured her hand by quickly holding the knitting tool up to it while we were talking, & taking note of where on the tool I wanted the mitts to end on her wrist!  I love doing sneaky surprises accomplished right out in the open…it makes the end result so much more fun, because then the whole thing turns into a little joke about how they didn’t know what was going on right in front of their nose.   🙂

Well, because this was a project on the sly…I realized I misjudged the width needed for the first panel.  I was about 2 pegs short on the Knifty Knitter blue loom.  I reeeeeeeaaaalllly didn’t want to go froggin’, so I did a little fix…

Ooops!

Megan is 11 years old, so the mitts needed to be narrower than a full round on the blue KK loom. 

I used 18 pegs on the first, then realized I really needed 20, which is what the bottom swatch is.

Pattern: (for those interested)  😉   

*Basic Chain Cast on (20 pegs) using 2 strands WW held as one.

*Rows 1-4: fine gauge (not e-wrap) garter stitch: knit one row, purl one row…repeat.

*Rows 5-28: basic fine gauge ribbing…K1, P1, K1, P1…repeat all pegs, all rows, keeping knits above knits, and purls above purls.  *note: this number of rows may need to be adjusted for wrist/hand length!

*Rows 29-31: fine gauge garter stitch beginning with purl one row… 

*Row 32: e-wrap knit all pegs

*Basic Bind off.

fixing without froggin’!

To fix my width error…I just knitted up another skinny panel of 3 pegs in the same pattern as above.  (I used 3 pegs, rather than the 2 I was short to allow room for seaming.) 

~Wah-lah!!!  Equal sides!   🙂

 I love it when a plan comes together!

*Final Step: Stitch sides together, leaving 4 rows open for the thumb holes.

Happy Camper!

 

 

 

**Too Cool!

 

 

 

 

 

 Happy Friday!   😀

Bethany~

 

 

 

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Buckets, Bracelets, Mittens & more…

Posted on December 26, 2007 by gettinitpegged

I hope you all have had a Fantabulous Christmas Holiday!!! 

Ours was splenderific!  For some reason this year, it finally sank into my deepest being that I didn’t have to be totally stressed out…our new Christmas tradition must be doing the trick.  Yippee!!   🙂

Here’s a little peek into what things we did, and gave over the holiday…

Christmas Bounty~

These were goodie buckets we made up to give to all of my extended family.  Keep your eye out right after St Patrick’s Day to get these buckets, usually priced at around $2 each, for 90% off!! Now that’s a great deal!  My girls and I made dipped pretzel rods wrapped in cellophane and ribbon to add to the regular chocolate, peppermints, and pistachios.  This picture was taken before I tucked a tangerine into each bucket just for good measure.

Bracelets for my mom & sisters~

I created these beautiful sparklies to add to each of my sisters’ & mom’s gift buckets.  They were a big hit!     🙂

Emily Mitts~

I finally mastered cables on the loom!!!  This I’m very excited about, as I have tried and tried over the years I’ve been loom knitting and just couldn’t get the hang of knitting these babies without stretching those stitches too much.  Isela made knitting these beauties a snap!  The project above is made from the Jamie Mitts pattern in her new book, Learn to Knit Cables on Looms.  But the ones shown are now dubbed Emily’s Mitts!  She wears them most of the day, so she must think they’re the “bees knees”.

New Mittens for Me!

Of course, I couldn’t forget a little something for me!  These are wonderful mittens that I knit up based on Isela’s Itty Bitty Mitts pattern…just enlarged.  I love the way the thumb is done in one piece with the hand…no piecing after the fact!  Great idea!  🙂  

out with the old…

…and by the looks of my old mittens, it was high time for a new pair!   😉

Happy Boxing Day!

Bethany~

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