Toddler Puppy Dog Hat in crochet – free pattern
Lg child thru adult Kitty Cat Hat in knit – free pattern
Puppy Dog Hat Crochet Pattern - Toddler size
Kitty face knit hat pattern - lg child thru adult
If you enjoy knitting or crocheting animal hats or if you are getting ready to make your first one, join this Ravelry group!
Do you enjoy making, or do you want to learn to make animal hats? There is a new group on Ravelry called “Animal Hats”. Stop in for a visit!
I’m a member of bev’s country cottage friends at Ravelry. Recently a fellow member, Familydiva put out a call to anyone interested in making newborn baby booties for charity. Her group is hoping to have 300+ by the end of March. Bev provided links to many of her free patterns and I started crocheting and knitting.
This was the first time I had ever made newborn booties. They are so tiny and cute that it just helps make them a fun little project. And talk about stash busting!
Below are pics of the booties I have made so far using just free patterns from Bev’s website:
Want to volunteer some of your creative time too? The request is here: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/bevs-country-cottage-friends/1994721
This Berry Spice Scarf which is a free download from Lion Brand only took me a few hours to crochet. You can see my project page with a link to the pattern I used at: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/IndyPurl/berry-spice-scarf
Have you ever put off finishing a crochet or knitting project because you were putting off having to seam your work? I feel you. Check out this link I was sent –I no longer fear the seaming!!!
We have a website traffic counter here that shows us the hits for the day and if someone visits from another site it will show us the link they used. I should probably check it more frequently [but that's another blog for another day 
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Anyhow, when I checked it in the wee hours of the morning, to my amazement I notice visitors coming in from The Daily Knitter and Daily Crocheter. That site picked up my patterns and listed them without my having to submit them.
Now for experienced knitters, crocheters and pattern designers I bet that happens everyday but for a noob like me I have to say that is quite an honor.
If you have designed a pattern and would like a place to list it they do have a ‘Pattern Submission’ link on each the Knitting and Crocheting website. Also don’t forget my favorite websites: Knitting Pattern Central, Crochet Pattern Central and Ravelry all of which are linked in that little box to the right of your screen 
On a blog somewhere I saw Wednesday referred to as WIP Wednesday so that’s got me motivated to get those socks grafted so I an officially call them FO’s and I only have a few more rows to be finished with my KAL dishcloth….pics of both coming soon. Maybe on FO Friday
Originally this blog was just an ‘idea’ so that Ally and I had a place to host photos of our FO’s or any WIP’s we might be asking for. Since we get the website hosting account free, hubby renews the domain name every year, and Ally hasn’t published any of her graphics in years it seemed more reasonable than registering a new domain and asking him to create another hosting account. It certainly seemed better than using a free image hosting service too.
Somewhere along the way I realized I really like blogging [whodathunk?] and this blog has filled up quickly. So quickly in fact that it has become difficult for me to find my way around in my own content management system so I am in the process of re-arranging and organizing a bit. You may find over the next few day that new pages are popping up without a significant amount of content. Never fear, they are being worked on.
In the meantime here are some links that might help let you know when we are done re-arranging
Dishcloths are so easy and quick to knit up and make great gifts
I like knit a longs where everyone works on the same project at the same time opposed to those where forum members can just drop in. Ravely has KAL groups–quite a few actually but when I ‘ve searched I haven’t found any projects I was interested in making. It has been years since I searched thru Yahoo for groups but I happened to see the groups icon in my toolbar and was actually surprised that groups were still around.
A quick search for knitting brought me to a dishcloth knit along group that has been in existence for years. What’s so great about the Monthly Dishcloth Knit Along group is that you create two dishcloths a month (that’s 24 gifts you make each year!!!) and the host provides you will 7 or so rows to knit per day. Committing to that 30 minutes or so per evening means you have two dozen Christmas Gifts at the end of a year. To me this is incredibly helpful and keeps me on track. It also means I’m not spending hours every week searching for the next pattern to make.
You can join the group to at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MonthlyDishcloths/
The first KAL I was involved in was for the cloth above. It turned out to be a Giraffe which works out because it coordinates with the high chair our grandsons use here.
Sock Knitting Class
The first sock I knit for class is done. Check it out!
I joined Ravelry yesterday after finding it as a link on someone else’s website.
Well I didn’t clean any floors today, didn’t do any laundry, didn’t vacuum or do the daytime dishes but I DID manage to save about two dozen patterns I want to make in my Ravelry notebook LOL
Seriously its an incredible site. I have learned so much in the past 24 hours that my head is just spinning.
Ok off to Ravelry to start making a list of the gifts I’ll be making next Christmas.