The right fit

Hello knitters-

Today's topic is how to make things fit.  I saw this on Knitting Daily and thought to pass it along.

Well I am trying to fix a project that I had knitted.  I made this sweater for my mother and the sleeves ended up being too wide.  I am trying to figure out how to fix it.  I think I am going to have to cut and sew it on the sewing machine.  Any thoughts or suggestions?

-MP

square the Granny

Hello fellow knitters,

It has been a while since I last blogged.  The past few months I have found my self inspired to learn how to crochet by one of my 6th grade students.  She made this really nifty pencil bag holder for her self and a water bottle holder.  She did not use any pattern. Just her imagination.  I thought that was so awesome to see someone so young enjoying the pleasures of yarn art!

I hope I can start a yarn crafting club and get more students involved in yarn art.   So I decided as an avid knitter that I would now start to learn crocheting.  When I was little my Mom and Grandma taught me how to make a chain and single crochet but I have not gone beyond that.  So I thought I would learn how to make Granny squares.  Check out this pattern I found.  It is super easy and actually really relaxing. http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/summer-garden-granny-square.html

 I still have a ways to go in learning all the lingo and reading the crochet patterns.  But I have the summer.

Happy creating
M.P.

P.S.  If you like Star Wars or know someone who does, try this pattern it is a little Yoda!
http://www.happytogethercreates.com/2010/04/little-yoda-crochet-tutorial.html

Knitaholics unite

Dear Friends,

I am starting this blog to unite all kintaholics. Those people how love to knit and share ideas, comments and the art of knitting.

A little about my knitting background. I learned how to knit about 5 years ago in my college dorm room. I saw a few girls in my hall knitting away and me being a person who loves to do crafts wanted to learn how to knit. So the girls who were knitting taught me know to do the knit stitch. That was the only stitch they taught me, but that did not stop me from trying to learn how to purl. I basically learned it from trial and error and from instructions from the Internet. But I some how mastered that technique and I have been knitting away. It is funny because as I would pull out my knitting projects to work on in between classes or in my dorm room, I have had a lot of people ask what I was doing, ask if i could teach them or they would say well I would not have enough patience to do something like that.

After a year or too of knitting, I was very surprised at how many people of college students were carrying around knitting needles and a ball of yarn, learning how to knit. But that was only a short lived for some people. I started to teach a few people how to knit and 1 out of the 3 actually seemed to maser the knit and purl with out giving up.

Last summer I decided to enter one of my projects I was working on into the County Fair. It is the massive full sized green blanket that is on my header. I actually got 2nd place for it and got told it was ambitious. I got 2nd because I missed cutting a few ends off and I did not know that I had to wash it.
Tip 1: If you are working with acrylic yarn, do not for get to wash and block your project so that it will look fantastic.

As a semi-newbie to knitting I did not know this.

Current Projects:
Well I have not any real projects started but I have a lot of ideas rolling around in my head. Hopefully I could decide on one and start in knitting again.

But until then Happy knitting to you all.

~MP