The Sheep-free Knitter

Well, what a treat. you have to see all Abigail's knits! abigailvr

Wonderful Maizy Baby Sweater

MaizyColors with 4 new ones for Spring!
Panda Cotton knits panda cotton colors
Ivana's socks sokken for Sven




These are the Cat Bordhi Coriolis socks, with 2 colors of panda cotton.

Mingus - panda cotton

Socks for Bartholemew - panda cotton

Baudelaire - panda cotton [i love love love progress shots, don't you?]



Here are some Corny baby gifts - made with Indian Corn colorway of Maizy

Applause for Abigail!

0-6 Mo Free baby sock pattern

Adorable Ian again, in his cute panda soy baby socks (color is Cocoa Mint) .














Also shown here are the same socks in Maizy Earth color.




and now you can knit the free pattern Crystal Palace Baby Socks

by the way - Ian in the photo is 15 pounds and 5 mo old... grandma Beth, member of the Crystal Palace Knit-Team, said that the socks were perfect as there was even a little "room to grow".

blessings, :L

ps the pattern is designed for fingering-wt sock yarns, such as Panda Soy, Maizy, Panda Cotton,
and i think Panda Wool and Panda Silk [knitting those now]. You can easily knit it with #2 us needles, or #1.5 depending on what you need for gauge.
remember, babies don't walk! so their socks don't have to be super-dense to stand wear...
just need to be adorable!

............. hmmm. the socks could be plain - the babies are the adorable ones!

blessings, :L

ps there is also a pretty lacey panda silk baby sock on the site at www.straw.com - free patterns!

Vog 'on Panda Cotton

The socks shown here are by "Fluffy Knitter Deb" and are going to be Panda Cotton footies for Deb's mom - in a very yummy colorway called "Blueberries- grapes".

(I am using it, among others, for a luscious Kid Merino Scarf Crystal Palace Yarns and i promise the colors just sing!)

You can see more about Deb, including the amazing list of knail lacquers here Fluffyknitterdeb. I think she said that the pattern was "Vog'on" from Knitty.

blessings, :L, laura

More Maizy

This sock was designed & knit by Debbie H and is a nice Man's {large woman's} cabled sock. The colorway is "night shades" and is awfully nice (high on my dh's list of socks he'd like).

The pattern will be available FREE on the website Crystal Palace Yarns

I love the way Debbie has the cables juxtaposed to one another. Just lovely!

blessings, :L

pretty pictures

this lovely set of baby socks is called baby monkey.

they're on Sheri's blog for the Loopy Ewe and feature the wonderful new Merino-5 yarn [washable merino] from crystal palace. You can see more colors at Crystal Palace.

blessings, :L, laura

Fun with Yarn

I've been having a ball playing with a new Yarn from CPY called Puffin. It is just amazingly soft, feels like suede and is a lot lot lot of fun to work with! (er umm, i keep having more ideas). It seems to really show detail as you work with it, and did i mention soft? It truly is soft enough to convince ANY fiber snob, and that includes my own husband who wants slippers sometime!

First, This hat and booties are by Barbara Breiter & can be found at Crystal Palace Free Patterns. Colorways for the yarn are here. Barbara also knit this great cowgirl vest (it would be masculine i think in black, and there's a great buckskin color!) This yarn does have that fun fringe feeling,

so these are some of what I've been knitting and designing myself - the wild west fringed baby and adult slippers... as well as plain baby slippers. and i have a wonderful (er um IMHO) hat almost done. The baby blanket is by Susan Druding and the adorable model is grandson Marcelo. The blue buttoned hooded cardi is by Dawn Leesman and it's Marcelo modelling.

That's also Marcelo in the lime hoodie by Barbara Breiter, who is the hat designer too!

Trust me, you want to touch this yarn, as i don't think there's anything i can say to convince you until you touch it!

Blessings, :L, laura

PS I am knitting some wonderful designs with this yarn that will be in an upcoming issue of STRANDED, the newsletter by Bonnie Franz at http://www.bonniefranz.com/

PPS I need to show you kitten pics. They are growing fast! Unfortunately, as we give treats to our elderly Siamese who is very very elderly, the kittens are being lured to want such goodies instead of baby food.