up for a cowl? this one is Panda Silk

http://straw.com/cpy/patterns2/accessories/PSDK-cowl.html

gorgeous 'stylin' gloves!

Cathy Campbell knit these super gloves with Panda Silk and Panda Superwash. Her pattern is available on Ravelry and i'll post the link shortly.

One Ball-Panda Silk Footies!

These pretty footies were knit with only 1 ball of Panda Silk Panda silk colors ! and the 2nd pic shows the leftover yarn.

You can read more about it Riverknitsyarns on Elizabeth's blog, AND find the great pattern HEREmock cable footies

new pretties for you to see!

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This is a shawl in Panda Silk PandaSilk
the free pattern is Free Panda Silk Shawl

it was knit by Radka C, who is the Idaho designer in the upcoming '50 socks-50 states' book

Panda Silk Shawl == OOOH !

these gorgeous pictures are by the Queen of Purple Yarn Queen- lovely shawl using Panda Silk ColorsPandaSilk and here are more new colors too!

new treats for your holiday knits!

Lovely neck-wrap design by Lisa Dykstra neckwrap

This uses Kid Merino - soooooooooooooo soft!! Kidmerino


Wonderful Princess Nadia blankie free pattern
This uses the amazingly soft and easy care Puffin Puffin colors
Debbie's gorgeous beaded socks in panda silk

Free sock pattern and gorgeous colors

gorgeous panda silk socks!

So vibrant... and luscious ! PandaSilkBaudelaires
red isn't the easiest color to photo = nice job, hmmm?

Pia's shrug

This is a lovely idea! Pia used 3 strands of Panda Silk to make the shrug - and you can learn more from her blog here frksnupp
you can see panda silk here PandaSilkcolors
hmm. would be fun to use 1 strand of new DK panda silk DKpanda silk colors and 1 of fingering and mix colors!

7-state socks!

ironneedles
these socks are panda silk - lovely aren't they??
you can see more colors of the panda silk HEREPanda silk colors
and of course peek at the new DK Panda Silk colors of DK panda silk

blessings, :L

The Middle of September

Pretties to share with you:

These are gorgeous! Panda Silk Colors socks designed by Redheadskydiver...

The pattern PDF is available on her blog and uses 2 colors of the panda silk - i like how the pattern shows off the color changes, don't you?

(i used to be a redhead, but never tried sky- diving... not so sure i'd do it now. i don't even like roller-coasters!)

Erin & the "yarn harlot"

wow... Erin's sock is spectacular -
Entrelac in two colors of Panda Silk.
With this kind of gorgeous knitting it is only "fitting: for Erin to get a great pic of herself - AND her sock - with Stephanie Pearl McPhee, the Yarn Harlot!

Erin's blog is Gradschoolknitter

Knit-Team in Action!

Andrea is working on a baby sweater using Panda Silk. The pattern is called Baby Bobbles
and thought you'd like to see!

Andrea is also the knitter who did the smashing jacket a few blog pages back!

blessings, :L

Daffodils!

Seeing this sock has just made my day/week/mood! it's grey here or cold... and not much is stirring - well, a few birds. we're having a dry spring, which doesn't help things come up. and some of my trees are looking thirsty.

This lovely sock "Jacobean" is by Elizabeth - in Panda Silk. It is part of a Sock-Knitters Pentathlon blogpost here.

You can also see more interesting goodies at Elizabeth's store - www.riverknitsyarns.com - i typed in the link and blogger is being bad, keeps telling me it's not a blog, which i know! trying again RiverKnitsYarns where i'm going now to poke around!

blessings, :L
ps the color card for the panda silk is HERE Panda Silk
as elizabeth said, panda silk is not expensive although it's so exquisitely luxurious it seems so!

Pink is For February

Hey Folks,

we are going to have COLOR contests here on the blog for all of 2008.
Pink is for February
Aquamarine & green are for March
Blues are for April
& Lilac is for May. (White is for June, but not using white ink! LOL)

anyway, will keep this post at top of blog until midnight 3/1. Adrienne just reminded me that it's Leap Year! so you have an extra day to send in those entries!

How to enter? email me pics or links to pics of your knits with the colors of the month in Crystal Palace yarn!
Prizes for this month are sock yarn and knitting books and magazines with a drawing from entrants. [We have our first one already! Susi S. using the pink Panda Silk she won in a previous contest!!]

So here are some items featuring Pink and Crystal Palace yarns.
do email me DrlauraAsirius@gmail.com with any pics you have of your PINK knitting with Crystal Palace Yarns - and send me a link to your blog or Flickr or whatever!

This gorgeous bag is just one of many you can find at Crystal Palace yarns FreeBagPatterns
This wonderful design is by Terry Ross, who is also author of a great book called "Twelve Bags Fulled" Terry's book info

Now, this sweet baby hat is one i've just finished knitting, using 2 colors of Puffin. You can see more of the colors here Puffin color cardis just amazing to knit with - like flannel strips - it is soft and warm and comfy and fun and you just love the recipient will love it - and be adorable too!


My Merino-5 Merino-5 Solids chemocap is a kind of almost pink, being burgundy, and i thought
it counted when i went looking... i mean Dark Pink is still pink, yes? and this color makes me think of Roses, Merino-5 printed colors so how pink can you get? Merino-5 is an amazing yarn - so soft and wonderful but with a really good "hand" so you get great stitch definition, as you can see by looking at the cap i made.


Finally, you've seen this sock in previous blogposts I think - made with 2 colors of Panda Silk. Panda Silk colors

What you can see if you look closely, is that the sock is called "ribbons" because of some novel vertical striping - that's not hard but is a lot of fun!

So Think Pink!
blessings, :L

the countdown on Pink is for February Lottery so far

1. Susi S, with panda silk socks

2. Kenyatta, with dragonfly in bamboozle

3. KyleAnn, with kid merino shawl

4. Adrienne, with her Menehune socks in PandaCotton/Panda Wool

5. Rachel and the fuchsia PC socks for her daughter

6. Kala and her sable PC headband

7. Adrienne's newest sock with the pink daisies

** 8. coming soon KyleAnn's pink puffin cabled socks

***9. another Kala - strawberry-lime PC socks [asking permission to post now]

blessings, :L

ooooh! yummy!

Here is our 6th entry into the Pink is for February lottery! [er um, i will count to be sure]
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This is Crystal Palace Panda Silk PandaSilkColors in pink, and soo nice!
Adrienne Fong's newest creation- notice the pink Marguerite daisies too!


I have very little green here - maybe the evergreens? and the seeds and stuff in the house. So this is a double joy to see. Don't you think Adrienne should pick some flowers and wrap them in wet paper towel and then plastic bag and mail to me??? LOL

Oh yes!! you can find Adrienne's blog HERE.
This lovely pattern will be posted on the Crystal Palace website in the near future! Keep an eye out for it

blessings, :L

More More Pink Socks!

The pretty pink sock here at the top is Panda Silk, knit by Cathy Hannigan.
The wee slipper is knit in Puffin
by Nancy Wild, and includes details on how to put in elastic for proper fit.

blessings, :L, laura

More PINK- and hints for coming month's contest colors

The lovely "model" in the pretty pink panda silk sock is Susi's daughter - for whom these socks were a valentine's gift!
how nice is that? !

The lovely Panda Silk Socks shown here were knit by Susi S. - with yarn she won in our Panda Silk drawing! They are to be a surprise valentine's gift for her daughter, so will soon have more pics to share.
Anyway, Pink is for February - contestant #1 is Susi S!!

The 2nd sock is my own design, Panda Cotton/Panda Wool Scallops [have used both for this pattern]. scallops sock and it won the "knitter's seal of approval" in being one of the last sock patterns knit by my beloved friend Debra Chinn.
blessings, :L

ps if you are paying attention - am going to tell you that
"Aquamarine is for March" [pale aqua] and
the color for April is "light blue greens or blue mix for April Showers"
and for May "lilac for spring flowers"
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