Green or Light Aqua are for March

Hi
this post will be at the top of the blog for all of march 08, reminding you about the contest!
anything you have knit in crystal palace yarns, in aqua or green, is eligible!

the sarong above was knit with Waikiki and you can see the sample card HERE=link
blessings, L

how's this for dedication?

Deb B has this gorgeous sock going!
we're not supposed to look at her toes, LOL.
pretty, humm?


this is the final entry in the "Green & Aqua for March" CPY contest.
we do have several entries... so will draw names once the month ends!

next month, April, is blue!

blessings, :L

Julia's Thuja Blues

Julia, whose blog is FairfaxKnitter
knit these pretty Carolina blue socks with Merino 5.
Can you guess what team they're rooting for?

blessings, :L

Kay's socks!

Hi -
this colorway is just gorgeous, isn't it?
Kay (TMM14) knit them with ultramarine Panda wool.
The pattern is by sockbug, and is called River Rapids

Good luck Kay!

I Love Gansey

Another entry for the March contest!!

This pretty thing is by Noella - panda wool, ultramarine, and it uses the "I love gansey" pattern from the "Six_Sox" knitalong group.
If you want to see more - look for Noallitin on Ravelry or on Flickr!

blessings, :L

oh my! yummy!

Isn't this great?! lovely photo really sets it off artistically.
this creation is by Kala, who's blog is Vegan Craftastic
the egg uses Crystal Palace Panda Cotton
and don't you just loooooove the bunny?
Designed by Cathy L, he's Calorie-free
go see more! there's a pattern there for chicks too!
oh the bunny was made with Crystal Palace Merino Frappe

i confess to having a hard time finding either sugar-free candy or dark choc for our easter baskets. we wanted a dark choc bunny.... wwwahhh!

andrea's bag

Andrea P just knit this lovely Taos bag, designed by Terry Ross.
and it's the right color for this month's contest too!

blessings, :L

horcrux

This pretty sock was knit by Adrienne Fong with Panda wool.
see blog bellybuttonknits

Adrienne is a talented designer who's pretties are on the free sock pages at
CrystalPalace.

ps this is entry #3 for march

bianca's 2nd march entry

This sock is a design by Bianca Becker, and uses Panda wool


This is the sock design that will be in the next Friendly Socks book.
Bianca's blog is Lansingerland

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!

Bianca's socks

Hi folks
this is entry #1 in the March is for Aqua [or green] CPY contest.

The sock is by Bianca Becker, whose blog is lansingerland!

The lovely design is called "Jerry"

Bianca's sock was knit with Panda Wool Panda Wool Color card

blessings, :L

Winners! Pink is for February Contest

We have 3 winners!

Kala has won 2 pink sk of CPY yarn, her choice.
Adrienne has won Vicki Square's new book "knit kimono"
and
Susi has won a priority mailer of knitting magazines [some older] from my stash

do look at their lovely knits below!

blessings, :L

Pretty Pink Puffin

The story of these slippers can be read HERE-KyleAnn's blog ... a generous gift to a cold-footed new mom!

Puffin is a very intriguing yarn- soft flannel strips with a good body so it can handle difficult or heavy structural elements. I personally enjoy how it feels to touch and to knit and of course it's fun to work on something that's quick too!
You can see more colors of puffin HERE at Crystal Palace Yarns

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

Kala knits!

Found some great new "show and tell" for you at the VegancraftasticBlog blog.

Kala has knit the gorgeous Quant headband using Crystal Palace Panda cotton Panda Cotton color cardin Sable , and is also knitting boyfriend socks in Panda Cotton using the chocolate almond colorway.

nice knits hmmm?!

blessings, :L

i love these!

needlelittlelove
the design is called the 'Pour Moi' wrister - knit with Bamboozle in the Rainforest colorway, which is also snazzy.
I have to get some of this yarn!!

the designer modified a wrister to be fingerless gloves - as described above.

blessings, :L

pretty panda cotton

Neurotic Needles and the great Panda Cotton socks she knit for college daughter.
these are the Florida feet.

blessings, :L, laura

Pink is for Rachel's daughter

I love the story of these socks! The picture is from Rachel's Flickr . She wrote me that the yarn is panda cotton, and that the color was picked by her 3-yr old! That's one great girl, hummm?
Rachel writes:
"The ruffle is reverse engineered from Lucy Neatby's Cool Socks, Warm Feet. I knit my socks toe up and the ruffle was written top down. The single sock has been sitting as a shop sample at my lys. I told the owner that I would need to claim
it when the second sock is done. Good thing for my daughter that I always
knit her socks so big and the panda cotton is stretchy. (I think I will
be getting 2 pairs from a 50 g ball).

So Rachel is now our 5th entry in this month's Colour contest!

another color heard from

This is Marcelo, at 23 months. Very photogenic, hmmm?
the lovely new outfit uses Bunny Hop Bunny Hop free crochet pattern
you can see a lot more wonderful colors too bunny hop for this luscious part angora yarn!

Pink is for Patternworks and Adrienne Fong

These pretty "Menehune" socks Menehune socks Free pattern were designed and knit by Adrienne Fong Bellybutton Knits, using Panda Cotton and they work equally well with Panda wool.

What's even neater is that the socks were featured in the most recent patternworks catalog on the 2-page crystal palace spread and i'm so happy they picked her! (maybe my turn will come one of these days ... slightly off-topic but WHY is "envy" green?)



Adrienne is entry # 4 in our Pink is for February contest!

blessings, :L

This is a good month for cute baby things like this Bamboozle Striped Baby Jacket Free Pattern

I also like the idea of this pretty capelet to keep warm! Lately I'm finding i'm at the hot/cold age - never just right! Aran Marl Capelet Free Pattern

What do you think of the pretty pink bag handles?? I just love how they set off the colors!

The bag uses both Blippity and Cotton Chenille for this yummy look.

more later!
blessings, :L

Pink is for Peggy Shawl

So here's our 3rd entry into the Pink is for February Contest. This is the Peggy Shawl another superb Jackie ES pattern Heartstrings which was knit by KyleAnn - and more details can be found at KyleAnn'sBlog

the yarn is one of my faves from Crystal Palace KidMerino It's just amazingly soft and well behaved and pretty pretty pretty!
Oh, the colorway here is "strawberries - limes". luscious!!

blessings, :L

I'm in the Pink - what did the groundhog see?

You know, i forgot to pay attention to the groundhog this year. That's feb 2 isn't it? so what was the verdict? it's a balmy 45 F here, and the snow is melting - birds are atacking the feeders - and i'm dreaming of garden catalogs and summer melon.
This is the party lace top free pattern

The yarn does all the work for you here with this Taos Beret taos beret free pattern


Bamboozle Sampler bamboozle sampler free pattern


Cotton Chenille "Kitschy Apron" ApronFreePattern


Aran leaf top Aran Leaf top free pattern.

The pinks and patterns i'm finding just amaze me... all inspirational!
what do you think?
blessings, :L

Dragonfly by Kenyatta !!

This is just soooooooo amazing. First, i think dragonflies are very very neat- just beautiful to watch!
Then second, they are lucky too!
The pics here are from Kenyatta's Flickr account kaj159599.

The cloth is knit with Bamboozle in Sprite Green and Fuchsia Bamboozle Color Card and i confess that it's a great example of this technique - sure makes me want to knit it myself!!

Bamboozle is 55% Bamboo, 24% Cotton, 21% Elastic Nylon and is a joy to knit with - no i'm not biased! LOL.
Seriously, it's the yarn i'd use for slightly stretchy socks and all sorts of fun things. The elastic is just enough to provide a wee bit of give but not enough to mess up the gauge - you just knit normally and ignore it!

So Kenyatta is #2 in our Pink is February contest!! Good Luck!
blessings, :L, laura