Crafts

I love this bamboo stitch pattern.  I wanted to make something with it, and it has (sort of) been mitt weather here in Florida, so I thought a bamboo mitt would be fun.  Usually when I think of something I try to find out if anyone else has made it, and when I first searched I didn’t find much (there are lots of mitts made of knit fabric containing bamboo out there, and it’s almost as tough to search for the stitch pattern for similar reason).  I did forget to look at Ravelry at first, which had a few things with the stitch pattern, including these bamboo field mitts.  I had something just a bit different in mind, and I’d found the perfect yarn.  I like knitting in the round, but I wanted to make something a bit simpler and

I’m on a quest for cute crocheted cat patterns.  Unfortunately, my definition of cute – when it comes to cats at least – doesn’t seem to match most everyone else’s.  Someday I’ll design my own, but I’m not that experienced with crochet yet. 

In the meantime I did come across Puchitomato’s pattern for a roly poly cat amigurumi and I ran with it.  When I was making the first one (blue, green and yellow), I thought of how neat it would be to have them be the main decoration on a Christmas tree.  Being between the size of a baseball and a softball, it wasn’t quite going to work for our small tree (it would be great near the bottom of a very large tree). 

My yarn stash was starting to be everywhere, rather than in the boxes meant for it, so it was time to reorganize.  While I was winding the skeins into balls, I thought of these yarn tags to mark which ball is what.  It will be easier to choose a yarn for a project or buy more without having to keep track of all the ball bands (I have a bag with many in it, but I have, of course, already lost some). Some of my yarn looks pretty similar to each other as well, but the difference can be important (a yarn with some wool vs. an almost identical yarn sans wool).

To make yarn tags you will need: