My Only Sunshine

Don't forget!

Hey, the odds of winning the Klutz book are pretty good since nobody but one wonderful friend has entered my giveaway.  At least one more person needs to enter since I am giving away two books.  Go here and respond so Klutz can send you this cool book.

Fancy Friendship Bracelets

My friends at Klutz have another book I think you might like.

My Itty Bitty has been totally into friendship bracelets since learning how to make them for a Girl Scout badge a few weeks ago.  She's 8 and has plenty of friends to give bracelets to.

When Klutz offered to send me this book to try out I wondered if they live next door and know my Bitty personally, what great timing.  You know what's better than sending me a free book to try out?  You guessed it, they will send books to my friends too!  Everyone loves a good giveaway.

Here's what Klutz has to say about this book, "New from the Klutz bookshelf!
Introducing Fancy Friendship Bracelets, the original Friendship Bracelet’s new best friend! Klutz started with super-simple instructions for a flock of all-new bracelet designs. We added five different colors of cord and more than 200 sparkling beads. Then we threw in some stylish charms for good measure. The result is even better than we hoped."

How about a look inside.

 Bit and I haven't had time to make all the bracelets in the book yet but the ones we have tried have been fun.  Even though they are called "fancy" bracelets, Bit found them pretty easy to put together.  The finishing instructions and the beads included were my favorite part.

So here are the details - Comment on this post and on December 30 I will pick two winners.  Those two winners will each get a Fancy Friendship Bracelets book from Klutz for themselves and a second book to share with a friend.  Don't forget to give me your email address so I can let you know if you won.  Good Luck!

I Finished Something!!

I recently posted a review, on Craft Critique, of a product I got at CHA this summer.  Now that it is nearly time for CHA winter I thought I should show you what I made.

I made these yoga socks for Bug on my Clover 9" circular needle.  Go take a look at my review.  As you can see, I love this knitting needle! 

I do pretty well with the magic loop method.  I'm even relatively good with two circs.  I just can't seem to get good at DPNs at all.  With just one short needle I can whip up a project so fast that even my short attention span doesn't run out before it is finished.  Shocking isn't it?

Can you see Bug's cute little chill bumps up there?  What a great foot model I have.  She'll roll up her pants and go out in the cold with me for a photo shoot.  She is getting a really cool pair of socks out of the deal.  At least I think they are.

These are knit with Knit Picks sock yarn that is so old that they don't have anything like it on their website anymore.  It's close to this though.

I made up the pattern myself.  It's basically just a tube.  I knit some 1x1 rib, then switched to 4x1 rib.  Then I knit another section of 1x1 rib and I cast off half of the stitches in the middle of the section and cast them back on in the next round.  When I switched back to the 4x1 rib I threw in a few K2tog.  A little more 1x1 rib and I was ready to cast off.

Aren't they cute on my little dancer Bug?  She's most excited to have socks she can wear with her flip flops.  She wants to wear new Croc flip flops no matter how cold it is outside.  Silly girl.