Get out your Leaf Blowers

Autumn is here to stay!  My driveway is covered in leaves and my flowers need cut back.  The weather is cooler and the nights are longer. 


My neice is out of the hospital and recovering at home.  It looks as though she will make a full recovery!  Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers.  It's her third birthday today!


My boys are keeping me so busy these days!  This includes my DH.  They are playing football and soccer and Daddy is coach for two of the three of them. Doesn't leave much time for knitting.  I don't have any WIP pictures to take as of now.  I've pretty much stalled out and need to get my rear in gear. 


I'll leave this post with a picture of my youngest son.  He's 5 and his name is Kyler.  This is the pumpkin that he picked on his field trip hayride.  He was so proud of it!  My Mr. Handsome :)

Be Thankful...

My 2 year old neice is in the ICU. She was injured when a TV fell on her. How many items do you have that are not anchored to the wall that could be a hazard to your little one? Give your little one/ones an extra kiss tonight and be thankful that they are happy and healthy!


I finished a pair of longies


And I have a WIP picture of a cabled winter romper that I'm working on for a custom

Another WIP

This is going to be for a future stocking.  It's Shy Violet's "Airplane" colorway with some matching blue Cestari Superfine.  I'm knitting it into some Bayside Britches and have some super cute matching custom buttons from Corina of Ayarina's Designs. 

It's a pot roast day!

With this cooler fall weather coming, I decided to throw a pot roast in the crock pot and take it easy today.  I had to rip 8 inches back on the custom blue/white romper that I was knitting.  I forgot that the customer had requested cables down the sides.  Sucks to be me!  It will look so darling when it's done.  

I have finished the pair of longies that I was knitting and also knit up a cute little beanie hat for my neice.  She's only about a month old.  Love knitting the itty bitty things.  Pics to come soon.  It's rainy and ugly outside so the camera will not be coming out today.

 

Is it fall already???

Wow!  I haven't posted on my blog since February???  I need to get better at this.  What I've been working on...

A custom pair of longies that I dyed.  The colors are black, avacado, butter and navy blue.  I quite like the way these are turning out. 

I also have this set stocked in my store!

The colorway is Pixie Stix with custom buttons from Ayarina's Designs. 

Butterfly Sundress almost ready for release!

I'm super excited to introduce my Butterfly Sundress.  Look for the pattern to be released very soon!

Butterfly Stitch in the round TUTORIAL

I've seen a few tutorials on how to knit the butterfly stitch flat but none on how to knit it ITR.  This was frustrating to me when I would need it and couldn't figure out how to get those loose strands knit instead of purled.  Well, when I finally did figure it out, I had to take pictures and share!

I hope this helps someone in the knitting world.  Enjoy!

Butterfly Stitch "in the round" Tutorial.  Here is the pattern portion of it

For rounds 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9

 *Starting at marker, bring yarn to front of work.  With working yarn in front, slip 5 stitches purlwise.  Bring yarn to back of work.  Knit 5 stitches.  Repeat from * to end

For rounds 2, 4, 6, and 8  Knit

Round 10

Knit 2, *knit the loose strands and the next stitch together, knit 7.  Repeat from * to last 7 stitches, k7.

For rounds 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19

*Knit 5, bring yarn to front of work.  With working yarn in front, slip 5 stitches purlwise.  Bring yarn to back of work.   Repeat from * to end

For rounds 12, 14, 16, and 18  Knit

Round 20

Knit 7, knit the loose strands and the next stitch together, *k9, knit the loose strands and the next stitch together.  Repeat from * to last 2 stitches, k2

And the picture tutorial:

Make sure you have enough stitches on your needles to be divisible by 10.  PM and join your knitting.

 


1.  After you place your marker, bring your working yarn forward as if you were going to purl-but don't purl.




2.  Slip the next 5 stitches "purlwise" and "wrap" your yarn around those stitches by bringing your yarn to the back of your work as if you were going to knit.




3.  Knit the next 5 stitches.  In the picture, I've shown only the next stitch knit, but knit 5 :)



4.  You will be knitting every other round




5.  This is what it will look like before you begin to butterfly your loose strands.




6.  Take your right needle and insert it under the loose strands as if to knit



7.  And insert the right needle into the next stitch to knit it and the strands together
(I started to get lazy....I stopped numbering my pictures!)




8.  Wrap the stitch to knit it




9.  (it gets tricky here)  Bring your needle with the new stitch on it (the right needle) back down through the loose strands and slip the stitch on the left needle off.  If you don't slip that stitch off the left needle, you'll be creating an extra stitch.




10.  When you bring your right needle back up, it'll have that beautiful little stitch on it!

See how pretty it is?