The "Grace Ann Mitts"

 

These fingerless mitts are my Grace Ann Mitts on Ravelry.  The pattern is available on Ravelry.

These are available for purchase, unless they are marked SOLD.

 Medium

 Medium

 

 Small

The "Janet Lou Mitts" fingerless mitts

 

These fingerless mitts are my Janet Lou Mitts on Ravelry.  The pattern is available on Ravelry.

These are available for purchase, unless they are marked SOLD.

 Large

 Medium

 X- Small

 Small

The "Square Off Mitts"

 

These fingerless mitts are my Square Off Mitts on Ravelry.  The pattern is available on Ravelry.

These are available for purchase, unless they are marked SOLD.

The "Lainie Lee Fingerless Mitts"

 

These fingerless mitts are my Lainie Lee Fingerless Mitts on Ravelry.  The pattern is available on Ravelry.

These are available for purchase, unless they are marked SOLD.

SOLD

The "Doris Lee" fingerless mitts

These fingerless mitts are my Doris Lee Mitts on Ravelry.  The pattern is available on Ravelry.

All of these mitts have been SOLD.

 

Miscellaneous Fingerless Mitts

 

These fingerless mitts are One Of A Kind (OOAK) that were knit while working on pattern designs.

These are available for purchase, unless they are marked SOLD.

 X-Small

 Large

 Large

 SOLD

 SOLD

 Average

 SOLD

 SOLD

 SOLD

 Large

 Average

Teenage and Adult Size Fairisle Earflap Hats

A few on my fairisle designs. This first one is the largest I have knit using the cotton tweed DK yarn. The cotton tweed is knit with US5 needles. This hat is 128 stitches around. This was a custom order. Love the colors.

Next is another custom order, yep, they picked the colors.
This one is for an 11 year old, she wanted neon, but I don't have any neon yarn. Bright is the next best thing. This one is 120 stitches, as most of the rest of them are. The 120 stitch hats fit most teenagers and adults.

Next Lindsey (daugher-in-law) is modeling another 120 stitch hat.
The design on this one is a little more simple
(one of my first original fairisle designs).

The next one is an 'open' heart design.
Different fairisle heart design than I did here in a cap without earflaps.

Although it does not look like it, the red/black and the purple/green hats are the same design. One is using only 2 colors, while the purple one is using 4 colors. Notice on the red/black one I did not make the ties the standard length. Since it was a gift to an 11 year old I didn't think she would be tying them anyway. Just being different. Oh, and these are also the same design as the hot pink one above. Color changes the whole look. The heart design above also has the short tie, but only one on each side where the red/black one has two on each side (as you can see).

This one (also being modeled my Lindsey) is knit using Encore Worsted, so the stitch count on it is different because of the larger needles.

And this last one was a custom order, with it I used Simple Soft. Love the feel of this one, and love the way the navy and white looks together. This one was to match a school uniform.

Now back to a new design for a new fairisle hat.
You never know what you will see here, so come back to visit soon.

Elijah's Fairisle Cap

This fairisle cap is for Elijah, the son of Pam and Jimmy Russell.
I worked with Pam until I retired in March.

The fairisle design is my own. I mixed 2 different yarns that are very similiar for this one. The yarn I have used for these earflap caps in the past is Cabin Fever, and all but the background (main color) is still Cabin Fever Tweed DK. The background yarn is Kraemer Yarns Tatamy Tweed DK. I cannot tell any difference in the 2 yarns as I knit with it.

Can't wait to see Elijah in his hat.
And yes, I will eventually get the fairisle purse totally finished
so I can show it to you.

Double Heart Fairisle Hat

This design starts with a 3 color cast on.
Then has a K1, P1 rib using the two solid colors.
The varigated yarn in this cap has shades of pink and gray.

The design is knit totally in the round. I normally decrease ending with 8 stitches, but this time I divided the stitches by 10 to plan my decrease so it ends with 10 stitches. The look is a little different, but only enough for a knitter to notice.

Update on Fairisle Purse

Just a quick update on my fairisle purse.
This is knit from the top down, so what you are seeing
is the top half of the purse.

Beginning of my next design

This is what I am currently working on.
A new design, rolling around in my head,
I started it Tuesday morning, but I have torn
it out once already. That is just part of designing.

It does begin with a 2 color cast on which I really like.
After 6 rounds then it has a herringbone braid,
which you see here close to the needles.

Audrey at 5 1/2 months

Audrey, is now 5 1/2 months. We were checking out a hat I knit her a couple of weeks after she was born. It won't fit her much longer, but it still fits ok right now.

I had to include a second one of Audrey to show this cute little 'sun top' I knit her this week. We were trying it on yesterday just to see if my design work turned out ok.