A Pink Pair of Felt Clogs pattern by Bev Galeskas knitting by Jo

It all started with a pattern by Biv Galeskas called Felt Clogs, published by Fiber Trends. These clogs looked so comfy I had to have a pair. I knit a pair for my husband, and then knit a pair for me. 

Add some Cascade 220 yarn and size 13 needles and I am set to go. I prepared the yarn, and left it on the coffee table...see picture below.

Next, meet Stella, my yarn loving corgi.

And now see that I have to start over before I have even begun!! Stella had a 

lot of fun while I was at the store:)

Because the yarn was so badly twisted in places I had to cut the yarn and roll it into several balls.

OK, so now I can start on one of the soles of a slipper. I had to make four of these. Two for each slipper for an extra thick sole.

You will have to imagine the knitting I did in the middle of this project. (I guess I decided not to photo journal the whole project.)

Here I have attached the two soles to each slipper and sewn up the inner sole.

Here I have sewn up the outer sole. At this point the slippers would fit a giant. I needed to felt them in a top loading washer. Thanks Christine!!!!

 And here they are on my feet:) Absolutely perfect.

Now even though it was not a very cold Minnesota winter this year I did wear them a few times. However, I may have left them at a friends house. If any of you find them at your house please return them to me. I am pretty sure I will need them for next winter!

The Birthday Shawl is complete! AKA Smokey Quartz Lace Shawl by Barb Kervin for Kollage

In the beginning (April 2011) I received birthday money and went shopping for yarn, of course! I found a bamboo yarn in my favorite Sunny Yellow color, and then looked for a pattern to go with it. I found This Smokey Quarts Lace Shawl, Item 3517, Designed by Barb Kervin for Kollage. I had never knit any kind of lace, I had no idea it would be so tricky!

The pattern is a "simple 4 row repeating pattern". Really, it should not have been so complicated, one of the rows was a straight knit row and one was a straight purl row. The other two rows were quite the challenge. Somehow, I had a really hard time making each row end on the right stitch! So, I think I actually knit 3 shawls if you count all the times I ripped out rows at a time and then reknit them.

Anyway, it is finished:)

OK, since this took me so long to share the news I will put it all in one post, so... start scrolling...

  
I created a provisional cast on (the pink yarn) and started knitting...

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For the last skein, I removed the provisional cast on and knit the final edge.

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Ta Da!!!! It took a bit longer than I thought, but it was worth all the time:) It looks better than I imagined it would. 

More to come...I am going to be at the Yarnover event in Hopkins in a few weeks. So, I have homework to do, and then, with my new knowledge, who knows what is next!! I'm sure it will be yarny and fun:)