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After 18
years as a "quilter only" I recently started to crochet and knit again.
We were in WalMart one day and my sister and I where walking past the yarn department. She started to go on and on about remembering the Christmas that a friend of my mom's made her and my other sister afghans for gifts. She said she had those afghans for years and years and didn't know what ever happened to them. So I decided to surprise her and make her an afghan for Christmas 2001. I picked some Red Heart variegated yarn to match her furniture and started out to decide on a pattern... I must have bought 5 afghan books with various afghans... most with fancy stitches and rows and rows that you had to count the stitches over and over and really think about what you where doing... I tried afghans that you made in panels and that was awful for me.... ssshhhezzzzz.. I had to start and restart because I missed something along the way... I really wanted something "mindless" that I could lug around with me and not have to think very much where I started or stopped. I decided to just do a "giant" granny square and go around and around and around and around... the variegated yarn made the "pattern" anyway right? I never need to count or change the stitch... it turned out wonderful! I added rows to the"ends" to make it longer. In the meantime, other family members saw the afghan I was working on and "hinted" for one too. So all in all, I ened up making six afghans for Christmas 2001. This year, 2002... well it was not socks, but scarves and hats. Everyone got scarves and hats! They are quick and easy, with no pattern required. I was going to make matching mittens, but no one likes mittens... so why bother? I am however, working on gloves, knitted two at a time on two circular needles, and all the fingers are made at the same time! No little DPN's! Look for that later, when the cobwebs get out of my house. Socks... well, those are birthday gifts. That way I can spread them out over the year. Each pair got better and better and I finally developed my very own toe up pattern. Everyone that sees them wants to know how to make them, so with some coaxing from my friend Lauri, I have started to write out the pattern. She has tested the pattern and gave it a "thumbs up", so I as soon as I work out the final pages, I will have it available for you, if you are interested. The book is finally done and is called, "Queen Kahuna Crazy Toes and Heels", toe up or cuff-down socks, two at a time on two circular needles. I did get my own domain, and it is called "Queen Kahuna Creations", so eventually these pages will move. That is about all the updates for now. I have not updated for a while. Sorry about that, but sometimes "life" gets in the way of my fun. Thank you for visiting... come back soon... |