Free Fingers! (warm hands)

so i needed gloves to go with my hat :) but i'm always texting or whatever on my phone so i need my fingers free. i made these with the left over yarn from the hat, same skein, yay. they are made in one piece but with a seam that is magically hidden because of the pattern stitch.. well at least it doesn't show too much anyway.

now this is what husbands are good for :D taking pictures of hands! lol. i couldn't get a pic of my own hands so i made my husband get one for me. okok, enough type, more pattern!

Materials:

1 skein Red Heart Shimmer

scissors

size G hook (US)

Pattern: (make 2)

CH 38 (or to desired length, this starting chain determines how far up your arm the warmy-things will go)

1. HDC in 3rd CH from hook and in each across, turn at end of row.

2. *NOTE*- "normal" crochetiers make a ch2 at beginning of row to stand as the first hdc, but i don't do normal :) i make a ch1 and then hdc in the very first stitch. the ch1 is never crocheted on, it's just to fluff out the ends of my rows cuz i hate those weird holes that happen with chains that stand as stitches.. anyways, 2. CH 1, HDC in back loop of each HDC across, turn at end of row.

3-18. CH 1, HDC in back loop of each HDC across.

my arms and hands are rather skinny, you need to get the piece to wrap around your hand snugly but comfortably, so you might need more rows (do them in 2's if you can, if not the joining will be a little different looking)

DO NOT FASTEN OFF YARN yet :) fold the piece lengthwise with right side facing you. those ridges that happened from the back loops are going to help you conceal the seam ;)

i find that a CH 1 before starting to sl st with un-unfastened yarn helps my first sl st not be all unravely... anyways

SL ST edges together like this: match the stitches up and SL ST the first 10 ones loosely. then you will make the thumb thingie like this:

CH 1 (just to get some height for your new stitches), HDC in each of next 7 sts. Turn warmy thingie in progress so that the stitches you just made are facing you, so you can make stitches of equal number on the other side (this is where you gotta count, but only to 7, phew!) just hop over once you have the correct calculation, making 7 HDC in each of the mirroring stitches. Join with SL ST to top of first HDC.

Now you get to work in rounds! Make 2 more rounds of HDC, then make one round of SC if you like. i did it cuz i like how it looks but it's not essential.

NOW fasten off yarn after the last round has been secured.

then fasten the yarn to the stitches closest to the new thumby piece you just made, and continue to SL ST in the same direction you were originally going with the first 10 SL ST's. Fasten off yarn when you get to the end, and voila! i hope it looks like the picture a little bit!

This is my original pattern, please do not sell it or distribute it in any way for money. Feel free to use the pattern for personal or charitable use, and also to print out copies for the same purpose. PLEASE DO NOT SELL MY PATTERN, it is free for everyone. And please feel free to share my links.

Mari

Simply Beanie

Hey, look! A pattern! While i have been trying to remember how i made a couple knitted hats, i crocheted a totally different one :)
i found my app called Catch really helpful with note taking so i could remember all the steps i took to make my hat... i used to only use it to make lists of books, yeah i'm a monster of boring.

it's a really easy hat that only uses CH, SC (and sl st to join, but if you like to do the spiral thingie with no joins then hardly even that i guess). i made it using Red Heart Shimmer, which is kinda thin, it's labeled as medium weight yarn but it's skinnier than my other medium stuff.. please crochet LOOSELY if you use the same yarn to make this hat or it will be TIGHT
i used a G hook, if you have a tight tension use a bigger hook

Materials:
1 skein Red Heart Shimmer (or other med yarn)

Size G hook (US)

Scissors

Pattern:

CH 4, join with SL ST to form ring

1. CH 1, make 12 SC in ring, join with SL ST to top of first SC

2. CH 1, make 2 SC in each SC around, join with SL ST to top of first SC in round

3. CH 1, make 1 SC in each SC around, join with SL T to top of first SC in round

4. Repeat round 3

5. CH1, make 1 SC in first SC, 2 SC in next. Make (1 SC in next SC, 2 SC in next), around. Join with SL ST to top of first SC in round

6. CH 1, make 1 SC in each of first 2 SC, 2 SC in next. Make (1 SC in each of next 2 SC, 2 SC in next) around. Join with SL ST to top of first SC in round

7. Repeat round 3

8. CH 1, make 1 SC in each of first 3 SC, 2 SC in next. Make (1 SC in each of next 3 SC, 2 SC in next) around. Join with SL ST to top of first SC in round

9. CH 1, make 1 SC in each of first 4 SC, 2 SC in next. Make (1 SC in each of next 4 SC, 2 SC in next) around. Join with SL ST to top of first SC in round

10 & 11. Repeat round 3

12. CH 1, make 1 SC in each of next 5 SC, 2 SC in next. Make (1 SC in each of next 5 SC, 2 SC in next) around. Join with SL ST to top of first SC in round

13 to 40(or to desired length). Repeat round 3

Fasten off ends, enjoy beanie!

This is my original pattern, please do not sell it or distribute it in any way for money, it is free for personal and charitable use. Please feel free to share links to my patterns and/or print pages for personal and charitable use

<-- Mari (with the creepy eyeballs and the awesome hat)

Mrs. Crazyface

Wow i have really got to stop abandoning my internets :P sorry about that.
For a while i've just been off in insane-o-land... busy? Not really "busy" but eh, "preoccupied".. unoccupied too, for 3 months. (had to get a new job)
Since my last post i've gotten a new job, graduated fake college (with honors), and gotten real married. i've still been yeening but i haven't been patterning :( but i have determined to put up pictures of what i've made so far at least. one of these days i'll get this blogging thing right and i'll do it consistently. yep. here is a public link to my recent projects (facebook link) and here is a pic of me and my husband :D after we got married and went to go eat... we were both blind from flashes on cameras

Love, Mari

Sweet Pea

i found a tiny amount of red heart soft yarn in my "stash" (which is really just a cardboard box with LIVE PLANTS written on it full of yarn) and i really wanted to use it. but it was such a little bit.. so i decided to make a baby thingie. it's not a sweater, it's a shirt... it looks kinda like a kimono to me but i dunno.

heres a picture of the edging, crab stitch (reverse sc) which is totally optional in the pattern but i'm friggin obsessed right now.

so anyway, the pattern, yes?

Materials :

soft WW yarn (about 2-3 oz)

US aluminum size F hook

scissors

ch 43

• 1) dc in 4th ch from hook and in each of next 4. make V stitch (dc, ch1, dc) in next st. dc in each of next 6 sts, make V stitch in next. dc in each of next 12 dc, V stitch in next. dc in each of next 6 sts, V stitch in next. dc in each of last 6 sts.
• 2) turn, ch3 to count as first dc. dc in each dc, V stitch in each ch1 space.
• 3-5) repeat Row 2
• 6) turn, ch3 to count as first dc, dc in each dc up to the first ch1 space. dc in ch1 space. skip across all the next dc's to the 2nd ch1 space, dc in ch1 space and in each dc across to 3rd ch1 space. dc in ch1 space, skip across all the next dc's to 4th ch1 space. dc in ch1 space and in each remaining dc. this makes the arm holes
• 7) now instead of turning, make a slip stitch to bride the last stitch of the previous row to the first ch3 of the same previous row. ch3 to count as first dc and you will now be working in rounds.. dc in each dc around, join with sl st to top of beginning ch3.
• 8-15) ch3, dc in each dc around, join with sl st to top of beginning ch 3.
  at end of round 15 do not fasten off
  work 1 round of crab stitch (reverse sc)
• fasten off and attach yarn to neck and armholes respectively to repeat crab stitch edging process

this is my original pattern, please do not sell the pattern since i provide it for free here. print a copy for personal or charitable use, thanks.

Mari

My Friggin Update

uhh it's been a while eh? :) i been busy. school is taking a big chunk of my time even when i'm not at school... lotsa homework. but hey i'm almost done! i dunno whether to be happy or worried though. not because i can't get through it or i don't think i can get and hold a job in that area, but because i always get a "im going to be sick in my stomach for a couple weeks regardless of my capabilities and the actual effects of change" feeling when things for finally actually do change. like when i first moved here i didn't tell anybody but i thought everyday i was gonna have a heart attack or an aneurysm and fall over dead. yeah. k so i'm a weirdo, but we already knew that.

anyways also besides school being almost done, paulie and i moved from that detestable "apartment" behind the salon... the salon wasn't even there when we moved. the "landlady" let the sewer backup and the pipes remain unfixed for a week, so the lady who was renting the building for business up and left. well, of course. we at that time were in the process of getting the heck out of there. and we moved to an awesome place with a pool and tennis courts and a playground, where the maintenance people actually do stuff instead of snoop around uninvited and unannounced, banging on stuff and sawing things on into the night. also now we dont have to worry about running over high school and middle school kids who like to "skateboard" in our friggin driveway even though they don't: a) live there, or b) know how to skateboard.

i think now is a great time for some pictures!

here is a dress i made while in school, on a doll i got at the dollar store. it's crochet and i never wrote out the pattern.. that bulge in there is a panty under her dress that was too big so i nixed it later

this is a baby sweater i made before we moved, it's supposed to be for my mom's friend's baby but i'm not sure if she ever gave it to her.. the pattern is one i found online, i'll have to look on my desktop (on laptop now) later and link it. Here it is! it's from Deb's Crafts page :)

paulie saw some geese crossing the street, they are cuuuute

saw these cookies at Pick n Save... they look like the water tower in Calumet City (and paulie-clones)

spensive ginger ale...

hat i made for mom.. it's knit and i'm sure i can recreate it for a pattern post...

remember that post with the "my brother with his trophy" thing? he was in the NEWSPAPER and didn't tell us. mom found this in his room... he's the guy in the middle holding up the trophy

heres my mom and my face. my face is really fat, it looks like a giant potato next to my mom's :)

here's me and paulie at culver's. this was moving day i think, and we took my mom to eat.. guess what she got? FRIES!! and then she ate them like a little bird... that's why i had to hold her down and force feed her a nice big steak that night

this is the day after we started, we went to Sammy's, a Chicago style hot dog place in Wisconsin. it was very cool and the hot dogs were awesome

here's me and paulie being cute. we had just got all the boxes and furnitures in and found a spot with ok lighting :)

ya, we felt pretty good about getting it all unloaded finally

then they decided we needed new carpet :) wahooo! lol. this isn't how it looked when we moved in (lol that would be crazy) this is after they tore up the old carpet before we got nice new one.

yep yep.

my next post hopefully wont be too long from this one..

:)

Mari

Slouchybaby

i made a baby version of the Kinda-Slouch hat :) by accident. when i saw how cute it was i couldn't unravel it. the brimmy thing is stretchy so i'm thinking it would probably fit a baby from birth/few months to a year. depending on the stretch o' hat and the size o' head.

i used US size 9 dpn's (set of 4) and a tiny bit of Caron Simply Soft. i apparently had forgotten that i told myself not to use this yarn for knitting because it snags on friggin everything. but its soft and cute so i dunno, fooled again.

here goes the pattern :)

cast on 45

distribute evenly onto 3 needles. (15 sts each)

join into circle (eh, triangle) being careful not to twist the stitches (because that will give u a sort of hare-lip or curtain effect which supersucks)

work in (k1, p1) around, this makes the moss stitch pattern. do this for about an inch or an inch and 1/2

switch to stockinette stitch, which is just plain knitting around.

on the second round of knitting, start the increases. there are only 2 rounds of increases & they are identical:

*(k1, m1) 3 times. knit thru to the last 4 sts on needle and work (k1, m1) 3 times. knit last stitch on needle*, repeat from * to * 2 times more.

after both rounds of increases you will have 81 stitches total

continue to work evenly in stockinette stitch until hat measures total of about 7 inches or more.

then start the decreases :

1. (k next 7 sts, k2tog) around

2. (k next 6 sts, k2tog) around

3. (k next 5 sts, k2tog) around

4. (k next 4 sts, k2tog) around

5. (k next 3 sts, k2tog) around

6. (k next 2 sts, k2tog) around

7. (k2tog) around

at the very end you will have only 3 sts total. slip these onto one needle and knit them together. i put an extra sl st after the k3tog cuz it made a soft point and also reinforced the closure of stitches.

fasten off yarn, weave in ends.

this is my original pattern. do not sell this pattern, or distribute in any form of publication or email. link to my pages to share. feel free to print out a copy of the patterns for your personal use.

Mari

Mouse Ears Hat (edited but not "fixed")

**An Edit In Response To Many Replies:

10/10/2011 -- I made this hat intending it to fit a 2 year old child, but people are coming up with a much smaller size. While my version fit its victim snuggly, different hands create in different sizes. This pattern was posted for fun and for free, after I made it for one specific child with no other size adjustments. I'm not a professional designer and there's no refunds on freely shared ideas, all I can say is I wanted to share, sorry that it's not perfect. **

it's supposed to be able to fit a 2 yr old, but i don't have a 2 yr old on hand to see if it really does :) i usually don't care if nobody comments on my posts but it would be helpful to me if those who try this hat would tell me what size it actually is. anyways here's the pattern (crochet!!!)

Materials used:

1 or 2 oz of WW yarn (i used caron one pound)

Size I hook (i used US size aluminum)

scissors

Hat:

ch 2

1- make 8 sc in 2nd ch from hook. join with sl st to top of first sc.

2- make 2 sc in each sc around. join with sl st to top of first sc. (16 sc around)

3- make (sc, 2sc in next) around. join with sl st to top of first sc. (24 sc around)

4- make (sc in each of next 2 sc, 2sc in next) around. join with sl st to top of first sc. (32 sc around)

5- make (sc in each of next 3 sc, 2sc in next) around. join with sl st to top of first sc. (40 sc around)

6- make (sc in each of next 4 sc, 2sc in next) around. join with sl st to top of first sc. (48 sc around)

7-19) make sc in each sc around. join with sl st to top of first sc. (48 sc around)

20- work one row of reverse sc.

Fasten off yarn, weave in ends.

Ears: (make 2)

ch 2

1- make 8 sc in 2nd ch from hook. join with sl st to top of first sc.

2- make 2 sc in each sc around. join with sl st to top of first sc. (16 sc around)

3- make (sc, 2sc in next) around. join with sl st to top of first sc. (24 sc around)

4- make (sc in each of next 2 sc, 2sc in next) around. join with sl st to top of first sc. (32 sc around)

5- make sc in each sc around. join with sl st to top of first sc. (32 sc around)

Fasten off yarn, leaving a long tail to sew ears to hat.

Enjoy!

this is my original pattern, please do not sell. do not redistribute in any form of publication or email. link to my pages to share. print out a copy for your personal use if desired.

Mari