Inshallah

for ranger_hotsauce's birthday present, I made the flogger from Naughty Needles.



This was very easy and fun to make. It took less than an hour and one spool (fifty feet) of macrame cord, with some left over.

( close-up of handle )

I figured that macrame might be a good way to use some of the really nice yarn leftovers that aren't substantial enough to knit anything with. I started practicing last night. It's really fun, more satisfying than tatting. You just have to keep telling yourself "over, under, over, under."

No finished macrame objects yet, but if you're jonesing to see something, here's a sample I knit up with some silk-wool chunky blend using the Oyster stitch on size 10 needles.


here I'm blocking the bejeezus out of it

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also, I finally finished my Fanning the Flames mittens:


made with Shaeffer Anne yarn and size 1 needles

I love them. Especially the cuffs.

yeah, I knit a Jayne hat.

I am rather proud of it, though. It came out well. I used Paton's Classic Merino Wool, one skein Paprika and two skeins Winter White; four packets of orange kool-aid for the orange and eight packets of lemonade kool-aid for the yellow.

I used this pattern, more or less, except I cast on 80 stitches, did the 2x2 rib with size 8 DPNs and the rest with size 10, and double-stranded the yarn.