Never too Young to Learn

My 10 year old grand daughter Lily and her friend Molly came to sleep over tonight. Molly was talking about her grade teaching French knitting and how confusing it was. I told her I could help her and bought out a loom. Blow me down they were both doing it in no time!

Lily's loom knitting.

Molly's loom knitting.

Lily is on the left and Molly on the right.

While they were loom knitting, I was making this hat.

On the move, Crochet Defrosted

Only a few hours previously I was at a stand still, I grabbed some yarn and my hook and began to crochet a hat with the bullion st at the beginning centre, I kept the bullion st going as I increased the rounds, but I got bored with doing the bullion st, so I frogged it and kept 1 round of the bullion st near the beginning. At one stage whilst I was still increasing the rounds of the hat, I stopped almost half way around to have a look and it gave me an idea to make a flap at the front that folded upward, so here it is below with a nice button on each side of the flap. I've seen similar before and liked them.

You can just make out the bullion st here on the top of the hat.

With this blue hat, I made a bit of a granny st in one of the increase rounds.

I crocheted a long band and sewed it around the blue hat and added a silver button.

These were both made with beginning 12 dc and increased in each round until 72 dc.
12-24-36-48-60-72.

I continued a few more rounds and changed the st to the up and down st, which gives a lovely closed decorative st.
When I made the front flap for the red hat, I finished off the hat and re-joined the yarn to the side of the hat and made the flap of 36 dc in the front loops so the flap turned upward, made about 4 rows of dc and left a long thread to sew the flap to the front of the cap.

Standing Still, Crochet Freeze.

The basket of left over yarn and labels sits next to my chair. I dropped a small pair of scissors a few weeks ago and finally found them buried in the basket. Don't throw any thing out before searching through it, you just never know.

I keep pulling out different varieties of yarn to come up with a new project. Go surfing on the internet for inspiration and I'm at a stand still.
Mind you I frogged some projects that I began.

What to do, what to do?

Does this happen to you?

Mikeyssmail Tutorials now Available on DVD!

Not only has Mikeyssmail made his first dvd tutorial for loom knitting, he is giving away 2 signed copies to bloggers world wide!

Go here for the competition.

I found Mikey a few weeks ago and was able to dust off and use my knitting looms for the very first time ever.

I am now constantly viewing and downloading Mikeys tutorials from youtube.

I would really love to be a winner of the DVD so I can just pop Mikey in my DVD player and learn from him with out turning on my computer, which is so slow due to it's age.

Post to Australia please :)