Life is crazy

There are just not enough hours in the week, before I started working I logged onto the net everyday, but working has meant that, I am now only logging on about once a week, so little time...
Loom knitting definately has to come before the pc or internet, so more of my free time has been spent loom knitting before anything else..
As soon as I get some batteries for my camera, Iwill load some images of my latest creations..
In the last couple of months I have knitted a couple of hats and 3 x 20 inch dolls..the dolls are from the 'loom knitters circle magazine', the christmas doll pattern, my dolls are dressed in hand knitted (needles) outfits (knitted by my Mum), we have a total blast, deciding what colour hair, eyes and outfits they are going to have, the latest one is a peroxide blonde dressed all in black with thigh high boots laced with pink laces..
The hats are, 1 is a baseball style cap-it has a brim like a baseball cap- knitted on the green long loom using the purple clips..I love these clips..another hat has a frilly fringe and ends in a long thin peice with a pompom on the end..
I will definately post photos once I take them...which should been very soon..I hope..

Hats Galore

I did my volunteer work today at our local tourist information centre, gee I get some comments about my loom knitting, it always starts with 'What are you doing?' followed by lots of AAHH's once I explain and give a small demo.

The hat in the photo to the left was created using a 'Picot Cast On' which Brenda GA created, the pattern for the Picot Cast On can be found at Brenda's Blog-click on the 'Loom Lady' link which can be found on the right hand side of this page.

Once the Picot Cast On is complete the rest of the hat is knitted using the e-wrap knit stitch, once it is long enough, just cast off using the gather method.

The flower was created using 3 different coloured felts and a ladybird button. There are 6 ladybird buttons stitch on the hat in various places.

This hat is a variation of the first hat, I just used a contrasting yarn for the Picot cast on edge and the flower was made from an I-Cord which was from the same yarn and then just stitched and shaped into place.

Hope you like them!!