School

 I am teaching my mother how to loom knit and it is a blast.  I will be back to posting patterns soon.  I have been computerless.  I have a new one and I am back on line.

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 Ouch I just realized that it is the 14th.  I try to have a pattern for a square posted by the 15th and I have not written it up yet.  Oh well it is going to be what it is.
  I am working on Christmas projects.  That's my excuse and I am sticking with it.  I haven't done a lot of looming.  I have been doing some needle knitting.  You can do both.  I have read some comments that loom knitting can not be compared.  Well needle nose there are some projects that you can not tell which did which.
  I am going to be making a baby afghan for my sister-in-law soon.  I have a lot of time to do that one.  I am hoping I will be able to write up a loom pattern for it to share.
  It is cold here in Texas.  I am enjoying it.  We don't get a lot of cold here.  I live 100 miles from the coast.  It is flat as a pancake in this part of Texas.  If you travel just 25 miles north it turns into gentle hills.  The farther north you go the bigger the hills.  There are all kinds of landscapes in Texas.  Now I sound like a travel Texas add.  LOL

This is what I picked so I wouldn't loose that to the freeze.  Eggplant.  

Tunisian Crochet

 I have restarted my desire to do Tunisian crochet.  I have been playing around with it for years.  I will be posting some of the things that I made soon.  I might even give a few tips and tricks to learn this old craft.
  Tunisian is almost a cross between knit and crochet.  There is no wrong way to do it either, only a few basic rules to follow.  You can make it your own.
  After I learned how to crochet I played around with different things.  I would load up my crochet hook up with loops and take them off.  I had no idea that it had a name, or it was even real stitches.  Then years later I found a long crochet hook at a second hand store.  It was called crochet knit hooks.  The two crochet hooks were connected by a cord.  There were not a lot of directions with it.  There was no internet to search.  It was all trial and error.  It is still trial and error.  Maybe that is why I like it so much.
  So my thought for the day is, make your crafts the way you want.  Make it your own and enjoy it.  If someone tells you that it is wrong, tell them it is my invention.  Like it or lump it.
  Have a super day.

A Day Of Fun

 Yesterday I babysat my grandson.  Fun, he is a blast.  I never thought that having grandchildren would be so great.  There is something different about caring for your grandchildren than when you cared for your children.  I am sure that there are some out there that cringe at the thought of being grandparents.  Not me.  It is wonderful.  I think it has a lot to do with the fact that there is not as much pressure on you to do everything perfect.
  Ok back to the pattern for my second square.

Cast on 34
1) K
2) P
3) K
4) P
5) K 7, P4, (K4,P4) to last 7 K7
6) P3, ( K4,P4) to last 7 K4, P3
7) repeat row 5
8) repeat row 6
9) K3, P1, (K4,P4) to last 6 K3, P3
10) P6, (K4, P4) to last 4 P4
11) repeat row 9
12) repeat row 10
13) K3, P2, ( K4, P4) to last 5 K5
14) P3, K2, (P4, K4) to last 5 P5
15) repeat row 13
16) repeat row 14
as you can now see on the 5th row you will add a purl or knit stitch to the moving rib stitch pattern.
17) K3, P3,( K4, P4) to last 4 K1 P 3
18) P3 K1, ( P4, K4 ) to last 6 P6
19) repeat row 17
20) repeat row 18
21) K3, ( P4,K4) to last 3 K3
22) P7, ( K4,P4) to last 7 P7
23) repeat row 21
24) repeat row 22
keep going in this manner until it reaches 1/2 inch shorter than the length of the first square. then you K 1 row
P 1 row
K 1 row
P 1 row bind off
If you make sure it is the same length as the first square they will all be the same size.

The Fun Square

 I am working on the next square in my afghan.  I am going to call this on ribs on the move.  I starts out just like the first square with a knit four purl rib, then after you complete four rows you move a stitch over.
 Cast on 34
1) K across
2) P across
3) K
4) P
5) K3,(K4, P4) to last 7 K7
6) P3, (K4,P4) to last 7 K4, P3
7) repeat row 5
8) repeat row 6
9) K3,P1,(K4,P4) to last 6 K6
10) P3,K3,(P4,K4) to last 4 P4
11) repeat row 9
12) repeat row 10
13) K3,P2,(K4,P4) to last 5 K5
14) P3,K2,(P4,K4) to last 5 K2, P3
15) repeat row 13
16) repeat row 14
This keep moving one stitch over every 4 rows.  I will post more later.

  What going on here.  It has turned back into summer here.  Hot humid and sunny.  Oh well I live in Texas what can I expect.
  I have been working on a little Tunisian crochet.  Two color work with a cro-hook.  It is a change of pace.  It is so close to crochet but also knit.  It is fun.  It is another one of those things I started years ago before I knew there was a name for it.  I am a yarn addict.  Plain and simple.  I can't seem to get away from it, but why would I want to?
  I am also working on the needle knit square for this afghan also.  I need to get moving.  It is getting close to the 15th.  I have decided that I won't put pressure on myself.  I will get it done in due time.  This afghan doesn't have a time limit.  If anyone wants to follow along they are welcome.  I hope to have enough squares finished to have a nice cough size afghan.  Well I guess I will have to if I don't just put the needle knit and the loom knit ones together.  I might just do that.
 What do you think? I think it would be nice to figure out which square is which. I have loom knit needle knit patterns before.  I make a slipper that worked out well on a loom.  By golly I might just do that.
  I am going to call it a night and put it up for now.  Night all.

The Beginning

 When did you start looming?  I started looming long before there were any looms that I knew of in stores.  There was no Wal-Mart to run to back then.  Makes me seem old.  I grew up in a small town.  More of a community than a town.  Town was ten miles away, and it was a small town.  We had a five and dime store, grocery store Mongomery Wards, a clothing store, drug store and a dollar store.  There wasn't a lot.  I got to go "to town" with my mother, grandmother, sisters and brother and my handicapped aunt.  She stayed in the car with me or my sister.  If we stayed in the car with her we got a treat from our grandmother.  I didn't mind sitting with her.  It gave my time to think and daydream.
  I have always been a bit of a dreamer.  I just didn't know then that you can turn dreams into reality.
  My first taste of loom knitting was when my dad drove nails into a board so I could weave.  There was so internet to get directions so it was trial and error.  That was the fun part of it.
  What I want do is help others to learn and enjoy loom knitting.  There is no wrong way to do it.  What was first taught with the first plastic looms seems almost out of date.  You can make knit and purl stitches, lace and short rows.  The possibilities are endless.
  Ok what is on the loom now it square two of my afghan.  I will have the pattern posted on the 15 of next month.
  Remember, if you can't enjoy what you are doing then it is time to try something else.

Starting Square Two

I am in the test faze of square two.