And The Winner Is…..

And the winner is….

Wait, first, I want you to know that I took time out from the Winter Classic game to make this announcement.
The slippers are done! Yes, they are done!
The Mossi Cardi will be finished or near finished at Knit Nite tonight. Pictures coming, I promise. Now, who in the world schedules a Knit Nite on New Years Day?? A better question would be, what better way to start the new year?

Ok, this is how I chose who would get the Knitting Stuff Giveaway.
I called my Ultra Cute 2 year old granddaughter over and told her to point to one.
And she did!

And the winner is….

Hey, you know what? During the intermission between periods in the Winter Classic I should make some of those way cute sheep shaped sugar cookies for knit Nite tonight. Yeah, I think I will do that.
What is the Winter Classic? Well, it’s the 2nd annual outdoor hockey game, this year between non other than my ever favorite Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks. This year they’re at Wrigley Field in Chicago. I knew you’d be floored.
Too cool.
Oh, hold on, intermission’s nearly over.
I’ll be back…..

Ok, ok, enough stalling.
Makayla has pointed to…..

Carol!! I will email Carol to let her know so she can send me her mailing address!
This was so much fun I’m going to have to do it again.

Thanks so much to everyone, but this doesn’t mean you get to go away now. Keep stopping by, keep leaving comments, you never know what I’ll dream up next!

Oh, yeah! Happy New Year! (back to the game…..)

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette.

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up).

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley.

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design.

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like.

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going.

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]

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