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Beam And Read – Awesome!

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I’ve had the opportunity to try out this light and peeps, It. Is. Awesome!!

Of course I’ve used the Beam and Read for my knitting, but also reading late at night and early morning. Then, just the other night, I grabbed it and took it out to the chicken coop when I heard some commotion out there.

The next time I went to use it, it wasn’t there, seems hubby decided it made a very nice addition to his “auto fixing arsenol”. Well, you’ll be happy to know that I’ve since re-claimed it.

My knitting kit includes the Denise cloth knitting needle case, which also has room for extra scissors, a tape measure, stitch and row markers, extra dpns, row counters, even a crochet hook.  And now… this Beam and Read light lives there too, part of my permanent collection (and safely hidden away from hubby, who has already asked if he can have his own!).

The Beam and Read is from ASF Lightware Solutions. It includes led lights that never run out, and runs on standard AA batteries. Awesome product, highly recommended, and now I’ll have to go find another one. You can get yours here: http://www.readinglight.com/or at Amazon (search for Beam and Read)

Comments

  1. “I’ve had the opportunity to try out this light and ladies, It. Is. Awesome!!”

    There are male knitters that read this blog.

  2. Ah… doesn’t it move up and down as you breathe? I think that would drive me nuts trying to keep focus. Or maybe not. Can someone that uses it address that? I’ll be on the lookout for one to try before I buy in the meantime. I’m ….er…. fluffy in the max and having it hit my tummy may also be a problem. Sigh.

    Edie

  3. I haven’t noticed it moving, Edie, and the strap is adjustable, so you can make it as long or short as you needed. I really love mine.

Have you read?

A Shawlette with a Ton of Design Options

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]