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Free Baby Booties Pattern

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Well the good news is that it’s not broken! See I hurt my arm. And it really really hurt. Alot. Dr thought it was a stress fracture. Had all the obligatory tests and all it is is tendonitis. But just guess at what’s on the top 5 list of what NOT to do with tendonitis! Yeah, that’s right. No Knitting! Almost be better if it WAS broken. I already know I can knit with a cast!!

Anyway, as hot as it has been up here, I’m not sure this is the best pattern, but what the heck. It’s free. Baby booties made out of angora! Click here to get the directions!

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  3. I’ve been there, tendonitis, and it’s a pain!! And knitting was really hard.
    Hope you’re feelling better really soon!

  5. I’ve just started physio for rotator cuff/shoulder tendinitis. Also triggered by…knitting.

    Any idea how long you have to avoid knitting?

  6. Hi,
    I really don’t know how long to avoid it. I avoided it until it quit hurting (which was actually never, cause in my real time life I’m a farmer who lifts and throws too many heavy things). As soon as I started knitting again it started hurting again. I’m experimenting with a way to knit without moving the fingers and wrist of that hand, basically just as if I had a rubber band around my wrist, holding the needle, and I do all of the motions with my other hand. This is working. It’s frustratingly slow, but it’s working, and it’s much better than not knitting!
    Good luck!

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]