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Knit Like A Ninja Day?

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A little Ninja told me that today was supposed to be Knit Like A Ninja day! I can totally do that. I can do the stealth knitting thing with the best of them. Hmmmm, where should I do this? I don’t have to hide, good little Ninjas can be right in front of you and not seen. Lucky for you, that’s not my style. We’re a bit on the ungraceful and clumsy side (probably comes from physically moving pigs, cattle, and horses, not to mention hay bales and 100 lb sacks of grain), but that’s my other life, let’s get back to my knitting life.

Everyone knows that 11.15 marked the opening day of Deer Season. What??? You didn’t know that?

Wow! Stunned! Shocked! Speechless!

Everything a ninja isn’t supposed to be!

Let’s see, where will I be knitting today? Hubby’s deer blind? Hiding in the basement? Sitting right in front of you? You’ll never know, and you’ll never see me! I’m stealthy like that. Clumsy, yet stealthy!

haaa haaaaa, maybe I’ll have a finished object to show you? Maybe not! You never know now, do you…….

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  1. I have been seen knitting while huning..with my gun or bow. I have taken my sock knitting with and knit while sitting in a tall tree stand or while sitting on the ground waiting for DH to return to get me from where he left me…I get lost very easily so I always stay where he wants me to be so that he won’t have to call out the search and rescue squad!

    Thank you for the comments on my blog. The pattern and yarn can be purchased at Rosemarys Gift shop..she has it all in stock, books and yarn colors! http://www.maine-crafts.com/ Rosemary is such a wonderful person and she is always ready to please the customer…give her site a look and then email her. She uses a lot of the links from the companies whose yarn she carries.

    Take care and KNIT ON!

    In Maine where it is 57F and it shouldn’t be!

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Knit a Linen Stitch Hot Pad

Linen stitch is one of my favorite knitting stitch patterns that, every time I use it in a project, I think about how I don’t use it often enough. 

It’s an easy stitch to make, with slip stitches done with the yarn held to the front of the work on the right/front side and to the back on the wrong/back side, which makes the strand of yarn a visible part of the pattern. 

It also makes a fabric that is thick and looks kind of like a woven fabric.

I recently used linen stitch to make a double-thick pot holder, which I worked in a kind of interesting way. I didn’t want to have to do any sewing on the project, so I started it from a crochet cast on and picked up stitches from the side of the cast on to make the hot pad all in one piece in the round with the edge sealed. 

This requires working on two circular needles, which is another technique I don’t use that often and am always reminded how much I like it when I do. 

The combination of double thickness and the stitch pattern makes for a hot pad that’s already pretty thick, but I also added a bit of old towel to the inside before I closed up the end to make it super thick and extra protective for your surfaces. 

I found the engineering challenge of this construction method to be a lot of fun, but you could also just knit it as a tube (casting on twice as many stitches as I did) and sew up the ends by hand when the knitting is done. Either way you’ve got a useful and pretty addition to your kitchen, whether you work it in a solid color, stripes or as a stash busting project will all your cotton odd balls. 

You can grab the pattern over at Our Daily Craft, or check it out on Ravelry. 

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