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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…….

Comments

  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!

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]