Fox Gloves

Ok all you wonderfully talented knitters out there.  My fox has a body, tail, and half a head.  I am approaching the dreaded little fingers again.  Does anybody understand how to knit fingers/hands and then attach them to the arm???  Helpful links to videos or simple directions would be lovely.  If not, I will be giving this fox the finger for real, and it won't be attached to his body, it will be attached to mine!

(directions as written from designer Jennie Eveleigh Lamond...

CO3 sts using black.  Place one st on each dpn and join into round.
Row 1: kfb in each stitch [6 sts]
Row 2: k
Row 3: [k1, kfb] 3 times [9 sts]
Rows 4 and 5: k


break off yarn and place first 4 sts on one holder and last 5 sts on a second holder (safety pin works great).  This is one finger.  Repeat finger twice more - you will have 3 fingers.

For last finger, do not break yarn and do not place stitches on holder. 

now here is the tricky part...
Palm Row 1: K first 4 sts off of the finger still on the needles (finger #1), and slip the last 5 onto one dpn to knit at the end of the row.  Then k first 4 sts off of finger #2, and first 4 sts of finger #3.  Using a new dpn, K last 5 sts off of finger #3 and last 5 sts off of finger #2.  Using the third dpn, K last 5 sts off of finger #1.




So, yeah...good luck with that!

Hold up, wait a minute, put a little sister love in it!!

meg came to town this weekend and we had a sista love in. well, kind of.

mom sent a strongly worded email before i was even alive saturday morning, telling me that i needed to send her a pic of the beautiful scarf she made me for christmas last year. my first attempt w my blackberry was wobbly, but this pic turned out great!! megs all smiley and sparkly and moms scarf is amazing. win!

heres meg and i, knitting on the couch, watching a woody allen movie. just like a normal sunday night!

and heres meg and i really knitting, wo the posed pic. thats just how we look.

howe girls knit!!!

Fox this!

Ugh. I know. It has been over a month since I posted and it was seriously my turn. The excuses would fill two pages so I will spare you the pity party. Let's move on to my current project, Mr. Fox. This adorable little toy was supposed to be completed for my nephew's birthday, on August 3rd. Now it is almost October and what have I got to show myself? Even less than I had a month ago! I was nearly finished with the tail when I noticed that somehow I switched from knitting to purling. Usually this would be no big deal but I have been knitting on dpns so I wasn't sure if I was up for taking out the 5 rows of purl to try again. I got myself a glass of wine and felt a little confident so I took those bad boys out. I started knitting again and WTFox! I was "knitting" but my stitches were coming out as purls. So I said "Fox this!" and just cut it off right then and there.

The last few days I have tried to work up some energy to start this project again. I know when I call Nephew Josh tomorrow he will tell me once more that I have had long enough to get this done. Oy.

There is some good news in my knitting world. I have set up a knitting room in my new apartment. I am waiting to find the perfect comfy chair on craigslist to complete the room but in the meantime I have my baskets, some of my favorite Marmie projects as inspiration, and a cozy spot.

A friend recently sent me some llama yarn from Argentina so as soon as I finish my fox I am going to make my first knitting room project something amazing. :-)


I hope all you knitters are celebrating more success than I am. Hopefully I will post a complete toy within the next two weeks.

and shes baaaaaaaack.......

so i FINALLY got a computer!!! so i bring you the bottom of my bag (taken, of course, on the camera on my computer).....

well thats it for now. im still knitting. and i now have to be up super early. so this whole knitting thing is kinda getting in the way of getting to work on time!!! ahh!!!

Indoctrination Success!

With JJ's permission, I am posting the email I received from her last evening...

"...I just wanted to tell you how much I'm LOVING knitting!! I finished the bottom of my bag and got to the pick up and knit part and almost stopped. But instead I googled how to do it. And now that I think I know what I'm doing- I don't want to put it down!! Its like reading a good book! Except I have to be up at 6. So I have to!

That is all. Wish I was there!!


My work as a knitting mentor may be done!

By the way, the wonderfully addicting bag mentioned is the Medano Beach Bag by Heidi Kirrmaier.

It does look like a great bag, JJ! Post a pic of the finished product when you complete it...tonight??

love, marmie

Remnants and Future Projects

All I really want to do right now is bust out my new size 2.5 dpn and start knitting Nephew Josh's birthday present. However, I am still packing for my cross country trip. I am moving back to the East Coast after a whirlwind year in LA. I am unsure of my future there but I am, for the first time in awhile, looking forward to the unknown. If knitting has taught me anything about life it is that you might have a plan and a pattern to follow but the end product can still turn out different than you expected. (P.S. Thanks to Marmie and JJ for showing just how true this is!)

A few weeks ago JJ flew out to visit me and left me with a few knitting remnants. She brought me her adorable pink octopus, which has been my moving mascot. She also spent some time knitting while I was at work and I came home to her own knit eyeball. I guess the eyeball fad has stuck! I love that because of this project, we three women are leaving knitting remnants of ourselves wherever we go. :-)

So while I pack and tape and label boxes I keep eying the bag of orange, black, and white yarn that will soon be a cute little fox. I decided to listen to Stereomood.com, a music website JJ got me into recently. As I was browsing the possible "moods" of music to listen to I discovered there is one called "Let's Knit!" The knitting gods are on my side. I may not be putting together my latest project, but I am in the knitting zone, stitching together my west coast life which will soon turn into an east coast life.

Cheers, fellow Howe women, to our future as knitters, to our east coast stitch n' bitch dates, and to the hobby that has guided us through an amazing 7 months so far!

sometimes you knit...

Sometimes you knit out of obligation...


Sometimes you knit to learn something...

And sometimes you knit out of pure love...

In every stitch, little Alice!

love,

grand-marmie