Scrunchies

The Goldy twins received scrunchies for Christmas that have been knitted.  They are very cute and I thought I might make a few.  They came from American Eagle....so it might be just as easy to purchase.  They are knitted as a tube with a hair rubber band inside and then seamed.  Actually I am thinking that the hair band needs to be inside from the very beginning....The gauge is 6 stitches to the inch knit loosely.  

You can see the seam if you look carefully at the white scrunchie.  The length is  and the tube is approximately 3 inches in diameter.  But that measurement would not be crucial.  Here is a photo that shows the seam better:

The tube measures 18 inches in length.  I had Kya stretch the scrunchie out as far as it would go and it measured 9 inches so the entire tube would be double that.

 

Knitting for Katie 1981

 While going through old albums looking for Christmas photos for the 2020 zoom Christmas parties, I found a couple of photos of Katie in her handknitted (by me) bunting.

And another with Katie in Jack's arms:

When Katie began walking I cut off the bottom and added ribbing so it was a sweater.  I still have the sweater in the playroom over the garage.

Jason and Mary's sweaters Dec 1976

I am working on photos for a slideshow for our zoom parties this Christmas.  And found this photo of Jason and Mar4y in the Matching sweaters that I made for them.  In December 1976 Jason would have been four and Mary would have been 2 and a half.  We were living on the farm in lavalette.  This property is now a part of Creekside golf course.  

Multiplicity by BarbAnn Pappas

So I gave up for now on the Allie Shawl....just too hard to get started for a Christmas knit.  Not only that I am not sure I don't want more contrast on my mosaic part...like black and white. So today I started Multiplicity by BarbAnn Pappas.  Inspire of the fact that the instructions look a bit hard, BarbAnn has gone to a lot of trouble to make everything very clear!  So I watched the Purl SoHo knitting version of how to do the double stitch and I am moving right along.

I am using the needle called for in the pattern:  size 8.  And the yarn is:

Three Irish Girls Binge Knit bought at Stevenbe in color Paddy's Pub which is an olive Green.  And uneek fingering by Urth in a variegated purple/blue/yellow hue. They look very good together and the green mohair makes the variegated yarn pop or the other way round?  So far I like it a lot!

The big needles make it go very fast.