Loomed projects

Here are a few projects I've made in the past and have remembered to take pictures of.

First up - the felted water bottle cover - pattern is from the LionBrand website and the yarn is Bernat felting yarn. This worked out well and it does keel the water insulated and stop those annoying drips onthe outside of the bottle. I've also made a few coffee cup cozies in this yarn and they work great - no more burnt fingers!

Here is the Tommy Turkey hat I made using this pattern - http://loomlady.blogspot.com/2007/10/candy-corn-pumpkin-spider-web-turkey.html

And here is a modifed version for halloween

Cute Christmas Trinkets

Okay - I didn't make this but I bought these at a craft show today for the many teachers that the little guy has... Being 5 he thought they were awesome - expecially since they had chocolate inside.
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Looks easy enough to make if you had plastic canvas and patience.

Drawstring cast-on

The original drawstring cast on is explained here - http://loomlady.blogspot.com/2007/03/easter-egg-reborn.html - the picture attached shows my modification - this ends up exactly the same but is easier for my brain to remember.
Step 1 - wrap the yarn behind the odd numbered pegs and in front of the even numbered pegs.
Step 2 - you are now back at peg 1 - wrap the yarn in front of all the pegs ending at peg 12 (the last peg). This will anchor the yarn so it doesn't fly off before you can knit the other pegs!
Step 3 - Peg 12 will have 2 strands of yarn on it - knit the bottom strand over the top.
Step 4 - repeat step 3 for all even pegs
Drawstring cast on is complete.

Knitted Christmas Ornaments

I made these ornaments using the patterns from here http://loomlady.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html with a few changes.

I used a different method to to do the drawstring cast on (well the same method applied differently) then I didn't repeat row one - I used row 2-5 as the repeat rows. Lastly my ornaments must be smaller because I used less than 10 rows total. This is a great pattern and super quick.