My best friend saw a knitted bag I made for my sister a couple of years ago and fell in love with the bag. She asked me to make her a bag she could use for her dancing as well as school. Thats when I turned to Ravelry! Ravelry is an amazing place full of wonderful patterns and people. I stumbled upon Hilary Hunt's, The Weekender Bag.

The bag is so easy to make and I will only need to two skeins of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick Yarn. 

I am only about 50% percent in to the project but I can already tell I am going to want to make a bag for myself. The bag is expandable and is very durable. I highly recommend you add this to your project list! It is a must knit item!!

Sincerely,

     Lauren

While digging through my large yarn bin, I found a shoe box full of Lily® Sugar'n Cream® Yarns. While contemplating what I could make with Sugar'n Cream Yarns, my aunt came over and asked if I could make some dishcloths for the cabin up North. I gladly obliged because I now had a purpose for the Sugar'n Cream Yarns.

I soon became addicted to making these dishcloths. They are so easy and fast to make. I easily made a dishcloth and mini scrubber in a night (only taking four hours or so).

The dish cloth...

And the mini scrubber!

This set was actually made for my mum. She loves her color green!

Sincerely,

     Lauren

I have decided before I buy any more yarn, I must use the rest of the yarn I have collected over the years. Hence, the ugly multi color yarns I got last year from a local thrift store.

While I was musing over what I was going to make out my ugly yarn, I was excited to find US 19 needles bamboo circular needles at a local yarn shop on clearance! Almost at the same moment I was purchasing the needles, I knew what I was going to make: a kennel blanket for my dog.

In order to make my dog's kennel more comfortable, I place on the bottom of the kennel two towels. But within a couple minutes of my dog, Winston, being in there, the towels are messed up and he is sleeping in the middle of the kennel with the towels shoved up to the front of the kennel. Winston already has a blanket that he drags in to his kennel and lays down over and snuggles with "his" blanket. 

Why not make him a blanket for his kennel with ugly yarn? Dog's are color blind anyway; I don't think he would mind. His kennel would be a little more comfortable. 

Much to my surprise, the colors blended better than I thought. 

 

I even came up with a motto from this experience: "Two uglies sometimes make a pretty". Winston loved his kennel blanket too! Before I could place the blanket in his kennel, he laid down on the blanket.

   

Then snuggled with it.

And then he modeled the blanket off; He really nailed down the model look.

But after I got him off the blanket and placed it in his kennel, Winston took more model pictures! 

Needless to say, Winston loves his kennel blanket, I got rid of two ugly yarn balls from my stash, and I got a US 19 bamboo circular knitting needles on clearance! An overall great knitting project experience.

Sincerely,

     Lauren

P.S. All projects I have made will be located on the "patterns" page under navigation.