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  • A few changes will trickle in over the holiday season-  If you’re thinking about Yule gifts, or just about saving heating fuel, check out the Cabley Cozy Slippers under Abundant Creativity.  They knit up quite quickly and felt in your washer.
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Abundant Creativity

You love making things for your family and your home!  So do I; here are a few of my patterns, recipes, and ideas. Many are free and some are for sale. Purchase buttons are secure links to PayPal from which you will be directed to the PDF.

Knitting patterns and crafty ideas.

Cabley Cozy Slippers

 Double soles, pretty cables, plus felted bulky wool equal toasty toes!  These use about 100 meters of yarn, and I prefer Reynolds Lopi.

Cabley Cozy Slippers 

 

Sweetheart Mitten

 

It’s the Cold Latitudes Dilemma - how to hold hands with your sweetie on a romantic walk through the snow without getting frostbite?  A stockinette hand pouch with cuffs!  Add your own beautiful cables or color work, of course.  It goes particularly well with a matching pair of mittens, shared by your non-holding hands. Makes a great Valentine’s or engagement gift. Price is $2.00 through PayPal.  

Damask Blue Shaped Scarf

 

This very wide, very warm scarf is knit as two long stockinette tubes which loop around and under and over one another.  Short rows and wrap-and-turn accomplish the various corners.  This particular cable is copied from the beautiful collarbone tattoos of the talented web spinner at Damask Blue Designs.  The pattern is very much in “beta test” mode, and I’m pleased to offer it for free until it has been thoroughly test-knitted.

Damask Blue Shaped Scarf

 

Kells Headband

Completed cable headbandThis double-thickness headband is knit in the round along the short dimension, adding rows along the long dimension, joined to the provisional cast-on at the back seam. The stockinette inner surface keeps your ears toasty and the beautiful cables of the outer surface, knit against a reverse stockinette background, are copied from Ireland’s great treasure: The Book of Kells.

Kells Headband pdf