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Krafty Katze, Anchorage, AK (2026)

07/30/2023

Hot off the needles! And For Sale!!

Don't miss your opportunity to buy this beautiful handknit stocking cap! Knit from hand-painted 100% merino wool with mohair/silk accents. Adult size slouch hat that can easily contain a ponytail, hair bun, locks, etc. It has a very comfortable double-thickness hat brim in place of a cuff, and it's topped with a quirky mop of curlicues for a truly unique head warmer!

Dimensions: 12 inches in height. 19 inches in circumference when relaxed. It comfortably stretches to fit M to L/XL head sizes, but would likely be too big for someone who wears a S hat.

Cost: $45, plus $5 for shipping if applicable.

Comment or message me directly of you're interested in purchasing this handmade gem! I'll update this post as sold when applicable.

Thanks for looking!!! 🤩

(Note: The last picture is of a similar hat that I knit for a friend. That hat was a bit shorter and has a different top, but otherwise it's the same pattern, size, and yarn, and you can see how it looks and fits when worn. The color variations are due to the different light sources, notva difference in the yarn colors.)

06/27/2019

I knit this simple bath mat last year out of a lightweight cotton/synthetic blend. I wanted something that was much more lightweight than a traditional bath mat and would be super easy to wash and dry in my small capacity washer/dryer unit - and it's Absolutely Perfect!!

Another experiment that worked!!

04/18/2019

I sent a box stuffed full of colorful knit dishcloths to my former coworkers from Fauquier County 911 for National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, and they appear to have been a big hit! Even received a mention by Virginia APCO!

03/18/2019

I'm so excited to reveal to FacebookLand my latest knitting experiment - a play on an oval rag rug by knitting leftover yarn into an attached i-cord in an ongoing oblong spiral.

One of the side effects of knitting so many colorful dishcloths is that I end up with little leftover balls of sturdy cotton yarn - too much to just throw out, but too little to really create anything.

It popped into my head one evening that I could take those left over balls of yarn and knit them into a rug. At first, I was going to just knit them into one long, continuous i-cord, and then just hand sew the cord into a rug... but then it dawned on me that I could loop the i-cord around and attach it to the rug As I was actually knitting it... and a concept was born!!

The resulting rug is simply sublime! It's working out exactly as I'd hoped while simultaneously exceeding my expectations in practically every way: it's sturdy, thick, and the color variations are fascinating!

As with many of my thought experiments turned projects, I've just been making it up as I've gone along which has been working well... but as the size has increased, trying to simply eyeball how many stitches to add at each end as the curve gets longer and longer each round has resulted in some problems with cord puckering.

After pulling out 2 entire rug rounds of i-cord due to tension issues and knitting them back, tearing them out and knitting them back once again, I acknowledged that I had to figure out something more precise because the tension problem was only going to compound upon itself as the rug grew.

Enter high school geometry. I put on my thinking cap and started to jot down some formulas and calculations to get a better idea of how many stitches I'll need to add with each curve. That should take care of the tension issues and... there are no other issues with this project, so it should be smooth sailing (knitting) until I decide it's big enough!

Who would have thought that I'd need to dust off my geometry skills to help me figure out a knitting problem?! This project is turning into a thought experiment indeed!!! :-D

04/02/2018

Nothing feels quite like slipping on a handknit pair of socks that fit perfectly!

I combined some new techniques in creating these, and the resulting pattern will now be my Go-To Sock Recipe!!

I love how these turned out! And to think - I really don't care for knitting socks!!

01/05/2018

I've posted about my love of lifelines in the past, but here's a real-life emergency application:

After clearing a thick, heavy, crusty layer of snow from my car today, I discovered that I had demolished the thumb of one glove - The Horror!!

Lifeline to the Rescue!!

My glove is now fully prepped and ready for a new appendage!! :-)

Knit your own gloves.
Fix your own gloves.
:-D

12/29/2017

This fall, I knit my first ever sweater - for my great-niece! And I was delighted to see pictures of her wearing it Christmas morning!!

12/25/2017

I've been busily working on multiple holiday gift projects over the past weeks, and I finished this one in the wee hours of this morning.

For the wife of a coworker, cowl knit out of a baby alpaca/merino wool blend to match a pair of mittens I knit for her last year. (Different stitch pattern, same yarn and color - even though the lighting and background of the pictures make the colors look very different.)

I love how the cowl turned out, and I can't wait to try that same spiraling stitch pattern in a pair of mittens!!

Merry Christmas!! May you be blessed with the gift of love! And if you're really lucky, a gift made with love! :-)

12/13/2017

These have reached their destination hands so I can finally reveal the project that I spent many, many hours and curse words working on thru October and November.

This pair of handwarmers is one of the most amazing projects I've ever completed. I used yarn that was dyed by an Alaskan resident which had such a beautiful striping pattern that I wanted to maintain it throughout the entire handwarmer - which was quite challenging because the stitch circumference is vastly different from the 'body' to the fingers and thumb. Typically, knitters need to account for how many stitches are in each inch of their work as they're knitting a project to 'make it all work'. But because of the color matching, I had to also try to account for how many inches of yarn it took to make each color grouping of stitches. And I didn't only have to do that once - I had to take copious notes of my calculations and mistakes so I could create a matching mirror handwarmer!!

The process was painstaking and often frustrating, taking my usual meticulousness to a whole new level, but the results are just amazing!!

My proudest knitting moment yet! :-)

12/13/2017

A rave review from a fellow fiber artist at Treesndirt. I learned to knit as a child and then picked it back up in my 30's, so I had been knitting for a number of years before I moved to Alaska. But it wasn't until I worked with Kathy (Treesndirt) at Denali National Park that I had ever seen anyone knitting-in-the-round (aka knitting round things), and about a year later, I decided to take the plunge into kitr myself.

So I owe my knitting success to my dearest grandmother, who taught me the basics, and to my dear friend, Kathy, who was a shining light to achieving so much more than I ever thought possible.

09/20/2017

'Tis the season for pumpkin colored dishcloths!

I think this is my favorite one yet!!

08/30/2017

I've added dishcloths to my knitting repertoire!! These are alot of fun and very quick to knit up, which makes me feel uber-productive!

Pattern Note: This is the Almost Lost Washcloth Pattern from the Simply Notable blog, tweaked to include a provisional cast-on so it can be grafted at the end for an invisible seam. The green dishcloth includes a purl row in every other pattern repeat to create a flower petal effect.

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