Operation Fruit Bowl Complete! (For now)

The last addition to the bowl was an egg.

The pattern can be found here.
I will try to get a picture of the full bowl uploaded soon.  And I do plan to add some more, I just don't have the right yarn or patterns yet.  Besides, on to other projects, such as...school.  Blech.

Alex got out of school over a week ago, and I started last week.  No fun!  So I am hoping this blog will give me much needed breaks from reading and writing papers.  Any projects will have to be quite small unfortunately.  :o(

Anyway, I don't know what will come next.  So stay tuned and thanks for all the e-mails and notes I've gotten with great comments!

Operation Fruit Bowl Continued

Almost to capacity on the fruit bowl!  Added in some great little nuggets over the past two days.  We now have cherries,

a mushroom,

and a radish.

Here are the patterns for the cherries, shroom, and radish.

Operation Fruit Bowl Number...Something

So, I can't keep track of numbering the items going in the bowl.  And I'm going to post individual pics of the projects since the bowl is filling up and it's getting harder to see what's in there!  Today, I added a strawberry!

The pattern can be found here.  Eventually, I will upload pics of all (or maybe most) of my FOs (finished objects) because I've been working on some very cool variations of this juicy little berry.

Operation Fruit Bowl V, VI, and VII

And the newest additions to the bowl: A lemon,

a lime,

and an acorn.

Here are the patterns for the lemon/lime and the acorn. Thank you Peachcake Knits and Carmen Rigby!

Operation Fruit Bowl (III and IV)

Over the past two days, I did manage to knit up fruits III and IV for the fruit bowl...a pear

and a nanner!

Now I get to knit up some tiny stuff!  :o)
Here are the patterns for the pear and banana, again from Peachcake knits.

Operation Fruit Bowl (Kinda)

Alright, I have this bowl on my kitchen table.  Very pretty...and very empty.  For Easter, it was full of eggs (Buona Pasqua!).  I was trying to figure out what to put in there for "ordinary days."  I had a giant olive I had knit, so I threw that in there.

Which looked a little lonely...and pathetic.  Surprisingly, vase fillers are apparently very popular right now.  Saw all sorts of junk you could throw in vases and bowls...cherries, lemons, limes, glass beads, potpourri, etc.  One little box of these doo-dads runs anywhere from 5-10 bucks.  Whatevah!
Anywhoop, I was knitting an apple for my daughter's teacher and thought, why not knit up a bunch of fruit?  So I knit an extra apple and chucked it in there, too!

Considering the olive (my fav), I figured I don't need to stick to fruit (hence the "kinda").  I'm hoping to have the time/energy to add something each day.  We'll see.
Here is the pattern for the olive and apple, if you're interested.

Seedy Cables Scarf

For those of you who knit...here is my very first pattern!  It can also be found on Ravelry.

Seedy Cables Scarf

Materials:
Red Heart Super Soft (Worsted weight) - Off White (1.5 – 2 skeins)

U.S. size 8/5 m.m. straight needles
Stitch markers

Cable needle

Row counter (optional)

Tapestry needle

Abbreviations:

Co = Cast on

Sts = stitches

K = knit

P = purl

Sl = slip

Cn = Cable needle

Size:
One size fits all...you can make it as long as you like.

Pattern:
Co 52 sts.

Work 8 rows in seed stitch pattern (see seed stitch pattern below).

NOTE:  The body of the scarf is worked in blocks of 8 rows.  Row 1 sets the pattern.

Row 1:  *Work 8 sts in seed stitch pattern (See seed stitch pattern, row 1, below).

Place marker.

Work 14 sts in wide cable pattern (See wide cable pattern, row 1, below).

Place marker.

Repeat from * once more.

Work 8 sts in seed stitch pattern (See seed stitch pattern, row 1, below).

Row 2:  Repeat 8, 14, 8, 14, 8 sts pattern set above using row 2 of the seed stitch and wide cable patterns below.  Continue in this manner through row 8.

Start back at Row 1 above and continue working in blocks of 8 rows until your scarf reaches the desired length.

After last block of 8 rows, work 8 rows in seed stitch pattern only.

Finishing:

Bind off loosely and cut yarn leaving a 6-inch tail.  Weave in all yarn ends using tapestry needle.

Seed stitch Pattern:

Rows 1, 3, 5, and 7:  *K1, P1; repeat from *.

Rows 2, 4, 6, and 8:  *P1, K1; repeat from *.

Wide Cable Pattern:

Row 1:  P5, sl 2 to cn and hold in back, K2, K2 from cn, P5.

Row 2:  K5, P4, K5.

Row 3:  P4, sl 1 to cn and hold in back, K2, K1 from cn, sl 2 to cn and hold in front, K1, K2 from cn, P4.

Row 4:  K4, P2, K2, P2, K4.

Row 5:  P3, sl 1 to cn and hold in back, K2, K1 from cn, P2, sl 2 to cn and hold in front, K1, K2 from cn, P3.

Row 6:  K3, P2, K4, P2, K3.

Row 7:  P2, sl 1 to cn and hold in back, K2, K1 from cn, P4, sl 2 to cn and hold in front, K1, K2 from cn, P2.

Row 8:  K2, P2, K6, P2, K2.