Welcome to My Menagerie Sale

Announcing a sale in my pattern shop.  I have added a new pattern to my softie collection.  The sale will be 20% off of all softie patterns and 10% off all other patterns through 10/31/15.  Please stop by and visit this little cutie and her friends. You can find her and my other patterns here http://www.ravelry.com/stores/kraziknitz-by-paula.

Sunni L'Elephant is out and about!

Sunni L'Elephant is a stunning female of the pachyderm persuasion. She should be hugged as frequently as possible.  She likes to be included in party plans, as she is a bit of a social butterfly.  She has an innate talent for making people smile.

She is a friendly soul and is excited about making her debut on-line and in the shop. To celebrate her debut, I will be running a small sale-abration in my ravelry shop.

Watch this space and ravelry for more information about this upcoming promotion.  Meanwhile, you can find her at my ravelry shop here http://www.ravelry.com/stores/kraziknitz-by-paula.

 

Sunni L'Elephant

Visit to a botanical garden

On a nature walk

Sunni's cousin Fleur

Yoo Hoo....I'm still here...

I'm still here....sorry that I haven't posted in so long, but life has sabotaged my progress on patterns that I thought I would  be done with by now.  I do have a couple of samples that I am currently working on, so keep your eyes peeled here over the next few months or so.

As ever, thanks for reading this little place even though there hasn't been any news for a while.

Happy New Year - 2015....

I haven't posted lately, but I have been busy with holiday doings (Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year) like many out there.  The doings got complicated with an illness in the family, saved by a hospital release on Christmas Eve (which was by far the best gift I could receive). I was able to spend some lovely and sweet time with my sister-in-law, niece, nephew, their spouses and children.  My other nephew was at school far away and could not make it home, but we were in contact with him and that made the day extra special.

This is still the part of the year where most of my knitting is for charitable purposes (see the November 23  post for more details). I am having issues with carpal tunnel & a pinched nerve wreaking havoc on my knitting time.

I will be working on patterns before long, and hope to have a few things in the coming months.  I have to get past the physical stumbling blocks that the previously mentioned maladies have on my knitting.  Being unable to tension properly and only short bouts of knitting time, does not allow for as much creativity as I would like in my life.  We can only do what we can do, and perhaps a bit more.

I hope to have something to show here at sometime in the near future.

Have a joyous and health filled 2015.

Paula

What's going on right now....

Working on a felted stuffie that will be a dog to join my family of softies....the larger dog is already named, but I will probably have a contest here and in my ravelry group to name the smaller one.... just stay tuned, as it will be a little while before either is ready.

My knitting time for this part of the year is dedicated to giving back to the community at large.  Those of you who know me personally, or from Ravelry might know that I knit for the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.  There is a Ravelry group called For The Children of Pine Ridge.  I like to dedicate a few months of my time and energies to providing warm things for the children of the reservation.. I have already sent hats made in September/October to one of the fall projects, which is providing warm things to one of the schools. 

The companion fall project was to provide items for babies and children too young for school.  I am doing hats and other items for this campaign.  This is my favorite type of knitting, because I can make more items in a given period of time.  This allows me to knit for a maximum number of people to keep warm.

I am blessed to live in a place with mild winters, although from the way we Floridians bundle up when it gets below 50 degrees (you might think it was 5 degrees below zero).  I have only seen snow fall once in my life, but I have been around after it has fallen once or twice beyond that.  This is why I feel compelled to knit for folks who have little and live in a cold place.  Our group on Ravelry is large, but we could always use more people to knit/crochet/weave for this cause. 

Thanks for reading this. 

Paula

Two new freebies have been posted in Ravelry

As promised, there are two new free patterns at my Ravelry store.  You can see them by following this link... http://www.ravelry.com/stores/kraziknitz-by-paula.

One is for a small drawstring pouch, called Goodie Sack.  It can be made and embellished as you please.  Change purse, treasure keeper, or as a gift bag for something small are some of the uses suggested by my various students on the cruise. Here is a picture of it for you to decide how you would like to use it!

 








The other pattern is for Peaches the kitten, from the RobbieCat pattern.  She's still hanging out with RobbieCat, for those of you who want to make the larger cat as well. She did, however, strike out on her own for the cruise for one of my classes.  She had fun becoming a celebrity, as she hung out at the hospitality desk meeting and greeting cruise attendees.  Her constant smile helped, even though she confessed she was a little sea sick at the beginning of the cruise.

 

Back in port...

After a great cruise full of classes and much fiber to covet, I am posting a few pictures here. Some 300 cruisers from all over the U.S. & Canada joined us for lots of knitting and learning.  We had the fabulous Nicki Epstein teaching special classes, along with the ones being taught by myself and the other phenomenal teachers from the Knit & Stitch.  The primaries of Cascade Yarns also joined us on the cruise.

I will be adding two new free patterns from my cruise classes to my Ravelry store, as well as a bag that made its debut on the cruise.

I only took pictures when the on board supply cabinet was quiet, which did not occur too frequently.  The seas were rather rough the first couple of days, and I did not fair as well as on the first cruise two years ago, when we had lovely sailing weather.

So go to my Ravelry store at http://www.ravelry.com/stores/kraziknitz-by-paula to check out the latest additions.

A happy cruiser with her swag bag full of goodies!

Rumba Grande makes its debut at the Cascade Magnum table!

Table of fibery goodness!

Cascade Casablanca with some of my patterns made in that lovely self-striping yarn.

Another table with more fibery goodness!