Denise Knits!

Tell them what they've won...

Congrats to sogrammitcal, gimmesanity, and Isamar from KH! I donated the stitch markers to help Amy celebrate KH's first anniversary. I'll post pictures of their markers soon, just as soon as the new camera crisis is over.

She had markers all over town...

Jodi received her stitch markers in the mail today, take a look!

I had such fun making these, lots of purple and green! Jodi is such a sweetie on the forum, it was no challenge at all to make cute, hip markers for her. So many ideas came to me with these, it was hard to chose only 8 for the set!

Jodi was also kind enough to post pictures of her markers on the KH forum, how cool! You can see pictures of other stitch markers I've made for my other knistahs there, too.

KnittingHelp.com is celebrating it's first anniversary tomorrow, and my 1000th post on the forum! Congratulations to Amy & the members of the forum! Three of Amy's sponsors are donating prizes for a drawing to be held for the members, how cool is that? And I have a special surprise for everyone at the forum, too! I just can't wait to tell everyone.

More Stitch Marker Love

If you haven't heard about all of the excitement over at KH, you can catch up right here. As you can see, Carol and Tara were very happy with their markers, as was Carolyn. So, I suppose it's time to put an official price tag on these puppies. I think that for a set of 4 markers, $6.55 or a set of 8 for $11.00 is a good price. The beads are pretty inexpensive, so I can keep the prices low but still make a little bit for my time.

Shipping to US Priority is $3.85, it's fast, reliable, and cheap! I think I'll definitely use Priority...I can have the postman pick things up at the house, usually. If not, the post office is right down the street.

Until the etsy shop is set up, if you would like a set of stitch markers, please contact me. Indicate a favorite color(s) in your e-mail, how many sets you would like, and I will send you an invoice via PayPal.

*You don't have to have a PayPal account!

Homegrown Stitch Markers

It's a natural progression for a former wire goddess to go from jewelry to chain maille (also called wire knitting) to knitting and right on back to wire work by making some stitch markers. Well, it's natural if you've got ADD tendencies like myself.

Thanks to my pal Carolyn I was inspired to try my hand. They aren't much different from earrings, and serve a double purpose: to mark those stitches and look cute on the needles. Before I show you the markers (they are xposted on her blog as well), let me tell you about Carolyn. She's a knitter to behold. She spins, she dies, and she knits sox without a pattern. At the first Ya Ya meeting, I brought my sorry excuse for my first sock (that I just happened to be knitting inside out) and I'm watching her knitting about 2 stitches per second* on size 2 dpn's. Size 2, folks. No easy task, lemme tell you. I was lost on size 7's myself.

At our last meeting, she showed us the cute st markers that she had acquired elsewhere, and I was pained to see that half of the set were plain jump rings. I told her that I could make some really cute ones, too, and maybe for a bit cheaper than what she had previously paid. Gauging her reaction today, I think I succeeded. My chest got all puffy, and stuff. I almost cried, but Divine Goddesses of the Ya Ya Sisterhood can't be ruining their mascara in mixed company...you should have seen Mr. Muscles that showed up in the parking lot later.

But I digress, on to the markers. Here they are, in all of their beady glory.

 

No guessing why I've named them sox pro. I know you read the beginning of the post and didn't skip to the picture.

I made some other sets with names, too. Yarn Ho, Inc 1 (because all girls just need a little bit more), Knit Me. I have plans for more in the works, and plans to get pictures soon. I have to beg digital controband off of the YaYas in the meantime!

Thanks to Carolyn for the pic and the courage to post these here.

You can get some of your own, but the sox pro set can't be recreated, it's a YaYa exclusive!

Updates soon, stay tuned.