Here is the CORRECTION on the “Baby Roots Cardigan”. There should only be 4 stitch markers, not 5. Duh, it’s a Raglan.

Raglan Yoke:

CO 60(64,66) with smaller needles.

Work 6 rows in seed stitch for collar.

Switch to larger needles.

HERE’S THE CORRECTION (YIKES, ROW 1)

Row 1: K9(9,10)K1F&B,PM,K1F&B,K8(8,8)K1F&B,PM,K1F&B,K20(22,22),K1F&B,PM,K1F&B,K8(8,8)K1F&B,PM,K1F&B,K9(9,10)

PLEASE LET US KNOW OF ANY ERRORS IN OUR PATTERNS. THANKS

E-MAIL ME AT: maxxnv@aol.com for any questions regarding anything.

Spring has sprung and lot’s got done. New found friends and swaps to send. Contest to win and fibers to spin. Yarn by the yard and raw wool to card. Patterns to knit in stocking net stitch. Chains to crochet , and doilies are made, tatting and sewing for those who are brave. The endless decisions of sweaters to pick. Patterns are queried for future projects. So many items we started and stopped. Finish the one where no stitches were dropped. One things for certain we cannot deny the love and the passion we all have inside. To create something magic from the hair of all hides. Now go and make something and wear it with pride.

Elizabeth (SquidWidget) with her bag “Barf Bag”!

Elizabeth took the spirit of the contest to heart and really went above and beyond to create a unique and one of a kind piece.

We loved her creative take on the original pattern. As a matter of fact, I was so inspired by her bag that I will be making one with similar design elements (the mouth!) to hold my sock yarn as well.

We hope your prize yarn will go towards many beautiful things for you and your beautiful family, especially considering if you looked anything like your bag during your pregnancy you deserve something beautiful!

Congratulations to Elizabeth.

Our 2nd Place winner is Tonks with her bag “George”.

This bag was modeled after designer Tonks ex boyfriend and the bird is named Puck. We were absolutely amazed with the detail on Puck and loved the extra kick the bird added to the piece.

We’re glad “George” is no longer in your life and even happier that Puck still is! Congratulations on your win, Tonks and we hope the yarn you get will be incorporated into your Knitted Wedding.

And our 3rd Place Winner is Aleta (RocketBride) with her bag “J. Harvey”

She got style points for actually having the inspiration hold the bag to take a picture. We just love the mildly amused yet obviously suspicious expression on Mr. Inspirations face.

Aleta also shared with us that she stuffed her honeymoon nightie and wedding band into the bag as well, which we thought was a nice touch. Being in the throes of a separation is hard, we’re glad that this contest offered a worthy diversion and ended on a happy note for you Aleta!

We want to thank (yet again.) everyone who entered the contest and everyone who voted. We’re hoping that the next contest we sponsor will go a little smoother, this was a learning experience for us and we’re glad everyone was understanding and patient with us while we worked the kinks out.

Stay tuned for pictures of the prize yarn before we ship it off to it’s new homes!

We closed the My Ex is Full of Knit contest last night and voting has officially begun in the forums. To share your two cents on who you think should win all that fabulous loot, click here!

We had some wonderful entries, and of course, nearly half of them came in the last 24 hours. Showing once again that knitters will absolutely wait until the last possible moment. I have a theory about this too, I’m guessing most of these have been almost done for a while but the knitter who was making it did one of a few things:

1. Did all the knitting and felting and stared at the blank face for a few days trying to decide the best possible way to decorate it.

2. Finished the whole thing in one big she-bang, but then wasn’t pleased with the results and fiddled and tweaked it until they ran out of time.

3. Waited until 11:30 p.m. Sunday night to even start it and then knitted on it until 4 a.m. and took a nap while it dried before doing the face while eating their breakfast before work on Monday.

Now, if it were me, I would have done option 3, because that’s the kind of person I am. My mother in law is the kind of knitter who would probably do the second option. Just goes to show, even among knitters it takes all kinds.

Speaking of taking all kinds, if you haven’t seen the Gallery yet you should definitely check out the great entries we got. We have quite the diverse crowd over there, we’ve got ex-husbands, ex-bosses, physical manifestations of things that make people miserable that people want to expel from their lives…everyone really took to the true spirit of the pattern and the contest. I am incredibly proud of every single entry that came in, they are all very thoughtful and brilliantly executed.

Voting runs through April 5th, and from there we’ll pick a winner out of the top 5 popular votes. You can expect a blog post early next week with the winner and the loot we’re sending out to them.

We will nail down how to create the most perfect baby bootie the world has ever seen. We will accomplish it. And at the rate we’re going, we will accomplish it THIS WEEK.

I joke. But seriously, we’ve received even more feedback on how we can help you guys do the booties in style. In addition to the video linked a few days ago, we’re also going to add the directions for the flower that is pictured on one of the booties. It is the same flower pattern that is on our Mo-Arc Bag in the free pattern section. Until I get a chance to update the PDF file for the baby bootie pattern here is the directions for the flower in the meantime.

Small Flower:

Cast on 30

Row 1 and all odd rows: purl

Row 2: k2tog every stitch

Row 4: k2tog (4 times), k1, k2tog (3 times)

Row 6: k2tog every stitch

Row 8: k2tog every stitch

Row 10: bind off

Leaves:

Cast on 3

Row 1 and all odd rows: purl

Row 2: k1,yo,k1,yo,k1

Row 4: k2,yo,k1,yo,k2

You can continue adding in this manner keeping one stitch in between the yarn overs to create as large or small of a leaf as you like. Then begin decreases:

Decrease rows: ssk, k to 2 from end, k2tog

Purl a row

Repeat decrease row until only 2 stitches remain, bind off.

These also look dashing on just about any bag you could ever knit; in your hair; glued to hairless cats and any other place you could legally get away with putting them. (Though, I’ve heard the Law looks down on gluing things to hairless cats….)

REMINDER! The My Ex is Full of Knit Contest closes on MONDAY NIGHT! Be sure to get your entries in. The entries I received today will be up there shortly and voting will begin next week!

We’ve gotten a few emails, comments and messages from people who were slightly confused by the directions for our Oh My! Baby Booties, so yesterday I made a little video to show how to work the top of the foot for this pattern. The video picks up after you’ve knit the first 14 rows in stockinette flat, and shows you how to knit the top of the foot and leaves off as you begin working the garter stitch rows before you work the toe decreases. It’s short, but it should illustrate a little clearer how to do this part of the pattern.

Let me know what you guys think! If this makes more sense, and there is another technique or part of a pattern you’d like to see illustrated in video let us know and we’ll work on putting those videos together. We’ve got plans for the curbing technique already, but that one will be downloadable when you purchase the pattern.

So now, shower me with praise and adoration because I feel like a big dork having my voice on YouTube.

The ‘My Ex is Full of Knit’ contest that is.

We’ve gotten some great entries, but in true knitter fashion it appears that the bulk of people are waiting until the VERY last minute to finish (or in some cases, start) their Ex bags.

Be sure to check out the entries we have gotten so far that are in our gallery, and as they come in more will be added.

In case you’re new to the ADHD Knitting website and blog, the contest runs through midnight on March 31st which is next Monday. Voting will open shortly there after and run through April 5th. Voting is open to the public and will be conducted via a poll on our forums. The top 5 entries picked from the open voting will be the finalists, and the winners will be chosen by the ADHD Knitting staff. Winners will be notified by email and then posted on the blog!

This week we’re working on putting together the winning loot to be shipped out mid April to our winners. Prizes will be packages of yarn valued at $500, $300 and $200 respectively. The yarns will be yarn store quality (no cheap acrylic from us!) and will include brands like Crystal Palace, Rowan and Berroco, plus whatever else we have lying around the work space stash.

So my question today is this: for contests in the future is there anything other than yarn you’d like to see given away? Needles or sets of needles? Roving? A spinning wheel? (Okay, truthfully, if we end up being able to give away a spinning wheel it better be because Gail and I already have one and don’t need another one.) Knitting totes or other accessories? What else is of interest to knitters? Is there a particular author that you’d like to see books from in our giveaways? Gift certificates to yarn stores? I’m not making promises but we always want to know what our customers want/need.

I need more good quotes! Email me your quotes about mental illness, knitting, insomnia, mania, yarn, or anything loosely related to daniella@adhdknitting.com. If I use one of your entries you may win a little surprise from me! (Nothing like $500 worth of yarn, but I’ll do my best.)

Until next time, check us out on Ravelry.com too, at the ADHD Knitters group. There’s lots of chatting, advice and yarn licking going on over there and we’re up ’til the wee hours of the morning gabbing about all sorts of interesting things.

While we’re waiting for our voting gallery to be built I thought I’d start posting the submissions here so people can at least get an idea of what the competition looks like.

Our first submission comes from Susan also known as ‘Flowox’ on our message board and on Ravelry.

This charming fella is Susan’s ex-husband who we will refer to here as ‘Bloodsucking Doug’. According to Susan, Bloodsucking Doug has been immortalized in fiber for the following sins:

“He was very abusive to me and the neighbor once saw him hitting me and he was arrested for domestic violence.  His name is Douglas and he sucks the life right out of you as he knows how to really mess with your mind and get you to fall right for everything he tries to tell you….

He’s just a person who loves to manipulate others and use them for all they’re worth and he’s a very abusive person…”

Keep ‘Bloodsucking Doug’ in mind when voting opens in the coming weeks!

More coming soon! Remember you can enter more than once, so if you do one and don’t like it send it in anyway, you never know what other people may find interesting!

I know that fiber folk of all types are caring and giving people, well right now there are some little faces that need some help.

Right now in Pima County in Arizona there are almost 800 animals that have been seized from a home there in what has been described as the worst conditions some of the responders have ever seen. These animals are victims who cannot help themselves. They are being cared for by the Humane Society of Southern Arizona. Humane Societies are notoriously under staffed and under funded and I’m certain that this crisis has put a tremendous burden on them. I hope that each of you can find room in your hearts and bank accounts to donate a few dollars to help the Humane Society in Arizona continue to give these animals the care and attention that they need and to help them find forever homes instead of being euthanized. Please also forward this email on to anyone you think may be able to help.

If you would like to adopt one of these animals that would be even better and I am offering to personally drive to Arizona (only a few hours from my home in Las Vegas) to pick up an animal and I will help arrange to get the animal to you if you need the help.

You can read about this story and donate to the Humane Society of Southern Arizona at the following link:

http://www.hssaz.org/

Thank you!

** Some of you have may already seen this as I have sent out an email similar to this to my contacts and I have also posted this on a few boards on Ravelry. I cannot  begin to express how upset this story has made both Gail and I and we will not stop asking for you to reach out and give a little to help these poor animals. If we had the ability to, I would be on my way to Arizona as we speak to rescue one or two (or 800) of these little faces myself. If you or anyone you know wants a dog, thinks they want a dog or wants a baby but would settle for a dog, please PLEASE share this with them. These animals are in danger of being put down if they cannot find homes for them. I will make the ‘puppy run’ to Arizona myself to bring one back if you cannot make the trip.