If you have ordered a pattern and payed for it and haven’t received anything, please e-mail me Gail Pasqualotto at maxxnv@aol.com and mark Subject adhdpattern.  I am very new at this and didn’t realize that the patterns weren’t getting out to some customers. I will either send you your money back or give you the pattern you ordered along with extra patterns of your choice. Sorry for the inconvenience. I am still learning and it shouldn’t be at your expense. My humble apologies. Gail

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.

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.

I was going to do this whole naming posts after days of the week thing, but it just seemed a tad bit weird to me. Then I realized; we’re weird! So I guess it’s okay.

We’re still waiting on the lawyer for all the fine print before we can post the full details of our upcoming contest, but I can give you another little hint:

Judging will be partially done by your peers via a rating system and then we will take the top 5 entries based on the publics vote and pick the winner from those 5. So, good news! You will not only be able to enter the contest but you can also help pick the winners!

We’re really hoping this will be huge, so the more people we can get involved the better. If this one goes off well and we get a good response, you can expect many more contests from ADHD Knitting in the future. So that means, tell your knitting groups, post it on your blog, remind your Ravelry groups and friends, mention it on Craftster.org or any other craft sites your on. The more people we get involved the easier it will be to convince my boss that he wants to keep giving yarn away!

Now for today’s blog survey question: what are your weird little tics? (they can be knitting related, or just in general. Do you have a weird thing you must do or you feel out of whack? That’s a tic.)

And of course I’m going to share some of our own neurosis with you guys, just to make the whole sharing thing easier:

Gail almost always casts on 100 sts to start a project. Even if this means she was to knit the project on US00 needles with lace weight yarn. (I’ve seen her do it, she has a beautiful christening gown that she’s been knitting that is still a WIP, but it’s done in a ridiculously small gauge.) She will completely rewrite a pattern if she doesn’t like the cast on number and some how she always makes it work. If it’s not 100 sts then it needs to be an even number. This does make working most of her patterns really easy, especially if they have decreases or increases in them because it’s always even. When I’ve helped her write patterns in the past if it isn’t an even number, I can’t tell her about it because she’ll want to change the number, sadly though sometimes you need to work an odd number, especially if it’s lace.

My own weird tic is needing to check the mail almost as soon as it comes. I usually open the curtains in my room so I can see when the mail man comes, he comes at between 2 and 3 p.m. every day and if I see he came I have to immediately go check the mail. If he doesn’t come by 3:30 I start to get anxious and upset.

Lately both of us have been on a website checking tic. I’m pretty sure I’m going to wear out the ‘refresh’ button some time soon. I keep waiting for the Internet to suddenly just pop up with a message that says “STOP! No one else has posted anything in the forum! Quite hitting refresh!” but it hasn’t yet so I still keep doing it. Gail has admitted to doing the same thing. This is what happens when you give two manic, OCD prone people night and day access to the internets. We just tic out on the refresh button until we pass out from exhaustion.

So, now that we’ve established the full tilt level of crazy that goes on behind the scenes at ADHD Knitting (don’t even get us started on what happens when we start tweezing our eyebrows….) share with us your weird habits. We’re dying to know we’re not the only ones!

More about the contest coming soon! I promise!

“Is it weird in here? Or is it just me?”

-Stephan Wright

It’s the beginning of another lovely week here at ADHD Knitting headquarters. We’ve been amazed with the response we got  last week. Within hours of launching the site last Monday we had already sold a pattern! Our first pattern was the adorable Baby Roots Cardigan and it went to a good home in beautiful Iceland.

How ideal that this was our first pattern sold, since it was one of our first patterns we developed as well! This was originally knit some years ago by Gail, and when we were going through all of Gail’s designs and deciding which ones to work up for the launch of the site, we just loved the beautiful lace repeat that she had done at the bottom of this sweater. Here’s a  close up of that gorgeous design at the bottom:

By far our biggest seller this week has been the Curbing Bag. People are really responding to this interesting technique. I will warn you all though, once you get started with this you’ll find yourself unable to stop! Around here we hold everything from extra needles and yarn to cat toys and groceries in our spare Curbing Bags. We have them everywhere in our work space, in our houses, I even keep a spare one in the truck of my car packed with survival gear just in case I get stranded somewhere. Not only will I be able to live for a week on the granola bar rations but I’ll look fabulous doing it too!

Just to share the love, here’s some Valentines inspired shots of another curbing bag:

Close up of the ‘curbs’ in a variety of red and pink yarns.

That’s the sexiest Curbing Bag I’ve seen yet!

In addition to the patterns, we’ve also got other great features on our site (including this blog.) that we hope everyone checks out. Our forums are a great way to connect with other knitters and our designer, Gail. We have already set up space over there to chat about or get help with all of our ADHD patterns. In addition to those spots you can talk about other knitting projects you’re working on, introduce yourself, tell us about a great new site or designer that you’ve found (hey, we make patterns but we also love to see other peoples work too!) or just ramble about how much you love a certain kind of yarn.

Speaking of favorite yarns: this week we’re loving Rowan Calmer. It’s the yarn we developed the Arm-egeddon Sleeves in and we just love how stretchy and versatile this yarn is. It comes in some great colors too, but for some reason we keep leaning towards this great dusty rose color.

As usual we’re always looking for new and interesting yarns, patterns, web sites, blogs, magazines and books. If you have anything you’d like to give us a heads up on be sure to leave a comment letting us know about the newest and coolest the crafting community has to offer!

Do you have a story about how knitting/crochet/crafting helped you overcome an obstacle in your life? Email it to maxxnv@aol.com and you may get featured in our blog and on our website.

“You can always trust the information given to you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels” - Sheila Ballantyne

Welcome all!

We flipped the switch today and we’re open for business. Wander around a bit and take a gander at our new patterns, our forums and our gallery.

Get involved! Join the forums and chat for a bit. Download a pattern and when you finish knitting it, send us a picture and we’ll post it in our customer gallery. We have so much more planned so be sure to check back often!