Lisa Kay Knits... and Quilts!

Hi! The dragon is last year's Halloween costume. It has been hanging around the house... Mitchell likes to tell Mommy to put it on! This year, we have an Elmo costume. Grandma Evelsizer also got him an Elmo trick-or-treat bucket, so that will work out nicely... Pictures to come, of course! Happy Knitting! Lisa Kay

Hi, I've collected frogs forever, and Mitchell has taken over my frog collection pretty much as his own. :) Happy Knitting! Lisa Kay

Hi, On Sundays, we've been having the grandparents over for dinner. Here are some pictures Grandpa Evelsizer took last week and this week. Happy Knitting! Lisa Kay

Hi! Mitchell is a thrill-seeker. He likes to be tossed in the air (in or out of the pool), and he likes to climb. He bounces on the bed, either the "little bed" (crib) or the "big bed" (Mommy and Daddy's bed). I started calling him an acrobat, and now he can say , "Acrobat." What a little stinker! Happy Knitting! Lisa Kay

Hi! I've been purchasing yarns that appeal to me, and not worrying much about how they matched anything I have in my closet. (Pants cover them most of the time anyway...) However, I recently bought some fun green pants, and then I saw a cute yarn and decided to get that to "match" the pants. Now I just need to get knitting... Happy Knitting! Lisa Kay

Hi! We take Mitchell to the park often, since we have a very nice one in town. We had him up there, today, feeding the ducks and goats and playing on the equipment. He really likes the slides... both directions! Happy Knitting! Lisa Kay

Hi! While on my way to Whidbey Island, yesterday, I finished up the second sock in pair #3. I used the Stansfield 304 pattern from More Sensational Knitted Socks, again. The Seacoast Panda knitted up beautifully, and it sets off the stitch pattern very well. The colors were well-separated in the pattern stitch. On the heel and toe they pooled just a bit due to the shorter repeat. This seems to imply that you could get a yarn that "pooled" to behave better by knitting a different number of stitches. It's a bit like a resonance... at a certain stitch repeat rate, the colors line up. You could just knit for somebody else-- someone with a different foot size. I'm sure my husband would have loved a pair of socks this color (pink, pink, and pink)! Happy Knitting! Lisa Kay