New Ideas.

In an attempt to get more involved in the knitting community, I've been joining a lot of awesome knitting groups lately and I've had a lot of great ideas. I joined ravelry, which I totally love. I've managed to find some seacoast knitting groups. One of my favorite groups is called Knutty Knitters and it's for those of us with some head problems. The women are great and I can tell already that it's going places. I'm also going to create my banner with the help of Kynan. I'm hoping to get it up on here soon, as well as on DaWanda. Which leads me to my next announcement... I've set up my shop on DaWanda! I haven't posted any items yet, but I plan to by next week. I'm not really stressed, but the whole thing is kinda daunting. I need to go find out how much it's going to cost to ship things, and who will ship my items the cheapest. I also need to figure out how I'm going to set up my payment options and what my policies will be. I think I'm gonna check other people's out and learn from trial and error.

I've decided to start featuring some awesome causes I've found.
The first one is The Special Olympics Scarf Project. The goal of this project is to give athletes a homemade scarf create an instant bond between maker and participant. This also serves to promote awareness. Their goal is to have collected 5000 scarves by January 15, 2009, just prior to the start of the Winter Games. So far they've collected over 1000. The only thing they ask is that you use Red Heart Super Saver Yarn indelft blue (#885) and white (#311). You can get this at Wal-Mart. You can also get this yarn online. You can knit or crochet any pattern you want as long as you use these yarns.
There's also a group on ravelry dedicated to this cause.

Moving on...

Today's stitch pattern is called triangle squares. This one is really easy, just like the rest I've shown you. The image doesn't do it justice, but the little square I whipped up looked pretty promising. This is a picture of the right side. The wrong looks exactly opposite. Here's the pattern:

Triangle Squares

Cast on in multiples of 5

Row 1: *p1, k4; rep from*
Row 2: *p3, k2; rep from*
Row 3: rep row 2
Row 4: rep row 1
repeat until finished!

And on that note, I'm gonna head out for the day. See you all later!