Joan's Travels

After searching for a couple of years, we finally found our future alpaca ranch! The perfect piece of land to embrace the life of voluntary simplicity.

Here’s my newest knifty knitter slouch hat made with Sensations Angel hair yarn. I’m making this one a little different than my original knitted pattern.

Looking for knitting patterns for the triangle scarf? Here is one that I made, plus some links to other patterns I found and liked.

Here is my felted purse made on a knifty knitter, with links to more free patterns.

I’ve never seen a slouch hat pattern for the knifty knitter so decided to invent my own pattern. Here is the resulting slouch hat, with instructions.

Latest photos of new baby hats made on a knifty knitter, along with links to free knifty knitter patterns.

Slouch hats are all the rage and finding a slouch hat knitted pattern, similar to the slouch hat worn in the movie, Twilight, isn’t easy to do. Here are the slouch hat knitted patterns I found after several hours of searching the net. Most are free and 2 are from Etsy.com.

I bought this beautiful chunky baby alpaca yarn to knit my mom a prayer shawl for Mother’s Day. See the yarn and find out where to get this special prayer shawl knitted pattern.

Are you looking for knitting gifts for your favorite knitter? If you are a knitter yourself, choosing the perfect knitting gift is easy. Just choose something you’d love to have yourself. However, if you aren’t a knitter but you need knitting gift ideas, here are a few that you can’t go wrong with:
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I loved the Yarn Harlot’s book “Knitting Rules!” Besides being packed with great info, it made me laugh and feel part of a special knitting club.