Miss Maddy's Capelet

The San Francisco Ravelry meet-up was a delight. I wore my "Miss Maddy's Capelet", and was treated to making 3 wonderful new friends. We sat and knitted - and LOOMED! Yes, a sweet lady from San Jose was there with her loom. We hit it off right away, and the afternoon flew by. Everyone drew chairs into large circles, and knit and talked. A very nice afternoon indeed.

Miss Maddy's Capelet Pattern $2.50
This loomed capelet has a Victorian feel to it. The eyelet lace pattern gives it a pretty elegance, yet it sits and drapes nicely around the shoulders of a denim jacket. Size can be easily adjusted to the shoulders by adding more or fewer rows, making it a lovely gift pattern. The finished size here is about 9 inches long, and 68 inches wide measuring the bottom edge.

Copyright 2010 by Renee Van Hoy, Invisible Loom and Craft. All Rights Reserved. Personal Use Only.

San Francisco Ravelry Meet-Up

The San Francisco Ravelry meet-up is this weekend. These photographs are of my shawl for the "Sport Your Shawl" part of the meet-up. We were asked to make a shawl from local yarn and a local designer. Well, this is my design, called "Miss Maddy's Shawl." The yarn is from Artfibers in Pinole California. It is called "Cheesecake" and is 70 % extra fine merino wool, 30% silk. It has a bulky weight, but a wonderfully soft drape. The edging is from a hand-dyed ribbon yarn. The photos were before I added a small crochet edging at the collar.
I made the shawl on a 1/2 inch gauge 55 peg round loom.

More patterns on Ravelry

I have been able to add several more of my free loom patterns to Ravelry in pdf format. I hope you will enjoy them.

Patterns in PDF

Go Team! A Hat for Him or Her

Carolyn Origami Purse $1.oo

Spring Cotton Ruffle Scarf

Cozy Baby Cozy $1.00

These four patterns are now available as downloads at Ravelry. The patterns are all large print pdf format. See the pattern pages on the right side of the blog for links to all my patterns. I hope you enjoy them! If you need a plain text version for your screen reader, please contact me and I will send one to you.
Copyright 2010 by Invisible Loom and Craft, Renee Van Hoy. All Rights Reserved. Personal Use Only.

Loom Lady and Loom Dude

Flowers for your Mothers' Day Tea

Two amazing designers have created patterns for loom knit flowers , just in time for your Mother's Day tea table.

Brenda, the Loom Lady http://loomlady.blogspot.com/ has a pattern for the lovely, dainty pansies. I can just see these embellishing hats, sweaters, scarves, and purses. They are just wonderful!

The Greg, the Loom Dude has daffodils and tulips on his blog http://loomdude.blogspot.com/

What I especially enjoy about The Loom Dude is he creates the patterns he wants, from his own imagination, without trying to transcribe from needle knitting, or even conventional loom knitting. The results are very unique, fresh loom patterns that are just a delight!

The Month of May

California is not the best place for planting a Dogwood tree, but we have a small Dogwood that puts on a lovely show of creamy flowers this time of year.

There are some fun loom activities in May. If these flowers are inspiring you, join the Loom-a-long group on Ravelry to make a very pretty felted rosette clutch. I am also looking forward to the meet-up of Ravelry members in the San Francisco area on May 16th. The group has planned a "Sport your shawl" a-long, encouraging members to make and bring a shawl from local designers and yarns. There is a wonderful list of patterns from Northern California designers, and they were gracious enough to include my Peony Cape. The event has generated a very impressive group of door prize donations from local yarn stores, and everyone is volunteering to help with a potluck, set up, prizes, as well as charity drop offs of yarn and hats. It is going to be a wonderful afternoon! There is a Ravelry group set up for the meet-up if you are interested.

On and Off the Loom

This pretty Blue Rose Shawl is my entry for the 2010 Spring Pattern Contest at Markman Looms.

I must be in a Violet mood, because this Spring Violet Shawl is my latest project. It has a simple but pretty eyelet pattern. Look for the pattern next week.