My personality type

You Are An INTP

The Thinker You are analytical and logical - and on a quest to learn everything you can. Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge. Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial chit chat. A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it. In love, you are an easy person to fall for. But not an easy person to stay in love with. Although you are quite flexible, you often come off as aloof or argumentative. At work, you are both a logical and creative thinker. You are great at solving problems. You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor. How you see yourself: Creative, fair, and tough-minded When other people don't get you, they see you as: arrogant, cold, and robotic

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Here's my heart...

Here's my heart....another loom knitted quickie! It took much longer to write up the pattern than designing and making the heart, which is why I'm a bit late with this blog post. I designed some little hearts last year that I called My Cheatin' Hearts, but the Double Heart is a vast improvement over the former. The new hearts are made in the round using seven pairs of pegs on any of the Knifty Knitter long looms. They can also be made larger or smaller by varying the number of pegs used; however, the best results are obtained when using an odd number of peg pairs.

Making the hearts in the round on the long loom has several advantages:

• they don't curl
• the front and back are made at the same time since they are made in the round
• they hold their shape
• the edges have a neat smooth chained look
• they can be stuffed to make a puffy heart
• plus, they are just really cute

I have two projects worked up that incorporate these hearts, but that is another story for another time. In the meantime, you can get creative by making your own. The basic Double Heart pattern is listed in my pattern box and can also be accessed here.

These are also really nice when made with wool yarn and felted. I made a little amigurumi heart similar to a needle knitted one pictured on the Mochimochi Blog. I love the hearts with the amigurumi look, and you will probably be seeing more amigurumi designs on my blog in the future.

Bright bells

After making the Victorian Lace ornaments, I had some of the metallic colored Needloft Craft Cord left over. To me, the colors of the metallic cord are reminicent of the 40's vintage Shiny Brite ornaments. So with this in mind, I designed a little bell that is not only super quick to make, but has two different styles of rims. Last year I wrote a pattern for Knifty Christmas Bells, but this bell is even quicker, easier and more fun to make than the Knifty Bell.

Very similar in design to the little Halloween ghost, Boo-Ella, the Shiny Bright Bell is made from the top down using the drawstring cast on, nine rows of flat knit stitch, one row of e-wrap stitch, and your choice of two styles of rims.

The first style rim, the fastest of the two, is the garter stitch rim which is made by alternating the last three rows with purl & flat knit stitches, then finished with a basic flat panel bind off. You can also add a little variety by using a contrasting color cord to create a stripe. The gold bell pictured on the left has a red cord added on rows 6-8 for the stripe.

The second style rim uses the I-cord bind off to create a little flare. You can vary the number of stitches in the I-cord to suit your taste. The white bell pictured on the right was made using Needloft white/silver and a 3 stitch I-cord edge. This style is not only good for holiday ornaments, but when done in white it makes a very nice wedding decoration.

The free pattern is located here and in the Pattern Box on the right sidebar.