Testers Found for Knitting Illusion Heart Square

TESTER ARE:  DAWN, SHEELA, KATY, THELMA, NANCY, PATTY, LUCY

Testers Wanted: Beginner Knitting Illusion Heart Square

I need a few knitters who are willing to test this simple knitting illusion square.  I'd like it if I can get maybe 2 knitters who have done knitting illusion before  and a few more people who know how to knit but have never done knitting illusion to test the pattern.  It is not complicated and there is a YouTube video you can watch that will help beginners also.

If you want to test, send me an email to the address below with your Follower name. Only the first people emailing me will receive the pattern to test. I respond to all requests. If you don't receive a response, send another email as your original email may have gone into spam. Please don't post a comment that you'd like to test. I can't send a copy of the pattern to a "comment." You have to email me as it states. Don't send me a comment through the Google feed that you want to test. You must use the email address below.

Donna 

SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com

Read the rules below:

1. Must be a member of Ravelry, a follower of this blog and a subscriber to this blog.

2. Must be able to finish testing by Thursday July 19, 2012

3. Must be able to send me a picture of your finished item attached to an email. People not following through and sending me a picture or not posting on Ravelry will no longer be able to test future patterns.

4. Must be able to send me errors of any kind you find in the pattern. 

5. It is mandatory as of January 23, 2011 that all testers add their test projects on Ravelry after I post the link to the pattern. Once I post the pattern, you'll need to go back to Ravelry and link it to the proper pattern. If you posted your project ahead of time, it won't be linked to the pattern without using the exact name I called the pattern once it was posted. Anyway, believe me, I will be checking. If 10 people want to test, there should be 10 projects on Ravelry.

6. You can use whatever brand of 4 ply yarn you'd like to use. The pattern will give you the specific's of what I used but you can use use whatever colors of yarn you'd like to use.  

If you want to test, send me an email to the address below with your Follower name. Only the first people emailing me will receive the pattern to test. I respond to all requests. If you don't receive a response, send another email as your original email may have gone into spam. Please don't post a comment that you'd like to test. I can't send a copy of the pattern to a "comment." You have to email me as it states. Don't send me a comment through the Google feed that you want to test. You must use the email address below.

Donna 

SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com

Testers Pictures of Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friends Knit Hat

Below are the tester pictures. Testers please click on the link below the pictures to post your projects.

ANGEL

DAWN

ELLEN

FRANCES

JANICE

JANICE

KELLY

KELLY

KELLY

LORI

MIA

THELMA

Here are the instructions to post a project on Ravelry

1. Click on the link below

2. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/diamonds-are-a-girls-best-friends-knit-hat

3. It takes you to the pattern page – you may need to log-in to Ravelry to see the “CAST ON” icon in step 4

4. Click on the "CAST ON" icon in the top right area

5. It will let you fill in the blanks, name your own name for the piece you worked. You can name it whatever you want. Example: Stars’s blah blah blah. It will let you rate the pattern also. So you enter all the information about your "project" like, did you like it, did you have to add a round of sc's to make it the right size, what yarn you used etc and then you save that. General notes for other people who will see it.

6. Then there is a tab so you can add your pictures of your square or blanket or multiple squares with the same pattern.

7. If you had already created your project on Ravelry before I posted the pattern, you will need to go to the link above – highlight and copy the BOLD name of the pattern that I named it. Then go to your project page and put in this name as the pattern name link.

It's really kind of easy.

Update: Do you want to test knitted hats?

I put out a request about a week ago and someone pointed out to me that they thought they were already on "the list".  Well, the original list was written in a steno pad months ago.  The stenopad eventually filled up and somehow was discarded by my husband.

I have the following people on the new list, which I have put into a spreadsheet on the old computer so I won't lose it.  Remember you are not under any obligation to test, you will never be forced to do any pattern you aren't interested in.  There are various sizes of the hats and you can pick your own colors and size that you want to work your project in. 

I'll just send an email when your name comes up and if you want to opt in, you just email me that you are interested.  If you don't want to participate in a specific hat, that's okay too.  I'll just go on down the list of until I find enough people to test the hat. 

REMEMBER - you must have a RAVELRY ACCOUNT so that you can post your project pictures to after you have completed testing.

If you don't see your name and you are interested in joining the NEW list to test knitted hats (mostly FairIsle stranded or Intarsia) please send me an email. SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com  In your email I need your first and last name along you telling me that you do have a Ravelry account and it would be nice to know what your experience level is with knitting FairIsle and Intarsia.

Albrecht, K Brouillard, M Chaffin, L Cottis, E

Coy, A Durand, M Evans, D Hill, M McKnight, B Ord, J Parkin, T Rowan, J Stanford, F Thulin, D Veteto, L York, M

Do you want to test knit items

Please send me an email if you'd like to be on the list to test knitted hats etc.  Most of the patterns will be for stranded knit hats.  Maybe once I get more confidence, I'll branch out more but for now, it's strictly knit hats.

I won't be posting an open call for knitted items, at this time, as they are so few and far between.  However, I'm going to create a list from those that want to be included that I can draw from. 

When I have a pattern to test as I do now, I'll email a few of the people on the list and ask if they'd like to test the item.  If they aren't up to the challenge, are busy or aren't interested, I'll work my way down the list until I have enough testers.

You will also be required to have a Ravelry account and be expected to post your project once I have posted the pattern.

So if you are interested, please send me an email and give me your first and last, experience level in knitting and the email address you want me to contact you at.

Donna SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com

Testers for knit hat patterns

I'd really like to have testers for my knit hat patterns just as I do for the crochet patterns.  I'm trying to find out if there is any interest.  I see it two ways.  I could make a list of all those interested in knitting the hats or I could open each item for testing as I do with crochet patterns.

Please email me with your opinions so I'll know if I should just make a list of faithful people who are interested in being on an exclusive list or if there are many people who would be interested and I should just open each item up for testers to respond to me on a pattern by pattern basis.

At this time I only plan on creating knit hats, most will be using fair isle stranded knitting.  There will be different sizes of the hats ranging from newborn to large adult sizes.  I have several hat patterns right now that I need some testers to knit and I just don't know which way to go with this.  Experienced knitters only please respond.  I'd rather not have beginners or inexperienced knitters who would not be able to give me great input and suggestions.  You would be required to be a member of Ravelry and able to post your projects.

Send your responses to me at the email below and or leave a comment through Blogger. Don't post a comment through GOOGLE.

Donna SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com

Day two of my vacation

Tuesday- Day two of my vacation:

I created a chart using Excel for a skull and decided I would try super hard to try to get my tension the same when using both hands to knit.  I designed it thinking I could put two sets of skulls across the hat but apparently I did too much of the stripes plus I used a fluffy yarn.

I work for the Public Defenders office and I designed this hat with a special Attorney in mind who I call the Devil's Pawn sometimes.  He really is a cool Attorney who always has me in stitches laughing but he has a dark side sometimes when he comes back from court.  He'll walk past me and sorta growl because of the hard day he's had. I call the hat Skull Hat For A Cool Guy.  The more I stare at those skulls all I needed to do was put two horns on each skull and it would definately have been the devil.

I wasn't sure how many stitches around a hat for a man should be.  This hat is going to be a tight squeeze for him.  If he can't wear it, I'll give it to a teenage kid son of one of my co-workers who will love it I'll bet.

I learned the following:

1. Each of my hands knits with a different tension.

2.  I can design a chart that can be used to knit a hat.

3. I have never used alternating colors when doing the decreases in the top of a hat.  I still haven't mastered how to make it look pretty.  When you K2tog and there are 2 colors of yarns, I didn't know which I should work the stitch with

If anyone is interested, I wrote the pattern down and you can test it by sending me an email for the pattern called Skull Hat For A Cool Guy.

Donna SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com

Knitting added

You may notice I changed the name of the blog to include the word "Knit"

I've been interested in knitting for years and have no one around me to get advice from or to help me learn to knit so it's been a slow process for me.  I've decided that as I learn something new, (old to you experienced knitters) and if I create my own pattern, I'll be posting for "testers wanted" just like I do with crocheting.

Maybe some of you brave souls will be interested also in delving into knitting, as well as crocheting.  We can learn together.  Or maybe some of you very experienced knitters who can whip up a project in a day could test a pattern or two and supply information on what the cast-on stitch count would be for a larger hat.  Right now I'm into knitting hats for two babies that my co-workers have both just had within the past 3 months.  So if I have a pattern for a newborn baby, you might have a toddler or an adult that you want to work the pattern for and we can fill in the information to adjust the sizes.

I hope some of you will respond in comments if you are interested in participating!!!

Donna
 

Testers Found - Fox's Double Heart Knit Illusion Scarf

UPDATE TESTERS ARE: Thelma, Emanuela, Lavina, Aisha, Angel

YES I SAID KNIT !!!

I have never in my life created a knit pattern.  In fact, when I have tried using people's charts to do knit illusion I can't do it.  I can follow a written pattern but not their charts.  They were too confusing.  This made me sit down and create a chart pattern I felt that just about anyone can understand.  So I have applied the science of a taking a drawing on graph paper I designed of two staggered hearts and made it into a chart for knitting what I call a double heart illusion scarf pattern.  If you are unfamiliar with Illusion Knitting, you will be working the scarf using two contrasting colors of yarn which will just look like you are knitting a striped scarf however when you view the scarf at an angle you will see the true pattern of the double hearts.

So... I'm looking for some brave people who knit.  Right now, I'd like people that are familar with Knit Illusions and who knit at a steady speed who know for sure they can get the testing of this pattern for a scarf completed in the time frame allowed below. HOWEVER, if you feel you are comfortable doing this pattern from a chart, email me doing simple Knit and Purl stitches from a chart, feel free to email me.  I will be knitting the scarf at the same time as the testers so this will be quite interesting for me.

If you are currently testing a pattern for me, please don't ask to test this pattern.

When I find enough testers I go back and change the title of this posting from Testers Wanted to Testers Found. Before emailing me, please go back and check this link to see if the title has been changed. If the title has been changed, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not email me asking to test.

If you want to be a tester, read the instructions below and let's get started! Remember, everyone who tests any of the patterns will have their picture of the completed tested item shown in the blog next to their name as a tester. So show off your talents. I'd really like it if when I put the pattern up on Ravelry, if each tester or person who works this pattern would add it as a project there so I can post a link to everyone who makes this items pictures.

1. Must be a follower of this blog and a subscriber. Not a follower yet? Sign up. Let me know your follower name.

2. Must be able to finish testing by Saturday January 8th. (this is a guess. If the majority of testers finish early, I'll post the pattern and pictures earlier)

3. Must be able to send me a picture of your finished item attached to an email.

4. Must be able to send me errors of any kind you find in the pattern.

5. It'd be a plus but is not mandatory, if you were a member of Ravelry so you can add the project when the pattern opens up to everyone.

6. You can use 2 SOLID colors of yarn you'd like. They must be the same brand so that when you launder the scarf it will not warp from different yarn brands. 

If you want to test, send me an email to the address below with your Follower name. Only the first so testers emailing me will receive the pattern to test. Please don't post a comment that you'd like to test. I can't send a copy of the pattern to a "comment." You have to email me as it states.

Donna SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com