Corissa Morales

Real quick – 3 down. w00t!

Started 4th, 21 more to go to hit goal.

As you may know I’ve decided to join this year’s Pine Street Knit-a-Thon.

The Pine Street Inn Knit-a-Thon achieves two goals: First, it raises money to benefit Pine Street Inn’s Supportive Housing Program. This program provides permanent housing to women and men whose lives have been derailed by homelessness, giving them a new lease on life.

Second, the participants knit 9” squares that are sewn together to create afghans for the Supportive Housing Program. Upon moving into their new home, each tenant receives a beautiful, unique, handmade blanket. Last year, they received thousands of squares, made 40 blankets in one day and raised nearly $20,000 to support the program.

My goal is to knit at least 25 squares and today is day one!

If you’d like to sponsor me please visit my fundraiser page www.firstgiving.com/corissamorales It would mean a lot to me!

A dear friend from my hometown recently got married. I knew I wanted to handcraft a gift for her that was both unique and useful. While scoping out her registry I came across this – her fine dining place settings:

I decided that matching dish towels were her must have.

Using Lion Brand’s Lion Cotton I knit up three towels to match the base plate and three to match the accent. The accent plate has an adorable, modern polka dot motif that I tried without success to recreate. The Glitterspun yarn worked well for the trim but was simply too tacky to double as dots (if I had kept it I would have had a Craft Fail on my hands), so I settled on dot-free accent towels.

The final product:

Yarn: 1 skein Colinette’s Prism in “Popsicle”
Needles: Size 11
18 sts, 1 x 1 rib, all rows

This yarn is soft wool and cotton blend in a color that’s sure to please my 11 year old cousin. I attached 4 strands of tassels at each and decided it wasn’t enough – so I used extra yarn to tie the tassels tight together in a bunched end.

Yarn: 1 1/2 skeins Bernat Black Lites in “Crazy Baby”
Needle: Hook N
Ch8; *sc8, sc8, dc8*; sc8
At ends: dc4; dc2; dc1

I added pom-poms to the ends. This acrylic yarn is super soft and made the pom-poms nearly impossible. They “slid” off several times forcing me to relent and eventually sew them on with needle and thread. I’m sure my very energetic 8 year old cousin will get them to “fall” off too.