Hey,

I love knitting and it is my hobby to knit purses, mobile covers, etc. with distinct patterns and the secret to it is the Free Knitting Patterns from an online website.

 Welcome Stephanie!  Glad to know you've joined Dollar Stretcher Community. Here are a couple of sites you may not know about.  Edey

 Knittingpatterncentral.com is a good site.

also Knitty.com.  

Knitty has fabulous patterns; I'm going to start the Shipwreck Shawl from their spring issue very soon.

Knitting Daily - www.knittingdaily.com - often offers free patterns, plus a fun, helpful email newsletter which comes 2-3 times a week.

My favorite knitting spot on the Net is Ravelry .  Tons of patterns (many free) with project pages so you can see how people's finished objects turn out, forums, all kinds of yarn information...it's excellent!

 Welcome to the Dollar Stretcher Forum.  What projects have you done?  Tell us about them.  Edey

Hi Edey, I have a bunch on my projects page at Ravelry. Search for ElendilPickle and you can see them all.

 I've done the February Lady Sweater, the Striped Noro Scarf, a Calorimetry, and a Gypsy Rose Scarf for myself - oh, and a pair of socks as well, plus a felted tea cozy for my husband and an Adipose (Doctor Who critter) for my daughter's roommate.  Right now I'm doing the Sidelines Top from the fall 2008 issue of Interweave Knits, and I'm making a Clapotis for my daughter for Christmas.  

 I do a lot of knitting for the Seamen's Church Institute ; their Christmas at Sea program gives scarves, hats, socks, vests, etc. to sailors on cargo ships, riverboats, cruise ships, etc. for the holidays.  I've made a bunch of scarves and hats for them, and one pair of socks.

I love those knit seamerchants hat they are warm goes great with my dark blue pea coat its the style here during winter in seattle its a hit at my church I only know one stitch in kintting garter stich thats it but mom is the knitter here in the family her mom during ww2 made her girls warm seaters during the war in germany Oma unraveled her old coat or wool jacker and knit warm sweaters for mom and my aunt Oma (grandmotther) most of the time went without  but she made a vest out of the left overs from the girls wool that she got done knitting them sweaters..   I crochet a vest thats as far as I went oma should me how to do that to keep my seft warm still got it 11 years later I still wear it because Im not use to throwing some things out I unravel alot of sweaters from thrift shops and the old blankets and do a vest or a hat or a new blanket for someone else in need of being warm besides thowing it in the corner for years and collect dust.