Children Winter 2015 trendy items

Children Winter 2015 trendy items by woolsolution featuring a chain strap bag

Monsoon chain strap bag
monsoon.co.uk

Monsoon butterfly hair accessory
monsoon.co.uk

See Kai Run Girls Sandal from seekairun.com - cool baby shoes, toddler...
seekairun.com

Baby/Girls Extra Soft Frilly Lace Top Socks (Pack Of 3)
universal-textiles.com

Knit Wool Tweed Set Crew Neck Toddler Girl by woolsolution
etsy.com

Yoked Seamless Pullover

 This article is NOT a pattern description and is intended to help knitters with some experience to save time and speed up knitting process.  This technique is suitable for some adult knitwear and works great for children’s sweaters, cardigans and vests. As a result the garment is seamless and provides comfortable fit.
If you have a knitting machine with a ribber attachment check the manual for tubular knitting.
Before starting the project knit a swatch and do all necessary calculations. Set up the carriage to knit fabric clockwise and use a waste yarn to cast on EON (Every Other Needle).
You will knit front when carriage  moves from right to left and back of the garment when carriage moves from left to right, Keep in mind that a row counter at the end should show required number of rows times fore for mock ribbing and times two for the rest part.  When you reach  required depth of mock rib  (Number of Rows times 4) bring all needles into work and continue knit clockwise to reach required rows for front/back.

Sleeves

With all mentioned above considerations  work each sleeve at a time increasing one stitch in every 8-10th row on one side.

Machine part is over. Now combine stitches on a circular needles skipping 8 or 10 (4-5 sts on both sides of the imaginary seams)  stitches in under arm area on sleeves and the body of the future sweater. Continue knitting forming raglan or round yoke and bind off at neck line.

This color schema includes stitches decrease instructions . Before start yoke make sure your number of stitches is dividable by 8 in order to get whole number of the given motif.

Fungus Among Us

Few years ago I'd decided to try growing shiitake mushrooms on logs using wooden dowel plugs impregnated with a mushroom mycelium. You can easily find the on-line store to purchase  them. I had no problem with oak logs as well, we had just cut down a huge oak tree in front of our house  and I picked few pieces not split yet for fire wood and started my experiment.  Following the instruction I  inoculated logs. The whole process from inoculation to fruit took more than a year, the process requires some work and plenty of patience, but the rewards are delectable.

The name shiitake means “mushroom of the oak,” but I've found references that shiitake mushrooms will also grow on sugar maple. This year I've decided to extend the plantation. I'll let you know what result I'll get.