13 posts tagged “knitting”
i forget when i started knitting for christmas but it was many months ahead of time. in the end i finished one project - but it was a cute one!
i made a pair of coordinated bunnies for my sister-in-laws twin boys. they are just ten months old so i kept them small and soft with matching blankets.
this pattern comes from kate gilbert and is truly amazing. the bunnies are knitted in one piece and then stitched up in different parts. it makes a great pattern to work on as you move around because there are no loos pieces and the bunnies are cute as can be.
so when i started knitting this fall - hoping to actually make some gifts this year I didn't know I'd stick with it...but there has been knitting progress!
this piece is actually done - as far as the knitting goes. it need a few things, like stuffing, but i'll get to that.
there will be some finished project pics at some point, but that will have to wait as this is a gift (although some are too little to surf!).
i've had this plan before. knit in the fall so i have actual thoughtful christmas and chanukah presents...
well this year there is actually some progress on that idea!
this month went so fast that i was sure i posted this on friday and i see that i last posted 5 days ago. did i really lose almost a whole week?
this week i was so excited to find a friend's yarn in a brand new, small, all local food store. i was beyond excited really and couldn't help but buy some. she makes the rest of us look bad when it comes to local.
she raises the sheep, shears the sheep, spins the wool. grows the garden, harvests and makes all natural dye. dyes the wool. besides that she's a really nice human and beautiful.
i noticed that when i got the yarn home - while excited to knit - i was really most excited to wind the yarn. it's so exciting to see the yarn spin up into this ready to use little ball - so much potential.
here's to an amazing fall!
I completed Baby Girl's shrug from the Hello Yarn handspun. She likes it - which is fabulous! (The leg warmers have yet to see a second wearing.) It looks great with a white t-shirt (although she was willing to put it on for pics so who was I to complain about it with the brown polka dots). It's such an easy knit for a chunky handspun and she gets the charm of the basically useless girlish accessory! I knit it in one piece on two circulars (cast off, then one circular, cast on and two circulars).
Yesterday I started knitting up the handspun I bought. Baby Girl wanted wrist warmers and Kaitie Tee had suggested it too so that was where I started. The yarn is so fat though that I decided to turn it into a shrug. It will be a little small and silly but I think kind of cute on Baby Girl with a white tee. I'm sure I'll have yarn leftover, but I'm so paranoid about running out - aahhh!
...not needed - but soooo fabulous! As soon as I picked Baby Girl up today I showed her the yarn I ordered from Hello Yarn. It arrived today and I just want to look at it! As soon as we got home we wound it up into a ball - the biggest ball of yarn I've ever had. Of course, it's only about 81 yards. What do you do with 81 yards of fat yarn? and what needles do I use?
I must have started Baby Girl's leg warmers last year. (I'm sure I could look back at my own blog and figure it out.) But I feel pretty good that I have a completed knitting project this early in the year.
She wore them to music class today and danced all around. They looked pretty cute. I'm tempted to make myself the pair in last-minute knitted gifts. They just seem like such a fun frivolous garment to have.
I've been in Chicago for the past week. A bunch of us went home to surprise my mom for her 60th birthday. Our flight was delayed all day so we didn't arrive until 10pm. She was very surprised to have friends and family walk in while she was already in her robe. We had so much fun!
I had to go to work today. So I bought some gorgeous handspun from Hello Yarn. I'm not even sure if it's enough to make anything, but I'll have to try...
...so the funny part about this WIP is that part of the project is complete - just missing.
Baby Girl wanted leg warmers, she picked out some super soft purple yarn and I knit. 30 stitches with a 1x1 rib. I finished the first leg warmer and then Baby Girl took it to use as a blanket for her My Little Ponies...now there is no first leg warmer to be found.
At least the second one is started...
