Posted in Celebrate, For Babies & Kids, Holidays, knitting, Mittens, sweaters, Valentine's Day on Feb 14th, 2013
It seems I can’t avoid setting deadlines for myself. I woke up on February 1st and asked Mike “Do you think it’s doable for me to knit Carys a sweater and Sairshe some socks by Valentine’s Day?” I didn’t add that I also wanted to squeeze in the fingerless gloves for him that had been [...]
Posted in For Babies & Kids, knitting, sweaters on Oct 17th, 2012
Last month I had an all-day workshop to sit through and late the night before I decided that I should bring something with me to knit since I get antsy just sitting for long blocks of time. I picked some wool yarn ( a discontinued Anny Blatt yarn) I had in the closet and quickly [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Create, Holidays, knitting, Sewing, sweaters, Valentine's Day on Feb 16th, 2009
I love this little dress! Like everything I’ve knit recently, it’s making wasn’t without a near-disaster. It was almost ruined when I put it on the little ungrateful toddler and she had a screaming fit and yanked at it so hard that she totally stretched out the buttonholes and I was afraid for the hand-stitching. [...]
I had a birthday and Washington threw a big party! It was for Obama, I know but it was fun to celebrate with the rest of the country. Whether you voted for him or not, weren’t you at least a little glad to see someone without the Bush name take the office? I like this [...]
You do not know how happy it makes me to be done with this sweater! It started about 2 years ago with Mike picking out his yarn, and hours spent finding The Right Pattern. He settled on the Spartan Pullover from IK, but wanted it to be a cardigan and the design at the bottom [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Christmas, Create, Holidays, knitting, sweaters on Dec 25th, 2007
Merry Christmas to all of you! I hope you had a fabulous day. We stayed home and it was so nice. I got some fabulous knitting-related gifts that I’ll share with you later but for now, I want to show off my Christmas knitting. I finished my BPT earlier …
Posted in Create, For Babies & Kids, hats, knitting, sweaters on Feb 4th, 2007
I’ve been so busy knitting that I haven’t had time for blogging. I’ve also had a hard time actually taking pictures of my knitting so that I could have something to show you.This is the Mommy Snug sweater from last summer’s IK. I made the smallest size and knit one set of short …
Posted in Create, Family, knitting, sweaters on Sep 18th, 2006
I brother came to visit for 5 days and we had a really good time. This was his 1st time visiting Mike and I in the 5 years we’ve been married so it was nice to have him at our place for once! We did the grand tour of Portland and the gorge, ate a [...]
Posted in Create, knitting, Places, sweaters, travel on Jun 24th, 2006
It’s done and it fits!! I love my corset pullover. If you like it too, the pattern is free! That makes it even better in my mind. Yarn: Knitpicks shine sport in hydrangea. The pattern called for a worsted weight yarn so this involved a LOT of math to adjust the pattern. …
Posted in Create, Eat Well, knitting, Local Eating, sweaters on Mar 21st, 2006
I finished something! I started knitting soleil last summer and just now finished! I didn’t quite finish it last summer when the weather started getting cold so I put it away until now. In honor of project spectrum, I decided to finally finish it. I thought I had a bit more to knit on the [...]
