My Dad’s birthday was last weekend so I was able to give the first knitted gift of the season. He lives in southern California so he doesn’t need super warm gear but he also lives right by the beach and he’s often outside in the evenings. I whipped up these fingerless gloves for him in [...]
Posted in Autumn, Create, knitting, Seasons on Nov 9th, 2009
What’s not to love? The cool weather, pumpkin pie and leaves changing color are all wonderful but what I also love are all the sweaters! Everywhere I go I see fabulous knitwear that makes my closet seem boring. Okay, my closet’s not too boring but I can’t stop coveting other people’s sweaters, hats and scarves. [...]
Posted in Create, knitting, Mittens, socks on May 13th, 2009
First I want to thank you all for the nice comments, emails, and tweets about my new website. I’m still adding some pictures to it and tweaking it a little but I’m really excited about it. I have several finished items that I’ve neglected to share on the blog. I keep wearing them and forgetting [...]
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 [...]
Here they are- my last two finished projects of 2008! I started the mittens when all the snow was still on the ground and Mike complained of not having any mittens. (Note that my kid cried because her hands were cold and she still does not have mittens. Again- What is wrong with me?!)’ I [...]
Posted in Children, Create, Family, hats, knitting, Nature, The Outdoors on Dec 17th, 2008
Last I updated, I was on my way to L.A. for a sunny Thanksgiving. It rained a tiny bit but we still had more sun than if we’d stayed home. We came back and made the trek to Mt. Hood to pluck our tree out of the wilderness. It was a gorgeous day and …
Posted in Autumn, Children, Family, For Babies & Kids, Halloween, Holidays, knitting, Seasons on Oct 30th, 2008
We had a great time at The Pumpkin Patch last weekend and partied with some parent friends. Square dancing, all-you-can-eat barbecued corn and toddlers in face paint. It was a really good time and after much deliberation, we even came home with some pumpkins. Back at home, the evidence that seseme is now a toddler [...]
Posted in Autumn, Celebrate, Create, knitting, Nature, Seasons, socks, The Outdoors on Sep 22nd, 2008
And a contest! Details about that after the pictures. Even though the weather was grey and drizzly this weekend (how quickly weather changes in Portland!) we spent a lot of time outside. Here are some pretties from the weekend. We went to the park and there were already lots of leaves on the ground. It [...]
