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 …
Thanksgiving week was madness! A 600 mile road trip, 2 families, 2 Thanksgiving dinners (thankfully on 2 different nights), tons of family, several baby meltdowns because of an inability to sleep in a strange place and, to top it all off, my husband’s high school reunion. Whew, I’m tired all over again just …
Posted in Children, Create, Family, For Babies & Kids, knitting on Nov 16th, 2007
Silly baby loves chewing on the tape measure. She tries to eat my patterns too. Yum, paper. These are the Perfection Pants from Wooly Wonder. We use cloth diapers so these wool pants (longies in cloth diaper speak) are the waterproof outer layer and they’re warm and snuggly soft. I …
Or: Why it just might be in my best interest to spend all waking hours surfing Ravelry. It’s getting cold here and I decided to knit a headband since it’s hard to wear hats with all of my hair. I picked Calorimetry because it looked easy and cute. It was easy. I knit it in [...]
Posted in Create, Family, knitting, scarves on Oct 29th, 2007
Am I the last person out there who has knit a Clapotis? I did this summer and now I know what all the fuss was about. What a great pattern!I used Knit Picks Shimmer in the Happy Dance colorway. I triple stranded it and the result is a lovely fabric with a lot of …
Posted in Children, Create, Family, For Babies & Kids, knitting on Oct 12th, 2007
. . . I was about six months pregnant and knitting and working and waiting for baby. A lot has changed since then! I got busy and then I got tired and then I got hugely pregnant and cranky. I was focused on getting everything ready for the little girl and though …
Posted in Create, For Babies & Kids, knitting on Feb 21st, 2007
Sesame has her first stuffed animal! I knitted this mess in a little over a day but little did I know that it would take me a lot longer to turn all those pieces into this!Sewing, stuffing, sewing some more, taking an ear off, sewing it again. It took so much longer than …
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 Children, Create, Family, For Babies & Kids, knitting on Jan 17th, 2007
A girl!! I was actually really anxious about finding out baby sesame’s gender. It’s not that I was hoping for one or the other, but I found that I kind of liked not knowing. Then I realized that when I found out, I could start knitting cute baby boy or baby girl …
I can’t believe it’s been a month since I’ve posted! This is what I’ve been doing. Vacationing! We spent Christmas at the beach in L.A. this year. My dad lives 2 blocks from the beach and the weather was a nice change from the freezing Portland temperatures! This photo was taken …
