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 [...]
After lots of attempts, I finally took some okay pictures of my Gyrid tank top. It’s from Elsebeth Lavold’s book The Viking Knits Collection. I’m knitting it with her Silky Wool yarn in a mossy green color and I really like it. I originally bought it for another project but I decided it wasn’t really [...]
