Oh socktober, you were over too quickly for me. i discovered that in a month of dedicated sock knitting, I can make *gasp* ONE pair of socks. I am wearing them today to see out the month in style. You already met them a few days ago… here they are …
While at work i found myself with an hour to waste and I was desperate to make something. I found some acrylic yarn in my office and a crochet hook in my pencil cup, and i whipped up this little guy… photo courtesy of teapotgirl he is a little amigurumi …
This past weekend I wanted to make a small, but staisfying project. The poppysocks have looked too daunting lately. So I decided to make pair of baby socks. Pattern: from 50 Baby Bootees to Knit Yarn: Schachenmayer Micro that i bought from Elann a long time ago. But wait, it …
I finished one of the baby socks featured in this month’s Interweave Knits. It is made out of Cherry Tree Hill supersock yarn. I think the cables are pretty noticeable, and it is pretty cute, but it will certainly look better with a baby foot in it. This was my …
I have been working on my knitting projects, and spinning some yarn. Saturday, Gen and Cheryl came over to do a little spinning. Ingrid was hanging out for a while and sneakily took some action photos of me and Gen spinning away on our matching Lendrums. We took a break …
A tale of felting woe. Why is that when we try to make something nice for a baby, things start to go so wrong?
i bet you thought you were never going to have to hear about our hideous booties again you might remember that a little while ago sarah and i knit some really awful booties (you can refresh your memory here). During the baby shower we pulled them out to try and …
We finished the first baby blanket in time for the shower! It was a close one, I wasn’t sure we would get it finished, but here it is: That’s the mom-to-be, Emily. I hope she forgives me for the picture of her with her eyes closed, but it is only …
I hope sarah doest mind that i am including her in this category, but it needs to be done. A few weeks ago, Sarah started knitting a pair of baby booties from the Knitting for baby book. Here she is then, happily working away I also have been working on …