Cutest little purse ever!

During the saga of "The Shawl," I have been forced to seek tiny, cute, easy little projects that don't make me sigh and/or scream. I popped into an LYS (although not really "local" to me) and found a cute and free pattern for a little felted pouch made of ONE skein of Noro Kureyon. Now, the magic words there were: FREE pattern, ONE skein, and FELTED. I was all over that.

I purchased my one skein of Noro Kureyon #163, which was a very very pretty mix of colors (and, interestingly, some of the colors are hidden from view when you purchase it, so parts of the bag were a surprise, which was actually kind of fun).


I knit this in less than 5 hours total. It would have been more like 2 if the knitting time was uninterrupted (stupid life). I ran it through the washer twice for felting and there you have it. It dried in less than 24 hours, and it took 20 or so minutes to sew on the button and cut off all the fuzzies. Total cost was less than $10.

Finally . . . The Sweater Is Done!

I repeat - The Sweater Is Done! I finally finished my first sweater for Emma. It is a pattern for a basic sweater from the book Top Down for Toddlers. I love that the pattern has no (or very little) sewing involved, but it does make for a very boxy shape to the sweater. I knit a practice sweater (yes, I knit the whole thing) in size 2, and it was HUGE on Emma. The above sweater is a size 1 (much better) knit with Sirdar acrylic yarn. I loved the feel of the yarn and the color. Sweater mission = accomplished.

Bootie Fever

I may have a small bootie problem. I got this great pattern from a LYS (The Vermont Yarn Shop (or store, I can't remember)), located in Middlebury, Vermont. The pattern is called "Christopher's Stay on Booties" and they are supposed to be guaranteed to stay on baby feet. I knit the pair in the picture above pretty quickly, and they are really cute (I used Rowan Handknit Cotten for the yarn). The only problem is that they have a seam in the bottom and up the back. The pattern, however, has instructions for the same booties knit from the top down in the round (i.e. no seams). I have finished 1 3/4 more booties. They just look so damn cute when they are done.

However, I will say that the current scarf obsession was born of me being tired of knitting teensy stitches on teensy needles. LOL

Foxy Scarf

I knit this scarf out of a yarn called "Foxy." I got it at Wal*Mart (shhhhhhh, don't tell). It is knit with 3 strands held together, and is basically just a plain old garter stitch scarf with 13 stitches. The first picture is a close up of the colors, which still really doesn't do it justice. It is a really beautiful blend of colors, and I got tons of compliments about it. One word of caution though if you are tall - the pattern says that the scarf will knit up to 60 inches with the 3 balls, but it doesn't knit past 56 or so in reality (pattern on reverse of yarn label).

I knit this scarf in about 2 hours or so.

Bella Scarf

This is the "Bella" scarf from Knit Picks knit with the Knit Picks "Suri Dream" yarn. It only takes one ball of the yarn for the scarf, and it knits up really fast (I started it last night and finished it before 8 p.m. tonight with not much knitting time during the day). The first picture is of the whole scarf and the second is the ruffled edge.

Yes, I realize that there are dropped stitches. It is part of the pattern. LOL My mom was all worried that I was going to freak when she mentioned the drop stitches.

I can't figure out how to use links.

So I'm going to put this in a post for now until I get computer smart.

plus size maternity clothes

My Gold Medal

For finishing my purse for the Knitting Olympics. :D

I'm currently in the midst of a baby bootie problem. I've knit one and a half pairs so far, and there appears to be no end in sight (that is, until my knitpicks order arrives). *whistles*

What me? Picture hore? Never!

So, I know this is a knitting blog, but here is the love of my life, my darling daughter, Emma, posing with her very own baby purse knit for her by Mommy. Seriously, this purse is really cute and exactly the right size for her.

Knitting Olympics purse

This is the purse that I knit for the knitting Olympics. I finished it on Saturday - even sewing in the evile zipper. I'm pretty proud of it and don't dare to use it now. LOL

Hmmmmm. I wonder if this will be

the single most boring blog ever?!?

I'm going to give this a go and see how it works. I shall post pictures of WIPs and FOs as I have them.

Currently on the needles I have a sweater for DD (almost done the body and should start the sleeves soon) and a scarf for me (probably will NEVER finish that one). Next object: pillow/blanket from Vogue 1 magazine and possibly the baby bunny hat from SnB Nation (sister is due for her first in July, so I should be able (hopefully) to finish by then. My plan is to knit the hat in both pink and blue so that we're ready for baby no matter what. We'll see. LOL