Blogging this navy blue bag

So that a certain someone can't pester me about it anymore! ;) You know who you are! You didn't follow through on your threat to send daily pictures, though!

Lucy bag in "azul profundo" 100 Pure Wool. I started this bag after Thanksgiving...figuring I had plenty of time to finish it for Christmas. Then, I realized I was not going to have enough yarn (I had 2.5 skeins wound up, even though I could've sworn I had 3.5 skeins). The yarn is from Uruguay, so I couldn't just go and pick up another skein. I found someone on Ravelry who had a bunch but she ignored my messages asking to buy a skein. So, I set the bag aside...sigh. Figured it would be a birthday present or something. And then....digging through my yarn stash one day I found the long-lost skein!! Ack!! I stayed up late knitting furiously. Each row was 120 stitches and knitting 10 rows took me about an hour. I'm not a terribly fast knitter, but I'm not really slow either. Of course, I had to knit, felt, dry and ship it - no hope for Christmas. It was close though!

I didn't have time to take pictures of the bag before it left, but I figured the gift recipient would be happy to take some photos for me. Thanks, Mom!

I'm just a bit behind...

On the blogging here! Maybe I can catch up a bit...

From December: Hats for the preschool teachers


New Earwarmer hat for Evelyn - a bit too short, because I ran out of yarn


Olivia's bolero - no action pictures yet. It doesn't fit very well and she says it's "too hot." :(




Evelyn's pants - these have a cool crocheted elastic thread waistband to hold them up. Thanks Heather for explaining how to do that!! Not needing a drawstring is wonderful!

To Write Their Names in the Sand

Thank you, Carly & Sam, for the beautiful picture. How amazing is the internet - that a family in Australia would take time to do this for families they've never met?

http://namesinthesand.blogspot.com/2008/11/riley-lebrun.html

A few tiny baby knits

A blog post to get my mom off my back. ;) Mom, I hope you haven't given up and you still check once in a while!

Small-ish size longies. Yarn is Gaia organic merino dyed by Kim at Western Sky Knits. I have just barely enough trim left to make the brim of a tiny hat.


A newborn size soaker I finished a long time ago and haven't gotten around to taking a picture of. Still needs a drawstring, those are so quick for tiny little waist sizes. The yarn is 3-ply PureWool I dyed myself with acid dyes. Probably the only thing I've dyed so far that I kind of like!


Lastly, my little blanket. Some cotton yarn I had hanging around. It's 55 sts by about 60 or so rows, a little bit bigger than 12x12.

Land of the UFOs

That's what my house is. Sorry, I can't seem to get anything finished anymore, much less photographed and properly blogged....

Oh, UFOs = unfinished objects.

So, here is about all I have to show off....some shorts for Evelyn.


A skirty for a friend's darling 2-year-old girl. Wonderfully soft bulky BFL, this was actually a very quick knit!! Even with the giant ruffle, lol.






Hopefully blogging little tiny baby knits soon....although my yarn stash is severely lacking in colors other than pink. So, I'm waiting on some new pretty yarn, or the energy to dye some of my own (that may be a while).

I have been knitting....

Just not doing much blogging. Here is Evelyn's latest wooly outfit - a skirt knit out of 100PureWool dyed by Lamar at ...a time to dye. The colorway is called Anne Carson, named after her youngest daughter. I loved the pink and purple colors!! Perfect with the bit of gray added in. Lamar did a fabulous job dyeing as she always does.



Enough with the photos...time for the swing!!


Shorts underneath


Color is brighter than this IRL.


The pattern (minus the shorts underneath) is a new one I was able to test for a wonderful online friend Heather. The giant fluffy ruffle sure ate up the yarn! Not fond of the big holes left by the yarnovers, but you can just pretend you don't see those. The skirt is sooo soft and fits nicely. Great for wearing to church this summer.

Coming soon (well, maybe not so soon...) - I have shorts finished for Olivia (no pictures, haven't even blocked them yet) and yarn I dyed myself - don't get excited, it's rather ugly. ;)

Mother's Day Socks

Wow, I am a really bad blogger! No posts since April 2nd? Well, I have finished a few things since then, but nothing has been terribly exciting. Life gets in the way of knitting sometimes. That's usually a good thing, though.

Here are my mom's socks - a Mother's Day gift that was, unfortunately, only 75% complete on Sunday morning! Oops. Work got in the way. Plus I am painfully slow at socks. I did finish them at about 1pm, so Mom was able to take home a complete set. I'm glad they fit!








Yarn: Parvana Merino Sock from Selah, dyed by Julie in her Cherry Blossom colorway. Pattern is from Creative Knitting mag May 2008 - Ribbed Anklets. I used size 1/2.25 mm needles - my first time with Harmony DPNs from Knit Picks. They are great!