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I have actually already finished this doll (dolls?), but I haven’t photographed it/them yet. (Using Susan B. Anderson’s “Sisters” pattern. From Itty Bitty Toys.)
It was one of those projects that gripped me with urgency and was finished in about 48 hours. Of course, there was no deadline. It isn’t even a special occasion thing. I wish I could harness that kind of obsessive knitting progress when Christmas is three days away and I still haven’t finished all the gift-knitting….
The photo is of the “summer” side of the doll, which Edda has named “Blueberry.” The other side is “winter” and Edda named it “Snowball.” It turned out really cute and has already been played with quite a bit. I, of course, modified it a little. (Just the decorative stuff, though.) The instructions in this book are very clear and easy to understand. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to knit toys! This is the same book I used to knit my Santa Claus.
The Rae scarf looks like this now. Just wanted to keep you posted. I had hoped it would be bigger by now, but knitting time is limited.
(Sorry I look like a crazy person.)
A humble bathmat; simple but very satisfying. I have been very frantic and sporadic with my knitting lately. It has been a difficult time with kids’ ages, the weather, sickness and family stuff (nothing bad, just busyness) and my crafting has just been falling through the cracks. I think we are coming out of it now, thanks goodness, and I’m so glad.
It’s Oliver-approved!
I hope to be posting more soon because…
This is about to become this.
I made a little, toy Santa Claus for Edda. Actually, it’s for Christmas decorating but Edda doesn’t really understand that… So it is now Edda’s Santa. At least, until she forgets about it and I pack it into the Christmas decoration box while she’s not looking.
The pattern is from Itty Bitty Toys by Susan B. Anderson. I seem to be knitting a lot of things by her. I really do like her designs!
He’s a cutie. He was kind of tedious to make because of all the little details (beard embroidery?!), but I feel like without all the detail stuff he wouldn’t look so nice and “finished.” I wish there had been more picture of him to help with the sewing together, so I took a few for the benefit of others.
An up-close of the beard/face:
(Oops, I accidentally left off his mustache!)
His back:
His side and arm-join:
I’ve been working on this sweater for an embarrassingly long time. I seem to be experiencing a knitting lull right now. (sad… I know. I think it’s the heat.) In spite of how slowly it’s growing, I like this sweater a lot! The yarn is Knit Picks Swish Tonal in Queen Anne. The pattern is Tiny Tea Leaves from madelinetosh.
I knit a few more inches on the sleeve after taking the picture. Now I’m really almost done. I might just finish tonight.
I finally have some knitting to show you. I keep forgetting to photograph the knitting that I’ve been doing! (sorry about the grainy photos, it’s been very dim inside.)
I have finally come up with a bib design that meets my rather picky requirements. In my opinion, a knitted bib must be:
- garter stitch or some other thick stitch… not stockinette and definitely not lace (lace=holes and who wants holes in their bibs?)
- dense but not stiff
- easy to make because I don’t want to spend hours on something that’s intended to get nasty
- long enough to cover the baby’s chest because short bibs just don’t cut it
- cute, but not fussy… and nothing chunky appliqued to the front to get gunked up with food
- tied (not buttoned) so as to be adjustable
This bib meets all of those requirements, so I will probably be making many of them. It seems that many people are concerned about putting ties on baby things, but I feel that if your baby is being supervised properly it is highly unlikely that he will strangle himself on his bib.
I am writing up a pattern for this bib that I hope to put up on my “free patterns” page today or tomorrow. It depends on how long my babies sleep for me this afternoon!
I’ve been snuggling a sweet (but super spit-up-y) baby boy as much as I possibly can. But I’ve been squeezing in the knitting and crocheting and baking and sewing in the cracks… Here’s an update:
I’ve crocheted a baby blanket, a full-size afghan and two fancy squares from Jan Eaton’s 200 Crochet Blocks. I’ve knitted 2.5 fish-shaped dishcloths and a pair of socks and cast on another pair of socks.
And I started crocheting another baby blanket.
And I cut out the pieces for Edda’s Easter dress.
And I’ve been baking bread almost every day. (We’ve switched to homemade bread for our sandwiches and toast. Yum.)
It’s been busy around here! I have been sacrificing “blogging time” for “doing time” lately (obviously), but I think things are finally calming down enough around here for me to get back to blogging again. I certainly hope so, because I enjoy it.
I have caught the crochet madness. For some reason, crochet has never been my favorite craft. Maybe I have too many itchy, red heart, great-grandmother afghans in my past. But now, the crocheting has me hooked (ha). I am really enjoying it! I want to crochet more and more and more. Blankets, specifically. I’m about to start another afghan as a wedding present for my sister, who is getting married in May. Because it’s totally sane to add one one more work-in-progress to this pile.
This, unfortunately, is the only photo I have for you today. I promise, this thing looks waay cuter in person.
It’s the “Wishy Washy Fishy Tawashi” (say that five times fast). They are addictive… cute, made of cheap, readily available yarn and so quick to knit that you can make 10 in a week…. if you wanted to… Not that you should or anything. But I do… hehe.
Walter is one month old today! I can’t believe he’s already been here for a month. I’ve been meaning to take some time to write about his birth on here, but time is very precious right now. It seems like my little ones never, ever sleep at the same time! Yesterday they did– for a while– and I took the opportunity to catch up on the laundry.
I’m working on the story and it may get posted tomorrow… not that y’all are waiting on the edge of your seats or anything…
In other news, remember this beautiful sleep sack I knitted early last year? It was accidentally thrown away by one of my younger sisters a few days ago. Walter pooped on it while I was at my mom’s house and I put it in one of those little baggies you put stinky diapers in when you’re away from home. It was mistaken for a diaper (not sure why) and thrown away. The next day when I realized it was gone, I called my parents to check the trash can.
Alas… the trash had just been taken to the dump. Walter wore it exactly three times. I guess this is a lesson in not being materialistic, although I have to say that I shed a few tears when I realized what had happened. I never even took a picture of him in it. :-(
(the hat is his baby viking hat, knitted by me from the pattern by bella knitting.)
So this was actually completed about six days ago but my husband’s brother got married this weekend and we’ve been in wedding land for a while. (Plus, see previous post…) I want to find someone to model this for me so I can get some better photos, but those are in short supply around here. I loved this project! This sweater took me about eleven days to make and I wasn’t even knitting all the time. I think it will fit me perfectly after the baby is born. One note about this yarn: it really grows a lot in length after blocking. I adjusted for this after reading many testimonies on ravelry, but it would have been awful if I hadn’t known. (stitch nation bamboo ewe)
Unrelated side note: we have fall weather down here!! I’m so happy about this…. I felt like I was going to die in the 95+ temperatures we’ve been having. Not sure if it’s because I’m pregnant or because I’m just a wimp.
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