long time

wow. the holidays were really busy this year. we have our wedding up coming in 3 months from today so we have had some of that stuff to deal with too. atleast it has been productive, i made a tank for myself (summer here i come ready or not!) hat i think turned out great. it was modeled after a ribbed turtleneck in fitted knits book but as i dont have to book and didnt find it at my local bookstore i just looked at the photos and winged it, so here it is. i used cotton-ease in taupe (light grey-ish color)

i have been working on another top for myself as of late, in black wool-ease. it has been very slow going, it is a top down raglan ribbed sweater. so far i am not even to the sleeve seperation and i am bored to tears. here it is so far, nothing to impressive and you cant see very good deffinition in it but oh well, better pictures when i get done with it.

NOW... for the big news, a great friend of mine that i haven't seen in about 3 years now. ever since i moved far away, left me a message that she was pregnant! with twins! Girls! 27 weeks! wow talk about needing to take a seat for that one! as that goes i started in right away making all sorts of goodies for her. i got 2 sweaters finished so far, i want to make one more set in a different pattern. here is the littler sweater in lavender (already finished one in pink as well but no pic yet). i also have big plans to make her a cute felted diaper bag but i have yet to start that, but i did buy the yarn. it is called sean sheep armytage, it is a single ply bulky wool and it is surprisingly soft. i hope it comes out great is all i can say.

lastly we went on a little mini-vacation/long weekend to quebec city, it was my first time there so i, of course, looked up a listing for local yarn shops. i stopped by one and will be making a grey-gina now from glampyre i think it will look fab in this lovely medium grey. i love grey it rocks

and to leave you with my end note (no pun intended!) here are some cheeks to squeeze. this is what i go with old ripped-knee jeans... make pillows to hide my yarn! slap a zipper on the top waistband and a seam o nthe bottom and bam you have a cool pillow/yarn-stash-hider

thanksgiving vacation is over!

we are back safe at home now after much ado. airline lost all 4 of our bags, ripped 3 when they delivered them and got the last one today. flight was worse than aweful, didnt land until 2 am! On a happier subject we had a great thanksgiving and did pretty well in the black friday dept. got all the gifts for the neices for christmas, and one for a friend. i am thinking we will host a little friends get together for christmas this year, need to talk to some people and see what plans might work for the most amount of people. my family did all our little gift exchanges while we were visiting, got and gave some great stuff.

picked up all these goodies for about 45$ at the after thanksgiving sale, i was pretty happy about that. it is 7 skeins black wool-ease, 6 skeins denim cool crochet, and 3 skeins taupe cotton-ease.

mom threw me a bridal shower while i was there, small and nice. it turned out very lovely and i had a couple friends there so it was all good. i think i will be the one planning a bridal shower here since my maid of honor was there at the first one in california. mom also helped me rehab my poor coat, i walked into a freshly painted green pole right after buying this gem. she makes felted things so she gave me some cut-out felted flowers to sew on. i think it turned out ok, i also put 1 one the leftover flowers onto the lapel of the coat to kind of tie it in and make it look less out of place

thanksgiving is coming!

i will be heading home for thanksgiving and i have actually finished all planned projects. can't believe i actually did this with time to spare. i am currently working on a no-brainer project of leg warmers for some 3 yr old twins. i bought some yarn to make this sweater i saw on svetlana's blog, a copy of a VS sweater and i love it. it is a lovely "rice" colored yarn that is a bamboo/silk/cotton blend and it is fingering weight and it is totally yummy.

FINALLY yay!

so we officially bought our tickets to fly into la to go visit my family for thansgiving. love turkey, it should be great. this is also when we all exchange presents since i am able to be there and hence the crunch on time to get all my "holiday" knitting done. i finished the sweater for my sister and i think it came out better than expected. i really like the little split neck to be pinned into place as a turtleneck. so here it is.

secondly, i have also gotten started on the throw blanket for my mother and all i can hope is that i can knit fast enough to finish it. i have about 4 inches so far (just started of course) and i picked a cable and lace pattern and it is a very easy repeat, already have memorized. at this rate i think i will need to knock out about a ball a day on days i work and 2 balls on days i am off. here is crossing my fingers i can get it done in time!

bridesmaid garters

i finished all of these YAY! i am so glad to have one more item done and i can stash away. i previously posted the pictures of the bridal ones here are the ones i made for my bridesmaids, i think they look hot with the black and hot pinkfor my 2 bridesmaids and one junior bridesmaids.

Wedding Garters

so my wedding is coming up in less than 6 months! EEk it is coming so fast. everyhing is, more or less, already in order, my mother is making my dress and i am making my bouquet and everything else has already been reserved. it really sneaks up on you i tell you what! im more into the marriage than the actual wedding so it is just kind of going by without me. i decided i wanted to make my own garters, i made 2 they are white with a crystal thread in them, made from size 10 southmaid cotton and made from this "pattern". i am going to make 3 more in black for my bridesmaids, i want to do one of those pictures with me surrounded by my bridesmaids and all lift up the dresses to show our leg/garters together.

Holiday knitting sucks!

i think the title says it all for me this week. in my last post i showed a lovely picture of very nice teal colored yarn that is to be made into a lovely lace-y throw for my mother. that got pushed back in lui of me making the sweater for my sister for christmas, simply because i have a lot more oomph to make the throw than the sweater so if i dont get on it sooner and finish it it might not be finished. so here it is on the left my progress and the right is the picture with all remaining materials. i thought it was just a lovely color of the yarn and it was 50% off on sale so i snatched up the remaining 4 skeins of purple and 2 of cream (but im not sure i will even touch the second skein of cream) originally i had bought this other verigated yarn with green/purple/cream color which was supposed to make a print when knit in the correct gauge and i wanted to make this sweater, but alas i did not have enough of the previous color and through my search in the other shops around town i could find no more to have enough so i have 4 100G balls bumming in my stash of that lovely yarn. oh well maybe for another day and another project. well this is my third attempt at this sweater since the original pattern wouldnt work with this boucle yarn and the second pattern which was ment for boucle it didnt look good either so i compromised, i took the idea of the split neck collar from the first sweater and just knit a raglan top-down sweater approx. size L. i am down into the body so far and it is so boring doing nothing but knit knit knit i am sooooo ready for this one to be done!



I got a lovely birthday gift from my mother, i had been drooling over these sets of interchangable knitting needles, i was looking at the boye, denise and knit picks. i really liked the denise set but neither the knitpicks or denise set goes to the smaller sizes which i love since i use fingering weight a lot. she bought me the boye set for my birthday, love my mom, she knits and she "gets it". i want to sew myself a lovely holder for all my fixed length circular needles that i have aquired/bought over time and keep them nice and neat as my new set. i have already used them twice! My little finishing note today is that i love orangina, i cant get enough. it is sooo goood, i had it the first time in high school when my french teacher made everyone in our class try some french foods, escargot too which i also liked! here is a little picture to brighten up anyone elses day who loves this stuff.