One more star blanket done

This may be my favorite yet, at least until the black/white/red one is done. Heh. I have a true addiction to these things and have at least two color schemes planned in my head while working up the current blanket. I might need an intervention.



No new picture of the Lucy bag, because it looks much like the last picture, only longer. Really long, and I still have 20 rows to go before the handle and stuff. If this were my first felting project I might be a little bit panicked about now.

This is a little baby sweater done in Lily Sugar Babies cotton on size 6 needles so it will come out nice and small. Hard to tell from the picture, but the yoke is done and I am currently doing the left sleeve. These are fun sweaters and so quick to knit.

I know my sister loves me

'Cause the mailman told me so. Ok, I don't talk to the mailman much. He seems like a very nice guy and all, but I have a secret paranoia that he hates me because I get a lot of mail. Hey, nobody claimed to be normal here.

Anyway. Yeah. I got this in the mail from my sister today. That suede is a gorgeous dark purple and I have no clue what to make with it. Yet. Those double pointeds? Rosewood, baby. Rose. Wood. Gorgeous needles.



There was a lot more cool stuff in the box, but nothing else knitting related, and I am all about being on topic today.

Yesterday a friend of mine had her baby. She and the baby are doing great, but this wasn't supposed to happen until early October. This is the hat/bootie set I made for her this morning. So teeny!



Now I could lie and say I'm going offline to have a productive night, but I'm not ready yet. I'm going shopping for yarn at KnitPicks. A perfect Friday night.

Just a couple more slings

I couldn't help myself. Hobby Lobby had all of last year's fleece prints on sale and look how cute they are!


And here is the Lucy bag, which looks like a big gray blob but will improve with time and felting, honest.

Girly star blanket almost done. I want to do four rows of pink to finish it. I still love the way it looks with the variegated in the middle.


Haven't touched the red/white/black star blanket as I want to get this one in the mail by the end of the week. I have my eye on the felted backpack pattern at KnitPicks, but need to unload two more of these freaky needle cases to place the order. Hard to feed an addiction sometimes, you know?

At least I finished it

The asymmetrical baby sweater, in doll size. I hope the Bitty Baby likes it, because I'm not so very fond. Also, buttonholes are evil and to be avoided at all cost. Yuck. This looks a little off, but I didn't block it or anything yet.



Still plugging away on the star blankets, need to start a Lucy bag today, and got caught up in the Herrschner's yarn sale yesterday (but only a little).

Tomorrow is the craft fair, so I'll be bouncing off the walls until tomorrow night when the verdict is in.

How I spent my summer vacation

Or what passed for vacation, anyway. The needle cases are done. They are so out of here. I ended up with about half of them that I felt were craft fair worthy, the rest I am keeping, giving away, or selling at low, low 'factory seconds' prices. I am really glad to see the end of this project.



Got a little further on the red/white/black star blanket. I've mostly been crocheting at night while watching TV, and the black is hard to see. I'm staring at it wondering if it should just have black and white stripes, or maybe some more red? I don't know.



This is the asymmetrical baby sweater, extra asymmetrical! Yes, I bound off one side too soon. Now, I could pick up those stitches and salvage this, but you know what? I don't want to. I hate Jiffy. Hate it. Goodbye, bad sweater. I did learn buttonholes and casting at the end/beginning of rows, so all was not lost. Here is the stupid thing.



Hopefully I will learn from my mistakes above and this doll sized one will turn out well. It's ok so far, except doing the math to scale it down sometimes makes my brain spin.



Finally, one more star blanket. This one is for a baby girl, and I am really loving the variegated center here. It will have a few more rows each of pink and purple and be done.



That's enough for now. I'm taking these needle cases to the post office, chortling with glee the entire way.

Have you ever wondered

What 84 needle cases in progress looked like? Well now you know. Would you believe the hard part is actually done? These will be finished and shipped out by Wednesday, you'll see.



What. Look at that picture, I have no time to write a longer entry. Goway.

Today I am a triple threat

This is the pile of sewing. Ok, to be specific, this is the pile of needle cases that are cut, but not sewn yet. The sewing has to happen while the big kids are up and the baby is asleep, never mind about all that other household stuff that has to be done somehow. If you think this looks scary, pretend we don't have a basket of fabric still waiting to be cut.



These are sewn, but need to have their seams pressed and be prepped for topstitching and pocket creation. That prep work can be done while everyone is asleep. Well, I don't iron while I am asleep, but everyone else is asleep. Ideally this pile will be much larger than the first pile by late this afternoon.



That lovely star blanket I did in the yellow/blue and white? My spousal unit stole it for a baby gift to a co-worker. Which is fine, because I got to start a red/white/black one. This is either going to be really cool, or really fugly. Yes, it is all curled up and stuff in the picture. Look above, do I have time to be posing my wips all that carefully? Nay.



Baby sweater is coming along, I think. I keep forgetting which set of measurements I am going by, so I have no idea what size it might end up being. This is a fun pattern but I am never using Jiffy again after it is finished.



When I can't stand working on either of those but my hands still want to knit, what happens? Cast on time! This will be a doll size version of the above sweater.



Now I must chain myself to the sewing machine for a bit.

I should be sewing

But I'm not. Later today, ok? I will. Definitely.

The star blanket from the crochet along is finished, ends weaved and all. It wasn't that bad, and I like the striping better than just a plain 3 colors.



With that, there was not a single WIP in the tote. The horror. So, being bored, and having just had a frapuccino that I am quite sure was not the decaf I ordered, I started the asymmetrical bulky baby cardigan (scroll down that page for pattern). I really like the pattern's lack of row counting, it is a great tv watching project. I don't really care for this yarn (Lionbrand Jiffy) on the aluminum needles, next time I'll use something else and my bamboo 10's. You can't stop me. I'm crazy like that.

Are we still having fun?

Getting ready for this craft fair? Yes, yes we are. Finished two dozen sets of marble magnets last night. I knew I'd have trouble capturing this in a picture, but here you can kind of see how cool the fibers and patterns like cabling look with the magnified effect of the glass marble.



Those are packed up and out of here, so now I am concentrating on the needle cases. I've got the design (very simple) all worked out and I can even get the lines straight for the pockets. That's exciting in my world. This is the test one I made this morning using some scraps. There is a big stack of them cut out and ready to sew sitting by my sewing table. Guess what I'm doing this weekend?