Knitting is a hereditary disease
Andrea went through her stash a while back and gave me some great leftover yarn. I used it to make her little guy the Trellis baby sweater (pattern by Britta Stolfus Rueschhoff).
I had enough left over to improvise a little hat for him.
Such a little intellectual, and only two months old!
Last year I participated in a spinning challenge through one of the many Ravelry groups. The idea was to take 4 ounces of fiber purchased from one of the sponsoring fiber stores (Splunky Eclectic, Hello Yarn or Southern Cross Fibre), spin it and knit it into an original creation. It was a competition, with prizes. I did not win. The winner was Sweetgum by Stacey Simpson Duke.
But I was happy with my yarn and my finished product, so I submitted it (called the Lacy Girly-Girl Poncho) for publication in the 2012 Knitting Calendar. And it was accepted! No prize, but I did get a free copy of the calendar. And the surprise of seeing it on the back cover.
Yea me! Yea Andrea for taking the photo! Yea Eva for being oh so cute!
If you like the pattern but don’t want to buy the calendar to get it, you can download it here.
Hello, Andrea here for once! I bet you thought I’d never post here again. Nah, I like to surprise people now and then by doing something out of character. Besides, I actually have a finished knitting project to share, so I couldn’t not post something! Here is my version of the Cub Cuddler (sorry, this is a Ravelry link but there isn’t really a dedicated non-Rav web page for the pattern). I modified it by tapering the ending of it more gradually and ending it in an icord that I tied in a knot. Just because I thought it would be cute.
It’s kind of a relief to have finished knitting something for the new baby. It just seemed wrong, somehow, to be having a baby and to not have anything knitted for him. But between work, and taking care of a two-year-old, and pregnancy tiredness, and trying to get ready for the baby… well, I haven’t had a lot of energy for knitting. Now I’m at 32 weeks, which means I have about two months left, give or take, and I’m starting to feel like things are a little more under control, thankfully.
So, if you’re looking for a good baby shower gift idea, I definitely recommend this pattern. It was very easy and quick, and the short row shaping made it interesting to knit. It’s probably not the most practical item ever, but I’m hoping it will make for some cute baby pictures! Baby pictures that I will definitely be posting here in a few months’ time.
It’s hard to believe we’re already three weeks into 2011. I’ve been sort of down and out for the last two weeks with cold-gone-to-pneumonia. I’m feeling much better now, and even did a little updating of things in Ravelry yesterday.
I have nothing at all on needles at the moment (not sure how that happened). Must-do projects include something for grandson-on-the-way, and finishing my Shapeshifter pattern. And the earflap cap pattern.
I gave Eva her skirt and knee-highs outfit for her birthday last Sunday. The outfit included a Hello Kitty jean jacket, with jeweled buttons and Hello Kitty herself on the back done in jewels. She loved it and it through the remainder of the gift-opening. She’s a real princess, a girly-girl.
But she was also thrilled with Thomas the Train add-ons to her Christmas gift from her uncle. So maybe she’s not 100% girly-girl after all!
Here it is, the last day of 2010. I just watched a newscast that reviewed some of the Big Stories of the past year. And I thought, “good riddance to that year.” It just all sounded like … So. Much. Cabbage. It must be Cabin Fever. It has been a really long December.
Now that Andrea has our site back up and running, all beautifully redesigned and so much easier to use, I’m going to be more diligent about posting to it regularly, even when I don’t necessarily have all that much to say about knitting per se. (Just to be clear, that’s not a resolution … it’s just a statement.) I think it’ll help me stay focused and finish my knitting (and other) projects, inspire me to turn my piles of project notes and scribbles into repeatable, shareable patterns, encourage me to keep my Ravelry records up to date … and best of all, I think it will pump up the the positive energy. Hazzah!
Hey, Deb, I didn’t hear from you about whether there’ll be a New Year’s Day meet-up somewhere, so I plan on going over to Black Bear Crossing as usual. Hope to see you there!
After much blood, sweat, and tears… okay, after much procrastination and then a few hours of hard work … we now have a brand spanking new Pink Argyle! We’re now run on a different and better content management system which will hopefully make maintenance of this website easier and thus encourage us to post more often.
For you the reader, not that much is different. We’ve imported all the old entries into the new system, so nothing is lost. We still have all our free patterns available for download, but now they’re much easier to find — just look over there on the sidebar to the right.
Hope you enjoy the new site and we look forward to posting lots more!
