Slip Slip Slipping away....

Oh boy, this day is going to last forever, I can already feel it. My daughter woke everyone up about three or four times in the middle of the night, and she wanted a kiss or she couldn't find her baby in the dark. I was ready to go nuts, she kept wanting a glass of milk to keep in her room. Ugh! Anyhow, I have to go to work today and clean a house. I have ben waiting on the key for two days. The house is over 3000 square feet. I am tired. I knit a pair of slippers for my daughter from a very popular book, and I hope they turn out to her size. I made them a little differently than in the book. I put a furry trim around the top. It was something someone gave me that I had no clue what to do with. I found something.....hopefully I can felt these today.

Knit in chunks by Miss Twiss

I recently found a new webpage that is owned by Miss Twiss, many of you I am sure already know who she is, and I am just finding out. She is an apparently very generous person that saw a sweater in a magazine and decided to make her own pattern, and then SHARE it! How nice of her! I have been working on it, and I have not gotten really far because I am not used to knitting cables, so I am sort of slow, but I hope to make lots of progress shortly, I also need to buy an appropriate cable needle. I called my LYS, but they have not been open for three weeks now. We have has so much snow and ice that I don't think they will be open till next week. I am using Lion Brand Woolease in the color Orchid which is darker than my picture. It is more purple than bright pink. Anyhoo, I have also knit a pair of slippers for my daughter, will post more on that later, I still need to felt them.

Christmas Catch-up

Okay, I have now a new picture to post.....of all my Christmas loot. My step-mother bought most of it, and I think that she tried to understand what I wanted, but she is not a knitter, so I guess that she will get a lot of things knitted with yarn I do not wear. I told her I like natural fibers. As you can see, that was not what happened. She did get a lot of yarn though. She got me two books, one that I really wanted and one that is very cute. She got me this year's edition of the Knitter's Calendar, and my Dad bought me the Stitch N Bitch knitting calendar. They also got me an Ashford drop spindle and three different colors of roving. I am pretty sure that they are all BFL wool. (Blue Faced Liecester?) It is supposed to the easiest to learn spinning with. I have already managed to spin a little. I cannot wait to make something and then wear it or give it to someone. I think that most of my family appreciates the value of something handmade because they are always asking me to teach them how to do this or that, (I usually give handmade gifts). I also bought myself two magazines and a book that was on clearance. The cotton fleece is the biggest mystery I need to find some short sleeved shirts to make out of it. I think I like the ones over at Zephyr designs... they are very cute and sassy. I will be losing a little bit of weight soon, so I am thinking about making the sized with only three skeins of Cotton Fleece. I hope that I will be thin soon enough to enjoy them.

Mitts!

My Cousins' little boy has been asking me for a while now to make him a pair of mittens in the color "boy blue" this would mean the shade of blue that I used the year before to make a hat and scarf, and glove ensemble for him on his birthday. H has since grown out of the last pair of mittens and has been asking me for another pair for months. Anyhow they are done and I still have not taken any pictures of the my new loot, will do later...The pattern is from a Debbie Bliss book, they are knitted flat and seamed up the side. The picture is not very clear, but is representative of the color pattern. They are for a four year old boy.

Wow, what a Christmas!

I cannot believe all of things we got for Christmas....I also made a few things. I got three calendars, one was the page a day calendar of Stich N Bitch, one was the Knitting calendar that sits on the desk, and the other one was for being a mom...I got yarn, books, patterns, leather for slippers, a drop spindle, roving, novelty yarns, and there is more on the way. As it turns out there is a friend of my step mother whose mother lives in Germany and she is sending me some pattern books from overseas! I have lots to post and lots of pictures to share, so I will be doing that in the next few days, but for now, here is the wrap that I made for my step mother. It is about 13 or 14 feet long and it is about 20" wide. I loved it, hope she does too.