It's Ravelry's Fault!

The reason I haven't posted in a while...Ravelry kidnapped me for a couple months :)

Well, that and I've been real busy knitting for the holidays. I'm on a huge lace kick right now and besides sweaters, it seems to be all I want to knit. Got in lots of yummy yarns and needles, however it never seems to be enough for me. It's like a drug and I'm totally hooked on yarn. I gotta have it...but unfortunately my wallet doesn't think so.

Little Miss Princess had an awesome Christmas and now our living room is stuffed to the brink with toys. I had a pretty good Christmas as well. Got a new rolling yarn tote to carry my projects and stuff for when I teach that knitting class at the college.

I'll get pics of current projects and yarn in a little while, gotta reorganize everything today.

Finally! Something for my daughter!

So Dakotah's birthday party is on Saturday, she turned two yesterday! I knit these pants for her party with the yarn I previously posted from my score in the yarn swap. They came out so cute! And after trying them on her, she refused to let me take them off to wash and block em!


Doesn't she look so proud? Poor thing has a serious lack of knitted goodies from me :(


Currently, I'm working on the shawl with the wool/silk blend. I do need to finish David's socks though...but I'm enjoying the quick knitting of the size 11's LOL!

More FO's and WIP's!

So I have 1 custom order left to do WOO! Then it's all knitting for family, me and the new site. Just finished these sets up for Lacey



They have both been lovingly packaged up and will be on their way to her tomorrow morning - because I missed the maillady this morning :(

Anyway, here's the beginning of a shawl I'm knitting for M.E.! It's a wool/silk blend heavy worsted weight yarn, I'm knitting it on size 11 needles to give it a lacey open look. Knits up fast too!


Also, I just recently finished these up. NIGHTMARE! Sportweight Extra Large longies...never...ever...again! There's 4,851 stitches IN EACH LEG! My poor hands ached for 2 days after finished these. BUT...I am thrilled with how they came out and the pain was so worth it....but I'll still never do it again LOL!

Some Yarny Goodness

I got in some yummy delicious yarn this last month. Two yarn swaps and a Will Knit For Yarn slot gave me some really nice wool!
Yarn Swap Package # 1

2 skeins of Handyed BFL in a colorway the mama called "Dakotah's Doodles" (isn't that cute!?) I also got a sheep measuring tape, two matching buttons, a matching fat quarter, some really cute stitch markers and yummy smelling wool wash samples.
Yarn Swap Packages # 2

2 skeins plus trim of Peruvian wool dyed by IttyBittyKnitties in the Bumblebee colorway. Also got gorgeous turtle stitch markers, card, Burt's Bees lip gloss and hand balm, and several hot flavored teas.

And Lastly, but definately not least, I got three skeins of Three Irish Girls Lindon Merino wool. I got from top to bottom - Clodagh, O'Mara and Quinn colorways

WHOA! Talk about a custom marathon!

For the past 4 weeks I have been on a mission to get through my entire custom list so that I can get ready for the new website stocking. So I've literally knit my fingers off. Here are just a few of my custom creations from this month.

These are knit from BFL dyed by my friend Diana

These are knit from Handspun wool - board shorts

These pants are knit with BFL handyed by another mama

These cute things are knit with BFL dyed by WWBN in their Pink Panther colorway with little heart pockets

A pair of small pants with matching hat

These are 3 ply Purewool dyed by my friend Lacey

TIG Reilly Shorties

These I LOVE! They are knit with Top of the Lamb Brown Sheep dyed by Over the Moon, the legs are the wide leg style with a bellbottom flare

Ah The Joy of Sock Knittiing

I admit I haven't knitted sock in ages, okay maybe about 2 years. So the needle shock was quite alarming at first. To go from knitting with size 7's constantly to size 1 dpns...took a bit of adjusting. But I love my socks now! I won't take them off - ok to wash only LOL! Here's the pair, the yarn is Trekking XXL in greens/blue I think I have enough left over to make my daughter a matching pair. ;-)

My daughter's punk skirtie

I had originally planned to sell this on my cart. But after it was sitting here for awhile with no buyers, I just fell in love with it and no can't part with it. Plus it just looks so darn cute on my baby!!

All Done!!

Just finished these shorties with that handpainted yarn. I love how they came out!

Lovin It!!

I am so loving this colorway! I dyed up some Cascade 220 wool. I actually like the Cascade, I've been told that it's similar to Knit Picks WOTA - but I really don't like WOTA and I like this...so IMO they aren't that similar. Anyhow, I was going for a purple/blue/green colorway and actually ended up with a very boyish blue/yellow/green/brown. It's knitting up very nice. These are going to be shorties for a custom. I hope I can remember the exact color mix to recreate it later. It was handpainted and boy is that so much more fun than kettle dyeing!!