Stinky pic of a great project #2!

Picked my own yarn and doubled up instead of using merino malabrigio (moms need to be able to machine wash baby blankets!!) but it turned out great

http://altadenasbabydesigns.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-baby-blanket-baby-blues.html

Birthday Snow

Why I'm single?

Carpe Diem...eventually

Ironically this Carpe Diem needlepoint has been in my trunk for 2+ months waiting to meet its new owners. Not to mention the wedding it was a gift for happened even longer ago than that. The bride is always late though, so it's apropos.

As soon as I saw this in the store, I had to have it for the bride. She loves colors and carpe diem always reminds me of her. Overall it as more than I'd usually pay for a wedding gift, but I'm really proud of it and she loves it. It only took about 4 months to make, which is the fastest I've ever done a needlepoint. I used Michael's for the framing (for the first time) and they did a fantastic job. I just love the colors and texture. Again, as always, when framing I get a quote for the cheapest price then get talked into the most expensive items, but it's worth it....right?

First project!

After 4+ months, I'm finished my first knitting project. I don't think I've ever been so proud of anything in my life. It is definitely not perfect...lots of bumps and unevenness...but from far away it looks great!

After one hands-on lesson at the Tenleytown library with the lovely lady who organizes a free knitting group, I felt pretty confident going into a full project, and found this one on the Lion Brand site. As always, I couldn't resist the colors. The lady told me it would be too hard to sew together all the separate squares and I should just knit strips and sew them together, so I did that. Next time I would do all the squares separately. I don't mind sewing them together, and I think it adds an extra dimension with the squares going different directions, especially when the same colors are next to each other.

As always, as soon as I finished this project (despite buying enough yarn for 3 blankets) I wanted to find new ones. Fortunately I have many babies on the way that need to stay warm. I think I'll stick with knitting for my craft for awhile though. There's so much to learn and so much I can do with it, whereas--since I don't have much entertaining to do--the paper crafts aren't as useful.

a true member of the family