Chocolate Ribs Hat

made this for my sister;s boyfriend for Christmas and just blogged it here.

It's a Girl

So my sister has had her baby and we finally know it's a Girl! yay! So I immediately knitted her up a few girly things and she is only a couple weeks old. Of course before she was born I knitted her a nice gender neutral Big Bad Baby blankie from Stitch and Bitch. I used blue sky alpacas organic cotton in the color sand.
 

Next I used the  left overs to knit the baby bolero from  the book One Skein for her. This was a fun project because I learned and  practiced some new skills. My first set in sleeves ever! Practiced and I think perfected the mattress stitch. And now I feel ready to tackle a bigger sweater. It all wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

Of course all babies must get the One Peice Kimono from Mason Dixon Knitting.


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And a matching hat



I also made the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road booties with the same yarn but they fall off right now because her ankles are a lot smaller than the pattern has you make them. So I improved on them for some shoes to match her easter dress. I left off the T strap and used a ribbon to tie them on like little mary janes everyone at Easter Lunch thought they were soooo cute.



I haven't gotten so many comments and favorites for a picture on flickr on something in a really long time, but for some reason I have gotten no response on Ravelry... Interesting. Maybe because it's such a bad picture.

My sister took the pictures of the baby with her nice camera, I took the pictures of the shoes with a video camera so getting the lighting right is hard.
Camera news! If you have been reading the blog you may have noticed me mention my camera being broken and my struggle with getting it fixed. Well my husband with his powers of persuasion finally got Sears to pay to have the camera fixed because we paid for and extended warranty and they were trying to claim the repair wasn't covered but it is now! So woohoo. When I checked the Nikon website last night it said the camera was in the shop so it should ship to me soon. Silly repair just the little latch to hold the battery in broke off! $109.oo bucks to fix it! Ridiculous! Oh well it's on Sears's book now. I can't wait to get my camera back I love love love my camera it is a wonderful and magical camera!
So long for now. More knitting to come. I've been a busy little knitting bee.

Sinknitty's Jaywalker

Made my first pair of jaywalkers. If you want to knit socks and like a simple pattern this one works out very well. I made some changes to the way the gusset decreases are done to tidy it up a bi and it turned out really well. Details are on my blog Sinknitty and now the pic!



Also can find these in my Ravelry finished projects. ;) Ravelry Sinknitty

Big Monster's New Hat

I haven't shared any knitting in a while and since I have a few minutes to myself I thought I'd show off my new design. My son's new Chunky Ribby Beanie. The decreases are done in a way to keep the integrity of the rib all the way to the top. Turned out very nice. I hade it from Knitpicks Wool of the andes bulky in the flyfishing colorway.





I am now working on a smaller one for the little monster and the colors are pooling in a swirlin pattern. Very interesting. :) I'll share photos of that one when I am done.

Hope everyone had a wonderfull holiday season and have a safe and happy new year.

Buggers!

Well I finished this little guy up a while back, but I've been lazy about blogging. I've wanted to make this for a long time. I got the pattern from Kimberly Chapman and it turned out so cute! I used the colors from the baby Einstein Caterpillar. Now everyone wants me to make them one. I'm working on one about 4 times as big as this one turned out for my 3 year old. It has no face or feet but he still carries it around everywhere and shows it to everyone. As soon as I can sneak it away from him at night to sew on a face I'll post pictures. I made this little one for my cousin in law's new baby girl. I put a rattle inside. Yay! Thanks Kimberly!