* * * * * * * * * * ta da! done. * and it was so much fun to make. (big thanks to karla for letting me test the pattern) *
* i put the leaves on backwards. i turned the buttons into flowers. i'm really bad at following directions when it's not imperative that i do so. * * that said, karla's pattern was clear and easy to follow (all of her other patterns that i've seen are too). she adds very well labeled close-up photos and drawings for all the steps
leaving very little room for error. nice. * * and i managed to finish it at night so my littlest did not see the final project which means i can still surprise her with it for her birthday. * she's gonna just love it! *
* * * * * * * * 'steps' taken from 14:15 of proverbs.
Tag Archives: city tweed hw
testing 1, 2, 3
karla fitch has adorable crochet patterns.
i really had a blast making her fairy hideaway,
and when i told my kids i’d made the amigurumi piggie holiday ornament as a gift
they all but begged me not to give her away.
actually they did beg me,
then they compromised saying it was ‘ok’
as long as i made 3 more (1 for each of them).
started test knitting her newest design, a log cabin carrier for little creatures, with partial skeins of Knit Picks yarn yesterday. i think i’ll name mine ‘shelter’. i’ve just finished the part that requires 2 old cd’s (finally a use for those aol promo cd’s i got in the mail and have been saving for so long). it’s really clever and it totally works to add the strength this toy needs.
photos coming soon … maybe tomorrow.
now if i can just keep my youngest from figuring out what i’m doing (i hope i can by putting it all together at night while she sleeps), it can be a gift for her ‘just around the corner’ birthday. shh…
and big thanks go out to karla for letting me play with her newest idea.
i’m having such fun.
‘shelter’ is taken from 27:5 of the psalms
morning without
always strikes me as strange that some mornings i’m so glad to wake up to the sound of steady rain and on others even a grey sky feels gloomy. more about what’s inside me than what’s outside i think.
been reknitting ‘shining around’ in city tweed hw from knit picks this week. it’s a much lighter weight yarn so i’ve doubled it all the way through and gone down a needle size. the pillow will be smaller in the end than the original burly spun version, but pillows of all sizes are always welcome on my couch.
reknitting brings to mind what i was doing, what ground i was gaining and where i was grasping to maintain my position when i was knitting the first version. i guess i am a ‘process knitter’ after all.
now, you’ll never know when the pillow’s done but, having carefully checked before i joined to knit in the round that there were no twists, i got 7 rounds in toward the pillow’s center and realised i was knitting a mobius which would never become a pillow no matter how much i wanted it to. sigh.
one minute of catering to a distraction is all it takes for me to begin to spin, or in this case knit, off-kilter. nevertheless … i love that word ‘nevertheless’. always have. there’s something about the idea that it doesn’t matter a lick what came before or how i feel or what urge is stirring in my gut. that what comes next has nothing to do with what’s been said, or what hasn’t. it’s a choice. oh how i love that … i choose to go on, rightly. which in this case meant frogging back all 7 rounds to restart at the knitting in the round bit of the pattern.
nevertheless …
‘morning without clouds’ taken from 23:4 of 2nd samuel