Doooooone!

After a few setbacks, our stockings are all finished! I didn't have enough wool yarn for the name band/ toe/ heel, on mine, so I had to use some yucky white acrylic. It was the yarn equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard, or maybe knitting with cotton candy. Eew. At least it's done, and now Santa can bring me lots of goodies! Did you hear that Santa??

Three Words.

coolest. yarn. ever.

Hecka Canadian.

I just finished hubby's stocking, complete with Canadian flair. Because you know, he's all Canadi-ish and stuff.

Mmmmmm...Yarn.

Here's all my delicious knitted play food for The TVAM Holiday Event! What makes it even cooler? All but the Brown, Black and White yearns were hand dyed by me, AND everything except the donuts and apples were knitted "freestyle," That means no patterns, people! I have had so much fun making all this awesome food, that I am now working on knitted food patterns using chunky yarn, so they knit up twice as fast! (I am impatiently waiting for more yarn to arrive from WEBS.) This also means more fun experiments with dye!

Super Bonus!: What doesn't sell at this event will be available in my Etsy shop on Friday. This also goes for Diapers, Lotion Bars, Sewing kits, Tissue pouches and Zippered pouches.

Fun with Pointy Sticks

I just knitted up these Fall inspired longies/ MC Hammer Pants for Kyle.

MMMMM....Fruity...

The left over yarn from Kyle's Christmas stocking has been magically transformed into delicious play fruit! I am having so much fun knitting food, that I am dyeing more yarn RIGHT NOW, so I can make more food. I will be selling it, along with my diapers and other goodies at my mom's group holiday fair!

A Big Sock for a Small Boy

I finished Kyle's Christmas stocking on Saturday. What does that mean? It means that I cranked out that sucker in under a week...Mad skillz....

It is the "Mix and Match Stocking" from the "Knit Christmas Stockings!" book. Unfortunately, the book is pretty much useless except for that pattern. The sock features a "peasant heel" which I am now a major fan of! It's so much easier than all that heel flap and gusset business. Google it, you'll see what I mean.

The argyle and stripes were not in the book, but I liked them so I drew up a chart for the argyle and put it in. A little argyle never hurt anyone, right?

Wee Woolies

I finished Kyle's woolies. By the way, short rows and stripes don't mix.

Woolies in Progress.

Do you like my redneck paper clip stitch markers?

Knitty Gritty.

I've been scoping 2-at-a-time Socks for a while. Two socks on one circular sounds awesome. DPN's drive me nuts! Does anyone have the book? Is it worth my $$?

In other knitting news: I just bought a bunch of bamboo circulars off of Ebay. (I can't hold on to the metal ones I bought!) And I ordered some wool yarn to make the Curly Purly soaker(a wool cover for cloth diapers). Its going to be turquoise and brown striped with brown cuffs and waistband. Super cute! I can't wait until all my stuff gets here!

Here's an example of some Curly Purlies from Bear Toes.