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It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t have a knitting deadline and you can work on other projects and clean. I’m not the best housekeeper in the world, but during the knitting of the test knit I just completed (YAY!), my craft room looked like several tornadoes hit it. I finally [...]

Why did I think sewing a dress would be easy? Or a good idea? I guess I’m always up for challenging myself.
Cutting out the pieces was easy. There are approximately 40 steps in the pattern, not too bad. The first couple went swimmingly. And then the next couple [...]

I am home after 2 weeks of vacationing. We drove from NJ to FL (Boca Raton) with a small stop in VA, due to a snow storm that made the roads undrivable. We spent some time visiting with my mother in law, and then headed to Miami on Christmas Eve to board my [...]

And I have proof!! I started Thermal a couple weeks ago and I’m just a couple inches away from dividing for the neck placket.

I’ve also been baking. I baked a gigantic batch of brownies (4 times as large as my regular size) for our bbq a couple weeks ago. And I made [...]

Quilting first. I spent my weekend indoors, hacking up a couple lungs. When I wasn’t sleeping, and the hacking was at a minimum, I did a little knitting, and a little sewing. I finished up the quilt top!

I have the rest of the materials to finish the quilt, but with a big [...]

I have been doing only a little bit of knitting. Most of it is on a new project for Knit Picks. I finished up the February Baby Sweater.

I think it’s really cute, and I liked the pattern, but I don’t know how many times I would make it….there’s too much garter stitch, and [...]

Ok, so we’re already over a week into the year, and I’ve been very lax in my blogging. I know you’ve seen these posts everywhere for the last week or so, but this is for my own record keeping.
Socks: 6, incl a pair for the kid
Hats and headwear (incl baby sized): 4, [...]

Since last post, I finished catnip mice, and a sweater for the kid’s monkey (scarves made by my mom)

We proved that Santa is real (or how mom can’t really focus a camera after a couple glasses of wine):

I spent the holiday and the wonderful 4 day weekend to relax. I caught up on some [...]

Last week, I finished Danny’s Harry Potter sweater.

I’m almost done with the one for his stuffed monkey. Finishing up that and felting the catnip mice are the last things on my Xmas to do list.
Now that the secret is out of the bag, I made this for Bezzie awhile back and gave it to [...]

…always check the correct size you need before knitting. Do not guess the size of the garment you need. Especially do not guess and then check after you’ve finished the back and 1/2 of the front of the sweater. Because chances are, you will realize that you’ve knit the garment a size [...]