01.21.10
Baby Booties – donated to CPC
Booties with the "feet" pin
01.05.10
Finished Objects for 2009
I was so inspired by Abigail’s FO mosaic I wanted to have my own. So here it is , 37 objects fiinished in 2009.
Everything, except the two cardigans, were started in 2009. I started Breezy Cables (top row ) back in 2006 using some beautiful yarn that I bought from Harrisville, NH during our cross-country drive. I knitted it in a KAL with Jenny to keep me motivated so that I can finish it and wear it to Stitches West 2007. I ended-up knitting a sample Millicent sock for Cookie and ran out of time. With a little encouragement in the beginning of Summer 2009, from Margit, I finished the cardigan by the end of Summer.
That left the the Fall to finish a couple of Cardigan for Arwen sweaters that Margit and I started in our two-person but infrequent KAL in 2007. Now that Breezy Cables was done, the plan was to work on Arwen once a week at lunchtime and again at BobaKnit so that they will be done by Halloween, allowing us to greet trick or treaters in our elfin garb. Margit finished hers a few days ahead of schedule and I finished mine on Halloween.
As long as I can remember, I’ve always want to weave. I made a scarf(lower right), a table runner(lower left), and a placemat(center right) with my rigid heddle loom. Last year, I read everything I can about weaving. The vocabulary, the equipment, the yarn was all foreign to me. After a year of reading books and several issues of Handwoven I can read a draft and can read through an article without looking up a word. Maybe 2010 is the year I get into weaving with a 4 harness loom! Or, I can spend a little more time exploring the intricacies of rigid heddle weaving.
11.04.08
Garter Stitch Booties
Last Friday I made a pair of booties for Conan and Lori’s baby who will be arriving December!
Garter Stitch Booties
Yarn: Reynolds – Saucy Sport – 100% Mercerized Cotton
Needles: US 5 DPs
Pattern: My own, based on Great Grandma Vera’s “Guaranteed Not To Fall Off” booties.
04.01.08
I love green
I got my March Rockin’ Sock Club yarn in the mail last week. I was never much of a fan of this color until now. It is so cheerful and soothing to look at. Elaine was over and took this picture of the yarn because the sun was shining through the window just right:
Nate mentioned that Emmett was outgrowing all his socks so I couldn’t resist making a pair of baby socks out of the Leafling pattern that came with the yarn. I usually have plenty of yarn leftover when I make socks for myself anyway.
Pattern: Baby sock adaptation of Leafling by JC Briar – Rockin’ Sock Club
size: Cast on 32 stitches
Needles: size 2
Yarn: medium weight Socks that rock – Lucky colorway
Started: March 28 2008
Finished March 29 2008
09.03.07
Catching Up A Little
Last Saturday, I went to a book signing at Purlescence. Cat Bordhi was there with samples of her revolutionary sock designs. She let me wear her sock necklace, where each sock represents a unique sock architecture from her book, New Pathways for Sock Knitters. There are many intriguing sock designs presented that I am anxious to try out soon.
Yesterday I finished my Solstice Slip Socks, the June socks from the Blue Moon Rockin’ Socks club.
The fit is absolutely perfect and the short row heel/toe with toe up construction really kept my interest.
Started: August 20, 2007
Completed: September 2, 2007
Pattern: Solstice Slip – the sock club’s June pattern – size small
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Lightweight – Firebird colorway – the sock club’s June yarn
Needles: Addi Turbo circular 2.5 mm
I had plenty of of yarn left over from that project so I started some Solstice Slip baby booties. I have one done. The zig-zag rib really lends itself to tiny footwear. The pattern is interrupted by a row of eyelets going around the ankle for the tie that will be threaded though later.
Thanks to the help of my fellow blanketeers at Orchard Valley, our first Project Linus blanket for 2007 is complete. There were challenges for everyone of us, in the areas of color knitting, cabling, lace, and in some cases learning how to purl!
Thirty 5″x5″ squares were collected from eight knitters: Elaine, Minnie, Christine, Nancy, Jenny, June, the other Pauline, and myself. Jenny assisted me in single crocheting around all the squares which greatly simplified the job of sewing them together. In order to hide all the floats and loose ends that resulted from the color work, I lined the blanket with flannel.
I used my sewing machine to sew the lining in, mainly because it was a lot faster than my hand sewing would have been.
05.18.07
PPBB #10
These PPBB ( Pom Pom Baby Booties ) went to Todd & Kim’s brand new baby girl. They were also the recipients of PPBB #9 back in the days when they didn’t know the gender of their expected baby.
So, finally we know, it’s a cute little girl and she needs some pink booties!
Yarn: Lion Brand Babysoft Yarn
Needles: size 7 DP INOX
Pattern: It started out as Girls Booties from Natural Knits for Babies and Moms, by Louisa Harding, but I modified the sole so that it is flatter(so I can pose them for pictures?) I put in fewer lazy daisies (because I’m lazy?) and added pom-poms, so that they can be #10 of the PPBB series.
I started OZ Vest from the same book, using Lionbrand Cotton Ease. Baby clothes are so quick to knit!
03.21.07
PPBB #9 And More FO Sightings
Here’s PPBB #9 going off to another baby shower at Nate & Christina’s church in Maine.
I started PPBB #9 before PPBB#2 a little more than a year ago and finished them last night after getting another bootie request from Nate & Christina. I followed Christine Bourquin’s pattern exactly and added the pom-poms. The yarn is Lion Brand Baby Soft and the needles I used are Susan Bates #1 Circulars.
Here are some more FO sightings from Maine:
PPBB#8 and its proud new owner.
and PPBB#6 on a very pink cutie!
And Making Waves makes an appearance in Portland, Maine.
10.12.06
Bootie Sighting
PPBB #6 has been sighted adorning a baby shower present in Portland Maine! 
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10.07.06
PPBB #8
Pom Pom Baby Booties #8 are going to Maine. A couple ( who both knit) at N & C’s church are expecting their first baby very soon.
These PPBBs are very similar to PPBB #6 and others except that it has a roll down cuff consisting of 14 rows of stockinette above the eyelets.
US #3 Needles
Same baby yarn as PPBB#6 and 7.
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09.22.06
Keeping Those Little Feet Warm & Cute
Making baby booties are fun and quick. Here are the latest Pom Pom Baby Booties.
I’m sending these to Maine for a baby shower at Nate & Christina’s church.
Here’s oh so cute Nathaniel wearing his brand new PPBB at his very first company picnic!
Yarn for the Maine booties: Lion Brand Baby Soft, Red Heart TLC – sport weight
Yarn for the Picnic booties: Lion Brand Baby Soft, Bernat Softee Baby yarn.
Needles: Size 4 US Clover Bamboo Circular