I made these last week, but I forgot to put up pictures of the baby.
I had a hard time getting a good picture of them, since most of their face is on the belly side.
They’re another commissioned Christmas set. He’s a pretty cute little baby whale!
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Turtle Jr.
Another commissioned Christmas piece. A tiny turtle!
He’s pretty cute, I think.
Man, I am all kinds of bummed that I don’t get to keep these little fella’s. Someday when I have my own children I will knit them lots of toys to play with, but until then I guess I will have to be happy making them for other people’s kids.
He’s a pocket-sized turtle! Fits right in the palm of your hand!
Ok! Off to finish knitting a bat! (Yep! I’m knitting a little bat! I’m really excited about it)
Lemon Grass Hat!
Free Knitting Pattern for the Lemon Grass Slouchy Hat.
**It’s come to my attention that the yardage of the ‘Thick and Quick’ has changed, and the skeins are now smaller, so you may need two skeins. I have not bought another skein of Thick and Quick, so Im not positive you can complete it with just one skein now. I apologize for this inconvenience! **
It’s a super basic pattern, really easy.
** PATTERN**
1 skein of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick Yarn
Size US 10 1/2 Double Pointed Needles (6.5mm)
Cast on 56 stitches- Join in the round
(Knit 1 Purl 1) Rep to end.
Repeat for 8 rows
Switch to a seed stitch (Knit 1 Purl 1) rep to end of row.
(Quick tip: Reader GMC tried this pattern and said the following: “knit one round even before the seed stitch rounds and Kfb of the first stitch in that knit round to get an odd number so I could just go round and round in seed stitch w/o really thinking about it” That is a great, GREAT idea. Now I am kind of embarrassed that I didn’t think of that before!)
Repeat seed stitch for 26 rows.
Beginning decreases: (K2T stands for “Knit Two Stitches Together”
Row 1- (knit 10 stitches in seed stitch (still alternating k1,p1) K2T) repeat to the end of the row
Row 2- (knit 9 in seed stitch, K2T) repeat to the end of the row
Row 3- (knit 8 in seed stitch, K2T )repeat to the end of the row
Row 4- (knit 7 in seed stitch, K2T) repeat to the end of the row
Row 5- (knit 6 in seed stitch, K2T) repeat to the end of the row
Row 6- (knit 5 in seed stitch, K2T) repeat to the end of the row
Row 7- (knit 4 in seed stitch, K2T) repeat to the end of the row
Row 8- (knit 3 in seed stitch, K2T) repeat to the end of the row
Row 9- (knit 2 in seed stitch, K2T) repeat to the end of the row
Row 10- (knit 1, K2T) repeat to the end of the row
Cut yarn, leaving 12 inch tail.
Pull the tail yarn through remaining stitches, cinch tight, weave in ends.
Enjoy your hat!
WIP Weekend Edition
I’ve got LOTS of WIP’s right now, most of them are Christmas related, so I can’t blog about them for a few months, but I decided to whip up this slouchy hat this weekend. I am loving it so far.
Any special projects you’re working on?
Front porch
Ok, so there were so many gourds, pumpkins, squash, etc at the farmer’s market that I had some trouble choosing!
I think I might rearrange it a bit, I’m not 100% happy with the way it looks, but it’s a start!
We put another pumpkin in the little patch of random plants, we’re hoping people will think we grew it. Ha!
Any one else have some fun fall decor up yet?
So.. I did it.
I actually quit my job. There was much fear and trembling before walking into my bosses office, but I did it! And I feel SO good. I gave 4 weeks notice, because I am nice like that, so I’ve still got a month to go. I am planning on taking the holidays off (Thanksgiving in Texas, P’s sister’s wedding the week of Thanksgiving, Christmas in Tacoma, Charissa’s wedding in January) so I will be a busy little bee anyway. Plus with all of the Christmas orders I’ve got it should keep me busy!
Knitting night.
Sorry, no blogging today. (Unless I have a lot of energy later on this evening), off to our weekly knitting night so I can keep poppin’ out those Christmas presents and Christmas orders!
Hope you have a great Wednesday evening!
Pink Fish
I am cranking out a lot of fish these days.
I like this lil’ gal.
I may need to make another one to replace her. I really like this one and I am kind of sad that she is for someone else’s Christmas present.
Pesto
Made pesto this evening.
Love. love. love pesto.
Love making pesto pizza, pesto chicken, pesto pasta… oh, we love pesto.
My only wish is that I had a bigger Cuisinart. But this one does just fine, just small batches.
Also, a little tip I learned… don’t waste your precious money on pine nuts. Yes, they are delicious, but since they are so pricey I substitute walnuts and nobody even notices. Yum.
Weekending
So, my sisters Erika and Heidi, my mom, Ezra and my brothers girlfriend Cynthia got to come hang out this weekend. And it was awesome. It was a less-than-24 hour trip, but I enjoyed it so much!
My nephew is a lot of fun to hang out with.
We went to the Farmers market, The Storm Cellar, and made pizza.
I got two HUGE bunches of basil! They were only $3.oo a bunch, so I got all they had, planning on making some killer pesto tomorrow.
And I had to move all of my succulents inside since it is getting really cold out at night here. But as of right now I have nowhere to put them, so they, too, are on the kitchen table.
It’s getting a bit crowded in there.
And, just because I can, here is a parting shot of my nephew eating the pizza we made for lunner (lunch/dinner).
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