I found this pattern for Pocketbook Slippers. They look like a little purse when you’re not wearing them. When my friend Joy was here, she found a wool sweater at the thrift store for $1.50. I usually find black or gray wool sweaters to unravel, so red was quite a find! I taught her how [...]
Here is the before. Mittens for a giant! They were 14″ long. Someone asked me if I didn’t follow the pattern correctly (haha!) Here they are after. I don’t know if you can see it very well, but they’re considerably smaller. They are a thick yummy felt and I look forward to wearing them! James [...]
(click to enlarge) I have collected quite a few knitting patterns over this past year of knitting. I prefer to have my things “findable” and the disorganization was getting on my nerves. Since we’ve been notebooking for school, I thought about making a Knitting notebook. I never got around to it until I found a [...]
I’ve been knitting a few project here and there.One thing I needed to finish was my brother’s scarf. It was his Christmas present! Oops! (It went out in the mail today!) I made it from an Eddie Bauer wool sweater that I bought at the thrift store for $1.00. I found instructions online once to [...]
Yesterday was declared “A Day of Crafting”. We had school in the morning and cleaned a few things around the house. We listened to Christmas music I made a pot of chai tea. It was extra yummybecause we used the Christmas tea pot and tea cups. Then we crafted all afternoon. James worked on making [...]
I finally finished knitting James’ hat and scarf. The hat is a funny shape on purpose. It was designed to have yellow dangling things on the corner, but James nixed those. Also, I didn’t know how to knit round things so this hat was nice and flat. The scarf has a neat basketweave design which [...]
In the comments of “Blue Blessings”, some of you asked to see my knitting. Here is the first scarf I made. I’m finishing up a winter hat for James. I’m just starting on his scarf. I figured I better start now so I’ll have it done in time! I’ll try to remember to post a [...]
