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Matching crocheted pinafores for a waldorf baby and her little momma

By on November 30, 2011 in crochet, Handmade Christmas Challenge, Waldorf, Yarn Along
Feverishly working on Christmas presents, night and day!  Right now my list is so big that every little mistake I make seems to make my list bigger : (  I am taking it in stride because in the end they will love and remember whatever I made them and my need for perfection will be for not.

I have been working on anothe gift which is part of the Knit along over at Frontier Dreams but I am having such a hard time with my terrible knitting skills that I could not bear to take a picture : (  To see what it should look like visit the most amazing Nicole.

Please allow me to apologize for my pictures today.  Truth is I forgot to take the pictures during the day and the lighting in my house is terrible (did I ever tell you to never take pictures at night, they come out sucky).
On my list for Ronnie and Livie are a pair of new Waldorf babies and I thought I would make some matching crocheted dresses for Livie and her new baby (in all the spare time I have right?).  I really like the way it is coming out though I writing and rewriting the pattern which means ripping and ripping out my stitches but in the end I will have hopefully a pair of dresses that my babies love and a pattern to make more in the future.  I am thinking it would be cuter to make the top of the pinafore crocheted and then add fabric as the body of the dress starting under the arm pits, what do you think?
Yarning along with Ginny again this week. I am reading Little House Christmas, which is one of our favorite reads during advent and Christmas.  

I am sneaking in one last picture down here because the lighting is so supermarketish in the pic but it does show the top of the dress better, so sorry!



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A knitted dish sponge and my trip to Purl Soho

By on November 23, 2011 in crochet, knitting, Yarn Along
Yarning along with Ginny again this week.  I have not time to read anything lately except Little House to the kids (does that count?)  I suppose I could have read while I was on the plane but honestly I was so nervous I probably would have gotten sick.  I worked on another shawl just like this one for my two other little girls. I got half way through so I need to hurry up since I was hoping to have the girls wear them in our Christmas pictures.

This week I wanted to share a little project for the kitchen.  I love everything handmade and since I was in need of a new dish sponge I whipped this one up and you can make it really fast too.

You need size 7 needles
Cast on 18 sts, stockinette stitch for 22 rows then bind off

 It is made of sisal and stuffed with bits of wool string that I collect.  (am I the only one who keeps left over bits of wool yarn from projects and frogging sweaters?) Next time I will stuff it with a cheapie dish sponge.  I miss the spongy action but other than that it scrubs really well.

With a size G crochet hook, fold the square in half and single crochet around stitching both layers together around two sides, stuff the sponge with wool or a sponge, finish crocheting around to the end, fasten off, weave in your ends.  Voila!

Thank you to everyone who left a comment or sent me an email while I was visiting NYC.  It was so much fun but very exhausting.  I will be posting more pictures of my trip Friday but for now here is my trip to the Purl Soho in New York. OK so this is probably the only place I could say that visiting the Purl was my favorite part of the trip and not get the “are you crazy” look.

I loved, like really loved being at this store

I was in a sea of yarn and all of a sudden all my plans and ideas went out the window!  I could not remember what projects I had thought of, not one!  I just walked around touching every yarn, hugging and squeezing skein after skein.  

I mean look at these yarns, aren’t they irresistable?

amazingly enough I was able to think clearly (for 3 seconds) and these were my choices.  No clue what I will make at the moment but make I will.

and so I sat and waited for the skeins to be swifted into balls for me : )
What would you make?  Don’t forget to join me tomorrow for the Handmade Christmas Craft Along!



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