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bity booties

I made these booties for maggie's new little one. I started these ages ago, finished the first bootee, started the second one... and then I couldn't find the first. I am blaming it on carlton the sock thief. When little Kole was born, I realized I better get these done before he out grows them, so I knit a third bootee.

I wanted to include big brother kai, so I put together a little gift for him too. When I was out shopping I found that most kids stuff was covered with ugly designs. I think it is never too early to impose good taste on the young, so I decided to transform a crayola drawing pad into something a little cuter.

I used spray adhesive to affix a pattern paper to the cover, then added a cute robot sticker, and finished it off by personalizing with k's name. Simple and fun. I also included some fun robot colored pencils, and a tucked a bunch of stickers inside.

With the booties done, my list for the "finish it!" challeng looks like this.

1) snap cowl

2) stripy baby sweater

3) green socks

4) stripy baby legwarmers

5) slipper socks

6) baby kimono

7) booties #1

8) booties #2

9) toddler top

10) wedding quilt

chunky footies

Another project ready to cross off of my list for the finish it challenge. These are some chunky slipper socks I started last February. I was cold and wanted some warm slippers now. I pulled out my chunkiest yarn and whipped up the first one and started the second... and then ignored them for six moths.

These are made of yarn I had bought at a garage sale in Alaska shortly after I learned to knit back in 2005. They are a bit too big, and one is larger then the other due to change in my tension from now and when I started them six months ago. I think that a little wash and block will fix the fit, easy enough.

There are more pictures and details on my revelry page.

Here is what my list looks like now.

1) snap cowl

2) stripy baby sweater

3) green socks

4) stripy baby legwarmers

5) slipper socks

6) baby kimono

7) booties #1

8) booties #2

9) toddler top

10) wedding quilt

crafty sneak peak

Remember my list of unfinished projects for the finish it challenge?  Well I knew that I had some upcoming occasions that I wanted to make gifts for, so I wrote in a clause, that I could start (and finish) projects as gifts. I have a couple of projects in progress that fit under this clause.

The first of these is this little  knitting project for a 2-yr old birthday girl

The second is a quilt. Yes, a quilt! This is my first quilt project, and it is intended to be a wedding gift. I have exactly 30 days to finish it in time for the wedding. I better get busy. heh.

Here is what my list looks like now:

1) snap cowl

2) stripy baby sweater

3) green socks

4) stripy baby legwarmers

5) slipper socks

6) baby kimono

7) booties #1

8) booties #2

9) toddler top

10) wedding quilt

finish it. part 2.

I am proud to say that I have completed two of the items from my list for the finish it challenge.

first is this tiny stripy baby jacket made up of odds and ends that have accumulated. Here I am holding it up for scale. Like everything I am knitting these days, it is of my own design, knit from the top down, and in the round.

the little guy i made this for won't be arriving until fall, and taking pictures of flat baby sweaters is getting old, so i  put it on carlton.

Secondly, I have finished up this little kimono style cardigan for the same little one who is receiving the stripy sweater. 

Again, it is knit from the top down and is my own design.  All the details are on my raverly page. 

Here is what my list looks like now:

1) snap cowl

2) stripy baby sweater

3) green socks

4) stripy baby legwarmers

5) slipper socks

6) baby kimono

7) booties #1

8) booties #2

Finish It.

My friend Chase is hosting a finish it challenge over at her blog "oh the cuteness" . The idea is to finish all of your unfinished craft projects before starting anything new. I don't have a ton, but I thought I would play along. The deadline is Dec. 15th, but I have some birthdays and weddings between now and then, so I am making an exception for making gifts for those events.

Here are the projects that I have to finish. They are all knitting projects, I don't have any unfinished sewing projects yet.

1) snap cowl

2) stripy baby sweater

3) green socks

4) stripy baby legwarmers

5) slipper socks

6) baby kimono

7) booties #1

8) booties #2

for me.

I decided to make a sweater for myself. My stitch-n-bitch group has a little challenge going to finish a sweater in the month of May. I thought I was going to make it but I miss-read the pattern and had to rip out about 10 inches. I am going to have to loose some sleep if I want to finish this in time.

The pattern is Snow Bird (ravelry link), It should look something like this when I am all done.

tiny sweaters

I have been knitting, like I do, and now that these have been received I can show them here.

I am calling this one "little preppy" on account of the plaid buttons.

little preppy is knit up in a bamboo + microfiber that is super soft and precious.  

I call this one "nubby". Can you see the texture of the thick and thin yarn?

The buttons on nubby are vintage Japanese that I fount on Etsy.

Both of these are my own design, and are 2-4mths size, so they should fit the little tyke this fall.