Knit One, Save One

In a round about way I found out today about a program through Save the Children which sounds very interesting to knitters and crocheters. It is called Knit One, Save One and involves knitting or crocheting a hat for a newborn in a developing country. If you are in the Seattle area and knit or crochet, please join me on November 15th at 3pm location TBA to make a hat that could help a newborn survive. There are specific patterns we are asked to follow when making the hats you can download the patterns from Save the Children OR ask me, I already did the dirty work and downloaded the patterns. If you know others who would be interested, invite them to join us!

Something I really want to knit!!!

The Juliet...

It comes in a 3x!! How cool is that!

I'm following a new blog, I've posted a link to knittinglikecrazy on my sidebar. Please take a look at her wonderful creations!

A beginning

We have started our adoption paperwork and as you can guess I am a little baby crazy right now. In the past I have made some things for other people's babies, and I decided I want to try to make a few things for our own baby. Soooo, I started this cute little kimono sweater in Patton's Decor.

As you can see, it's a varigated yarn with mostly neutral colors. If we have a girl, I"ll make the ties out of ribbon, if it's a boy, I will make them out of the yarn. I think I can also trim it with some ribbon to make it a bit more girly. I will be making more of these because they are pretty easy. My friend Kendra is doing one in Bernat Baby Jaquard. After looking on the website at some of that Jaquard, I may have to follow suit!

Knitting Indecision

Do you ever have those times when you want to knit but seriously don't know what to start. You desperately search the web for free patterns and ideas on ravelry, you even cast on a few stitches here and there only to pull them out frustrated.

I am having that kind of knitting life.

Blech....

Skully Dishcloth

I found this skully dishcloth on Ravelry.com (it's a pretty cool website). They made theirs in bright green, I did not have green but thought the varigated black and white might be cool. I'm not sure what to think right now but it's growing on me. The skull is very subtle...

Here is the sweet
little baby sweater I knit over the summer. I finally finished by clipping threads and fixing one little teeny mistake yesterday.

I found the pattern at Walmart in Miles City, MT while driving through to WI. A funny side note to that, the lady who rang me up was around my age, but said she didn't know anybody her own age who would actually knit. I found that interesting. I would assume in a small town, that most womenfolk would knit. I guess I was mistaken. Here in Seattle though, I know lots of ladies my own age who knit and crochet and some who even sew.

The pattern is knit in four pieces and sewn together. The sleeves are raglan which was easier than I expected. I used Bernat satin in Denim and Heather. It's funny because I have been straying away from the acrylic yarn, however, this was very soft and warm, perfect for a baby sweater. I would suggest this pattern to anybody looking to break out of doing scarves and dishclothes. I am proud to say I now know how to knit more than just those two items and know you can do it too!
Here are two more shots of the cuff edging and the joining of the raglan sleeve.

I just realized, I have not posted in this blog for almost a month. Very sad, I do have a project I should finish today. It is a baby sweater for a very cute baby that lives all the way in MA. Maybe I will finish it and post some pictures this weekend.

It's not like I haven't been busy though people, I've had two gigs and started back to school. Sadly, my pledge to knit for an hour unhindered by television or other house chores has been put on the back burner. Now that it's a little colder and the nights are a little darker though maybe I'll get back to it.

Now, off to bake bread, we are almost out and that would not be a good thing!