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It’s funny how time slips away.  It seems like I only recently made my last post, but then I look and see that it was back in January.  Alas.

This whole knitting obsession has officially spun out of control.  My mom and I were consignment shopping while she was here.  We left the Sparkle Girl at […]

This is the time of year for gifts.  It seems easy enough.  You make a list of the people in your life to whom you want to show your appreciation by giving a token of your affection.  But it really isn’t so simple.  All too often it comes down to who expects a gift and […]

It’s been a little while since the last post, but that doesn’t mean that my fingers have been idle~  I’ve been working on a sweet little dress from Twist Collective called the Little Liza Jane dress.  I’m making it in 3T in a color called Peacock.  It’s nearly done so I’ll post a pic and […]

I love making this pattern.  After three or four tries I think I’ve finally gotten a handle on the structure of the garment so that I can make changes to it.  Elizabeth Zimmerman was a complete and total freaking genius!  I mean, she figured out how to knit this thing flat with increases and decreases […]

Saturday night my lovely friend Mary hosted a baby shower for me.  It was a lot of fun, good food, party games, and great advice.

My friend Peg made me a really sweet baby sweater.  It’s a Elizabeth Zimmerman pattern and can adjust to fit the baby as she grows.  It’s a nice Merino wool and […]

This is the anniversary of my father’s death.  It all happened so fast.  He fell sick right before the wedding and didn’t make out here with the rest of the family.  As soon as I returned from the honeymoon I made plans to go to Arizona to be with everyone while he slipped away.  We […]

I finally finished the girls’ fuzzy purses for Christmas.  We’re going to fill them with candy, baubles, and whatever is cute at the dollar store.  I think they’ll love them–I would have at their ages.  The pink one is going to the 5 year old since her capacity for high drama is so much higher […]

Finished (mostly) the surprise baby sweater.  I think I made a couple of minor errors, but nothing fatal and nothing I want to rip the whole thing apart for. I did one button at the top and a rolled edge.  I’m toying with putting a hood on it with the leftover yarn.  At the very […]

I’m finally finished with DH’s birthday socks.  I had more problems with that stupid heel and after redoing it umpteen times on the second sock I just decided to gut it out and not worry whether it was correct or not.  Now I can focus on other projects.

The important thing is that they fit […]

Finally finished sock #1— a combination of deadlines for clients and killer allergies led to unspeakable delays.  Alas.  So his birthday came and went and he’s got one sock.  Mostly it’s done because he decided that he wanted an ankle length sock.  Good thing I also picked up a fun new board game called Tongiaki–it’s […]