Who knew that wearing PJ’s in public with spit-up and smiling with lipstick stained teeth could earn me some props. I’m all a glow with three nods for this distinction – thank you Milotis, Insanknitty, and Just a Knit Wit for making a girl feel like she still has IT, or at least something near IT. [...]
Entries from July 2007
July 22, 2007
Second Verse Same as the First
Ditto the first
The only thing different on this one is the ommission of the little garter stitch border that breaks the cables from the stockinette part and as far as you know, I meant to do that. I selected this pattern to practice for hubby’s gansey and now I’m a little ganseyed out. For some [...]
July 17, 2007
Is that a red and white snake in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
So the boys love a good knit toy (you had to know they would) and so many knitters made them some fabulous handknits to add to the toybox. I threw them out on the floor so they could migrate to the one they wanted and Scrappy INSTANTLY snapped this little guy up and hasn’t let [...]
July 7, 2007
High Maintenace Cotton Twin Powers – Form of a Cotton Gansey!
The Deats
Yarn: 4 skanks Blue Sky Alpaca Organic Dyed Cotton, Color Indigo
Pattern: Kids Gansey
Needles: Size 6 Addi circs, Size 8 Clover Bamboo, Size 6 and 8 Clover dpns.
Adjustments: Knit the sleeves in the round versus straight and added initials.
Comments: An absolute delight to knit and it only took one entire roll of masking tape to [...]
July 6, 2007
Winners and Dualing Grannies
Let’s get to the winners of my body butter contest – winners were chosen based on 4 numbers – two chosen by me and two by hubby – these numbers were what we would play the lotto with if we decided to purchase lotto tickets versus feeding our chitlins for a day. Chris, Amy, Lisa, [...]
