Knitting a baby dress!

I have too many projects going on. Starting a new job, overbooked myself (pun intended) for the book blog, taking care of my little old westie who has cancer, drowning under bills, you know...usual stuffs. :D

But I have deadlines and things to make. Like that scarf. Or the vest for my mom (I wanted to get it done for next month, but something tells me that ain't happening). Or this stuffed trout thing that I want to make for my dad.

So what did I decide to knit? A lilac baby dress. I'm not pregnant, no. But SOMEONE is. *coughsbitesliphardpromisednottotell*

So I'm making this:

I'm knitting it in Bernat Softee Baby yarn in Soft Lilac. It's super soft and washable and a lovely light light lilac.

Of course...I had moments of

This photo is from http://www.purplekittyyarns.com/ and used with their permission

over and over again. The pattern is really simple and easy to follow long, but for whatever reason, I took one sentence to mean something else and instead of knitting in the established pattern, kept trying to reverse it. D'oh!  Don't ask. I was making dumb mistakes all night. But now it's soaring along and I'm thinking that baby items are nice and tiny and small and maybe I'll keep making those instead until the late February deadline, eh?

=D






I got the yarn from amazon.com, which was nicely discounted, but with a new job comes new yarn affordability! I think I might limit myself, however, until I finish these three or four projects first!



I am quite excited to be knitting. Quite excited for SOMEONE's baby girl to be born. And generally just happy happy lately. :D

What are you up to? What are you reading? What are you knitting? Anyone? Anyone?

HOW CUTE IS THIS?

http://sincerelylouise.blogspot.com/2014/08/jiji-cat-free-knitting-pattern.html

Check out this ADORABLE pattern for Jiji the Cat! It's free from Sincerely Louise! 

OMG I MUST MAKE THIS. So cute. 

I need this, her owl, the fox hat, a knitted Murloc, and more. 

What cute patterns have you come across lately?

{WIP} Persephone Scarf from Smariek Knits

I'm rather a slow knitter. Well, it's not that I'm slow really. It's that I don't do a lot at once like most other knitters. Three to five rows and then I get distracted. Books, fur kids, another knitting project.

Maybe this one will be done by next winter! In the meantime, I'm doing a few rows while watching ALMOST HUMAN. I really like Karl Urban. I've seen him in lots of movies, of course, but he really won me over with he was mourning what he thought was his sister's death in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King!

Anyway, just an update on one of my WIPs. :)

{Finished Object(s)} Happy New Year!

I hope your holidays were festive and fun and filled with laughter and love. And maybe you got some awesome goodies like books and knitting needles and yarn?

Come on, I can't be the only one who thinks those are the perfect presents? Hee-hee.

Well, I forgot to photograph the FOs I had for Xmas. Whoops! A shame, too, as they were quite pretty. I shared one of the scarves, but the second one was a loop (not quite infinity) scarf I made for my brother's fiance. She loved it (phew!) and put it on immediately. So, whoops on forgetting to take a picture of the finished object, but I'm here with one picture of something I made post-Christmas! And I used my Xmas gift to boot!

Check out the loveliness from my brother and his fiance!

Why yes! Those are the Knitpicks Interchangeable Circular needles in Harmony! 

I'm a crappy photo taker...these are just gorgeous and rich in color. And oh my do they feel awesome in the hand! I also received a couple skeins of yarn. My future sis-in-law didn't know what to get as she is not a knitter, so she picked up a couple balls of Cozy Wool. I made her a hat with one skein from the pattern on the label. 

It didn't turn out too badly! I still need more practice with the ribbing. It's soooooooo loose and this is the second hat that is like this. I don't understand why. Have my stitches gotten that loose? I'm going to have to try knitting tighter for the ribbing or seriously shrink down my needle size just for the ribbing.

Any suggestions?

And just because I adore my bracelet, I'm sharing with you that pic again...

So cool. :) Anyway, I hope you had a wonderful holiday, whatever you celebrate! I'm making another hat, and gonna work on that ribbing.

Gift(s) in Progress! And one of my furkids!

This is version four...I've frogged this scarf so many times! Now, it's just a simple garter stitch scarf, but I think that's okay as the yarn is fun and bulky.

It started off as a cowl, then a moebius scarf, then a cabled scarf, now it's just garter. My hand is in a brace from carpal tunnel, so basic scarf it is!

The next one should be a bit fancier. Maybe. I'm running low on time and with my wrists aching...

This is my blind, old, sweet westie-girl, Maddie. She is my constant companion whether I'm reading, knitting, or just hanging out. She whines to tell me what she wants, she demands snuggly hugs, and if she isn't feel well, she'll whine until I sing her to sleep. My voice isn't exactly on key, but she seems to like the singing. She especially seems to respond to Once Upon a December from Anastasia. lol She's 13.5 years old and the sweetest little dog ever.

{Progress Report} FROG FROGGY FROG FROG

I haven't gotten very far in my #122 tie-front cable tunic vest. I've been too busy reading. So I've been knitting while getting caught up on my shows on Hulu when I can sneak some time in.

I came across a questionable instance in this pattern for which I pleaded for help on facebook. It was decided that, where I had to do a ssk and the place marker was in the way, remove the marker, ssk, add the marker back.

Well, as I was setting up the cabling rows, my numbers are all kinds of off. Instead of 13 before the first stitch marker, I have only 11. Instead of 23 for the next row, I have 24. URGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

So I'm frogging it.

Isn't this a cute image? Visit http://purplekitty.biz/ ! They allowed me to use their image, but they have this on totes and shirts and stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/thepurplekitty/8810028

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Sigh. Tomorrow anyway. And only 8 rows or so. Trying again. I must've screwed something up with that decrease.

Starting a new project, this one will be the Persephone Cable scarf and fingerless mitts. Hope this one goes smoothly and quickly. I would like to make it for my mom for Christmas! :)

I'm hoping scarf, which needs no shaping, will be something I can whip out quickly and relax while watching my shows. :) If you couldn't tell ... I'm a total noob knitter. I may have been knitting for years, but I'm definitely a beginner, especially when confronted with patterns! :) 

Here's the first bit of it done! Do you like my notes? LOL I need to keep tallies of the repeats or I go insane trying to follow the pattern! :D

COMING SOON! :)

It's been a long time since I've knitted/crocheted anything. The urge to do so has come on strong and now that I can afford to splurge a bit... :)

I'm starting a project!

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/teefahknee/122-tie-front-cabled-long-vest

is what I am making. You can buy the pattern from knitpicks here: http://www.knitpicks.com/patterns/tie-front-cabled-tunic-vest.html.

I chose the Swish Bulky in Hollyberry and will be making a size medium for my mother. I am currently locked out of my gmail account (was sending photos of a wedding I took to a friend and apparently it was unusual usage for my account :P ) or I'd share the pic of the yarn. I was able to instagram it though, so let's try embedding that...

OH LOOK! TAHDAH! I feel badass now. :P So yeah...this probably won't have as much blogging on it as my book blog (tiffyfit.blogspot.com), but it's definitely gonna start something! :D