Delilah

I'm gobsmacked! My friends Bryan and Patricia surprised me with a baby sheep today for my birthday. Gobsmacked I tell you! I came home from fishing w/ my hubbie and my dad and found a book on raising sheep. What the... I thought. Then I looked out into the field and there she was with a purple bow tied around her neck. What a little angel she is. I promise there will be more posts soon (probably all on my other blog Straight Up Acres) with more pictures.

Flower Basket Lace Shawl

Whew - my first lace project is finished! I LOVE this shawl. The pattern was great, it was fun to knit and very exciting to watch it transform (especially after blocking). I highly reccomend this pattern. I did the Flower Basket Lace Shawl from Fiber Trends in Knit Picks Color Your Own fingering weight yarn with I dyed with Rit Dye colors pink and brown.


Pre-Blocked:



Blocking (using some metal rods I picked up at Home Depot):



Blocked:



Detail:



Me trying it on:

Sock Links

http://www.spunkyhats.com/boogie_freepatterns_socklinks.htm

Chair!!!

HOLY CRAP - can you believe how freaking awesome this chair looks??

If you're reading this you may or may not know me, but chances are if you know me - you know the story of this chair, but just in case, here's a brief summation of the events.

Aaron & I adopted Sam, an Irish Wolfhound (very sweet dog)
Sam ate the chair - no kidding, huge gaping hole in it - there's a picture below, but the picture does not do that hole justice. I cried and screamed and cussed.

Then, I called my friend Brooke. Now, Brooke is an extremely talented seamstress (to be fair - I don't think seamstress is the best title for what she does - she can design and sew just about anything - she's amazing) and I thought she might be able to tell me if it was possible for me to fix this. She says she'll do it for me. What? Yep, she'll do it for me. One problem - she lives about 6 hours away from me. Hmmm.... I offer to drive the chair to her house. She says no - we'll meet halfway. Then... the most amazing thing happened. She tells a coworker the story and it just so happens that her boyfriend is taking some intense training where I live and drives back and forth every couple of weeks or so. Ok, so two days (yes, two days) after the dog ate the chair, I drive the chair to this generous man's house for him to drive over to my friend Brooke's house. Well, last night - the generous man drove it back and delivered it to my front door! Now, tell me that just didn't work out about as perfect as could be. All I had to do was pick out and buy the fabric (and I must say - now that I see the finished product, I think I did a fine job).

But, without a doubt, the superstar of this story is Brooke. She does do custom work, so if you're interested in hiring her, post a comment and I'll get you in touch with her.

So... without further ado, here's the transformation of the chair.

Swiss Socks

I don't remember where I got this yarn, but these socks remind me of Switzerland. They are warm and cozy - my favorite pair so far!

Baby Vol

This is for a friend of mine who has a shower coming up. I used Excel to chart out the "T" on the hat for the University of Tennessee Vols. To do this, change the row height to 10 and the column width to 1.5 and then fill the cells with color as needed. I used Ann Budd's hat pattern from "The Knitters Handy Book of Patterns" and I used the Class Cashmere Bootees from "Simple Knits for Cherished Babies" by Erika Knight (I love, love, love all of her books!). I plan on making something similar for the other people I know who are preggers (whew - and there are quite a few!).

Yummy Shrug

I made this using KnitPicks Andean Treasure in Lagoon. I love, love, love this yarn! It knits up very pretty and feels soooo yummy and for a pretty incredible price too!

I sort of used the free "Staff Shrugs" knitting pattern from Interweave Knits adjusting it for my guage and for a very simple stockinette stitch pattern with a 4 stitch border in seed stitch.

Three Strikes You're Out Socks

I call them that because it took me three tries to make these socks and if I had to pull them out one more time - I was going to give away the yarn. :-P

Needle Case

Here's my new needle case that I made.

Case closed:


Case open (flap down)


Case open (flap up)

Chickami Tank

Here's a tank top I made a while back from the www.chicknits.com Chickami pattern. I used some cheapo baby yarn from AC Moore and it is super duper soft.