This will probably be my last winter bag, tho I’ve been known to change my mind before :). I liked this embroidery because it has a swirl that looks like a winter wind swirling around some really pretty snowflakes :). We finally started getting snow this month. I’m ready for Spring already tho. 🙂
Time to get my eyes checked again, I think I need new glasses for close up work, sigh.
Still working on the comfort shawl, have about 1 & 1/3 skeins left to knit. I know, I know, knit faster :P.
I decided to do some sewing this week end after removing some seasonal knot bags out of my Etsy shop. I decided I needed to add some more embroidered knot bags. The bag on the left is one I am sending to a knitting podcaster for review. It will be a way to get some exposure for my bags :). After she has reviewed it, I will put a link on my blog to her podcast :). I have another one embroidered but not sewn up yet and two more to be embroidered. The embroidered bags take longer to make due to the embroidery so they are a little more expensive.
I’m working on a comfort shawl for a friend who lost her companion this week. Loss is so hard :(.
The weather here has finally hit WINTER, ugh. We are suppose to be around -4 tonight but we are having high winds and they said that would make the wind chill between -20 and -30. But at least it will only be for tonight and tomorrow morning, then the winds die down and we will warm up just a bit. We will have snow on Monday and Tuesday and then we will warm back up into the 20’s in the day and teens at night :). Is it Spring yet?
I thought I had blogged on this addition to my Etsy shop but I don’t see it on my blog so I guess I only thought about it and didn’t follow through, sheesh. I loved this fabric because it was less busy and had those beautiful line drawn flowers in the background with some stamps that look like passport stamps, which adds background interest.
I’m working on another embroidered bag or two, hopefully will have pictures to put up in a day or so.
These hats are quick, relaxing to make and they look nice. I wish I could find the website I got this pattern from so I could share it with you. I usually am pretty good about noting the website for the patterns, but I’ll be more diligent in the future about notating on my pattern where it was from if it isn’t showing when I copy free patterns from the net. Because of copyright issues I can’t post patterns without permission from the designer, so I usually just put a link to the website.
I like this style especially in the cold climates because the long nature of the hat allows you to fold up the bottom into a cuff and that doubles the knitted fabric over the forehead, ears and back of the neck, and keeps those areas much warmer, and wool is warm anyway so it’s a win/win :).
Hope your New Year is off to a wonderful start :).
I wish everyone a very Happy New Year filled with spiritual peace. May we look forward and not backward.
Yes, I’m knitting one more hat, was trying to get done before the New Year but alas it won’t be done until New Year’s day. This is some of the polypay yarn I had processed from the fleece that was given to me. I dyed it blue but some of the yarn didn’t take up the dye as well as other parts in the skein and there were some very light spots from where the skein was tied (even tho’ I loosened the ties quite a bit), but you know what, it makes it look like faded denim so I am not going to complain, I know the recipient will enjoy it :P.
I made a kn
itting New Years resolution, I made other resolutions too, but if I share them and I don’t complete them I’d have to hunt you down and wipe your memory (like they do on Star Trek) so you are better off not knowing what they are :P. My knitting resolution is to knit some socks. Something I’ve wanted to do for a while now. I’ve gotten a step closer when I bought this book by Ann Budd, who is well known in the knitting community for sock construction, today at the 1/2 Price Book Store (I love that store!!). The other book I have ordered from Amazon is Knitting Rules! by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee aka in the knitting world as “the Yarn Harlot”. It has a sock pattern called sock recipe: a good plain sock. I have heard many people say this is their go to sock pattern. Then when I get the sock pattern I want I will get the needle size it calls for (because the needles I will get are Addi Turbo 12″ circular needles and are expensive so I need the pattern first to see if I need size 0’s, or 1’s, I’m not a big fan of double pointed needles) and begin my sock journey. 🙂
Merry Christmas
“Lift up your head and be of good cheer; for behold, the time is at hand, and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world, to show unto the world that I will fulfil all that which I have caused to be spoken by the mouth of my holy prophets” 3 Nephi 1:13
May you all have a blessed and wonderful Christmas, and may the peace of this season be with you through out the New Year.
This is a two by two ribbed hat I just finished. This is for a little family member :). It looks purple but it is a bright blue, not sure why I am not able to capture colors properly sometimes, sigh. I just can’t seem to quit knitting hats, this one is a relaxing knit. I would tell you where to find this pattern, but I copied it to a word document and the name doesn’t come up in a google search. 😦 But there are plenty of patterns just like this one on the internet :).
I have one more hat to knit before Christmas, I’ll post a picture of it after Christmas :P. I have just been so driven to knit lately, good thing tho, it’s relaxing and creative all at the same time, and who can’t use relaxing and creative at Christmas time :).
I finished another large bag this morning. I love cardinals, they are beautiful and have a very distinctive song. They add much needed color to a very otherwise dreary winter scene. When I saw this fabric I knew I had to make a bag, I have enough fabric to make another one for myself as this one is in my shop.
I also finished the hat that goes with the sweater I am knitting for Maddie. It’s cute, hope she’s not getting to old to enjoy the colors I had chosen last year.
I have made a couple of these larger knot bags but had given them to some special friends.
This one I can put in my shop :). You can not see the sparkle on the fabric on the green boughs but it is stunningly beautiful. Looks like snow, I really wanted to keep this one for myself, but I have enough left to make a medium bag for me :). This one is large enough for sweaters and shawls for knitters.
Sometimes when you are really busy doing for family, as the mom you wonder if your children really appreciate all you do for them. I’m not saying that my children don’t appreciate the things I do, just as a mom you sometimes wonder because they are so busy with their own lives. Well, my daughter showed me just how much she appreciated all I am doing for her with a beautiful yellow Orchid, just because. It is so pretty, she even remembered my favorite color for flowers is yellow. How’s that for remembering :).
Well “The boys” finally won a game last night against an old rival, the Redskins. Was an exciting game even though I had taken an antihistamine and fell asleep before the end, so I found out this morning that they won. Hehe, I don’t generally fall asleep during a football game, but it happens :).
Winter Deer Knot Bag View 1
Winter Deer Knot Bag View 2
New bag completed. It’s a pretty winter deer scene with sparkles all over. The green is actually a little more intense than the picture shows, really pretty scene.
I’ve begun knitting the hat that goes with the sweater I haven’t yet finished for the little one I watch. That way she will have something she can wear soon, while I work on the sweater. I’ll post a picture when I get it finished.
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