Sheepie Knits

Mmmmm Yogurt, originally uploaded by Craftydiddl.

Well it’s Sunday and since i don’t have much to show i thought i would post a funny picture.
Here is my girl kitty, Cleo having some yogurt. Yogurt is her favorite people food and she knows when you are having some even if she doesn’t see you get it out. She will be right be me in less than a minute after i get it and sit by my feet and wait until i am done. Why? because i love her and she knows i will put the cup on the floor and let her lick out any tidbits that i have left and sometimes i will even leave her some extra tidbits.
Well yesterday i had some yogurt and Cleo was no where to be seen. Right after we were leaving for a walk and i thought i had put the yogurt up in the garbage and i remember thinking “oh no i didnt put it on the floor for her to find” and as i was putting on my shoes in the living room i looked up into the kitchen and saw Cleo on the chair licking the cup-I had to get a picture even though she is technically being naughty (my kitties cant be on the table but they sneak up there all the time). I was bad to leaving her fave treat on the table and chair pulled out.
How cute!!!

Hope you guys are having a good weekend

Fuzzy Mitten Lamb, originally uploaded by Craftydiddl.

GOOD MORNING!!!! How are you all?

So i finished up my Lamb’s face last night and this morning as i was taking my pictures he was taken away by Little Man to be Super Bunny’s friend. And now Lamb needs a cape too, so you can guess what i will be doing later today

Project: Cute lamb

Pattern: Fuzzy Mitten Lamb by Barbara Prime-blog here, patterns can be found here and here!

Made for: Me but Little Man asked to have him and i couldn’t say no.

Yarn: Leftover Cascade 220 from Hubby’s earflap hat.

Needles: size 6 dps

Notes: The ears ugh the ears Hahaha Little Man wanted the ears like this because it turns out he thought it was supposed to be a bunny but i was unaware of this when we discussed the ears. So now that he knows it’s a lamb he wants me to put the ears in the right place so along with a cape i will be fixing the ears. But i love how he turned out, he is so cute. He did come out a bit smaller than the Super Bunny i made and i think it has to do with the yarn i used.

Your right, they are such fun patterns, Jennifer i also love that you can make outfits for them too even though Little Man shows no interest in wanting any clothes.

Juliet Update: FROGGED-i hav been thinking about this for quite some time and it just doesn’t flatter my figure at all so i know that i wouldn’t wear it.

So that means it time to find a new project

ETA: His ears are fixed!! excuse the crookedness of his body-i wanted to get his picture on here and i forgot to remold his body Little Man is happy with the new ears and told me “See, i told you this is what i wanted” Oh boys! Now Lamb needs a cape, a coat AND a knitted cake-yeah 2 more things have been added to my list.

practice birthday cake, originally uploaded by Craftydiddl.

Phew-i may be posting the cake today but no one will be reading it until tomorrow sorry about my tardiness but my day just got away with itself.

Well here he is in all his multi-textured glory.

I used a shaped cake pan and i was very happy with how well the details showed up. That made doing the red outline much easier. But boy is is back breaking. It really is easiest to do all the frosting while standing up and hunched over. Does not feel good. My only issue during the outlining was that sometime my tip stuck to the frosting and messed up my line.

After that i got the blue frosting out. I started with a small star tip and hated it right away but pressed on up the front leg. I soon realized i would be doing this all day so i switched to my larger star tip. Well somehow during the switching of the tips my frosting softened and was just kind oozing out. i did manage a few stars but you might be able to see that i moved on to smooth lines. hahahaha-This got so messy and i will admit i got a little frustrated. The big red blob inbetween all the white-i hadnt folded my frosting tube correctly and frosting oozed out the top end. I learned alot over the weekend and i am very glad that i decided to do a practice cake. For the most part i will do everything the same but i am not doing star texture all over the cake i think we will be going for the much faster textured rows of frosting.
The dinosaur doesn’t look bad for my first time-I mean you can tell what it is-right?

All that matters is-Little Man Approved!

Tomorrow MORNING-My Fuzzy Mitten Lamb!!!

3 more Knitted Eggs, originally uploaded by Craftydiddl.

Easter has come and gone, the house is a mess and yesterday i managed to get 3 more Easter eggs done while we were at the In-Laws for Easter dinner.

Project: Happy Easter Eggs

Pattern: Easter Eggs by Whitney @ The Purl Bee

Made for: Me and I put one in my mom’s and mother-in-laws baskets. I actually would like to make some every year in whatever yarn scraps i have and continue to put them in the baskets but who knows maybe next year something else will “tickle my fancy”

Yarn: Leftover Lana Grossa Meilenweit 100 Multieffekt sock yarn,
left over Louet Gems Sock yarn in the pink, in yesterday’s post and the purple and lime green egg is leftover sock yarn from Karen, she used it to make my socks for the last Sockapalooza. I love how the Lana Grossa yarn is a pre-patterned sock yarn-none of the eggs i have made with that one are exactly alike.

Needle: Size 3 Double Point

Notes: I loved this pattern. It was easy, quick and fun. They are worked in the round so there is no seaming!! They are the perfect size and i can’t wait to make more next year. Since i was using self patterning sock yarn i just went with the basic egg recipe but the pattern has great pics and directions to embellish and make other versions of the eggs. So save this pattern and make some eggs next year-i wish i had found them earlier as well then i would have made a whole bunch of them.

So, remember the practice birthday cake i said i was making over the weekend-well i did it and boy was it a learning experience. Details and a picture tomorrow.

Hope you all had a great Easter. Ours was really nice. Little Man went egg hunting in the snow again. Here’s some pics if your interested. The past two Easters have been fun with the snow but i am really hoping next year is without snow.

Tonight i am hoping to stuff and seam my Fuzzy Lamb We could have another FO soon.

Knitted eggs, originally uploaded by Craftydiddl.

Hope you all have a Wonderful Easter!!

Easter Eggs and a Swap, originally uploaded by Craftydiddl.

I’m a day late-i so meant to post yesterday but i got carried away with something i was working on-Will show you tomorrrow!!!

So Sorry all the pictures are in a jumble, i can’t figure out how to put them in order.

So we had to move egg dying day from today to yesterday because hubby got the day off yesterday but not today. Which acutally worked out because that means i have today free to do all my baking.

So i boiled all the eggs, got the table all set up and that took about and hour. Called the up the boys to let them know we were ready and about 15 mins later we were done. But Little man loved it and it mainly went so fast because he was just dunking one egg after the other. He didnt really get into the sponging or writing on the eggs with the wax crayons but i understand-dunking eggs one after the other is much more fun.
The colors were okay this year. For some reason pink never works, and we had 2 blues one worked aewsome and you will notice it got used alot and the other one barely worked at all. i think next year we will use liquid dyes instead.
But all that didn’t matter-fun was had by all. Hubby made his few artistic ones, i made silly ones and Little man dunked and he still wants to puts stickers on his so he will do that today.

So i told you i had some goodies to share yesterday and i do. I did a Ravelery swap that they had on the Penpals group and if you look up there inbetween all those egg pictures-there is one with some yarn, stickers, super cute owl notecards and notepaper, needle tip covers, those coils that hold your needles together and a little kids craft notepad. It was a wonderful package and made my day when i got it. Thank You so Much Jen!!

Well i hope you are all enjoying your Saturday!! Some Easter-y stuff tomorrow!!

a little naughty, originally uploaded by Craftydiddl.

I went to my LYS today…i spent more than planned. Gee, i bet that never happens to anyone else
The plan was to get some yarn for someone’s Easter Basket and yarn for Little Man’s new scarf-he lost the one i made before Christmas. So anyway-i was there pacing for quite some time because i really wasn’t sure what i was going to get for this person’s basket and then when i figured it out i couldn’t decide on a color and during all the pacing and thinking i realized i really liked a color as well. So the blue Cascade 220 is for the scarf. The purpley Colinette Jitterbug is for me and I will sadly be parting with the greeny Colinette Jitterbug for Easter, so hard for me to do. So there you go i have admitted my naughty-ness
I found out some exciting yesterday when i was skimming the Ravelry forums. There is a new yarn shop opening sometime in the future like 5 mins away from me–I am super excited about that-but it also means i might have to board up the front door so i can’t get out and spend money there.
A Easter FO for you tomorrow!!

Thanx for all the compliments on the new haircuts

Weekend of Haircuts, originally uploaded by Craftydiddl.

So after finally having our energy back, Easter, birthdays and a trip coming up i thought we need haircuts.
Little Man just went for his usual haircut-short on the sides and a little longer on top. He isn’t crying in the after picture, i made him take of his sunglasses for th shot and so he is squinting.

I on the other hand went more drastic-it wasn’t the plan but i got there and just decided Ah-it will grow out. So it’s mid-neck and lots of layers. i actually really like it-its nice and fresh and makes me feel ready for Spring and some warmer weather. Now i just need Mother Nature to play along

So what have you all been up to? i have cleaned my crafty room, lounged around a lot, caught up with some of the house stuff but still need to do laundry, entertained my mom while she painted her living room and gotten all the tips and decorating needs for Little Man’s birthday cake.
He wants a dinosaur cake so i am going to make it myself-i got a pan on Ebay and before the big day i am going to do a practice run of everything-so we will see how it turns out-i may be buying a square cake last minute and decorating it with dinosaur toys LOL-No i must think positively-I can do this and really it doesn’t have to be perfect-Little Man won’t notice and i am not worried about the people coming to his party-It’s all going in the mouth anyway right so my main concern will be that you can tell what it is supposed to be. I am kind of excited though-i got a Wilton’s Cake Decorating Course 1 booklet and the frosting tips i need for his cake. Maybe i will enjoy this and decorate more cakes.

i have been doing some knitting as well but not that much. i have a little friend i am knitting Little Man for Easter, another friend i was knitting for myself (all parts are done but need to be seamed, stuffed and assembled) and Juliet hasnt been touched. The repeats just seem to drag on and instead on trying to do a repeat a night and finishing the thing i am avoiding it completely cause that’s how things get done right? Hopefully something will be done soon!! This is supposed to be a crafty blog after all.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

“I like our Snowman”, originally uploaded by Craftydiddl.

i think i can see the light at the end of the tunnel!! Whew!!! i am almost there-after my last post i thought i was getting better but boy was i ever wrong-It had one more big punch for me that lasted from Thursday to Saturday. Saturday i did get up to do a couple things but there were big breaks in between each thing so still a lot of time in bed. On Sunday i actually did some KNITTING-it was nice to pick up the needles again. Today i even got dressed and went grocery shopping.
BUT there is a downside to all this Little Man is very sick now and i passed it on to hubby as well but he is already on the mend.

So when did we have time to make a snowman? Last Wednesday we did when i wrongly thought i was on the mend and Little Man was still healthy and full of energy. He ran around shoveling and playing in the snow. Got me with a snowball a few times made the snowman’s head-i did the rest and he was kind enough to remind me that he needed eyes and arms and a nose. The he disappeared to the backyard for some shoveling but when it was all done he came over and said “I like our Snowman, Mommy” I like it too-it was a fun time and i enjoyed watching him play in the sun and snow.
I’m taking things slow and have some catching up to do but i hope to have some thing to show off soon.