Sheepie Knits

We wish Everyone that celebrates a Safe, Happy and Fun Halloween!!!!

Fall is here, well has been here really and last week i came across a pattern for these wristwarmers in a blog.  They looked like a super quick project and i needed an idea for my bright green Malabrigo yarn i got over the summer.

Pattern: Toasty (pdf) by Leslie Friend

Dates: Oct. 23-25, 2008, i would have done sooner but i lost a day of knitting to a cold.

Made for: My cold hands and wrists:)

Yarn: Malabrigo Worsted in Apple Green

Needles: size 7 Dps

Notes: Quick Project, Easy Project, Cute Project-Loved it. I made a small change by adding garter stitch to the begin and end.  I don’t care so much for the rolling of just plain stockinette but i think maybe next time i make these i may give stockinette a try. I also might make them a bit wider. While these fit perfectly as is, I wear lots of stuff on my wrists and had to take some of it off to put them on.

 Now that i have gotten side-tracked it’s time to go back to what is already on the needles-Mystery Socks. I am hoping to catch up on the heels tonight and tomorrow so that way i am only a week behind.  And i am making a beret that just seems to be taking forever. Must. Go. Knit.   

I have been meaning to post this for a couple days now but the urge to do something else overpowered me. Last week i was able to get some sewing done.

First up an apron.  Now the apron is basically pre-printed onto the fabric and you just cut it out, follow the directions and sew it up. Omi always buys these every year when she is here. They have a couple different motifs. Her favorite are the ones with Gingerbread Men but she bought one like this as well.  So i decided i would try one for myself.  Very easy and completed in an afternoon.

Every year i like to make Little Man something for the holidays and i decided for Halloween it would be a new bag for trick-or-treating. The first year it was too little, they did lots of chips that year and last year i was sick so often that we just bought one. So this year i wanted to try again. And it came out great one of my best tote bags yet. I use this pattern.

And it’s reversible-with two dark fabrics. i was hoping for something a bit brighter but this is what Little Man picked. I am just happy i sewed it up so well…at least the parts you can see

I have a blanket planned for Little Man and i plan to sew it up as soon as i finish mine. He even picked out all his fabric already and i cut out the squares last week. When we bought his fabric there was one that he liked but it was’t suited to the squares that i would be cutting so i told him i would make him a pillowcase to match the blanket.  So to tide him over until i do make the blanket i made him his pillowcase.

Today there was stuff going on all over for Halloween. Our local supermarket was giving away treats and samples.  The city was doing a little Halloween party for kids under eight and they got candy and got to play games and then at the bookstore there was a Halloween Spooktacular, more treats and games.  Little Man got to wear his Batman costume to everything and he had a great time. At the bookstore he got his face painted

and he did not want to take it off at all at bedtime-I can understand why-Doesn’t he look adorable Oh i mean fierce of course-I can’t call Batman adorable. lol!!

Hope you are all having as good of a weekend.

Little Man has a scarf and a hat so of course his Mommy needed to make him some mittens.  I wanted to follow the the animal theme and so i picked Spillyjane’s Piggy Mittens (rav link) and i was even considering making them into Rhino’s instead of pigs since Rhino’s kinda have a flat front part on their face. Well…that plan didn’t quite work out.

Pattern: SpillyJane’s Piggy Mittens (rav link again)

Made For: Little Man

Dates: i forgot to keep track but they took me about a week

Yarn: Same blue Cascade 220 i used for the Alligator Scarf, I had a whole skein left and i still have about half left and Little Man wants slippers for his Rhino.

Needles: Size 5 Dps

Notes: Well the big one here is, i could not get my nose to look pig like at. No matter how much moving and pushing is did. It either pushed in like a belly button or laid flat like a normal mitten. The piggy-ness did not stay.  And i must have done something wrong becuase there are plenty of other people on Ravelry that successfully made their mitten look piggy. So in my frustration i left them plain. Little Man still liked them and had worn them a few times already.

The other small change was i made the cuffs 2×2 ribbing for 18 rows. I wanted him to have long cuffs that tucked under his coat sleeve so that way he stayed nice and cozy. I know i have when i move my arm and some wrist peeks out and gets cold.

I am not 100% happy with the gloves but i mean they look like mittens and work like mittens so the end result is what i wanted in that respect.  I am not sure what i would do next time to fix my nose issue though. Any ideas?

Karen asked about when my Omi will be back. Well, she said she wants to come in the Spring next time so that most likely means about a year and a half.  Hubby and I had talked about maybe going the coming April but it’s really looking like that won’t be happening.  We will probably have to fix our roof next year with whatever tax money we get back which leaves not much for traveling across the Atlantic and other things as well that might make the trip not possible.  So it could be over a year before i see Omi again.  And it gets harder saying Good-bye to her not easier. Not that it should get easier but next year she will be 80 and while i always try to think positively i also have to think realistically and traveling is not going to get easier for her. i wish my family all lived closer, while getting to travel is really great sometimes it would be nice to be able to just drive a couple hours to see those you love.  Anyway now that i turned a simple answer into a long drawn out answer, i bid you all Good Night or Good Morning

Omi is back home and we all miss her very much, me the most of all. We all had a great time together. Shopping, playing, eating and knitting

It was fun having someone to knit and chat with

I have been doing a lot of catching up since she left. Dishes, laundry, putting her stuff away and putting my stuff back where it was, reading blogs and this weeekend we have been super lazy.

I was able to finish a project while Omi was here, and i will be showing that off in the next post.  i am hoping to show off some sewing this week too.

It’s good to be back, i missed you guys.

It’s good to be back

Omi’s arrived here well and we are enjoying our time together.  The past two days we have been out from morning until late afternoon and today she is with my mom so Little Man and I are enjoying just vegging out at home in robes and comfortable clothes.  I can already feel the colder weather making me lazy.

But it isn’t making Omi lazy-Here she is giving Little Man a piggy back ride.

I love that she can still do things like that, some great grandmas don’t or can’t.

Craft-wise i finished a friendship bracelet

and Started some socks.

This is the first clue from Through The Loops Mystery Sock by Kristin Kapur-Clues can be found here (Rav Link). The 2nd clue won’t go up until next wednesday so you can join without being behind if you want.  She is doing to versions of the sock, a simpler one and then one that has a small cable. Come Join the Fun.

And to end on a sweet note -Here is Little Man painting the cookies we made yesterday.

Have a great weekend!!