I had a very turtle-y week this week. My sister, Ginger, who is about to turn 30 next month, LOVES turtles and I wanted to make her something for both Christmas and her birthday. I came up with a pillow for her b-day that I lilked but I found this adorable guy for her Christmas gift and fell in love. The best part of it is that this stuffie is a ( Read more... )

My sister loves turtles so when I saw Barbara Walker had a turtle motif in her Charted Knitting Designs book, I wanted to make something with it for her. I decided to make a throw pillow for her house.

The graph was really hard to understand so I ended up going by the Embossed Turtle Cloth pattern on ravelry. It's the same turtle, it is just in ( Read more... )

A while back, while messing around on Ravelry, I discovered ColoradoMom's incredible Sesame St character hats. I wanted to make the Bert and Ernie hats for my SIL's but had a problem. The pattern was a crochet pattern and I do not crochet... yet. I spoke with ColoradoMom and she was nice enough to volunteer to make all the crocheted bits and send ( Read more... )

Hey guys. Just wanted to say hi and post a quick update. Hope your days are going good.

Matt's HatI have a new roommate named Matt. He is a nice guy but quiet and I don't know him very well yet. Still, he was the only member of the household I didn't have a Christmas gift knitted up for (or at least in the works) and I felt bad about that. ( Read more... )

Shortly after last year’s Christmas, it was brought to my attention that (despite the fact that I do a huge amount of knitting and beading for family members) I had never made anything for my cousin, Jessie. (To be fair, I had made her a baby blanket for her last pregnancy, and a ton of stuff for her children but nothing that was just for her). So ( Read more... )

It seems like this journal is all Christmas prep, all the time and I really sound obsessed. I was thinking about why that is today and this is what I have come up with ( Read more... )