Sew? When I can knit?

It's tough to make a balance for all my projects. Craig has been kind and giving me lots of Mommy time to tackle all these "spring is in the air" type endevours. Here's how the Sew? I Knit skirt is coming along so far:


So basically it's cut (as you can plainly see with the scissors implying I just finished cutting). Wow, cutting with scissors hasn't been this tricky since kindergarten with those fake plastic scissors. It's mentally and physically challenging. My scissors suck and some of my Kitties almost came out upside down!

Luckily I caught that in time. So far sew good! Nyuk, nyuk.

"OM" my god, it's done!

I finished Craig's "OM" sweater and he threw it on and >gasp< ... it's too small!!! Ugh! I know better for next time. Craig is large, Craig is large, Craig is large.

But...

Check out my new sweater!

I am seriously bummed about this though. Not only because I lovingly knitted each stitch with an image dancing around my head of him wearing it everyday till it's holey and tattered (it is the "He'll Wear it Everday" pattern from the Yarn Girl's Guide to Simple Knits )

and not only because I obviously can't wear my favourite white Bravada nursing bra with it without looking like a loser, and not only too that the hat I made him ended up fitting Edie like a dream (he's seeing a trend here), but I had all these big plans to whip me up a sweater before the end of winter here. This is a comfy warm sweater, sure, but not my first choice of pattern for myself. I'm thinking more along the lines of "Creeper" from Rowan 38 or else the "Hourglass" from Last Minute Knitted Gifts.
Oh, well.

I have to say though, I'm pretty proud of the way the "OM" symbol on the back turned out! I drew the symbol on graph paper in my handy dandy Stitch n Bitch (am I allowed to write that?) Journal. Yay!

Almost Done!!

I'm half done the sleeves for Craig's "om" sweater. I fear I might be short of yarn (keep your needles crossed!). I'm doing a trip to the yarn store with my sweet friend Tyla on Saturday morning (first a mommy's breakfast of course!) and we're going to have a postmodern legwarmers knit along! We're hoping Mommy Laura will participate in the fun too.

So, hopefully by the end of the weekend the sweater will be done like dinner and we can move on to some spring flings.

Oh yes, speaking of spring. Still waiting on my reprodepot fabric to get here so I can sew along. I got a postmaster notice (do people use that term or is that past-life regression talking?) so hopefully it's for dem goods!

Works in progress

I'm trying to get more familiar with this blogging business and spent almost the whole of my precious "mommy time" - Edie sleeping in - trying to figure out some basic but cool features. I want to have a listing of works in progress, blogs I blike and get my butt in gear to take some pics of my knitting on needles.

Ahhhh.

Anyway, while I wait for support to get back to me, I want to share that I was falling asleep last night I was dreaming of knitting to come. I was going to make everyone in my family a sweater before winter slipped away and so far I'm almost two thirds through with that mission (family meaing me, Craig and Edie). BUT, as Craig so kindly pointed out winter's never really came to this neck of the woods. So I was drifting off to dreams of spring knitting. Since this is my first spring as a knitter it was pretty exciting to try and think what that entails.

I decided... accessories! I want to make a chinese charm bag hopefully out of recycled sari, some postmodern leg warmers that I bought some Louisa Harding expressions for, some Kidsilk Haze arm warmers from Rowan no. 38 (first attempt at cabling People!!), a felted evening bag from that same book, and felted jewlery in general.

And, in between all of that I still want to learn to sew, spin and practice more yoga. Thank god Craig's so patient.

Here's a taste of spring to encompass the spirit of my accessory fantasy. I bring to you the Horniman Ranch in spring...

Make 1Yarn Store

I'm soooooo excited about this studio opening. Make 1Yarn is offering a plethera of classes and community events to keep those projects and connection with other local knitters happening! Wohooo! Only thing I'm going to suggest is some kind of babyminding or play area so I can pretty much set up camp there full time.

Loving how they're setting all the events so they coincide with snacks. Chick flicks, yarn tasting, bookclubs, tons of classes .... and on and on. Hot damn!

This is my spring fling...

skirt! One of these two or both. The slutty one with the Graffitti City - to be all Fly Girl and the more demure one with brown paisly or Fashion Pussy Gatos! Meowwrr!

Stop The Presses!

Thanks so much to Jessica, she brought something terribly important to my attention. I was able to cancel my order for the Buddha fabric. It is disrespectful to sit on the Buddha's face. I was told that too on a meditation course by a monk. When will I learn? Now I will. So in lieu of the pretty though contraversial Buddha print I decided to go with Grafitti City:

Hopefully I won't offend any city officials trying to clean our streets1 ;)

First Post!

Just thought I should start a blog to assist in keeping all my interests balanced and shared. I spent the weekend in a yoga workshop (David Swenson) and am now jonesing to dive into my other yoga: knitting.

I've also signed up for the Sew? I knit!

team so I'm super stoked to get my spring fling skirt started. I'm going to sew a skirt from either this:

With an embroidered Kitty on the front OR:









and then when people asked me if I'm buddhist I'll say no but my skirt is!!




Oh yeah, I'm currently knitting my husband a sweater from Yarn Girls' Guide to Knitting (with an OM symbol on the back, cuz he's yogi too, not so much crafty) and myself the vest on the cover of Rowan no. 38 (see left). My first time fair isling so I'm doing this in turn with a knitting class.