mmmm . . . knitting

Do you ever wish you could just close yourself in your favorite cozy knitting spot with a couple of projects, a few good movies, and regular deliveries of your top comfort foods? I'm wishing that today. The weather outside is grey and blah and cold and dull. Blech. 

(Note: It's cold and icky--for California. If you live in Saskatchewan or Siberia, or you grew up in Wisconsin, please don't write and tell me how wimpy I am to complain about our weather when in many other parts of the world winter involves being turned into a human ice cube and plugging in your car at the mall so you can drive back home. In fact, let's make a deal: if you won't do the "you think THAT's cold?!!" thing then I won't complain about the extraordinarily high cost of living here. K?)

I finished the giraffe and elephant blankie for my nephew--it has a backing knit from Phildar's fluffy Peluche, and I sewed them together last night.

This blankie is pretty small, but a good size for Charlie to carry around and play with. And of course he has to have the matching giraffe toy. :) K helped me put the stuffing in the giraffe, and then decided she might like one too. The ultimate kid seal of approval.

While I was in small project mode, I worked on a flower to be felted for my felting class next month. It's from a pin kit distributed by KnitWhits, which I think was much too pricey ($20 at my LYS), but since I'm knitting it for the store I didn't have to pay for it.

We'll see how it turns out--the instructions call for the pieces to be assembled BEFORE felting, and I would have thought they should be sewn together afterward. I know, I know, I should just do as I'm told . . . I always have trouble with that.

I want to show the different kinds of things you can do with felting, including smaller projects like this. I'm also going to knit a couple of the roses from the felted rose garden bag in the current VogueKnitting.

Finally, I did get a box of Plymouth Encore yesterday in Burnt Sienna, gold, Bronze and Dark Country Blue for some no-thought-required knitting. Can you guess what I'll be working on?

Oh yes, I'm a fan. I can't wait for July 16.

Comments

[La]

Man, I'm gonna miss seeing you at SW. You were one of the ladies I was most looking forward to meeting, but I totally understand about taking care of family. I hope your mom's doing well, and maybe we can meet up on one of your trips down south here. Take care

[Marti]

The giraffe is soooo cute!

[ann]

That giraffe project just keeps getting better and better -- the little toy just puts it over the top!

[yuvi]

That blanket is just way to cute!! and oh, I'm a fan too, have you pre-order yet?

[Karen]

I love the blanket! Where did you get the pattern?