A hat for Irie.

I bought a pair of handsewn pants and a pair of shorts from this momma. Also see her eBay store.
Well, the pants and shorts never arrived! After much waiting and multiple trips to the post office for both of us, she was kind enough to make me another pair of pants. So awesome of her! I decided to knit her daughter a hat as a thank-you.
Here is Taso modeling Elizabeth Zimmermann's Spiral or Snail hat knit in my own handspun merino top.

My very own socks!

I have knit a few pairs of socks before, but never for me. Some for Taso, a store sample, a pair for my grandma, and a couple of pairs of pedicure socks last christmas.
Finally, a pair for me! The yarn is Nancy by Schaefer Yarns(love their yarn SO much!) and was kindly donated to me for no reason other than she could barely look at, by Pam at Twisted Warp and Skeins. She and another woman had tried knitting and weaving with it and they both just seemed to despise it. The colors were so pretty I took her up immediately when she told me to take the huge cake of yarn home! I started socks that night! With a fiber content of 95% merino and 5% nylon, the yarn just said socks. The nylon is actually a runner thread twisted around the merino, I think that will help keep the socks strong. Kind of like holding nylon with your yarn while knitting the heel, maybe?
The second sock is just about done, a few more inches on the foot and then the toe. I am planning to try some toe-up socks next. Let me know if you have any great patterns for toe-up socks! I would like something a bit prettier, not just a boring stocking stitch!
This is not the best picture, but you sure do get a great view of my unshaven legs!

Alpaca/Corriedale Yarn

Yummy handspun yarn. I love my Louet Victoria!

This will soon be a pair of cozy winter pants for Abe. I will knit it up using the Perfection Pants pattern from Wooly Wonder. It is a great pattern for pants where you just plug in your gauge and the babies measurements and then it spits out a pattern to guide you.

Roving and Yarn!

Alpaca/Tussah Silk roving. It has an incredible softness, strength, and weight to it. I am spinning it lace weight and plan to start knitting a Pi shawl very soon.



After I washed the hanks, I hung it to dry in the bathroom. I had a bit too much twist and thought maybe I could hang some ketchup to straighten it out. Then I started worrying that would cause a kink in the bottom of the yarn. After Adam snapped this photo, I took the ketchup back to the pantry.



This is what I finished at the Tuesday Circle at Twisted Warp and Skeins last night. 325 glorious yards all spun on one bobbin!

Wooly Wonder Shorties w/ Cable

WonderShorts
Bartlett's Fisherman Wool knit on #9 needles. 4 stitch basic cable with purl border. Applied I-cord trim.

Super cute :)

Too funny...

I just knit a pair of EZ longies from Knitter's Almanac. I used some pretty green tweedy fine merino.

The funny thing is that they fit my 3 month old & my 2 year old!

Pictures of both soon.


ashley

You know, this blogger picture thing annoys me. Abe is hungry so I can not mess with it any longer. Maybe it shows up okay on your computer, but not on mine! The words just do not line up with the pictures. Well, I hope you can figure out what is what!

New Pics of the little Men .A proper update soon!

Abe and Pops taken just a few minutes ago! Abe is just over three months now.
































and some knitting! I finished this sweater for Abe awhile ago, but have yet to post the specs on it. Just a simple Knitting Pure and Simple sweater.















Taso likes to help Abe learn to roll.






















Abe in hand-knits by Grandma Bonnie.
















Taso being a beach a bum at Lake Huron.
















Abe and Taso snoozing in the backyard.















Hockey Tu-ton on the "toitet"
(Taso likes to call himself Hockey Tu-ton and wear Adam's hockey helmet, for days at a time.)

editing blogs.

you know, i have the hardest time getting the pictures and text where i want them and i am not even trying to do anythine fantastic, just lined up with the text under or above the proper picture!
i have been messing with the previous post for ten minutes + and it still isn't looking right. oh well, at least there are new picture for whoever is looking at this!

outdoor knitting

Taso did this.
















and wouldn't let me take him out.
So I went in and grabbed a blanket for his head
















and this.
















The start of a Punk Knitters soaker out of Manos del Uraguay. It is
now finished and Abe is wearing it all the time. I'll put a picture of that up soon.

PP longies

I posted these longies a bit ago. Had to share Abe the smilin' man. Pretty sure this kid is an old soul. Doing things I haven't seen a one month old do! Returning smiles, sticking his tongue out when you do, and I even had him laughing last night! In this picture he was about a month old, he will be 7 weeks this coming Monday.

booga boys!

more sleepy cuddlies...

meow.

sleepy cuddlies.

soaker sack

Points for using all oddballs on this soaker sack! From top to bottom :

Brown handspun alpaca by Pam
Green Kool-Aid dyed recycled from a thrift store sweater wool.
Red Bartletts wool.
Yellow Bartletts wool.
Red Bartletts wool.
Blue Peace Fleece.
Orange Kool-Aid dyed recycled from a thrift store sweater wool.
Blue Peace Fleece.
My handspun llama.
Food coloring and Kool-Aid dyed recycled from a thrift store sweater wool.
Same orange, same red as above.
Coffee dyed recycled yada yada yada.
Lisa's handspun llama.

Well, it is lovely, but proving to be a bit heavy for the warm weather we are now having!

PP shorties

Abe in his Manos del Uraguay Picky Pants shorties. Not that you can see much of the shorties...

Taso likes his sink.

Here he is hanging out in his new favorite place to sit... the kitchen sink of his play-kitchen.

PROUD!

Hey Lisa! No matter how much nit-picking I give you, I AM PROUD OF YOU! You knit a sweater! :)

just a few cute pics of my boys

abe in BR

abe in his briar rose "sonoma" WW longies. they must have been riding down, i see some hip!

Awww!

I had to run down the road to my dad's real quick. I fed Abe so he would be okay while I was gone and came home to find this!

I love my boys :)