I came across this little finished object when cleaning my craft room the other day. I can’t believe I hadn’t listed this adorable zippy pouch on etsy. It’s there now.
It’s made out of several of my favorite fabrics … gray polka dots, some echino, habitat and some of what’s left of my mendocino from blocks I made back in 2010.
I finally got around to replacing the mittens I knit in 2007 and had sadly lost [ in 2009 ]. These aren’t as fancy, but they’re a fast knit and are really warm. Let’s just say they get the job done. I want to make another pair of the Corazon mittens sometime, but haven’t really had that much time to devote to knitting. And I really wanted a pair while it was still cold. Those mitts took me several weeks to finish.
These mittens are made from the leftover yarn I had from Steph’s leg warmers and a bit of scrap yarn. I used the Nordic Mittens pattern from Ravelry. These took about 3 hours total to knit. I also modified the pattern to fit my tiny hands by reducing to 27 stitches cast on instead of 33.
I recently became obsessed with knitting leg warmers. It started with knitting a pair for Stephanie for Christmas, and then I kept making more.
I used this pattern for Electra Leg Warmers that I found on Ravelry. I cast on 40 stitches for myself and Steph, and if I were to make them again, I might even go 36-38. I have small ankles.
These are great stash-busters — they take about 2/3 a skein of worsted weight yarn (and could take less depending on how tall you want to make them). You could easily modify them to add stripes of color if you truly want to stash bust. They knit up in about an hour a piece.
I don’t have a picture of hers, but here are 2 pairs that I knit for myself …
[ in grey ]
[ and blue ]
A while back I mentioned that I won a giveaway from Kukoshop in Japan.
I got this awesome package in the mail before the new year. So many cool things inside!
Everything was in this adorable plastic bag with some interesting English translation from Japanese.
I was excited to receive this “Cotton Time” magazine, with tons of projects and templates for projects, but alas, it’s ALL in Japanese.
Adorable notecard set that I’ll put to good use.
Stickers from the 100 yen store
A cute illustrated postcard
Travel kleenexes — ohirune time is “nap time” in Japanese apparently. There was a picture of a cat sleeping on the top pack of kleenexes. I just thought the word “ohirune” was cute.
Washi tape, with what looks to be a toilet on it
a button with a weird-looking dude on it
grape gum or candy — I am afraid to try this. Grape flavor makes me gag.
And the most exciting part? 8 fat quarters of Japanese fabric.
Thanks so much, Karen!
It’s been pretty cold the last few days. I didn’t have any coverage for my ears and I’ve been rocking the old lady shawl [ ie. I took an adorable cowl and figure-eighted it so it acted like a hood too ].
I decided to whip up this bad boy. It’s pretty warm. Not to mention cute. And it only took 20 minutes.
I might actually write up a pattern for this and put it on Ravelry. Stay tuned!
Guys … guess what? My stuff is in the ArtVend machine at Wheatsfield.
See that? Super cool! 40% of the proceeds go to support local art.
[ you should go buy one of my zippy bags ]
[ here are some of my other zippy bags that aren't in the vending machine ... in case you're curious ... they are on my etsy shop ]
Mark’s brother-in-law likes MJ probably as much if not more … okay … who am I kidding? Nobody could like MJ more than me.
Anyway, I had a threadless shirt lying around and I decided to make him a pillow out of it. I like how it turned out. I think I like it better than if the shirt would have fit the pillow because I added some contrasting patchwork on the side.
[and it's envelope-back, so if it's too cheesy for him, he can easily change it out]
You may remember this quilt top from 2009 when I originally had it slated to become a finished quilt for my niece’s first birthday.
Well, as you may know I’m really bad about finishing quilts. Mostly because it isn’t cheap to get them quilted professionally and up until I got my new sewing machine recently it was a huge pain to quilt them myself.
So what I’m saying is that my niece didn’t get this for her birthday in 2009.
It ended up being a lovely baby shower gift for my friend Adria who is due in February. Adria made me a quilt a LONG time ago and is responsible for my slightly expensive fabric hoarding obsession.
Also, I posted the photos on my flickr last week and cutable.com picked one of my images and featured this quilt on their flickr Friday on December 1. I couldn’t share until after her baby shower for obvious reasons.
Last week I posted about the apron I made Emee for Christmas.
Here is the apron in action. Mom and Em were making French toast and Emee asked to wear her new apron.
So cute! I’m glad she liked it. She was so blinded by Legos (which, for the record, weren’t blind after she was done with them — click the link and you’ll understand) and all the other cool stuff she got that she barely noticed the apron that she had wanted. Looks like she’s got a year or more left to wear it since I made it intentionally a bit big.
I bet that was some good french toast!
I love giveways, especially ones that involve fabulous fabric.
Quokka Quilts is hosting a blogger’s choice giveaway for 12 print fat quarters and 3 solids (holy cow!) of your choice from Fat Quarter Shop.
Since I mostly make bags, I picked a bunch of patterns conducive to bag-making. I also mocked up a couple of bag patterns.
First, these are the fabrics I chose. I went through and picked my favorite fabrics without thinking about putting them together. I didn’t read the rules all the way through … they are PICKING the best ones. I doubt I will get picked, but putting random fabric patterns together and making them look pretty is kind of what I do, so …
And now? How about a couple of ideas for what I might do with them. Stack them (wonkily and not straight of course):
Wow that’s a lot of fabrics. Okay, now for the bags I could create using a bit of ALL of these fabrics.
Probably with an orange zipper on that one.
And a turquoise zipper on this one. Obviously the patterns would translate into bigger than what they’re shown here, but you get the picture.
Anyway, here is the part where I say … pick me! Please. 
