the first "ilse's things" yarn

Re-hanked!!

Now, I must admit, I really, really like it. But that's probably because it's the first-born skein. :)

Hopefully I can make it justice when knit, lol! :P No, but really. I am so curious as to how it will knit. Will it pool? Stripe? I shall learn so much! :)

Not too shabby for the first one?

Hope you like it too!

finished objects and K.S.

i just finished these. i celebrate just that: they're finished - i am terrible at closing circles. but i couldn't not close this one.

i am not so sure the colors are what i had in mind. but hey, Bob Ross might have called them 'happy accidents' -or so i'd like to think, lmao.

in their drying glory

and each on their own

i don't think the recipient reads my blog - but you know what ASSuming does. this is only pertinent in that she hasn't seen them yet as they were only shipped to her today (a week later than expected and even promised, ugh).

they were made with the absolute shock in mind that she'd actually cd her baby, lol. but, much more importantly, with immense gratitude as she has literally [used the correct way, lol!] changed my life. nothing i could ever make or say would justly represent how much she's helped me grow and intrinsically, profoundly and positively affected my children in the process.

so anyway, i pulled out a very nice organic merino jersey i had for special occasions. i don't have much, but i had this which i knew she'd appreciate as she was looking for wool. :) it's soooo soft & nice. it's really not its fault that my dyeing adventures not always result in the actual vision of the beholder, nor that she possesses next to no sewing skills - but damn, she tries! (note to self: why am i speaking of myself in the 3rd person? oh Sybil...)

yeah, i also completely snapped! (oh how dare i continue with the puns...!) the only (to be debated) bad thing is i put the wing ones in the wrong way, so i had to add the 2 needed on the right side. but hey, now they are reversible! :D

the pattern is Chloe Toes Side-Snapping cover found here. Catharine's shop includes diaper and shoe patterns and great how-to info: great lady and great stuff! it's not her pattern that made mine bigger than they should have been - that credit goes *all* to me! :P to add to this, i also combined it with instructions for a wool cover found at the Very Baby Blog. yes, it's like cooking to me. i just *can't* follow it all the way through, lol. except w/ sewing i really ought to. maybe cooking has been more forgiving to me? maybe i'll stay blissfully ignorant on this latter one :)

with much love. THANK YOU, K.S.!!

i.

My first pair of longies!

Weeeeee! They are DONE! Sorry Brandy, I was going for the stripes, but the orange came out waaaayyyy different than the previous so I stuck to green! :P

Soooo, I 'fixed' the gaps from the kitchener part, but hey, I still can't believe I managed to do it! There are still little gaps [barely noticeable] from the short rows. And, I went one more round and didn't notice until I bound off on the cuffs. Oh well! I am sooo happy I actually finished them.



And here is the proud model! Such a sweet guy! He kept trying to show them off and posing. Then, daddy put him in another set of pants and he came to me and asked to wear the knitted ones again.

Man, I never knew how amazing that would feel. Sorry, mom, for all the times I didn't like what you made.

Now, I am off to make a few hats and mittens for X-mas gifts. Well, a couple of those are not for such. One is for a 'welcome' to a different land gift and the other is another type of 'welcome' (to the world). I am excited, but I hope I manage one of them in time, b/c the other one has been there a while now and I'm not done yet. Wow, lots of code, no matter. *I* know what I mean, LMAO!

The pattern was the Aubrey Doodle Pants - I found it great! The wool was Knit Picks Bare, hand-dyed with Kool Aid (orange and lime). Lots of fun!

I can't say enough about that yarn. It is sooooo soft and it's not even Merino and such a nice neutral bone color (that I left some when I dyed it). Max has not complained at all about it being scratchy or anything. And so easy to knit. (Update> the sweet kid asks for them as the 'pants you makes mami. wear zose' -can you hear my heart shattering?!)

Anyway, enough rambling. Just wanted to share I'm glad I'm done! :) Thanks for looking/reading whoever does, lol!

Emma's future hat

Weeeee! My second kool-aid dyeing job! Emma is so excited about this one! She keeps saying "...this one is NOT cousin Sam's hat! She just saw me finish a hat for him, the poor deprived child! :)

So off I go to venture into knitting in the round with circular needles.

Wow, so I'll just go ahead and jump into this blogging thing!