Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted for Eye Candy Friday so I decided to make it a good one.
This is an old church reflected off of a new office building in downtown Dallas this February. I love how the reflection of the church is distorted but you can still see some of the design elements.
Have a happy Friday!
Categories: Eye Candy Friday
This baby bootie is so freakin’ cute I can hardly stand it, despite the weird instructions to knit it flat and seam it up the middle of the sole. Bootie #2 will be knit in the round, partially to get rid of that annoying seam and partly as some knitterly dementia prevention. If all goes well, I can rip out Bootie #1 and re-do it in the round to match. When a knit is this small, it’s not too painful to unravel it…even for a slow knitter like me!
Categories: Baby Knitting
If you are allowed to buy yarn in your Knit from Your Stash 2007 rules, you might want to do so at 11AM EDT tomorrow. Sunshine Yarns is making a bunch of her hand-dyed yarn available for sale at her Etsy shop and promises Harry Potter-inspired colorways. You may have seen these great Gryffindor socks around blogland. (Think Mr. Hipp will get the hint?)
Categories: Knitting
From Wendee on the “Babies Babies Everywhere” post:
I hear that we are having one of the biggest baby booms since, well, the baby boom.
That certainly seems to be the case for people around me. I know five expectant mothers right now, one with twins! Look at what arrived in yesterday’s mail…
It’s time to start another baby knit! Now, if I were a savvy knitter, I would start on each baby knit when I learn of each pregnancy rather than when I learn of each baby shower. That would be quite smart and organized of me. That would also make Mr. Hipp cry out, “Who are you and what have you done with my wife!?!” Savvy, smart, and organized aren’t words that are often applied to me…at least not the knitter in me. (I try to bring a bit of savvy, smarts, and organization to at least my work life…I think that about exhausts my supplies, though!)
So in an effort to be a bit more on the ball, I have started this baby knit ASAP. Always the rebel, I cast on for a non-beaded, non-fair isle, version of Debbie Bliss’ Beaded Fair Isle Shoes.
These are coming along swimmingly so far. They are knit more or less flat and have a seam along the bottom of the sole and up the back of the heel; it seems odd to have this sort of construction when it could just be made in the round. Good thing babies aged 3-6 months don’t do much walking or else that seam would get really uncomfortable really fast.
Categories: Baby Knitting
The baby bonnet from my last post arrived in South Carolina yesterday, just in time for the baby shower today. I sent it off on Wednesday via Priority Mail with fingers crossed for a Saturday arrival (and toes crossed for arrival before the 2:00 PM start time for the shower!) and it gets there a whole day early. Gotta love the US Postal Service.
With this baby gift off my list, I was able to devote a bit of time to the Sunrise Circle Jacket. I am on Row 73 of the left sleeve/front.
Only four more rows before the turning row for the hem. Woot woot! But man oh man, those loooooong purl rows are about killing me. I timed myself this morning: eight minutes to do the 137 purl stitches of Row 72. Yeesh, slower than molasses.
Categories: Sunrise Circle Jacket
