Craft Chaos!

So as the end of SP11 approaches things are getting a little backed up around here. I had the genius idea of sewing a few things for my secret pal. The problem is I have not sewn a thing in almost 2 years! So I've cut some things out and they and the sewing machine sit on my kitchen table.



And this box is filled with stuff for her



And I figured well I should make myself a few things too so this fabric is from my stash. I used to work in a fabric store early in my knitting career. This is destined to be a box knitting bag AND a drawstring tote.



I have also rediscovered the Public Library's website and went a little crazy requesting knitting books from other libraries. I was in the library the other day and while browsing I came across a display of knitting books with the title "Get your knit on!" This display mysteriously arrived after I requested 4 million knitting books. lol!
I've also recently fallen in love with audio books and the public library is the only place I can afford to get them! But they are nice enough to transfer over whatever I want. I dare you to want a book on CD that our library does not have.



And including my 2 current knitting projects here is the whole picture.



I hope I can post very very soon that this mess has been sewn up and put away!

Super Moms - A Sunday Rant

Well it's a little late but here is my Sunday rant. Who are these people who are what I would call super moms? How do they do it. A day would be I baked a cake, sewed a quilt, knit up a sweater, baked some bread, breastfed a newborn, recorded a podcast, took pictures of my cat and am participating in the blog every day in November thing, and took care of 15 kids who I also home school. WTF!
I can hardly keep the laundry washed and the floors clean! I have to sneak in knitting when my kids aren't looking! My lord just breaking up the fights and trying to block out the random screams of "Expeliamous!" and "Avracadavra!" and "AAAAaaaaaaaaaAAAA!!!!!!" are killing me! Not to mention super gluing a stupid broken harry potter wand 40 times a day! Can you tell that the big monster is in love with harry potter?
If anyone can tell me a book or a video that will turn me into one of these supermoms without the use of certain illegal substances please let me know. What am I doing that sucks up my day?
And that is my Sunday rant

Sockwars - Target Three Eliminated

For your blogging pleasure I didn't totally lose my mind and remembered to take pictures of my third pair of Scar Socks. And dun dun da duh! the first full frontals of my monsters! Don't expect a lot of these they usually don't stand still long enough to get a non blurry picture of them and as you can see the little monster was freaking out a bit but I couldn't leave him out.

These lovely socks were handed over by Fit to Knit!!! who got them from Elaine Sue and one sock was half done I finished the rest of that one and the other in just 2 days! My lord my children are sick of mac and cheese! But hey I put broccoli in it! And they like it! And it was organic and whole wheat! I'm sure they'll be begging for mac and cheese again soon they are children after all. But I digress. The socks were made for Ritabelle. I'm sorry I just don't know if these ladies have blogs... Darn! So here we go with the best part the pictures!
Big monster likes the sock. Hope Ritabelle doesn't mind that I put my foot in her sock. ;) Believe me they were clean. I was wearing some warm woolly socks all day because it was cold.

And little monster is not so sure...


And here you can see where I took over the knitting of the sock. The bottom three floated "scars" are done by the previous knitter and the rest all the way to the top are mine. I do the scar a little different than the pattern called for because I thought it looked a little neater. The pattern says to pick up the floated stitch and knit it together with the other stitch but I just put the floated stitch behind the stitch to be knitted by putting the needle under the float and then knitting the stitch and pulling the new stitch through the float and the knitted stitch. I this makes no sense perhaps I can take pictures when I make a new pair.

My free flickr account is full and I've tried to buy a pro account about a million times but it keeps freaking out on me and so for the time being my flickr account will have no new pictures... Dang it!Enjoy!

Sunday Rant - Button Junkies

Button junkies, now I'm not talking about the buttons on your clothes or those people who collect those types of buttons. Check ebay if you don't believe me! I'm also not talking about those supper cool buttons we all pinned to our denim jackets, denim purses, vests, and hats back in the 80's and for some of us in the 90's too.... hey! don't judge me! I am here today to talk about website / blog buttons. Everywhere you go is a here take this button steal this button plug me on your blog button! Now if you look on my blog I believe you will see a couple so I'm not totally condemning the whole idea. However I have visited blogs that have so many buttons that the page keeps going for miles after the last blog post has been read! I mean come on!
Now out of fairness I may be more likely to click on a colorful button rather than a non colorful one but really pages like that are messy. One reason I will not use yahoo and msn as search pages is because they are what I like to call "cluster fucks." There is so much going on I don't know what I'm looking at. I get all nervous and sweaty just like when I go into my 4 year old's room after he's been playing in there for 5 minutes and has torn everything up. Or when I walk upstairs and see the pile of laundry after I've been on a knitting marathon. The ADD part of me doesn't know how to handle such messes. I have to have someone show me where to start. Well unless some bloggers and web designers out there want to come over and hold my hand through their page I'll just have to avoid those messes for now. In my opinion buttons are acceptable in a limited amount. And buttons must be in equal proportion to each other. If you don't know how to size a button well then Google it all you have to do is use good old easy to use paint that everyone has.

Well there you have it my Sunday Rant.

Baby Brooke's Kimono

My husband's cousin had a little baby girl named Brooke and well I haven't been knitting much more than scarves and hats for long. So this was my second chance to make something for a baby. I right away started on the little one piece baby kimono from Mason Dixon knitting. Very easy and nice pattern. The result was this adorable kimono style sweater.



However sewing on the ribbon was a fear I had to overcome! I have sewn many things, I have knit many things but I have never mixed the two. I folded over the ends of the ribbon and hand sewed them so they wouldn't fray with washing. Not more than 3 days after I finished I find out there is this stuff called fray stop! Whaaa!!!! No way! Argh... so I ran out and bought some to have on hand for any future fraying type items.
I made the sweater with lion brand cotton ease. A little splity to knit with but washes and drys beautifully soft and stretchy. I'm pleased with the result and I hope it fits because man I waited a long time to sew on that ribbon!.
Here is a pic of the whole shabang!
As you can see the flower power wash cloth and caterpillar were all made for her as well and if you've been reading or just looking through the archives you'll know how long ago those were finished! lol