penelope

love her!
this piggy was so fast to make! i think next time i’ll maybe make her arms and legs a little wider at the base.

garden snail!

oh boy!  i got a new pattern from hansigurumi... a garden snail!  this time i have had much more success than the octopus!  i'm already in love with him, just from looking at the shell.  i am amazed at what i can do with knitting.  i can't believe hansi can write these amazing patterns so well!!!!!  she's the coolest!

the first picture is the underside of the shell before i grafted it together and stuffed it.  i also used the recommended pipe cleaner to help with the curl.

 

Double Brimmed Reversible Hat

oh boy, i have written another pattern!  it's my new double brimmed reversible hat.  LOVE it!  and it's made with alpaca-my favorite 'cause it's 60 times warmer than wool!

check it out in my patterns section.

have fun!

a knitter in peru

i was recently thinking about my trip to peru and how, i think out of all of the places that i've been, peru was my favorite. now i wish that i had been a knitter when i went 'cause i would have brought back bags and bags of alpaca wool! i think alpaca is my new favorite fiber. i mean, you can't go wrong with something that's 60x warmer than sheep's wool!!!!

here are 2 videos that my mom shot of me during llama photo shoots. also are the images that came from the shoots.

  

 

my wonderful husband

i think he thinks my knitting is a little more snugly than my photography!

uzumaki maki maki's muffler

as i mentioned in the single cable scarf post, i was working on a scarf and cap sleeve shrug for my friend toshi-dj rio-and her new husband mitsuru. here is her blog translated into english. the translation is a little silly, but you can see where she wrote a little story about getting the package with her gifts. because if the silly translation, i am not going to call the scarf the "uzumaki maki maki's muffler"

you can see the scarf in the single cable scarf post and here are a couple pictures of the shrug. (i know, i look totally ridiculous in the shrug, but toshi will look hot!)

  

new pattern!

i have put the itty bitty bunny blanket buddy pattern in my pattern section. it's a heavily modified version of lion brand's blanket buddy pattern.

enjoy!

bunnies, bunnies everywhere!!!

here's are pictures of the finished bunnies for the nest

bunnies

this is beulah, toby's new blanket buddy. i love making these guys! i'm working on 4 more little bunnies for the nest in kauai. fun!

holiday slowdown

so, after filling the blanket buddy order and a beehive hat order... (see picts below) and now that the holidays are over, i'm finally able to get back to finishing my wedding present for my dear friend in japan, now that the wedding gift year mark has come and passed. (oops!) although, i'm almost done and it's faster than her request for advil and oreos-neither of which they have in japan-that took me almost 4 years to remember. (oops again! i really need reminding. it's lame, i know)

anyhoo, i made the scarf from the november 27th post for her hubby and she's getting a fake fur cap-sleeved shrug. i'll post pictures when they're done!

craftacular

hmm... maybe i am just too old for whatever was going on at that "craft fair" but it was really more like craptacular. there was only one ceramics maker. there were only a couple random knitters/crocheters with about 5 hats. only 2 people with handspun yarn and i don't think that they were the actual spinners 'cause the yarn looked exactly the same at both tables. mostly it was all printed tshirts and jewelry-neither of which i really wear. oh yah... and no photographers in sight! maybe i'm crazy, but i think that a craft fair in the suburbs would have been much more crafty!

i think i'm also disappointed 'cause i dragged my wonderful husband there thinking he would find some fun art or toys, but there really wasn't much of that either. there was one girl that made owls and whales out of felted sweaters. LOVED them! and she made these other little things out of felt, all with their own cute little story... like zee handsome devil.

check her out on etsy

indiepublic

i've been trying to advertise and promote my knitting and photography a little more. so, i made a page on indiepublic.com yesterday. i can never figure out if these places are good for getting my work out there to people other than artists.... people looking for art and not just making art. although, it's very nice to be around (in a cyber sort of way)

i've also been learning how to integrate flash pages into html sites-here and on indiepublic. now, i just need to crack open that flash book!


i nice woman in kauaii ordered 3 of my blanket buddis and one big one. i love the big ones, but i'm not happy with the yarn that i'm using for the little ones. i think i'm going to have to make the other 2 little bunnies with different yarn.

the picture above is a picture of the finished big bunny.

etsy

hey! did i mention that i have a fun shop on etsy? libby's etsy shop check it out, if not for my art and knitting, for all of the other great stuff on there... ALL handmade!

single cable scarf

i am almost finished with this totally fun scarf. it's just stockinette stitch with 2 purls around a single cable. i have LOVED making it! the colors are really fun and earthy. it's for my friend toshi's new hubby-her present soon to come.

p.s. note my fun new bobbin! (it's a bread bag closure)

another attempt

ok, i'm having another go at blogging... this time it'll be more about knitting than photography.
here is my new favorite toy-the jellyfish.  i used berroco's alpaca yarn... fancy, i know!  but it didn't really take too much and it's also what i had available at the time.  the two needle felted hedgehogs don't really know what to think of their fancy new neighbor.
the pattern is by hansi at etsy http://hansigurumi.etsy.com 
i also just finished her octopus, too.  i totally flailed with some of the short rows around his neck, but luckily it's dark yarn and i could fill in the holes when i was sewing his mantle to his legs.  i don't really know what i did wrong-i think i just lost count a couple times.  i'm gonna make another soon and we'll see.