…a camisole

Well, my friends, we have officially become Floridians!  We made the move earlier this month and are quite settled and happy.  Searching out for the perfect jobs, still, but happy nonetheless. 

On a more knitterly note, I finished a very Florida-worthy project.  A camisole.  The yarn is cotton so it breathes nicely, and hugs the body (suprisingly) flatteringly.  There were many wonderful knitters on ravelry that had already made and modified this pattern, so I had plenty of inspiration!  For awhile I thought this camisole was going to end up ruined and forgotten in the depths of the closet, but after redoing the bodice, oh about 1.5 times, a miracle happened - it fit beautifully!

 

  

  

  

… all I can end this with is, YAY!

…a bonnet

 

Actually, the name of the pattern is the “Amelia Earhart Aviator Cap” from Head Huggers, a group that offers free hat patterns and promotes them for the knitting of caps for chemo patients and such.  The patterns are adorable.

This one in particular was quite fun to knit, and it took me about a day to make.

Look closely at that last picture and you’ll see the hubs… playing Lego Star Wars on XBOX!

The way it just daintily and perfectly covers the ears makes me think of a bonnet.
 

…a DALEK!

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

Anyone? Anyone? The Dalek is a terrifying killing machine, the ever-nemesis of the amazing Dr. Who. T & I recently got turned on to this recreation of the British sci-fi hit, and I, personally, fell in love with David Tennant.

For my father-in-law’s birthday, we found this amazing Dalek crochet pattern, off of Ravelry of course! I am not too well versed in the art of crochet but I loved the pattern so much that I did a little bit of fudging to figure it out. Makes you want to surrender the Earth over to this alien species, does it not?

…her first fairisle

 

Or something to that extent.  The actual name of the pattern is the Caitlin Pullover, by Pam Allen.  I saw that it was a fairly simple pattern for those new to fairisle, and I guess technically it isn’t even fairisle.  Sounded like the sweater for me.  Thanks to my new obsession, RAVELRY, I saw the other sweaters of this pattern that had been made by other knitters, and was encouraged to try this in the round.  You’d think that having a background in fashion design, as well as having been a sewing teacher, that I would have some sort of skill at sewing up at the end of a knit pattern, but heavens no!  I sew seams unevenly and far too tightly!  So, having realized this, my new goal is to knit in the round as much as possible - it made this sweater much easier. 

Now it turned out rather cute, and the fit of the body is perfect, but the neckline needs to be redone.  It hits a little to high up on the front neckline in my opinion, forcing me to constantly pull it down, which is annoying and will strecth out the body.  Not sure yet how to approach the neckline shaping, but I’ll figure that out later.

…baby booties!

No, they are not for me or any little one of mine.  My friend Justine from work just recently had a baby shower for her daughter number 2, Mia, expected on or around April 6.  We have quite the baby pool going for her at work, and I’ve got my fingers crossed that she’ll deliver on March 30.  Anyway, I wanted to make something special for baby Mia, and this Saartje’s Booties pattern proves far too precious and simple.

And to make it even more ridiculously cute, I labelled the gift bag by glueing a decorative “m” for Mia in pink yarn, and Teo had the brilliant idea for using excess yarn scraps in lieu of the usual confetti or tissue paper to stuff the gift bag.