December 2009 Archives

It always becomes a blog dilemma this time of year in what to post since most of my knitting is gift-knitting and seems this little site has made the rounds with the family.

However, I did find this great wrapping paper that I thought I'd share as it's a red knit sweater print. Found it at Target (love that place).



So now you can wrap your hand-knits in knitting paper, haha. Ok I'm easily amused.

A friend was having a Housewarming/Christmas party so I picked up this bottle of wine as part of a gift. The bottle looked a little bare though so I whipped up this cute hat and scarf set for him. :)



A fun quick pattern and great use of leftover yarn. The pattern is Chilled Wine Garb (rav link), also available here. The yarn was leftover Red Heart Ltd. Sport Solid in Cherry Red and Paddy Green. The scarf is just straight stockinette stitch and rolls itself into a nice tube. I simply carried the alternating colors up the side, weaving them to the edge as I went. A clever small pom-pom tutorial using straight needles was given by the pattern designer as well.

And what was the theme of this party? Ugly/Tacky Christmas Sweaters! Haha. Mr. PieKnits and I had fun looking through all the over-decorated sweaters of yore at the thrift stores trying to find the most obnoxious ones. The one I'm sporting he found, it has lots of bells, bows and baubles all over it (and shoulder pads, wow). I kept thinking how much I looked like my grade school teachers! It was quite hilarious though and I plan to re-donate the cloths and consider it part of my Xmas charity.



I also knit the little santa hat although I'm debating what to do with it. I was going to felt it but ran out of time so just wore it as-is and was thinking of just keeping it that way. But now I may rip it and reknit it in a slightly different shape to felt it. Hmmmm...

I have been squeezing in bits of knitting (between the holiday prep, cleaning, super busy at work stuff, etc) but not much to show. We did have a wonderful Thanksgiving however with my parents, grandparents and aunt and cousin coming down to visit.



A few little things I managed to make. The menu design was part of a free T-day stationary download set. I typed up my menu (as my handwriting is wretched), cut and mounted it and put it in a little extra frame I had. It was fun to do and easy to let everyone know what we were having. It also seemed to amuse everyone. :)
Below that, although kinda hard to see, are simple leaf cutouts from felt to serve as trivets. These were cheap, easy, useful and looked really nice- my kind of craft.



My mom and I (and my retro cherry apron I <3) working in the kitchen. Up since 6am, woo!



Mom, me and Grandma + the Turkey! Couldn't have pulled it all off without them- thank you Mom and Grandma!