She Can Tackle Anything up to Twice her Size...

I knew that daylight savings time was going to mess with me somehow, and I was right to assume that it would include the baby. We forgot to change the clocks back last night, so when I heard her cooing away and saw a six at the head of all of those numbers on my bedside clock I thought awesome, lets get up. But the DVR is smarter than the rest of us and when I saw a five, I knew I had a long day ahead of me. After about 45 mins, even little A was like, what the heck, why am I up? and asked to go back to bed. Who can blame her. So it's just me and the coffee and the blog.



For someone who swore up and down that she wasn't going to make anything for Christmas this year, I've been diligently working on a number of things that I intend to give away as presents. Go figure. I probably shouldn't post them, but I'm nearly certain that the intended recipients never read my blog. Anyhow, I Cricut-ed a memory game here for a little person which would've taken an afternoon if I had a full one to myself but took nearly three weeks instead. Ah well.



I also tried my hand at making some marble magnet thingies. This is the tutorial I used. You can't see it very well in this photo, kinda blurry, but I used all kitchen themed pictures. Some food, some appliances. Very cute. Important lesson learned; do not handle until the glue is totally dry. I have dried glue finger prints all over the front of these, which is very unattractive. I'm hoping a little Windex might clean things up. Anyhow, these with a little decorative tin box are a super cute gift.



I finished a cabled ear flap hat for another little person, plus my Yarn Harlot Pretty Thing cowl. I'm very yeeha about the cabled hat and meh about the cowl. I think meh because this really does need to be knit in a lighter colour to show off the lace. Nothing wrong with the pattern, just that I don't feel mine has any pizazz. Now there is a word I need to put into more frequent rotation. Pizazz. Pizazz.



I started and finished a We Call Them Pirates hat for a person in my life who enjoys skull wear (knit with Patons Kroy in a striped and a solid). No FO photo of the hat as of yet, probably will only post that to Ravelry. One thing became clear to me while I was knitting this. I really really like doing colour work. When there's only two colours involved. I don't think intarsia is for me, but I'm all over fair isle.



And saving the best for last, for those of you not on Facebook where she is plastered absolutely everywhere, my amazing little crustacean, little A the lobster. I had her costume made back in September, then had a mild panic attack this week when I couldn't remember where I had put it. I had patterns kicking around for a hoodie and a hat, which I made out of red fleece and used another book about baby costumes for the claws and the tail. All the add-ons, like the antennae, eyes, tail, claws are all hand sewn so that they can come off very easily and she'll still have a nice cozy hoodie and a hat. The rest of outfit was just one piece red jammies. Why? Cuz she's my lobster :) (yes, that is a Friends reference). I had hoped to make the rounds with her to all my knitty friends houses, but we hit two (one knitty and one non-knitty friend) and she was very much over the whole experience, probably because it was dinner time, followed closely by bedtime. Still pretty good for a seven month old I think. She also got to wear the costume to our weekly story time hour on Friday, which really was a hoot. Being in a room full of little people in costumes is my idea of a good way to spend an hour.

Anyhoo, I think I might take advantage of all this quiet to catch a quick nap myself. I need a little more time to come to terms with the fact that it's November already. Until later...

Found Objects...

Tis the season for skulls. I've been stealth knitting, furiously, which makes for poor blog fodder when you can't reveal what you've been working on. I did take time out to crank these off the needles though, and as they are timely and appropriate, so they are posted. Plus, I've been going through a phase at the moment where I feel utterly boring and blaseh, so I just don't feel as though I have anything to talk about. Bleh.
Booties: Patons Kroy in black and white, Zoe Mellor's Star Booties pattern from 50 Baby Booties to Knit with my own skull chart.



I think this whole nesting phenomena might be rearing it's head in my direction, or at the very least, giving me a sideways glance. I've had the urge to organize and clean, which, while not totally out of character, has spurred me into quicker action than usual. I can usually convince the instinct to take a backseat while knitting takes shotgun. And also, I've been baking. Which I've always enjoyed, but it just seems to me as though there is an urgent need for baked goods to be in the house...at all times. We devoured the chocolate chip cookies in record time (yes we, not just me) and, well, the house has just felt empty ever since.

Anyhow, my point. I was tidying up the craft room, finally saying goodbye to things I just no longer desire to have in my space and in going through my 'tester tote' (a bin full of stuff that I've just tried out or swatched etc.) I found this skully dog sweater. As this clearly will not fit Hank, nor any other dog in my immediate family, I've got the perfect person/dog combo in mind and I hope she gets a huge kick out of it. Not sure why the teeth are so long though.



I also found this in the bin, a knitted bib I made over two years ago. It was intended for our neice, but when I was finished with the knitting of it, I thought it was rather ugly. Not sure why. I mean, it's still not terribly attractive to my eye, but then again it is from a time before I realized I was purling incorrectly. So all the stitches are twisted. But whatever. So I grabbed a crochet hook and some white Bernat cottontots (which is what it was knit out of originally), did a simple crochet edging and ta da, insta-bib. Gotta love that. The colour doesn't really show up on the photo, but it's a pretty purple. I'm calling it burple.

And that's pretty much all I can talk about at present. I've been doing a little sewing for myself too, so I'll post about that later. For now, stay in doors for heavens sake...it's miserable out there. And have a Happy Halloween.

Halloween Craptacular...

That pretty much says everything I need to say.

I donated the remainder of the cello baggies I had made up to the local RCMP detachment, where I'm sure it will keep Liverpool's finest in poor nutrition for some time to come.

Next year, I am going all out. No holds barred. Kids will be hard pressed to ignore this place 364 days from now, I swear.

Remeber to place your vote in my sidebar for the puppy names. There is a dead heat going at the moment between Hank, Saxon and Johnny Utah. A little prize(s) for name suggesstions in the comments (most up to date post would be preferred from now until the end of Nov for name suggesstions). Something yarny I'm sure. And I promise it won't be craptacular.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go lay down as I battled with a bout of insomnia last night and I'd like to put this whole Halloween debacle behind me.

Until later...