SomerKnits

 I spent my morning baking pretty things to take to the girly afternoon.  Yummy cherry chip cakelets with cherry icing.  Although they weren't as perfect as I wanted them to be, they were delicious.  And they were made with applesauce and egg beaters, so they weren't too terribly bad for you.  :-)  Perfect for a girly afternoon, right? We all had out make-up done (it was a lovely Mary Kay party) so the girls agree to model for me.  Yay!!!  So below are a ton of pictures of my awesome friends sporting my knitwear!  (and even one of me).  I have now updated all the etsy listings to include modeled photos, which should make it much easier for people to figure out what things will look like on.  And it felt so good to have all of my stuff oohed and ahhed over.  Thanks, girls!!  Enjoy the pics!

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This is the most cooperative my hair has ever been:  I think it is mostly because Raven is a genius and partly because it was up and shellacked to my head.  See how it stays?  good hair! But almost every morning I fight with it.  You'd think I would maybe start listening to those people who say I should just cut it off because fine hair will always be impossible, but the thought of cutting it off just makes me sad.    I am obsessed with hair dooeys.  Like this headband from Gleeful Peacock .  I try and use hair dooeys to make my hair more cooperative.  Some days it works and some days my hair just slides right out of everything.  My hair is generally most cooperative when it is up, so I tell myself every morning before I go get dress that I will just put it up and not mess with its uncooperative fineness.  A teeny weenie bun is the one thing my hair does well.  Ponytails always get a bit stringy, maybe I'll learn to pay attent...

Please forgive all the phone pics coming up in this post.   Ok, so there are these cute kids I know and last year I made them hats for their birthdays.    See the cuteness in the hats?  They loved them.  (seriously)  But as kids are want to do, they grew.  So now I have made a deal with them (and their parents) to accommodate all that growing and still let them be the coolest kids at school with their awesome hats.  That hat swap I mentioned a little while back?  Yep, these hats inspired it.  So the hat above  Was swapped for this new hat.  Which I am told she loves!!  :-)  Yay!  And this little guy  Got swapped for this one.  Wait, that isn't the kid, thats his dad.  Yup, the dad stole the hat.  How rude.  But I guess its a compliment to me that he wanted his own. So here is the dad's new hat that I made Ben model for a quick pic.  He loved it so much that as soon as I texted the p...

I'm so excited, I got two new knitting books in that mail yesterday!!  The first one is Sock Yarn One-Skein Wonders .  Its 101 patterns to make with sock yarn, which is awesome because I often fall deeply in love with sock yarns, but I don't always have enough follow through to knit socks.  Sure, the book actually has sock yarn patterns in it, but it also has hats, gloves, scarves, children's accessories, shawls, etc.  There are even some fantastic purses, all made of sock yarn. The second book I got in the mail yesterday is Modern Top-Down Knitting .  I am in LOVE.  I know from poking around on Ravelry that I would love this book, but I REALLY LOVE THIS BOOK.  I want to make everything in it.  I even mentally went through my stash figuring out what I have that I could start with.  I actually have the recommended yarn for one of the hats in there, so I think I might start there.  The skirts and dresses are my real love though.  At...

Here is a peek at the hooded scarf I have been working on.  Its toddler size and I think its pretty cute.  I haven't gotten the mittens done yet.  One is mostly done, I stalled for a bit in deciding exactly how much "room to grow" I wanted to leave in them.    I finally decided on putting buttons on the ends of the scarf and attaching the mittens to i-cords that would attach to the buttons.  This will allow the mittens to be swapped out for bigger ones as he grows, since I assume the hooded scarf will fit longer than the mittens will, or for the mittens to just be removed entirely if they are becoming a nuisance.   I took copious notes as I was knitting this hooded scarf and plan to put the full pattern out eventually, but you will have to be patient.  I will link the mitten pattern I am using, but I am not going to reinvent the wheel just to put a mitten pattern with this scarf pattern.   So that's all I have for now, really.  I do hav...

Using a random number generator, the winner is comment number 10!!   Julia  said... Do I really have to choose? I love the regular guy hat for its many changing shades depending on the background. If I have to choose. Your awesome Farm Girl Fiber sock yarn will be on it's way to your shortly!  Please let us all know what you end up making with it.  :-) Congratulations Julia!

Totally not knitting related, but take a moment to go here and vote for Jamie for the next big style blogger.  She's a petite little thing from Tulsa, so definitely show your support if you are local.  Jamie's blog is The Fancy Teacup and she always has great outfit posts and its fun to see the great pictures she gets around Tulsa and when she is traveling. Just as an aside, Jamie won the gift basket that Farm Girl Fiber and SomerKnits gave away at Indie Emporium.  :-)

I tend to be pretty lazy on Saturday unless someone plans something for me.  I mean, typically I get up and check to see if there is anything interesting out there in internet world while the dogs eat and then fight over lap space.  Once I have finished scouring internet land for interesting tidbits I usually pick up whatever knitting project I left laying on the coffee table Friday night.  (yep, cause that is how exciting I am on Friday night)  See, without being prodded, we're homebodies.  I like relaxing at home.  We have two sweet and snuggley dogs and I have a giant yarn stash.  What more could you ask for?  Anyhow, back to Saturdays.  Eventually I eat some breakfast and I knit some more and sometimes I manage to tear myself away from the knitting long enough to clean something or cook something.  Its hard though.   Sometimes I do wish I got out more on the weekends.  Not all the time, mind you, but I would really like to...

Day dreaming about all the things I want to do this weekend.  I'll let you know if I manage to get them all done. 1. Finish or make really good progress on Rhys's hooded scarf. 2. Pick a pattern and start fingerless gloves for myself with yellow, gold & brown FGF yarn.  My hands get so cold at work! 3. Make some shrinky-dink buttons.  Yep, I bought some srinky paper and I want to break out the colored pencils and make some buttons!  I have some cute ideas, I think.  Especially for little kid stuff.  I hope they come out the way I picture them in my head. 4. Clean more in my craft room.  It's such a mess.  During the week this week I worked on unburying the craft table at the end of the room, now I would like to work on unburying my desk.  It's a big job. 5. Watch Toy Story 3.  I got it in the mail like 2 weeks ago, but things have been nuts and we haven't watched it yet. 6. Put away the laundry.  Not glamorous, but its go...

For most people, except me, yesterday was a snow day.    Brrrrr.  Yeah, I know it was pretty and all, but also soooo cold.    I did use my time waiting on a ride wisely.  (I know I am a wuss, but I'm still not going to drive in it)  I tucked in all the ends on Emerson's Ice Cream Hat.  This is one of a pair of hats I was asked to make to replace the ones that I gave these kids last year that they have already out grown!  Geez, kids.  These next two may be a tiny bit big, but they should last them a little while.  Emerson's Ice Cream Hat is a basic roll brim hat.  Hopefully it is long enough to cover her ears. In the car I worked on this:  I finished the Devin hat in the evening, correctly sized this time.  I went a little farther with the grey in the top section this time, can't decide which way I like it better.  Anyhow, I think they both look good and I hope the kids like them.  It's so awesome when kids ...