365.67: down thereI have 2 boys
& no pets.
I love wool
& cupcakes.
I like to make things.
e:lisa@goodknits.com

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New knitting; girly cards

I started a new knitting project–for myself! I received an early Mother’s Day gift in the form of a HiyaHIya 9″ circular. I decided to finally wind up the orange sock yarn seen in my header and start knitting some socks. They’ll be a mother’s day gift to myself.

I wanted a simple, yet interesting pattern. [...]

it’s been a while

Forgive me for my absence! I had a lot going on. I made 27–27!!– little rice packs as thank yous for the attendees of my baby shower. no, there were not 27 people there, but I made extras, just in case. Those took about 3 separate evenings to make. they were little 3″ x 6″ [...]

the blue set

shorts–
Pattern: basic shorties with a roll-down waist in 1×1 rib
Yarn: Paton’s Classic Wool Merino in “denim marl”
Needles: US 6

booties–
Pattern: Saarjte’s booties in the round
Yarn: Paton’s Classic Wool Merino in “worn denim”
Needles: US 4

Hat–
Pattern: spiral striped hat (no pattern. just cast-on half in blue, half in gray and [...]

yellow & purple girly set

Bonnet–
Pattern: Feather & Fan baby bonnet
Yarn: leftover Araucania Nature Wool
Needles: US 6

Slippers–
Pattern: improvised crocheted baby slipper with criss-cross straps
Yarn: leftover Araucania Nature Wool
Hook: H/8 (5.00mm)

updated list

here’s my updated list of to-do’s before Andrew gets here:

finish his blanket (90% done–see sidebar!)
make some rice or flax packs for labor (I’ve sewn a few circular ones and even the long skinny one I mentioned in a previous post)
finish the next pair of knit shorties (80-90% done–just need one more leg!)
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Making progress

I’ve made some pretty good progress on my projects the past couple of days. See, we’re in the process of buying a house. We found one we love, but there has been set back after set back and that produced a ton of anxiety and general “OMG WHAT TO DO” in my head. to keep [...]

Saarjte’s bootees

Pattern: Saartjes bootees
Yarn: Araucania Nature Wool
Needles: US 6 DPNs
Mods: knit in the round using mods from Hello Yarn

more tiny knits

I didn’t know how to knit or crochet when I was pregnant with my first son, Nathan. I first learned how to crochet when he was around 7-8 months old. I started with a simple granny square blanket that turned into something awful and then I progressively realized there were tons of patterns [...]

Hello world!

I got tired of joomla, so welcome to my new wordpress blog! you can still access all of my old entries by going to http://www.goodknits.com/joomla

I’ll be adding some entries later that are backdated (for example, the pattern for crocheted mary janes), so that the info is still easily available.