posted by Lisa on April 29th, 2008
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. [...]
posted by Lisa on April 25th, 2008
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″ [...]
posted by Lisa on April 15th, 2008
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 [...]
posted by Lisa on April 15th, 2008
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)
posted by Lisa on April 15th, 2008
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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posted by Lisa on April 10th, 2008
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 [...]
posted by Lisa on April 3rd, 2008
Pattern: Saartjes bootees
Yarn: Araucania Nature Wool
Needles: US 6 DPNs
Mods: knit in the round using mods from Hello Yarn
posted by Lisa on April 2nd, 2008
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 [...]
posted by Lisa on April 1st, 2008
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.