By Lisa Gutierrez on 09/25/2010 
I think that’s what I’m going to aim to be, this year.
This is wreath numero dos and we’re not even through the first week of fall. I used the tutorial found here. I used her tips and the circles were way quick to cut. They were 3-3.5″ in diameter and my wreath form is 10″, so I used about a hundred. I KNOW it sounds like a pain, but I think I spent an hour, hour and a half TOPS on the entire thing. Plus, I bought the foam wreath form at the Dollar Tree and the felt was from a remnants bin at Jo-Ann. SO, the total cost was maybe $3.50 or so. It’s so ruffly and pretty. I adore it and want to make a million more.
ohh, wreath bokeh. love&love.
Are there any wreath tutorials you think I should try next? Link a girl up!
By Lisa Gutierrez on 09/25/2010 
This week, I used a french press for the first time ever. It’s almost torture waiting for the coffee to seep a bit. I distracted myself by taking photos. The coffee is pretty good, though it might also have to do with the fresh ground coffee. OR the splash of milk I put in. OR the fact that I know it will unzombify me. OR because my mug is so cheerful. I think it’s everything combined–the beauty, the deliciousness, the effectiveness, the happiness.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 09/23/2010 
It’s fall! Of course it’s in the 80s with a “feels like” at 90, but I DREAMED of cool, crisp air. It was a really nice dream and I’m just going to try my best to be patient for the cold fronts. I’m ready to roast some pumpkins for bread, bust out the tried & true chili and soup recipes, and find a nice sweater for my walks to pick Nate up at school. SO ready!
Anyway, I think wreaths are pretty awesome year-around, but I like them even more during fall & winter. To ring in the new season, I whipped this little wreath up, yesterday. I was originally going to make a pretty rosie wreath, via the tutorial on The Pretty Poppy. It’s insanely cute, no?! I really wanted to add those darn doilies, though, so I stuck with a small group of rosettes. I added the doilies opposite them on the wreath and really liked the symmetry it created.
You can’t really tell from the photo above, but the [foam] wreath is wrapped in yarn. That was probably the most time consuming part of this project. I suspect it took about a straight hour. I need to find a new method of wrapping. After I glued on the rosettes and doilies, I wrapped the empty spots in some lace hem tape I had. It was in a little baggies of vintage craft goods I found at a thrift store. I think it adds some nice dimension to it!
By Lisa Gutierrez on 09/21/2010 
I’ve spent the past few weeks knitting a bunch. I do a lot of my knitting at the extremes of my day–late night after the littlest finally goes down or early morning, after a coffee and a kiss goodbye from both Jason and Nathan.
I’m working on berets. Actually, I’m working on a beret pattern. Because of this, I’ve frogged a few hats. I’m working in worsted weight yarn on about 120 stitches after the beret increase, sooo it’s pretty heartbreaking when I realize I’m headed in the wrong direction, design-wise. I’m hoping to have two different beret patterns done by the end of the month and a little handful of berets to put in my shop.
Because I cannot knit all the time–forcing the craft brings about feelings of loathing and I don’t want that–I tend to pick up little projects between knitting marathons. I finished this pillow on Saturday evening.
I found this pillow case at the thrift store for a quarter and have had it sitting on my desk for a while. I had a body pillow that I no longer needed (hello, if you’ve been pregnant, you know the absolute NECESSITY of a body pillow or two), so I decided to combine them.
I folded up the body pillow and strapped it with some elastic–just tie the ends–squeezed it into the case, chopped off the excess fabric, folded the ends inward, pinned, and hand-sewed it shut, pulling out the elastic before I finished. I did this late at night on Friday (the night I took my littlest to spend the weekend with grandma) and tufted the center on Saturday. Et voila! It’s thick enough to work as a floor cushion when one of the kiddos wants to draw at the coffee table.
It’s the fourth pillow I’ve made for my living room. I should probably line them all up on my little loveseat and take a group photo.
p.s. thursday posted about bloglovin the other day and it reminded me of my account! I signed up a while back, but soon forgot about it and hadn’t even linked my blog. Now that’s taken care of and, if you use bloglovin, you should click the banner on my left sidebar -or here- and follow goodknits! Thanks a bunch, lovelies!
By Lisa Gutierrez on 09/12/2010 I’ve been doing that a lot. I don’t head to bed until it’s 2am, wake up a few hours later to get Nathan ready for school, stay up in the morning, yawning away, trying to be productive with my home. Then, I collapse next to Andrew, while trying to wake him up. He sleeps in. A lot. so, it’ll be 9am and I go stroke his chubby face and in between telling him I’ll fix him a yummy breakfast and that he needs a diaper change, I snooze. I wake with a start, sometimes hours later. And it’s lunch time. I usually feel worse.
I’ve let my blog reader get out of control. Well, really, I just haven’t had any time to read blogs, check on twitter, whatever. I have been busy with the breakfast room, busy with my living room, busy with my carpet, busy with home. It feels good. In one of those, “my feet hurt so bad because I’ve been barefoot forever just walking around the house!” or “I’m so tired, but let’s walk through Ikea, without taking shortcuts!” or “I’m so sleepy, but I want to finish these damn french knots!” way. It’s a good tired. My room had a little craft explosion set off, but I’m on the edge of not caring. I haven’t worked on berets or merchandise for my shop, but I’m having a smidge of fun jotting down ideas for patterns in my too-tiny pocket notebook.
It’s after 3am. I’m exhausted.
I promise to at least attempt to catch up, tomorrow. If there’s something completely amazing that I’ve missed in blogland, this week, please do link a girl up.
Until I have time to blog more thoroughly, here’s a photo of my littlest snuggling with my doily pillow:
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