sushi shawl

i'm finally finished!

i bought a total of 8 balls of cascade yarns superwash wool (brown, black, white, pink) and a green in 100% acrylic and another bulky pink.

and after a month of knitting and crocheting non-stop...i give you....sushi!

with a border of garter, the "platter" is in stockinette. the "fish" is knitted in stockinette with a garter in the middle and a garter green veggie. the rice and nori is crochet in half-double crochet. there is aslo a stockinette "ginger" and crocheted "wasabi."

are you ready to crop!

saturday was an all day scrapbooking event that a friend and i attended.

man, do i feel out a place! metallica shirt, tattoos, and my clearance paper among the creative memories stuff....dont get me wrong, that stuff's wicked, but too pricey for me.

a friend suggested that i scrapbook my quilts. with a new book and a bunch of 8x10's i got to work. it's funny because i thought i was going to be done with my pictures and leaving early. oh no. i was there the whole time!

damn women and their cattiness....sugarcoated viciousness.

so now i need to reorder some of my older pictures of the quilts i've done to make a "back in the day" collage.

i'm excited.

haha, another project in the making!

ugh, stupid dinning room table looks like a scrapbook land mine! paper and scraps everywhere!

well, i guess since my sister-n-law had her kid, i should probably finish up his quilt.

adios.

sushi roll

at handmade memories yarn stores, there's a shawl contest going on till the end of this month. the only requirments are that you buy the yarn at the store and make it within a certain size.

if i'm going to make a shawl for myself, it's going to be something that screams "me."

so i'm making a sushi roll shawl.

it's going to knitted in brown and the sushi is going to crocheted (and some knitted) and appliqued on.



so far i've knitted about 11"...only 51"

i think i'm going to start on the sushi

my bulb is burning!

last july, i had made a "roads" quilt and entered it into the local county fair. i didn't win but i received recognition.

my hurricane (barely three) had her animal toys out and she positioned them so that they were "drinking."

*ding!*

my little light bulb bursted on...i was going to make her a jungle roads quilt. that day, we went to jo-anns and i had her pick out green and blue fat quarters.

i started drawing up a simple 3x3 block quilt...something sweet and small. well, i wasn't happy w/ the different sketches that i drew up.

my final "map" of the jungle quilt turned out to be a 7x8 block quilt. it's going to be our couch quilt. so of course we had to get more fat quarters!

on national quilt day (march 21) i finally finished the top and sandwiched it together. i'm uber happy with the results!

the backing is halloween fabric and dang it all, i still have a bunch of it leftover!

i'm trying to rush through the baby quilt i'm making for a sister-n-law so i can start quilting this one.

i also haven't named it yet, but i think my hurricane's leaning towards animal quilt. haha

toots for hoots

a friend of mine is very passionate about breastfeeding and found a knitted breast pattern online and the many different uses for them.

she knitted two up (pink w/ a darker pink nipple and a variegated pink one) and took it to her breastfeeding task force meeting. and viola! they loved them! she got requests for some more variegated, pinks, and some browns.

i offered to help and between the two of us, we knitted a total of 10 breasts!
haha, i thought it would be hilarious to add a nipple ring on one of them. i removed it before she went to her meeting :)



there was leftover peach/dark pink yarn so i knitted my hurricane a booby hat.

winter blossom

dedication on the back of the quilt:

May the sun warm your soul, the blue bird’s song sing harmony to your heart and the flowers make your spirit smile. A secret garden for you to relax in.

i finished on tuesday and have been waiting ever since to give it to my friend. but complications arise and i still have the quilt, waiting.

after three phone calls and a couple of emails, i feel bad for harassing her. i know she's busy but in my heart, i know that this will give her the "hug" she might need when no one is around to give her one.

blue bonnets

i had a dream about mi abueltio.

he was wearing his green, purple, blue jacket that i had given him years ago and was walking out of the house wearing a knitted gray hat with variegated strands within the gray.

when i woke up, i had to knit him a hat.

at michael's we found a "wool" worsted weight hat that felt oh so soft.

so with the wool-ease blue mist (and another blue heather), redheart knit hat & mitten pattern, and size 6 and 8 double point needles, i was on my way. i also knitted a hat for mi abuelita.

surprisingly, i made her's on the trip down to my ma's house (six hour drive). i was working on it friday night at the knitting club but dang it all, took it out 3 times before i actually was able to continue with it.