B's owl vest is finally finished after waiting months to be seamed together. I hate finishing and I think this will be it for the animal vests for a while. This vest was knit using Lion Brand's Wool Ease in the color Loden.

So during an episode of "48 Hours Mystery" on CBS last night, I seamed it up!



The Good & Plenty socks are almost done!


B looking over his new vest after telling me he doesn't want to wear this one :)

Labels: Animal vests, children's knits, socks

I finished her bunny vest the other night just in time for her 2nd birthday party today. Yay!!





It's going to hit 70 degrees F. in some spots here today in the Boston, MA area--weird.

Labels: Animal vests, children's knits

I'm making progress. I finished this in the last 24 hrs! I've done the back to the bunny vest for my niece. Her 2nd birthday party is this coming Saturday so I should have the front finished and the vest sewn up by then.



Now, on to the front . . .

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Labels: Animal vests, children's knits

I've always had the intent to update this blog at least once a week and it's not like I don't have knitting content every week to write about. It's finding time to get on the computer and take pictures of my knitting, etc. that's the difficult part. With a 3-yr-old and a 9 mo. old and working full-time, five days--it's nearly impossible. Why right at this minute I fear I'm neglecting something.

I read this blog called the blue blog. I love reading it, actually. The woman has twin boys and a baby girl on the way AND she's ALWAYS crafting something and her 'somethings' are not just average, they're incredibly good. Amazingly good. WHEN DOES SHE FIND THE TIME?? I'll be so curious to see once her baby arrives if she's blogging as often as she is now. I honestly HOPE so (I love reading her), but I'll be mystified as to how. Am I a bit envious? Definitely.

I've put down the owl vest for about a month now, but here is the finished front (the back may never get done, we'll see):



I'm now back to my sock addiction, I'm working on a pair with Regia in a nice jacquard with purples and blues. This was supposed to be for my sister Christmas '05--she may get these for her birthday in February '07:


The stockings look wonderful hanging with care on the bannister (with hopes that St. Nicholas soon will be here!).

here I am in the same spot a year ago preggers with my daughter:


Hope everyone's holidays are wonderful! Peace and joy to everyone--I hope I am able to update before Christmas, but I can't promise!

Labels: Animal vests, holiday knitting

So I frogged (rip-it! rip-it!) my son's bear vest. It was too small and kept riding up on him. Not all my fault--in the last few weeks he's had an amazing growth spurt.

Here is the re-knitted front and back using size 8 and 13 needles and knitting size 6 instead of size 4 (my son's going to be 3 in two weeks). Yarn=Plymouth Encore Worsted in Cocoa:

front:


back:


Pictures of him wearing it after I sewed on the glass eyes from here, you can tell it fits (he's a very reluctant model)!

Labels: Animal vests, children's knits

The back of my son's bear vest is finished. This works up really quick and I think it's going to be an adorable vest.

I'm using Plymouth Encore Worsted in Cocoa, color #1204. 75% acrylic; 25% wool. Knitting with size 6 and size 10½ needles.

I love the bear's little tails.

Labels: Animal vests, children's knits

I am currently almost halfway done with my daughter's Christmas stocking:

I really like the purple shades. Purple isn't my favorite color, but it's up there as one of my favs. You'd never know it from all the purple stuff I'm knitting my daughter.

Here she is in the hooded sweater I knitted her this Spring:


Today, I got yarn from Patternworks, Plymouth Encore in Cocoa:

to make my son this:

Labels: Animal vests, children's knits, holiday knitting

In just yesterday's post I was wondering where this was and it arrived today!



The one I want to make my son is the one in the top right-hand corner. It has bears on it--not a great pic of the leaflet but once the vest is done, I'll get a good picture of the finished result.

Labels: Animal vests, knitting library