step #2

start knitting myself that capelet!  that gives me 9 months.... enough time to finish it, make a mistake and repeat or make a new one, make 2 to choose from or look for one to buy.  haha.  exciting! :)

the bella wedding capelet :)

 baby alpaca fine lace yarn :)

candyknits

totally inspired by the birth of Stella, i picked up my knitting needles again recently and finished my first project for the year, just a few weeks before Stella was born.

the cupcake hat - a pattern i had reserved for your future baby years ago :) it turned out to be quite big for Stella (as she was a teeny-tiny newborn baby! and i didn't have any idea what sizes new born babies came in!).

fastforward to 3 months later, it (kinda) fits! haha :) i think she can wear this for several more months (or even a year) :)

then came the baptism bonnet, which you chose, to match her baptism dress :)

this time it was a wee bit too small, and just barely fit stella on baptism day (after being stretched out on a ball of yarn for a week)

daphne and delilah monster has been one of my favorite projects so far - such a fun thing to knit! i wanted stella to have it while she was still a baby so i made it in black and white (and also so it would match her crib and your bedroom too - haha).

it looks huge next to her now, but at the rate she is going, i'm sure it will be looking smaller and smaller in no time :)

so i've finished 3 projects in 4 months, a pretty good ratio for me :) and now i'm finishing my 4th project, a mancowl for twinpopbaguio...

....and with a 5th and 6th one lined up already for tati and alvarro :) i'm excited! :)

its a much better way to spend my free time than watching tv or facebooking :) (thanks stelly!)

ta-dah!!!

here's my finished knitted vintage capelet and some of my glazed pots :)

i miss knitting!

i can't believe that this is probably the first post i have on knitting! i used to be addicted to it (way before i started spending too much time on my laptop!!!), and actually really miss it :) its so much more productive that staring at the computer screen, looking into other people's business on facebook. haha. and its kinda meditative too...

so here is my first finished project in a very LONG time - a yellow knit "fake-a-gamo" bag....



its a pattern inspired by a knit ferragamo bag that came out a few years ago....


i knit my version in yellow with dark brown wooden handles... should i paint the handles silver instead? hehe....