Owlishly

Ripply goodness

So, I finished that sucker up on Friday night, but had to wait to get pictures because I kept forgetting to take them until it was bedtime.  I was unsure about it, but I think I'm liking it more and more. 

It ended up being 5 points, so 60 sts across with increases and decreases of 3 dc and 4 dc in between.  Right now that sounds kind of odd to me, but I'm pretty sure that's what it was.  I planned on doing more blue than white, but started running out of the blue, so I do have a white block going the opposite direction, but other than my telling you, I don't think anyone at the shower will notice, or care. 

Since I was running out of the blue there are only two blue blocks of color with 7 rows of double crochet, and then 3 white blocks of color.  I did have enough of the blue left over to do one final row of dc in blue on each end, and then do a sc border all the way around.  Well, actually I did a sc border on the sides, but on the ends I slip stitched instead.

I still haven't measured it, but it's definitely baby sized, a good sized baby blanket, but for babies nonetheless.

Anyway, I've gotta get.  I've been fighting off a cold and have everyone on astragalus, but I think my not sleeping well at my parents' house while house sitting is taking it's toll.  Now I'm finally home and I'm feeling optimistic about my chances for sleep!

It's me again :)

So we've been mostly at my parents for the past week.  They've been in Washington DC since last week and my dad's always a tad paranoid about leaving their house alone so we're here house sitting.  I've been going home during the days to work on organizing and then when we get back at night I've been so super sucked in to cable tv.  I'm so embarrassed.  Not too much though, especially since Bones has 2 new episodes tonight :)

My cousin's baby shower is coming up so I need to get cracking on that football blanket for her little guy.  I can't even find the notes that I'd taken on it when I was working on it 3-4 months ago.  I think tomorrow I'll look for it when I get home; meanwhile I've been making a ripple blanket for her too.  I have a questions about that though, is turquoise blue boy-ish enough?  I'm not sure. It's variegated, but I'd bought it for a girl project so maybe that's why I'm thinking it looks weird.

I'd been in a doll funk and just not really inspired to make any new ones lately, but I did start on a rabbit girl for my little girl.  It's actually almost done, but I'll need to take some pictures, and I'm waiting for Pages '09 to be shipped.  I have lots of ideas of what I want to add to this little blog o' mine, but am trying to figure out when I'm going to have time to do it.

These next 9 weeks are going to be tough to make time for things; my husband has class 4 nights a week, and while they aren't long, they end right after our kids bedtime so I'm usually wiped and wanting to veg as opposed to think by that time :)

Things that I'd like to be able to get to soon are, in no particular order-

• Finish my embroidery stuff
• Then figure out how to make the embroidery images look more like illustrations
• Work on getting buttons made and listed
• Get my images transferred from my old computer to the new one
• Decide on getting photoshop/illustrator or just photoshop elements
• Learn whichever one I decide on
• Maybe learn to knit, but that's always on the to do list ;)
• Also, I'm thinking that I'd like to maybe have additional pages on my blog to list to my favorite books and tools to use when I crochet, embroider, etc...
• Then, along those lines, have a page of links to tutorials that'll help some out with questions they have about some of the techniques that I use in my patterns.
• I need to remember to add my email address to the about me section too, somehow I keep forgetting to do that.

So anyway, those are some things that I'm thinking. I feel like I'm forgetting some things, but I've got to get going on making dinner.

Beachy boy and a winter beanie

One of the things that I'm thinking is that in general I'm going to try to complain less. Which, in turn means you'll probably hear from me a lot less ;)

Really though, I think my posting may be a little hit and miss for the next couple of weeks.  I have family stuff that needs to be evaluated and attended to, so there's going to be less time for me to do fun stuff.  And I have to clean my house... but that'll be fun. Really.

Meanwhile, this hat was something that I forgot to post about.  I made it one night before we left for Iowa, but hadn't really gotten around to taking pictures.  I frogged the flower a couple of times because I didn't like the look of it, but this one I'm pretty pleased with. 

I need to remember how I did it again because my little sister'll be going to Washington DC for the inauguration in a week (!), and wants one in black.  We're still not sure about the color of the flower though.

Then, I've been embroidering a bit here and there.  I'm almost finished up with the cowboy and of course have a bunch more that are half started lying around.  I think he'll be finished soon though.  Maybe by this weekend.

Later!

2009 Here I come!

Happy New Year everyone, I hope it's been a good day for you all.  As I was going though my google reader this afternoon seeing everyone's resolutions and past projects it got me thinking about mine. 

I'm really not at all good about making and/or keeping resolutions, so as far as goals, all of mine are the same as they always are, hopefully 2009 helps me get closer to achieving them!

In terms of what I did in the past year though- geez, I hadn't realized that I was as productive as I was ;) Especially of late, I've felt pretty ho-hum about my ability to get things done, but it was fun creating a mosaic of some of last years projects, and hopefully this new year will be equally productive, if not more!

1. Lounging at the beach, 2. 1 inch buttons of my dolls, 3. Miss S back, 4. Malabrigo cowl WIP, 5. bear costume big girl, 6. Chester the turkey, 7. Birthday boy's felt crown, 8. Mom's Patons silk bamboo yarn scarf WIP, 9. Marcus the lion close up, 10. Little Red Gnome-y Hood Baby, 11. Nichole image 1, 12. Size 3 Thread Crochet Luke & Alexa, 13. finished flower blanket, 14. I'm not sure about the eyes, 15. Ladybug party garland, 16. Mr. S showing how shiny his cape is, 17. Georgie, 18. Little boy, 19. Octavio image 1, 20. Red hugging Blue Happy Maracas, 21. Crocheted infant cape using heavily modified Japanese pattern, 22. Felt flowers, 23. Redwork embroidery mexicana couple dancing, mom's gift, 24. Raquel image 1, 25. Dave the shamrock boy amigurumi, 26. Alexa the bee pattern!, 27. S's ripple sweater, 28. Paz image 1, 29. Big Head Baby in infant gown, 30. Lana the little lamb