its about time!

so ive recently been spending a ton of time on ravelry looking for a new pattern because...wait for it... i finished my beach bag!! and its about gd time. ill be honest. the bag was really not that hard to make. but those silly straps took me forever and just annoyed me to no end! but its done, and im super excited!! so here it is!

this is my bag after i laid it out to block it!! didnt have anything to hold down the sides to stop them from rolling besides nail polish- which was not very good!

and there it is! i absolutely love it! not sure what im going to do with it yet. debating lining it with some bright-ish fabric or i just might use it to get produce at the grocery store. its all still up in the air- luckily i have a while before its beach season so i dont have to decide yet!!

now i just need to find Twinkles Town and Country Knits and i can start teaching myself how to cable knit!

Fox Gloves

Ok all you wonderfully talented knitters out there.  My fox has a body, tail, and half a head.  I am approaching the dreaded little fingers again.  Does anybody understand how to knit fingers/hands and then attach them to the arm???  Helpful links to videos or simple directions would be lovely.  If not, I will be giving this fox the finger for real, and it won't be attached to his body, it will be attached to mine!

(directions as written from designer Jennie Eveleigh Lamond...

CO3 sts using black.  Place one st on each dpn and join into round.
Row 1: kfb in each stitch [6 sts]
Row 2: k
Row 3: [k1, kfb] 3 times [9 sts]
Rows 4 and 5: k


break off yarn and place first 4 sts on one holder and last 5 sts on a second holder (safety pin works great).  This is one finger.  Repeat finger twice more - you will have 3 fingers.

For last finger, do not break yarn and do not place stitches on holder. 

now here is the tricky part...
Palm Row 1: K first 4 sts off of the finger still on the needles (finger #1), and slip the last 5 onto one dpn to knit at the end of the row.  Then k first 4 sts off of finger #2, and first 4 sts of finger #3.  Using a new dpn, K last 5 sts off of finger #3 and last 5 sts off of finger #2.  Using the third dpn, K last 5 sts off of finger #1.




So, yeah...good luck with that!

Hold up, wait a minute, put a little sister love in it!!

meg came to town this weekend and we had a sista love in. well, kind of.

mom sent a strongly worded email before i was even alive saturday morning, telling me that i needed to send her a pic of the beautiful scarf she made me for christmas last year. my first attempt w my blackberry was wobbly, but this pic turned out great!! megs all smiley and sparkly and moms scarf is amazing. win!

heres meg and i, knitting on the couch, watching a woody allen movie. just like a normal sunday night!

and heres meg and i really knitting, wo the posed pic. thats just how we look.

howe girls knit!!!