What, you don’t knit for your kid’s plastic dinosaurs?
This is Lamb’s Pride, made on Maeve’s request, for the dino who yesterday was named Frejick and was a girl. After the tunic was completed and photographed, Frejick was promptly lost in the house somewhere. Whenever this toy resurfaces, I’m sure it will receive a new name, perhaps a new gender, and maybe a new outfit too, if the supplies are at hand.
To be honest, it’s pretty fun knitting things like this.
I have been knitting something frantically lately.
I have never been that great at fitting in a few rows here and there between brushing my teeth, emptying the cat litter, driving someplace. I like to have a block of time, 20 minutes or more, to sit down and knit. Those little bags you hang from your wrist so you can walk and knit? Not for me.
But I’m kind of going that way with the current thing. And only because I found this.
The current thing is a Tivoli Tee (pattern is now Picovoli). I have one I made out of orange Rowan All Seasons Cotton that I have been wearing sort of like a sweater vest lately, and people like it, so I decided to make a wool one. I have a lot of Briar Rose Fibers “Sonoma” in the stash. This current thing is a mix of a bunch of colorways–all a little more subdued than the photo makes it seem. It’s not fabulous, but I’m knitting it to the point of sore wrists so it can be done and wearable and out of the way for the super cute O W L S. I think I might make a felted wool flower to pin on it to distract from its scrappy/mixed colorway nature.
And as far as O W L S is concerned, I am for the first time in my knitting life going to make a project in the exact yarn shown. In a couple more days my box of Rowan Pure Life wool will be here, and I am hoping to crank it out well before the weather gets too warm to wear it. I love it for a few reasons: owls have been in the mind lately due to kids’ books, the fit looks wonderful, and barring goof-ups it should be a quick knit but still a bit challenging.
At the end of 2008 I was looking for some inspiration. I am so glad to finally have it again!
The snow is kinda slowing down, but not without having dumped like two feet on us the last couple of days. We stayed at my parents’ house on Friday, and since their street hasn’t been plowed at all, we are stuck here, because both of our little cars are too low to navigate the deep snow. We are lucky that my sister’s 4wd car with new snow tires happened to stay here too while she took the train to Chicago, so at least we could run home, feed our cat, get some PJs and stuff today.
I like to say that at least winter is behaving like winter, but really, the prospect of another two months of being stuck inside (or longer!) is weighing on us mightily right now. Maeve’s new TumbleBears class helps, but that’s only an hour once a week…
Here we are enjoying some fresh snow on the front steps during our “visit” home today.
In craft news, because there is some!, my mom and I have hatched a plan to make Maeve a whirlygiggles aka scrappy cartwheels quilt this year, maybe by her birthday in April. I love the simplicity of the block. We decided to do 8″ blocks, for a full-size quilt, so we have 121 to make. The color scheme is orange, purple and green, secondary colors, right? I just can’t deal with more pink, and this quilt will match Maeve’s wonderful new orange flannel sheets. The first block, which I hand pieced, is here. I used some purple Civil War repro from the Dear Jane stash.
By the way, I decided to turn what Dear Jane blocks I had finished into a doll quilt. I think I’ll use a piece of flannel for batting–is that going to be hard to hand-quilt through?–and just muslin on the back. A couple extra blocks are becoming potholders. Crazy!