I dream of knitted tutus

Do you ever dream of knitting?? I do, in fact, my dreams are where I get my best ideas! This latest project ( and bucket list item #31 ) is a knitted tutu, designed by yours truly and was featured in one of my dreams about a year ago. Every now and then my brain …

Longest ever work in progress…

So after 3 years ,almost to the date,  I completed  my longest ever UFO (unfinished object) , my mini-smashlee's baby blanket. For those who don't know, she's over 2 1/2 now. I started this project when I found out I was having a baby girl and vowed to finish it before I gave birth. Obviously, …

Just A Little Inspiration…

Inspiration can be found in the weirdest of places. I never really took notice of what inspires me as a knitter until I wrote this topic under my "possible blog topics" list. Almost instantly ideas flew into my head. People, places, yarns, colours , books all of which I draw my inspiration from. So here …

What A Difference A Day Makes….

I woke up this morning in a much better mood then I was in yesterday. For one, the snow was melting and two, I had a pretty great sleep  considering I'm pregnant and half to pee constantly. I used this new found energy and good vibes to spent the day working. I took some much …

April snow, why you gotta ruin everything?

So it's Sunday,which means, I should be showing you all the stuff I knit this week but, I'm not really in the mood to take pictures so, I'll save all that for next Sunday. And then I thought I'd just write about one of other topics I have written down for an emergency blog posting …

The Evolution Of a Slipper AKA I seriously use to suck

I was thinking about what to write about tonight when, something I had written quite a while ago popped in my head. I'm not sure exactly what post it came from or its exact wording but, it went something like this. " I not only want to share my successes but, also my failures and …

More Knitting Novels

Last week, I wrote about knit lit and a cozy mystery novel called " Knit one, Kill Two" by  Maggie Sefton. I am currently on book 2 of 8 of this series but, it's going pretty slow as ,the only time I really get my Ipad to myself is first thing in the morning while Mini-Smashlee …

Smashlee Stitches Sunday April 7, 2013

I have been neglecting Smashlee Stitches Sundays for a while now. Mostly, this was due to morning sickness, or should I say all day sickness but, since I'm past that oh-so-important 3 month mark in my pregnancy, it seems to have subsided for the most part. That means my Sunday recap of my Smashlee Stitches' …

Unfinished Business

One thing I am really bad at is finishing projects. My current list of UFO's is so long that if I publicized it on my blog I would probably be blacklisted from the knitting world. However, I am trying to get this problem under control..I took my two biggest UFO projects and started to work …

Why I cannot live without my circular needles….

I think every knitter has a preference for needles. I know some knitters who will only knit with single pointed needles that are massively long, some who prefer them short , some who use mostly double points and some who, like myself, almost always use circulars. When I first started to knit, I was a …