March Special

March has always been special, mostly because it’s my birthday month and I am a total present & cake HOG!

© AMANDA OCHOCKI + chalklegs little chalklegs

I’ve been blissfully in love with the boy I met when I was just a girl and we’ve been together longer than we’ve been apart (aww I love you!) We have an unbelievable daughter who is our best parts gathered into one, who bravely left the familiar comfort of the Midwestern landscape, headed East to find what completes her and is becoming more and more absolutely incredible in every way (and I am handling it so much better with each passing day ..happily with much less woe!) I’m in such a fantastic place and want to be even more grand from here out!

chalklegs birthday sale mini

Lets begin with a SALE!! 25% off NINETEEN HUNDRED HOUSE & WESTSIDE APARTMENT patterns ..buy neither, either or both!

NOTE: this sale is only set to work in my ravelry shop for the rest of March 2015, at checkout choose buy it now or add to cart, then click “use a coupon code” and enter BIRTHDAY :)

**MAKE SURE YOU SEE THE DISCOUNTED PRICE PRIOR TO PAYING, REFUNDS ARE NOT AN OPTION!**

In other fantastic Marchy things, I’m excited to announce that I’m featured in the March issue/volume 18 of Knitsy Magazine. I always thought my self-descriptive of “I live in a tiny little house, in a tiny little town, my life is calm and quiet ..I am perfectly content being a bore.” was really pretty accurate and that no one would ever be interested in me or my silly junk ..well, thank you so much guys xoxo

into the pink with cat blob

Flash of pink inside, that peeks out just ever so slightly. Worked first (30) of brim in hot pink, including the purl round for the turn, then switched to main body color and worked as written.

Pattern: Midas Hat by Laura Reinbach.

all production halts due to sleepy cat blob, this is kiki aka baby godzilla or kikachu. ♥

Pattern: Tunisian Shell Shawl by Elena Fedotova.

Worked in 8/2 wetspun linen.

2-10-15 things

© AMANDA OCHOCKI + chalklegs 100 year oaks

While our daughter awoke to her 5th snow day of the new year out in Boston, here on the northern prairie it’s been rather mild, considering we are usually the ones buried under. Today winter stopped by, beginning the day with sleety snow softly tinging off the windows, coating the 100 year oaks.  What a perfect lazy day to tuck in a make stuff.

Like a cowl for my husband (he picked a very rustic wool) and much like the trees above, he is soon to be covered in thick rugged bark! This texture is perfection, compact, stretchy and squeeze me squooshy ..sadly, completely hidden by this brambly wool!
Pattern: Collina Cowl by Jenn Emmerson

A recent co-op order of Colour Adventures and in a total chalklegs move, I went with only 2 colors (puppy & tea rose) on several different bases, just because I wanted to get to know the feel of each and too often my comparison abilities are slightly inhibited, because I’m almost always 100% influenced by color. I was still wooed, I am so happy sitting right here.