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.
The shape of the Garter Ear Flap Hat is really cute, plump garter, built in earflaps, with a little sprout toot out the top.
I’ve been making all the tiny hats, this one is a Sourball Bonnet.
Look at my cool new graphic, my thoroughly amazing family didn’t want me to be frustrated/suck/scream anymore, so they surprised me with new technologies for my pathetically outdated ones. A major upgrade to all my computering and printering needs, I’m so excited! There is definitely more I want (need) to understand, because there are so many good things I want to start ..just as soon as I can figure it out, so for now in the between I am just gonna play!
These new year days have been starting out well below zero and the windows in this old house have frozen over in delicate crystalline patterns, I don’t dare peek out the studio window, not that the thin lace panel adds much protection, but I’m too afraid to disturb the pretty fractal designs and perfectly diffused light.
Along with frosted windowpanes, my studio view is slowly building up in quaint layers. With Lex home for winter break, she is continually clearing out odd and ends from her room (college is making her such a minimalist!) and me being the eternal hoarder (strike that) collector and liker of cute stuffs, I wants it all! ..she has taken to just leaving it in little piles on my work table for me to sort through/redistribute throughout the artroom. I really want to turn that paper parasol into A Lady’s Bumbershoot!
Pen pen pens, always more pens! One of Lex’s favorite places since childhood has been the Mall of America, so now whenever she is home, we have to make a trip (we live really close) and we ALWAYS stop at Sanrio so we can get swallowed up in adorableness and I can add to my cute pens (that fatty heart guy, you squeeze him and his heart puffs out ..squeal!) but this time the Sanrio store was gone and in its place was one of our other FAVORITE shops Tomodachi! Same excellent pen selection and Hello Kitty goodness, but with a wider variety of other Japanese imports like anime, food/bento, softies, surprise boxes and fun Purikura photo booths!
A few slight modifications made because I wanted to use worsted weight.
Casted on for the smallest size listed for dk and used 4.25 mm needles.
Worked the brim to the longest length, switching to 4.50mm when instructed.
Worked the body as directed (increasing by 2), used 5.50mm.
I love it, I love the double brim, I wish this was for me, I can’t wait to make another!
A few handmade Christmas gifts ..not as many as planned ..but maybe just enough.
Along with all the holiday busyness, there has still been plenty of time for loving each other, time for snuggling in and burrowing under piles of quilts, sleeping late, time for laughing and movie watching, loads of popcorn and the making every possible favorite food of Alexa’s before she has to leave us again.
I hope your 2015 has begun in peace and beauty xoxo chalklegs
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