Markers, WIPs, and eyes

I cast on for another hat (it's a long story but I ran out of yarn for the one I was working on):

Then I realized I needed a stitch marker, and I didn't own any, so I made these:


And finally, after searching for....well as long as I've been wearing bifocals, which is longer than I care to admit, I found the PERFECT pair of vintage cat eye frames at an antique/record shop right in town!! Kiss my ass eBay!!


It was a good weekend.

Gifted to Keegan

I spent some time last night playing with my new yarn ball winder. I'm not ashamed to say that it was one of the most ridiculously satisfying things I've done in a while.

I made this!

A new avenue

Last weekend I took apart a red sweater that was really soft but shed all over my ubiquitous black pants. I didn't unravel the entire thing, I just took out the seams and then sewed the pieces into two hats, which was fine.

Then, feeling emboldened, I took the scissors to a thrifted cashmere sweater and in doing so realized...I can unravel this and then I'd have a whole ton of 100% cashmere yarn to do whatever I wanted with!!! So that's exactly what I did. Well, the unravelling part, the doing whatever I want with it part has so far consisted of stashing it in the crawl space while I finish up some other projects.

Happy Birthday to me!

I really love this ear-warmer thingy. It seems like something that would be easy enough to make. I probably couldn't figure out how to knit that flower without a pattern, but I could crochet it no problem.

But then I think....is this yet another one of those things that I think are sooo cute but would never wear? Things like: red lipstick, hats, suspenders, high waist jeans, T-shirts with words on them...

I have to pick up my rental car and pack tonight for a trip to the big city up north this weekend. So excited!!

Collars, mending, knitting....more making stuff!

I started and finished my first personal sewing project in almost a year yesterday! I thrifted this dress while I was house sitting in Richmond that had potential, but needed to be shortened, and I thought would really benefit from the addition of a peter-pan collar. The only downside is that I completely forgot to photograph - both before and after - so you can't see what I did....yet.

Edited 2/8 to add a picture!


I've also been working on this knitted lace dress using an incredible 100% bamboo yarn...it's slooooowwww going though so I decided to bust out a new more-bus-appropriate project. I haven't really settled on one though. I'm trying to balance my love of seamless-knitting-in-the-round with the unwieldy-ness of the nearly finished project that produces.

And so this isn't too wordy...here are some pictures from the street fashion blogs featuring sandals+socks+tights - ALL AT ONCE. I would love to try this out but....I'm not sure my particular brand of leg can pull it off. Maybe something with a big cuff.