I am planning to be a knitting maniac this week! This just came for a work project:
And I started this yesterday for my personal project of the week, mine is in black, red, and cream:
Cecily's Shawl by Cecily Glowik MacDonald
I've got lots of good blog posts planned, too! It should be a great week. Hope all of yours are, too!
I get the Yo Gabba Gabba song "Snacky, snack, snack, snack, snack" stuck in my head but with "Knit" instead a lot. Today is one of those times. I tried to find a youtube video of it, but apparently you are just going to need to be in the know and have watched Yo Gabba Gabba to know what I am talking about. If you don't know, consider me saving you from it: the only songs I ever get stuck in my head anymore are Yo Gabba Gabba songs.
So I am very excited because I ordered a new skirt last week and it got here yesterday. Very speedy like since it was coming from the UK! Got 15% off for signing up for their mailing list, too!
Source: us.dorothyperkins.com via Rebecca on Pinterest
I am in love! I decided yesterday it is the only thing I want to wear from now on. Since I have decided this, I immediately got looking on the internets for some good sweaters to knit to go with it. At least if I am going to wear the same skirt every day I can have a whole pile of different tops to go with it, right? I had pinned this a while back, so I started looking for some sweaters with a similar feel.
Source: simplyme091909.blogspot.com via Rebecca on Pinterest
I got these boots as a Christmas gift, so I am set on boots.
Source: dmusastore.com via Rebecca on Pinterest
I thought this free sweater pattern from Berroco had the right vibe going on.
1. Image from Berroco.com 2. Image from Berroco.com, Weekend Color #5965 3. Image from Berroco.com, Weekend Color #5964
Since I like the texture of the cotton yarn in the outfit picture I thought Weekend would be a good choice for it. I've used it for several things and like it a lot: it is cottony without all the nightmares and unfun knitting of a cotton. Know what I mean? I also thought any of these on my to-knit list would look great with it:
1. Image from Knittingdaily.com 2. Image from Knitpicks.com 3. Image from Ravelry.com
Man, digging through my favs on Rav and all my pins on my To-Knit pinboard made me realize how many projects I want to make. Now the trick is getting off the computer and getting knitting or my sweater-making-productivity is going to stay at a virtual stand still!
It is so snowy and freezy cold here today! I don't think it has made it out of the teens all day, which we just don't get around here. The ice and snow put me in the mood for some warm, yummy comfort food, so I decided to make some homemade mac and cheese. Thanks to Pinterest I thought this looked good so I gave it a try. Yum.
We didn't have any macaroni (we rarely eat pasta) and there was no way I was going to the grocery store. The street in front of my house is a large sheet of ice so I am staying indoors until this storm clears up. Although I am starting to get a little cabin fever I must admit. We had some spinach pasta, I don't know what type, it is like shorty, wavy fettucine, so that's what I used. All I can say is yum. Mr Danger agrees too. We sprinkled on a little of that pre-cooked, pre-crumbled bacon next to the baco's in the store, and that made it even better. Although, bacon seems to make everything better. Says the person who was vegetarian up until 2 years ago.
If you are looking for an excellent mac and cheese recipe, this is in the running for my favorite ever. And if you want it gluten free, it would be easy enough to sub in quinoa pasta or something like that.
And, as an added bonus, the camera was in the kitchen and Mr Danger managed to snap one of my favorite pictures of The Kid ever while I was cooking.
So, despite cabin fever, it was a great day. Which is good since I have been cranky for a good week or so now!
I LOVE my crock pot. To me there is nothing better than throwing a bunch of things in first thing in the morning and having yummy dinner in the evening. Plus you get good smells all day. My crock pot makes me feel like I actually know how to cook. I think half my food pins on pinterest are crock pot recipes. Sometimes, actually most of the time, I wish I could cook everything in there. I am considering freezing a bunch of crock pot recipes like this, and I like to hit up this website for ideas as well.
So, I feel like jumping up and doing a jig since I just found this tutorial on how to dye yarn in your crock pot. Gah! How flipping exciting is that? It looks as easy as cooking in the crockpot, too! I am going to have to try my hand at this for sure! Hmm, my knit girls did what I am calling a "Crafternoon" this weekend, maybe I will have to see if they want to get together and dye some yarn together in the crock pot! Whataya think, girls?
Dontcha just love this idea?! I hope I will see some crock pot monsters on Ravelry!
Meet Henry and Henrietta!
I've got a pattern in the latest issue of Petite Purls, yeah! I love this set of mice. When I was little, I had a set of mice with long, long arms and velcro on their hands that hugged each other. I loved them and had been wanting to do something similar, only knit. When I heard that the summer issue of Petite Purls would be all toys, I thought it was time to bring out the hugging mice.
I hope you enjoy them!
Have y'all seen the Old Spice commercials?
Normally I refuse to watch Youtube videos since being of the work-at-home variety they could take up my entire day if I wasn't careful. But Mr Danger got an Apple TV
Ha!
I took the last couple weeks and did some fun me knitting. I actually got a surprising amount done, but I haven't gotten pictures done yet. So, thanks to the internet, I am going to "borrow" pictures from others for now just so you can see what projects I was working on.
I called this my "labor project." Yes, I decided I needed a project to work on while in labor. And amazingly enough, with the approximately 70 hours it took to get this baby here, I nearly completed my project while in labor and finished what was left up on Mother's day.
It's the Summer Flies shawl from Holly and Ella Knits. I did mine in Patons Silk and Bamboo, which for a Joann's type yarn is awfully nice. Mine is a beautiful silvery gray color, and once it is blocked I will get a photo of it. I just need to figure out the new blocking set up at this house, since I had it nicely worked out at the old house, but we don't have the same sink here. I think I am going to get one of those Soak tubs.
I also made one of these:
The Ping cowl. I did mine out of Weekend (I wanted to play with the yarn) in Blood Orange. Fun project, cool fabric, I think it will be highly wearable especially this summer.
And, I also finished this up, I just need to add buttons:
The Mary-Swanson Cardi-Vest from Tot Toppers. I did mine in Berroco Remix, another yarn I wanted to play around with. I like it, it is surprisingly soft.
So there you go. Not my pictures, but it gives you at least a little idea of what I have been up to! Other than figuring out this whole mom thing that is.....
Still no baby
I know its Wednesday and it should be "This Week I Am Loving" but I just got myself a mailing list and wanted to make sure you all got signed up! Its going to be a once-a-month newsletter that will keep you updated on new patterns and upcoming Danger Crafts events.
Yeah! I was just informed that my interview with Martingale & Co is now up on their website. Check it out here!
I am in a great mood today because I have been talking about it for several months, but I finally have hired an assistant to help me out. She started this morning and was absolutely awesome. After she had been here about an hour I realized it felt like I had 4 arms since I was able to keep knitting and have her do a bunch of officey/administrativey type stuff. You know how I always say that if I just had 4 arms I could get everything done that I want? Yup. It was wonderful.
Now I am off to finalize my speech for the Seattle Knitter's Guild this wednesday (since I can't have an assistant do that). Did you know I was speaking this week? You can find out more here.
