Husfliden Jente

I have enjoyed the last 3 days off.  My parents came home from Budapest and spent one night with us and the next two days were spent working on things I'd been meaning to get to for a while.  I hadn't spun since I don't know when.  

I got this 8 oz. roving of blue faced leicester wool almost 2 years ago in Decorah at The Blue Heron.  I sat out on our little veranda for two evenings and spun a two ply worsted yarn and got about 200 yards or so.

 

I'd baked a loaf of cottage bread the night before and had it for lunch spread with butter, strawberry jam and geitost!  :)  Utter heaven!

Here is the finished yarn.  Of course I don't know what I'm going to use it for yet, but I'm enjoying looking at it!

Strawberry Shoes

I just finished these last night after working on them here and there for a while.  I saw these on the cover of a knitted book somewhere on the interweb and it was one of those things where I had to just stop whatever I was doing and OBTAIN this book.  Money was no object.  I just needed to get this book for this pattern alone.  I thought they were THAT cute!  And lucky for me, I already had all the yarn at home for this project!  The pattern called for baby yarn but I had the appropriate colors in worsted so I fooled around with the gauge and needle size a little.  They are designed to fit a 3-4 month old so Leah will have some time to grow into them.

More Baby Things

This is a satin bound flannel blankie made for Dave's niece's new baby boy Brady. I'd had this blue puppy fabric for some time. In fact I think I got it at SR Harris. We finally got to meet little Brady when we went to his sister's house for Easter dinner.

This is the second toddler bed blankie I made for little Erik. I really confused myself too with this one. The puppy one I'd made earlier was 2 yards by 1 yard in measurement because I had 2 yards of the puppy fabric and backed it with 2 yards of broadcloth. I guess I thought I had 4 yards of this nursery rhyme fabric and I was just going to fold it in half and bind it. Once it was done, however, it was much shorter. I only had 3 yards of it but I liked the proportions of this one much better at 1.5 yards by 1 yard. Oh well. They are both nice blankies. Lisa has been using this one on the couch at their house.
This is my new baby niece Leah in the onesie I knit out of a cotton/silk blend of sock yarn. This was the first time I'd ever done raglan sleeves on anything. Baby sweaters are such good little mini projects to learn techniques. This was knit from the bottom up. The sleeves are knit separately and then joined and knit into the body. In fact the majority of this sweater was knit in bowling allies when I'd go watch Dave at his league and the final assembly was done during a bowling tournament! I used this pattern that I first saw on one of my favorite crafty blogs. The crotch and neck have button closures and the buttons came from my Grandpa Maynerd's button box. :)