Baby Lulu's Cardigan and Bonnet

My sweet niece, Lorelai finally received the cardigan and bonnet I have been working on for her since December. Her mom and dad picked out the pattern and yarn. The yarn looks a bit more green online but it is more of a robin eggs blue in real life. I wanted to go for purple buttons to make it look more girly but her mom chose the bluish buttons which I think work just perfectly.
The pattern is the B-17-1 Jacket and Bonnett from Dropstudio . It is translated into English and thus a bit confusing but I was able to finally figured it out thanks to numerous comments on Ravelry. I skipped the Picot edging on the Bonnet as I just thought it was a bit over the top.
I made the new born size which at 8 weeks fits her with a bit of growing room. No pictures of her in it yet but I will update this post once I get them.

Baby Kate Photo Prop

Here is a picture of one of the hats I made for my dear friend, Melissa at Melissa Olson Photography. This photo happens to be of her newborn baby girl. Such a beautiful girl!

Abby's Reading Mitts

One of my coworkers has an incredibly amazing daughter. She is quite the entrepreneur already at 9 years old. In her classroom at school she runs the bank, the tattoo parlor and the library. In fact I recently heard she had to fire some of her staff! She is going to be one powerful business woman when she grows up!
This year she was having her first slumber party and her mom had been wanting me to make her a pair of robin's egg blue mitts. I used a cotton yarn called Loops and Threads that I purchased at Michael's. It was not the greatest yarn, you get what you pay for, but I think the cotton will work great for a little girl.

When I knit with double pointed needles I still have ladders in my knitting. I try to fix it by moving a stitch each new needle but then my ladder just goes diagonal. Any suggestions?

House Slippers

In June we moved to a huge two bedroom apartment. By New York standards this apartment is gigantic, even by Los Angeles standards it is pretty big. The hubby and I have so enjoyed settling in and are slowly (very slowly) filling in all the big spaces. We don't have a lot of "stuff" and no big rugs to cover the wood flooring. I decided it was time for some house slippers.

I used leftover yarn from my Fair Isle Skirt but since I did not have enough of each color I thought I would just make several pairs in different colors. So far I have only made this pair but I think a few more are in order for when we have guests with cold feet.

Lulu's Blanket

My brother & sister in law are having a baby girl in January, early February. This will be our first niece! I can not wait to meet her. I have a few other gifts on the needles for baby Lulu (a nickname from the Grandmother) but I wanted to start out with a bright, slightly modern gift. Her mom is a "fashion forward" kind of woman so I thought she'd appreciate the pattern.

The pattern I used is the Chasing Rainbows pattern on The Rouge Knitter's blog. It is knit on circular needles from the center out using the magic loop method. The pattern was super easy, in front of the TV without having to think knitting. I love the asymmetry. Hopefully this will get some good use when baby Lulu arrives!

Trotting off the Turkey

My dad got to see me run a race this weekend. I signed up for the Santa Monica Gobble Wobble thinking maybe I could coerce him or my husband to go with me but alas they chose to cheer me on from the sidelines. We did get to bring Kira and stop by and sea the ocean. Next time I might have to run with Kira, if she can keep up!

The race was a 5K with about 200 participants. It was just what I needed to start burning off all the turkey. I ran a pretty steady pace until the last 6 blocks. I really increased by pace thinking I had only 3 blocks left...whoops! I was dying by the end but I made myself keep up the pace. My finish time was 26:50. Not too shabby for not having raced in awhile!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! It has been a few months since I have posted but I am still knitting and crafting away, drinking cheap wine and running like crazy! I made the leaves and acorns above using patterns by Linda Dawkins of Natural Suburbia. They were spread out on our Thanksgiving Table instead of having a big centerpiece. It really turned out cute.


We had a great holiday. Several of our dear friends stopped by and my dad came to visit us from Colorado. The shirt I am wearing I made in a class at the Urban Craft Center in Santa Monica taught by Christine Haynes.


I have much more to share so I will be back soon!