So I finished up a couple of the sweaters with closures and all, and decided to snap a pic of them so I could move them into the finished pile for good. First up I started with a ball each of green and blue Lion brand Baby Soft and came up with this:



For the button I used an "extra" that came with a sweater I bought (and wear!). It was a tight fit at first put with playing with it a little it is going in a bit easier. The pattern calls for a tie but I always felt like that might choke, and be a pain to wash.

Then I used the rest of the blue to make another crocheted sweater, but ran out part of the way through and had to substitute with some white Bernat Baby Coordinates (sparkly!) Here is the end result:



I love this one! My mom says it's too girly with the flower buttons, but I think it'd still be great on a little boy. I mean, hellooooooooo, blue and white. Babies are practically genderless anyways. The flower buttons are still coming from a pack that I bought ages ago. I think the buttons weren't intended for clothes, and each pack had lots of different colored flowers and 3 sparkly ones (a pink, blue, and purple). I bought 3 packs so I had 3 of each and have so far used up all the sparklies. I still have a lot of other flowery buttons left tho. At about $1 a pack, I am getting a lot of use out of this $3 button pile!

I am exhausted from baking (cupcakes!), laundering, and packing tonight as I am off to beautiful Pittsburgh this weekend. The weather is supposed to be terrible, so hopefully I won't do any further damage to my car. Until another day...

Wellll I've finished 3 more baby sweaters, but only 1 is realllly done since I need to put closures on the other 2. They are all crocheted which is how I got them done so quickly, and now I am working up a hat or two to use up the last of my baby scraps. Then I will be down to 2 balls of baby boucle and I think that's it! Hopefully I can get some pics before I head out to PA this weekend...

In other news, I got off work early today and the plans were to get a quick oil change then go home and rest. But the "quick" oil change that was sposed to take 30 mins ended up taking 2 hours and costing $50... UGH. They gave me a free oil change coupon for my trouble, but I don't know if I want to go through the experience again. Besides just the length of the wait and the cost I also had some old people's dog jumping on me cause they brought it and no leash, a freezing waiting room, AND 2 guys wandered in and tried to peddle books and phones. No, I don't live in the ghetto and yes, I hate the people in my town.

Pretty soon I should be starting some exciting projects, if I can figure out what ;) Any suggestions?

Pixie Cables

I finished the baby set earlier this morning. There wasn't much left to do since I was working on it til midnight last night. Without further ado, here is the sweater

I love this pattern but I keep forgetting that the pattern needs some tweaking. I really should write these things down. It came out cute anyways, and I just used some stash buttons in coordinating colors. Cause I don't think baby sweaters really need super expensive matchy matchy buttons :). This was made from Woolease yarn in color "Ivory Sprinkles" that I got ages ago for $.75 a ball. I also made my mom a sweater and socks out of this, and still had enough for both the baby sweater and a hat. I made the largest size for the baby sweater, I think it's 6-9 months.


The hat came out pretty cute too. The tons of seed stitch at the top did get a little bit boring tho.

What is next now that this is done? Another baby sweater/set. I am really trying to burn my baby yarn, ;). Hopefully I will still be able to show pics, if I don't use up all my blogger pic space :)

Super Saturday!

This morning I was awakened when me mom came home (the garage is near my bedroom). So when I got up and told her she had woken me, she said "good, let's go to breakfast and shopping...". Who am I to argue with that? I bought a few things... and when I came home I had this in the mail:

Isn't it beautiful? Marie made it for me as a thank you for the cardigans! I was just glad she liked em, but this little beauty is fabulous. I adore purple and I like how it's all flowersy with the green and the leaves. It matches the fairy on my back :)

I am also about finished with the baby sweater - need to find/sew on buttons and weave in some ends then I will have some pictures of that. Happy weekend all!

I was surfing over at Kim's, and found this neat link for trivia tips about yourself. Of course I had to try it and mine were too funny not to enjoy. Lookie here:

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Tiffany!

1. The Eskimos have over fifty words for Tiffany.
2. Tiffany is the world's tallest woman.
3. A thimbleful of Tiffany would weigh over 100 million tons.
4. If you drop Tiffany from the top of the Empire State Building, she will be falling fast enough to kill before reaching the ground!
5. Ideally, Tiffany should be stored on her side at a temperature of 55 degrees.
6. The horns of Tiffany are made entirely from hair.
7. Tiffany will often rub up against people to lay her scent and mark her territory!
8. Tiffany can only be destroyed by intense heat, and is impermeable even to acid.
9. Pacman was originally called Tiffanyman!
10. Lightning strikes Tiffany over seven times every hour.

I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem

As cool as it is with the eskimos, Pacman, and being nearly invulnerable, I sure do hope a thimbleful of me does not weigh *quite* that much ;). And about marking my territory... erm... well... *blush*

It's better than using Tifffany, I suppose, whereas I get "Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat Tifffany'!" as a piece of trivia... yikes!!!