Peaches and Cream Dress

Pattern: Rainbow Dress by Tikki (rav)
Needles: Size 5 circular
Yarn: Newton's Yarn Country .75 Softball Bulky
This dress is for my niece. I hope it fits....

Magazine holder

I have been meaning to construct some sort of magazine holder for a while, since our bathroom was constantly riddled with loose magazines, and there is no room to place any kind of shelf in there. I had a few grand plans that ended up being dismissed for impracticality. Then I settled on the simplest idea, which was to just recover an old magazine holder that I found at work. Here it is before:

And after:

You might notice a shortage of knitting projects being posted about here on the old blog. That's because the majority of projects I have going right now are top secret. So, just hold your horses! You'll see them soon. (Maybe in a box addressed to you!)

This is a song about a super-turtle named Tony...

...It's called Tony's theme!




Pattern: Sheldon from Knitty
Yarn: Peaches n' Cream in green and greener
This is a gift for my niece for Christmas. As you can see from the pictures, he loves wandering around in our Northwest backyard, but he will just have to adjust to the New Mexico climate. No baloney.

New laptop bag

I have been wanting a better bag for schlepping my laptop (and other various crap--including knitting!) to and from work.
I found a fabulous tutorial for the Hip Mama Diaper Bag and... Viola!





This pattern was very well written and easy to follow. The only mod I made was to omit the addition of one of the pocket panels on the inside of the bag. I used some Amy Butler fabric I got on sale. One could easily omit a few more of the pockets to save on time/complication and fabric, if necessary. I definitely recommend this pattern.

And here is some yarn that I finished spinning a while back from some roving I stole from the ol' sister.


It's pretty, but as is usually the case with my handspun, there is not really enough to knit much of anything with. Plus, I don't really want to knit it. It's so pretty as a skein. Maybe someday.

Yes we did!

We won!
Yes, America, that means that this handsome man will be your next president.



(whistle)