Beatrice Start

I started making the Beatrice shrug from Berroco with a dark teal who's previous project got scrapped. I thought I'd document the WIP. I'm very excited about the dolman sleeves, and I could see this being a very useful design.



If it turns out well, I'll try another with the nicer yarn and do the stripes. So far I'm very pleased with it, I just wish the iPhone would capture the color correctly...

Here is the pattern

I have to say, this pattern reads a lot more complicated than I would've thought. But now that I have the sequence down, it's not so bad.

And here's some cuteness. It was pointed out that I post more pictures of Casper than the other two, so here's Marms using her cat mat from the east coast. This is rare because she usually prefers a piece of paper to any fancy cat bed I've given her =)

Photo Sets

My photo-a-day attempt didn't work for a couple of reasons. Mainly, I'd get so busy that at the end of the day I'd realize I hadn't taken my photo yet, and then the available lighting options were less than ideal.

So I decided to mix it up a little, and do groups of themed pictures which span a few days or a week.

The first one is "Sky"

These are from last week, with the exception of the sunrise over my house, which was taken in January.

Crocheting in the Air

Well that was a one-skein flight! On the first leg of our trip home, about 5 hours long, I made a bottle carrier, a coffee cozy (which I re-worked 3 times, for one reason or another,) and a set of four coasters.

I used nearly all of my skein, and I love this yarn! I've never used it before. It's Berroco's "Comfort," an acrylic/nylon (lightweight) worsted weight yarn. Feels very nice to work with, more like cotton than acrylic.

Ok, off on the second leg! This is blogging on the run :)


-- Posted From My iPhone

Sox!

A water bottle tote in Berroco Sox? Yes, please!



This will look fabulous with my tall stainless steel bottle.

My supervisor changed shifts, and Rumpus approves of the work so far.

Brown Shawl and Gloves

I'm absolutely thrilled with this fingerless gloves pattern:

http://www.crochetme.com/media/p/90002.aspx


I love the thumb shaping. It's so simple, but it's brilliant!


I modified it a little since I had a different sized yarn and hook. It's Lion's Fisherman's wool and will match the "everyday" shawl I'm making myself in my favorite shawl pattern.


They work up very fast, especially if you have a helper cat.


This is Quartz, supervising and providing quality control.

Mother's Day Shadowbox

I made this for my mother-in-law. I got the idea from a 4-square box with the hat, fence, and a tiny glove that I saw in a local German restaurant. I had a blast putting it together and intend to try other variations.










I knit the tiny swatch, where I discovered that bamboo skewers are very rough to work with.

Right now we're on the east coast visiting my husband's parents, and taking the first more-than-weekend vacation since our honeymoon two years ago.

So relaxing :)

Cinnamon Roll Cookies and Easter Lilies

Wow, it's been over a month! Sometimes life gets too busy to sit down and write about it. Here are a couple sites I wanted to share.

Sugar Cookie Cinnamon Rolls that look absolutely fabulous. I haven't tried them yet, but I think I will have to sometime this summer.

Those of you with toddlers will appreciate this article on modifying girls' clothes. Some very cute ideas in there...

And finally, I've been busy with photography work, both personally and professionally. I've been meaning to start up a photo-a-day set on Flickr, but never seem to get around to it... My (weak) excuse was that it should be started on January 1st.

Bah! Forget tradition, here's my first photo

And here is the daily photo set, just in case it should actually prove interesting.