Why haven't I been knitting baby sweaters for every little chubby cheeked cutie in the land? Well honestly, I don't want to knit boy sweaters. I want to knit oodles of baby girl Boheme sweaters...
OMG, I'm so serious. I made this one for my hair stylist's new baby girl, Lily. I knit the 12mo size because that "little" sweetheart was 11 lbs at birth. It is knit with Spud & Chloe Sweater in the Waterslide colorway. What dreamy yarn. It's 55% wool and 45% organic cotton. Perfect for a little one. After finishing this one I immediately cast one on for a friend's preschool-er. It's that fun.
In other knitting news. I'm pretty sure Jared Flood is evil. Ok, he's not evil. In fact, I've heard amazing things about him BUT his Rock Island shawl is going to be the death of me. I kid you not, I have started that frickin' frackin' edging eleventy billion times. I'm blaming the pattern and my inability to deal with so many yarn overs. The pattern is blaming the ultra splitty Wollmeise lace yarn. It's a vicious circle. Now you see why I'm goo-goo for easy baby sweaters.
Knitting is going to start taking a backseat to my latest resurrected craft though. I used to do quite a bit of sewing back in the day. Ok, let me tell it like it really is. I used to whip up stacks of charity quilts for kids. 'Sewing' made me sound fancier and better at it than I really am. Sewing quilts for kids doesn't exactly take a lot of finesse but I'm ready to take that next step. I'm ready to sew my own clothes. GASP! I'm pretty sure I'll end up looking like some sort of garage sale reject... but I'm going to be the proudest garage sale reject in Orange County! I even braved Ikea so that I could make my fashion dreams come true. Feast your eyes upon my new sewing area...
That's actually in my bedroom. Yep, my bedroom is ginormous. I live in a townhouse and that bedroom must take up a quarter of the square footage. While I'd rather have a dedicated sewing room, I'm thrilled to have room to set it up where I did and I can't wait to dive into all the fabric cubbies. Now here is where it gets tricky. I have crazy amounts of kid prints and not so many geared towards North of age 9. Don't be surprised if you hear about a crazy lady running the streets in a Care Bears wrap skirt in the near future. Take notice Moe sitting in the chair just trying to see what I might drop in that general area. I'm sure he's thinking that eating thread would be just as fun as eating yarn. If he eats it he's going to have to join the kitty circus in order to pay his own vet bills this time.
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