Knitty Gritty Thoughts

Brrr! Baby it's cold outside!

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Brrr! It's cold out there today! I'm freezing to death over here and I'm trying to keep warm by keeping my fingers busy. I've been busy knitting away on my advent calendar project. My custom advent tags from Polka Stripe Studios just arrived. So darling! They fit just perfectly!

I've been sewing up a storm to the tune of a few gathered clutches for christmas gifts. This is a really cute project - I had skipped over it when it first came out because it look too complicated to me. Turns out, it's easy! The steps are very basic and it takes you through the process step by step to make a totally amazing clutch.

And, I finally finished my Christmas hanging redwork! This is very exciting - I've been in progress on this for over 2 years so it's a great feeling to know it will be hanging from my wall soon to enjoy during the Christmas season. Next step is to figured out the borders and backing and get it put together!

Happy Tuesday!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here...

I'm totally smitten (with a mitten!) - a new advent calendar pattern by Emily.  You can download the free (!) pattern off the knitpicks website.  I'm using that brand new yummy shelter yarn by BT I was telling you about.    I'm super happy with the way it's turned out, I'm using 4 colors, natural cream, grey (sweatshirt), red and green.  There will be 6 mittens in each color for a total of 24. 

It's sunny in AZ today!

I've also had some pretty redwork in my lap, trying to finally finish it in time for the holidays. 

Here's a peek - it's a cute design with some kids making a snowman amongst the trees.   Very old fashioned styling.  I'm picturing some sort of fabric framing with small squares immediately around it and then a larger rectangle all the way around.  I haven't decided if I want to quilt the border or leave it plain or???  Any advice would be welcomed! :)

Happy Wednesday!

 

Wee & Me

A few days ago I was lucky enough to get a Wee Wonderfuls stitchette pattern set and couldn't wait to get started.  It's my first time embroidering although I've done 1 cross-stitch and had no idea where to start.  Today I went and gathered my supplies.

Supplies:
Embroidery Hoop (6" for these patterns)
DMC floss in assorted colors
Plain fabric to transfer the pattern
Hand-sewing needles

I found instructions here, very handy!  Printed them out and I was split-stitching in no time.  Here's my progress so far.

This evening as I was suring the web I found another in progress here, fun!