By Denise, on November 30th, 2008%
7 years ago today I stayed up all night long to have a beautiful little baby boy.
I haven’t gotten any sleep since! (Especially for the first 15 months of your life!)
You are my quiet thought filled insomniac of a son!
I love you buddy!
Happy Birthday Julian!
(yep that ‘Oobie eyes’ ring never leaves . . . → Read More: A Birthday Boy
By Denise, on November 29th, 2008%
Recenty Debbie left this comment:
Denise,
Reading about Sharon and seeing Brian’s sleeve bring up two questions for me. Do you always use the mattress stitch when putting your items together? If so, I’m guessing Sharon really helps accomplish this. Does she? Any recommendations if we don’t have a Sharon of our own? A pressing ham . . . → Read More: Solutions on Saturday?
By Denise, on November 28th, 2008%
Not the best photo, but here she is! That’s two sweaters finished for NaNoSweMo (National Sweater Knitting Month)!! Ok.. so I didn’t start them in November.. but hey.. I did all 4 sleeves in November and a good portion of my sweater.. as well as knitting an entire intricately cabled sock!
That’s pretty good for me!
The . . . → Read More: Finished Object Friday: My Sweater!
By Denise, on November 27th, 2008%
By Denise, on November 26th, 2008%
By Denise, on November 25th, 2008%
In my sweater the main stitch pattern was a eyelet garter ridge.
This is really easy to do on a knitting loom. I gave it a try.
(This is a photo of what the stitch looks like.. my loom knit swatch is still missing!, but it did look like this! So Sorry!)
Here’s what I did:
Rows 1-10 knit! . . . → Read More: How Tuesday: Eyelet Garter Ridge