Tippy Toes and Tantrums

Needing Yarn *and* Ice Cream

I needed some yarn (needed should probably be in quotes, assume that I'm making air quotes around the word as I type), which was the perfect excuse to stop in the holy triangle of food in San Francisco. I got my yarn, then ice cream at Bi-Rite Creamery (salted caramel for me, candy cane for the kids), pizza from Pizzeria Delfina, and a stop at Tartine for snacks for another time.

It's amazing how well the kids handle a yarn errand if offered ice cream as a reward. I was going to write "if offered nice ice cream," but honestly, my kids don't care that much about quality. It could have been a scoop of Thrify ice cream and they would have been happy.

Spin Me a Yarn

Christmas is coming, the needles are getting fat.

FTW, My Christmas Gifts are Finished!

Okay, so this is much less of an accomplishment when I admit these are gifts for Christmas 2009. The decision to knit everyone hand warmers was a good one, it just came a little late. One week before Christmas is no time to make a run to the yarn store. 

(The pattern is an adjusted version of Alice's Mitts by Emily Nims, found on Ravelry.)

The Egg Came First

Made by one of the talented knitting group moms

My egg was made using this pattern from Little Cotton Rabbits. Obviously I took the easy way out and used variegated yarn rather than following one of the more complicated decorative options in the pattern. I plan to (some day...) make another egg, but this time I'll skip or reduce the simple knit and purl section in the middle to see if that makes the eggs smaller, more like chicken eggs than goose eggs.

I'm currently project-less and am feeling the pressure from my fellow knitters to get going. I hope to scrounge up a specific doll pattern and get to work on it, hopefully when our group gets together this Thursday. I fear the doll may go the way of my robot, which means getting pushed so far back to my list of things to do that I forget all about it until reminded by the tough love knitting group.