Big Plans

Well its been a LOOOOOONG time (again) but normally when I show you my craft room all cleaned up ...

then I have something up my sleeve in terms of crafting.  Although I have been up to ALOT of this...

That's not why the craft room is clean (knitting can be done anywhere - and believe me there has been alot of it going on that I'll fill you in on soon).  The craft room is clean so that I can start working on baby bedding :)  Our little man will be here in December and I've got ALOT of work to do!  Starting with making sheets and bumpers for his crib.  I found some amazing fabric from Monaluna (absolutley adore it and it has *almost* the exact colors I had in mind and it also has woodland creatures)

I subsidized the Monaluna with some orange pearl bracelets from Lizy House (Red Letter Day) and some stripes from Children at Play

And I think its gonna work out just BEAUTIFULLY!  :)  I am soo excited.

I still sew...

Burp Cloths (for my favoritest little nephew Drew and his new best buddy, Will)

They each have a matching set of these

Brown is Alexander Henry's Zoo

Green and Orange are Lizzy House's Red Letter Day

And another set for Will

Blues (top and bottom) are Lizzy House's Red Letter Day

Green is Anna Maria Horner's Garden Party

I hope they (or more their styling moms!) enjoy them!

And...if I can get my computer to cooperate tomorrow - eye candy!

A little ditty...

I made this little ditty the other night (in about 15 minutes total including cutting). 

It is so cute and easy!!  I love the fabrics and the fun little bag it made - but I was hoping for a larger size to be a small knitting project bag. 

 (fully opened its only 7"x6" and when you close it the 'pocket' is only 5.5" tall)

I wanted to follow the directions once before I started modifying the pattern - but I have some measurements from a friend's project bag and I'm hoping to try again this week.  I used the tutorial from Sew Mama Sew that Happy Things put together.  It was very simple and made a fantastic little bag.
I used a bit more of one of my absolute FAVE fabrics for the lining...

Lizzy House's Red Letter Day!!

What do you think?!  And what are you working on?  :)

Addi Clicks...wrapped in love

Well, I thought I wasn't going to get much crafting done this weekend since we were going to be gone to Charleston shrimping, but in fact, I got quite a bit done. Friday night (after packing and getting everything ready of course) I managed to find time to finish my interchangeable knitting needle case for my treasured Addi Clicks.


I bought these knitting needles at Knit the last time I was there (which was unfortunately a looong time ago). They had ONE case left and it had my name all over it. I had to have them - I mean an addi for every occasion! Yes, please!



Problem being, I haven't used them (gasp!) b/c they didn't fit in my old knitting needle case so I never had them with me when I started projects - they always ended up on my old needles. Knowing we were going to be in the car this weekend gave me the kick in the butt I needed to go ahead and make a case to properly store these (and take them with me!!) I made this without a pattern and despite lessons learned (ie.. having to tear it apart two, okay three times) I am very happy with the results. Mostly the Lizzy House fabric makes me HAPPY (and its mixed with Michael Miller dots) - but I just LOVE it!



So sewing without a pattern, and making something crafty for my crafty stuff - what a way to start the weekend - AND there is more to come!!