Yeah so my summer off of sewing, knitting and crafting...well I obviously was not in my right frame of mind. I had zero time to knit or sew, becuase if I wasn't nursing I was sleeping.
Ok, so now fall is here and I have my Ravelry favorites all stocked full of fun things I want to try.
I am thinking that for Christmas I might try to go handmade. I got the idea to do dishclothes and tribbles from one of my new fav podcast "Knit Together" It is a genious idea and I am not sure why I haven't thought about that before.
Right now I am working on a baby sweater for baby Kate. So far I have had to rip it out once b/c I find myself knitting whatever the heck I feel like knitting and completely straying from the pattern.
So the sweater is
Ripple Eyelet Baby Sweater and I am using Deborah Norville Serentiy Worsted Weight yarn in green. I saw it at Joann Fabrics on clearance for $1.97 so I grabbed it and it is working great for this swaeter.
Since I will have plenty left over I just might make her a hat and booties with the same yarn.

Getting back in the groove

Ok, so I wandered away from my precious blog for about a year, I was well quite busy....Now I am in my 9th month of preganancy and will have the summer off, so what better to do than to sew, knit, crochet, etc! Which means I will have plenty of new creations to post to my blog.
Yes I will be busy with a new baby, but I will be sewing, because if this little child inside of me is a girl, I have a whole summer lined up of doing nothing but making baby clothes! Woohoo!

Sewing Clothing...

Is something I think I may be interested in learning more about..It doesn't look to difficult...I guess if I can follow a pattern I should be ok..
My only problem...There are so many absolutly adorable things out there for girls...But what is there out there for boys? And maybe I am just looking to hard since all I have found were shorts and shirts, and well that is all my child wears...so maybe I don't need to look any farther than You Can Make This.

TWell's Quilt

Well here it is..the Quilt is finished! Well here is the top laid out, but not yet sewn together. I am slacking and haven't taken any pictures of the completely finished version..But right now it is up on my son's bed, getting plenty of use.


Well after my little boo-boo when cutting the fabric for my son's quilt, I dug it out, got a little creative and was able to make the rest of the blocks that I needed. I am hoping this weekend that I can finish the top....Poor kid...I didn't think he was going to get the quilt finished before he started college.

Tote

Since today was hot, I spent most of my day in front of my sewing machine and TWell played quietly in his play room so I had a few hours of me time.
I had some fat quaters lying around and decided to try my hand at putting together my own pattern and make myself a new purse.
I am a big fan of Tote style purses, so I whipped this up in no time. It took a total of three fat quaters to make, and since I stock up when they are on sale, total this bag cost me may five or six dollars when it was all said and done.
Since it was easy to make I will definately be making more and will attempt to put pockets and maybe a zipper in my next one.
With the left over fabric I have I will make a wallet or wristlet to match.
I think I will lovingly name this bag the "The Betsy Tote"

Who loves their puppy?

A friend of mine does...Audrey, a peppy little Springer Spaniel will be celebrating her birthday Today.
Her Mom who loves her dearly will be throwing her a Doggyrific Birthday Bash, complete with an agility course and cake! What dog could ask for anything better?
You may be asking, well what kind of party favors would one give to their doggy guests???? Doggy Bandanas!
I was more than happy to make these bandanas for the pups, they were fun to make, and very quick and easy.

Elevator Etiquette

This has nothing to do with sewing or knitting...This is just something that has been grating on my nerves for the past few days.
I work in an office building with 32 floors, so we have many elevators in our building are in use all day everyday. One thing I have noticed in the five years of being in this building is that office proffessionals have little or no elevator etiquette..is there even such a thing? If not there should be...and I would be happy to write the rules on how to act while waiting for an on an elevator...they would go something like this:
1) Do push the elevator call button once, not two, four, eight, or 49 times. The elevator will come...This is call being patient.
2) Once the elevator arrives do not crowd around the unopened door...I will bet 9 times out of 10 there are people on the elevator that would like to get off, just as much as you would like to get on. So if you crowd the opening door then everyone just stands there looking at each other, the doors close and the people wanting to get off end up taking another ride...Nobody wins.
3) Do not try to get onto the elevator before the people get off. Really I don't think this needs explaining, but well many people do lack common sense. Listen, let the people get off the elevator, because all you are doing is creating a traffic jam. Then you are ticking the exiters off and you causing all sorts of mass hysteria...This falls under the lesson on how to be PATIENT!!!
4) Do not crowd the elevator! This is actually should have been my number 1! Most elevators (unless it is a frieght elevator..which is intended for frieght) only hold maybe 8-10 people comfortably. If you notice that everyone's personal space in the elevator is being infringed upon by their elevator neighbor...DO NOT GET ON!!!!! Do not say Oh there is room for just one more, do not say I can...just... squeeze.. in...here...I (who always seems to end up in the way back corner) can only hold my breath for so long to keep from smelling the 90 different clognes and purfumes creating a toxic mixture threatening a pounding headache that is sure to ruin my day.
5) This rule falls under anywhere I may have to be exposed to your phone conversation. But I find it is most annoying in the elevator..the bathroom is the second place....Do not under any circumstances use your cell phone while on an elevator...****News Flash**** you won't get a signal! I barely get a signal on the most used highway in Connecticut! What makes you think you will get a signal in the elevator?!?!?!?! Kindly tell the person, I am getting in the elevator, I will call you back when I am in a location that I won't bother anyone! This is how a typical elevator cell phone conversation goes: " I know , can you believe it? she went out with him, that is so crazy, I can't belie...hello? can you hear me? are you there? what I can't hear you. WHAT WAS THAT? I AM IN THE ELEVATOR, CAN YOU HEAR ME? WAIT YOUR BREAKING UP..WHAT? HOLD ON, I WILL CALL YOU WHEN I GET TO MY DESK" Now really..tell me is that NECESSARY?!?!?!?!?! NO IT ISN'T!!!!!
6) If there is only two of us in the elevator, do not stand right next to me, if I can feel your breath on my shoulder you are too close...If I extend my arm and I hit you...you are too close...move over..
7) When exiting the elevator, be polite let the person in front of you get off before you barging your way through...that split second that it takes to be kind and let someone off who IS IN FRONT OF YOU! won't ruin your day or make you late...if you are running late...then you will still be late!
Ok..there I feel better now.........Next rant will be the use of public restrooms..that is another topic that just pops my bubbles...