She Seeketh Wool

This Sunday is Mother's Day, so I've been preparing to accompany a song called "Who Can Find a Virtuous Woman" by Wanda West Palmer. At first I was bothered by the line, "She is not afraid of the snow." I'm terrified of the snow, as any wise woman should be, if she has to drive in it. So I looked up Proverbs 31:21, (where the lyrics came from) and it said, "She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet."

So really it's not about the snow, it's about making sure the family is warm, which is awesome because as knitters, that's what we do. But it gets better. Verse 13 says a virtuous woman "seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands" and verse 19 says "She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff."

When I read these verses, I thought to myself, hey I seek wool! Seeking wool is my number one pursuit! I must be a virtuous woman! Of course, there are a lot of traits in that Proverb that I don't have, so I'm not a completely virtuous woman, but I definitely seek wool. And now we have biblical proof that I would be more virtuous if I were to buy a spinning wheel.

Quick Hat

This is a baby present for one of Ryan's clients. He needed something quick, and I'd made this a couple of years ago to see if the pattern was small enough for a newborn (which it wasn't.) So last night I added a little button band, and I was done. Fastest baby gift ever!

Pattern

Hanne's Whirligig

I was having buyer's remorse after letting Hanne pick out this hot pink yarn, but it turned out really great because it matches tons of stuff. Plus she loves pink. And she looks adorable in it.

Here's the pattern

Baseball Beanie

I saw one of these on Pinterest, and I couldn't resist making one. Mine didn't turn out quite as cute as the one that inspired me, probably cuz there's no baby posing in mine. This is the original image that forced me to make a baseball hat:

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As if we all weren't baby hungry enough, people have to go and post stuff like this on the internet!

Whirligig Shrug

I made this Whirligig Shrug out of the Anime yarn Ryan brought back from San Francisco. I wanted to use it to make something for someone who liked Japanese Anime, or at least someone who had some connection to Japan. Then Ryan pointed out that we had friends who were two months away from having a part-Japanese baby with a Japanese name. At first I wanted to knit her a kimono sweater, in keeping with the theme, but this pattern was too cute to pass up.

I had to make Sully model it, cuz he was the closest thing I had to a 6-month-old baby girl. I tried it on the sock monkey, but it had no shoulders, so it looked lame. Isn't it weird that it fits him and it's size 6 months? It's a little small, but still-he's 16 months old!

Sorry Sully! You're still very manly.

The pattern

Poppy Pin

Supposedly they wear these in some other countries on their version of Memorial Day. My sister-in-law is moving to England and she likes to wear pins and she likes poppies. So this was a no brainer of a birthday present.

free pattern

The Real Reason I'm Excited About My New Phone...

Don't get me wrong. The iPhone 4 is awesome. But it's way awesomer with cross stitch on the back!