I finished stuff this weekend

Several things to report. Saturday felt like a knitting day, so I finally learned how to graft toes; now Sock One is done. Check out that toe:



Next. My darling nephew Daniel is turning 3 tomorrow, and so I made him a funny wee bunny birthday present, seen here in overly dramatic morning light:



I used the very simple and clearly hilarious wee bunny pattern, available free from Wee Wonderfuls.

It was also my friend Jane's birthday on Sunday, and I gave her the only other thing that I knit besides socks, which is of course a dishcloth:



As you may or may not know, dishcloths were the first thing I learned how to knit, and in a fit of dishcloth enthusiasm that I'm still not really over, I made one for each member of my family (including the young nephews; I didn't want them to feel left out) for Christmas. You can see all those over here in the archives of Allison's blog.

Hopefully later this week I'll have some blue quilt news to report.

So much for science

I stopped listening to school/science presentations/seminars a couple years ago, during my Master's degree. I still go, though, and I usually find that the time is best spent thinking about some quilt or craft project.

This morning during Fahad's Master's thesis defense I thought about rotating the Red Quilt and about a design for Jess's bag (promised her over a year ago..). See if you can decifer my notes:

Knitten update

I've been knitting my first ever sock (it's Trekking XXL yarn on 2.25mm needles, if you care about those kinds of details, I actually don't so I don't even know why I wrote them down) since just before the Victoria Day long weekend. Then finally, a couple of weeks ago, even though I was thoroughly distracted by the above Kitten, I finished knitting sock one:


I still (still) haven't learned how to close the toe (I'm using the Yarn Harlot's book for the sock "recipe", which I totally love, but she doesn't give specific enough closing instructions for a new knitter like me) so it's still on the needles. Which also means I haven't started sock two (I own only one set of sock needles). I hope I don't lose momentum.

Furthermore, I did a lot of the knitting on that sock while travelling... maybe I need to plan another road trip. NYC, anyone?

P.S. Did you leave this at my house?

It's a spring green North Face windbreaker, and I've had it for a couple of months. Let me know if it's yours (or anyone's you know).

Two new(ish) shirts

My friend Allison reminded me the other day that it's no use having a blog if I never update it. Inspired by her logic, I bought some new rechargeables for my digital camera and now Bob's my uncle (Bob is also literally my uncle; he lives in Oklahoma; you can see him here).

Here are a couple of new shirts I made a couple of weekends ago. I make a lot of my own tshirts using old random fun shirts from Value Village, using other shirts I own as "patterns." It's fun and easy and you can cut up the shirts almost any old way to make interesting use of the text etc. It's a remarkably cheap way to make way cool shirts.

This red one is my personal favourite (the text says 99 Full Throttle).

It was really very difficult to take pictures of myself (I have a newfound respect for all self-photoing bloggers)... Back of the red shirt:

After taking the red shirt photos I finally remembered that I have a tripod and my digicam has a timer. Here is Shirt Two (I wear it every day):

Stay tuned for more crafting updates.

Beginnings

Ok I've made a blog. My main goal is to post pictures of things I make here; I really want to join the Modern Quilt-along at Dioramarama, and I feel that I need a blog to do this.* Who knows what else will happen: stay tuned.

The quilt above is my red quilt project; I've been working on it FOREVER, like over a year. I've got another quilt in the works, too -- it's blue -- you can see a couple of pics here.

*MQA update: I'm not qualified for this particular QA, which is all about quilts from a particular book. Perhaps at some point there will be an Improvisational Quilt-Along (terminology c/o kmel at Dioramarama -- who, by the way, is very nice).