Merry Presents Day!

I wish you all a lovely winter solstice celebration of your choice, and may you be richly gifted with everything you wish for!

Baby Overall

So, once you've found a pattern that you're happy with, that you've got the hang of sewing, that fits pretty well and lends itself to all kinds of fun decoration, what's the next logical step?

Change it, of course!

Because happy though I am with the two buttoned rompers, in the depths of my baby-clothes-I-was-given-by-lovely-people box, I found something even better: a romper with buttoned legs and sleeves!

Now I know you're probably bouncing in your chair, squealing with excitement over this game changing discovery, so I won't keep you in suspense for much longer. I didn't want to cut this one up, so I did my best to reverse-engineer it into a sewing pattern, and the result:

I like it. A lot. If it handles well in daily use, this may actually become my go-to baby garment. The pattern still needs some fine tuning, but luckily I have accumulated roughly a bajillion different baby compatible fabrics to experiment with.

And as an aside, will you look at these stars?

Aren't they delightfully pointy? (In some places at least...) I experimented with reducing the stitch width around the points, and I'm quite happy with the result.

So in conclusion: Success!
Pattern: My own
Fabric: Sweat (buttinette)
Buttons: Kam Snaps (snaply Nähkram)

Mittens

Lately it’s been getting mighty cold outside (or so it seems to my should-have-reincarnated-in-Australia self). So I finally dug the winter accessories out from the attic, and promptly dug them back in when I realized that nothing fit anymore. Which is, of course, the best possible excuse anyone could wish for hunkering down with some knitting:

Found a nice and simple pattern on Ravelry that I followed pretty much exactly (except I changed the tip of the mittens to one I liked better. And I skipped out on the single increase at the beginning of the palm, because I didn’t see the point and I like my stitches to be nice and symmetrically distributed on the needles. But other than that, pretty much exactly) and now at least kid1 will have warm hands for one more season.

They knit up pretty quickly, too - the second mitten was knit almost entirely while watching Catching Fire (which, by the way, I enjoyed every bit as much as the first movie; Plutarch was really great and I absolutely fell in love with Johanna), so as knitting goes, that was pretty much instant gratification.

My conclusion: Success!

Pattern: Ravelry Classic Mittens
Yarn: Red Heart Lisa (Colour Ozean Mouline)

Christmas Season is Coming...

And just in time for the first Sunday of Advent (Sunday morning, to be precise), I got it done:

Our Christmas colours this year are once again red and gold (when I ask the boyfriend, it always is red and gold). And I admit it kind of looks like I phoned it in this year, but that was really all the creative fulmination I could manage.

But kid1 seems to like it and the cats always enjoy the All You Can Eat salad bar, so I’m happy :-)