Thanks and updates

First of all, thank you to everyone who bought the Twisty Trousers pattern in January and February. I sent a $30 donation to Doctors Without Borders last week with the proceeds from those sales!

Capella is gearing up for a Grand Re-opening! We've beefed up our line-up to 17 vendors offering a wide variety of items--whatever you want, whatever you need, whatever you can imagine. We we be re-opening on April 19 at noon EDT. I have a few tricks up my sleeve and really need to get in gear to start working on the items I'll be stocking. Because of the big re-opening, I've cut back on custom orders for this month and next, but I hope to be taking on plenty of custom orders again in May.

Their Own Knitted World's April stocking with Mosaic Moon is going to be really exciting! We'll be offering something you truly haven't seen before. Morwenna is, as always, a dyeing genius.

I've been writing again...keep your eyes peeled for a new pattern (Braided Britches) that I hope to release in April!

Right now I'm finishing up a couple of custom orders, then a couple of things for my own kids for Easter and for my toddler's upcoming birthday. Then on to some cute new stuff for the Capella re-opening!

It's International Babywearing Week!

This week is International Babywearing Week! I don't generally plan to write a lot of stuff here that's not related to knitting, but babywearing is something very near and dear to me. I have three children, and have worn them all; my 4-year-old still occasionally asks to "go on your back" and my 17-month-old has been worn at least part of every day of his life by his daddy or me. Babywearing is one of the absolutely best parenting decisions we ever made, in so many ways. If you're interested in learning more about babywearing, the link above is a great place to start. The forums at TheBabyWearer were my online "home" for several years, as well.

In honor of IBW, here are some of my favorite babywearing pictures of my family:










As this year's theme says..."Close Enough to Kiss":

Simple pleasures

I love knitting cables. I love working with gorgeous hand-dyed colorways. Sometimes I even love doing both at once. But sometimes...simple is better. I have quite a few cool and funky and interesting pairs of longies planned for my toddler for this fall/winter. But I also wanted to be able to dress him in a nice solid pair of "slacks" without having to give up our wool to do so. So I whipped up the plainest, simplest pair of longies I've ever done--solid navy blue Cestari with an elastic waist and a half-linen stitch cuff:



The XL brown Twisty Trousers are still in progress...I'm on the second leg but I haven't taken a picture since I took this one yesterday morning:


I also cast on the baby brother pair in Moss green last night since the brown pair is too big to fit in my project bag now and I needed a small project to take with me last night. I'm hoping to get a ton of pictures of that pair as I work on them so I can use the pictures for my Twisty Trousers pattern, which is getting closer and closer to completion.

Quick update, no pictures

My camera needs to be charged, and I can't seem to remember to plug it in until I'm doing something else...like writing a blog post about how my camera needs to be charged.

I finished the longies for my toddler, so yay for his third pair of mama-made longies for this coming fall/winter! They're just very plain solid navy blue Cestari, but they'll be perfect as "slacks" or "jeans" depending on what shirt he has on with them.

I'm halfway through the leg of the XL brown Twisty Trousers for Rhonda! Hoping to finish them by tomorrow evening but I'm a bit under the weather this week and that has slowed me down some.

And now I swear I'm going to submit this post and go straight over to plug my camera in!

Sunday Knitting

In theory, Sunday is my day for personal knitting, but it rarely actually works out that way. This week is no exception, as I have a deadline quickly approaching for September's Their Own Knitted World stocking. So first I did manage to sneak in a few rows of something that's not only personal knitting, but knitting for me--a pair of socks! This yarn was custom dyed for me by my congo-mate Shelly of Bear & Pants to match a favorite baby wrap:

Those are two-at-a-time, toe-up socks and not a very small bikini.

I worked on Emily's Mosaic Moon scrappies for a good while last night and today, and will be starting the first leg tomorrow:

And finally I'm hoping to finish up this pair of newborn longies for the September TOKW stocking...this is Nurturing Threads' "Robin Hood" colorway on silky soft BFL: This will be part of a collaboration with Julie at apples + octopi and will include longies, an appliqued tee, and possibly a hat.

With any luck I will get caught up this week and actually have time to work on some longies for my own toddler next Sunday, but I'm not holding my breath yet.

I'm blogging!

In an attempt to keep my customers informed about my progress and just for the sake of those interested in my process and progress and my life, I'm going to try to start blogging regularly. I'm usually terrible at all types of journaling, though, so bear with me!