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Heartfail for Mama, Baby, and Dollie

Eloise was asking me for a scarf, and apparently people outside the rock I live under have been making cowls for children, so I took some stashed Caron Simply Soft and some stashed Moda Dea Kickx and made this fuzzy cowl for Eloise.

Started another Clapotis years after my last one.

And I've been spinning, like, on a WHEEL!!!!!

Some cute baking...

Yum!  A pain in the butt with the layering, but mix all six colors with food coloring, and dribble in with a spoon.  It's 20% cooler.


And I finally finished that Pinwheel!!!  Took forever!!!!  Not b/c it was too hard to knit, b/c everything that could possibly get in the way GOT IN THE WAY!!

Spring Break

So I'm on spring break this week.  So far everyone has been sick.  Eloise is feeling better today, so I'm planning on taking her out. 
I've been continuing work on the Pinwheel Sweater for Eloise out of tonal Berroco Ultra Alpaca.

I'm done with the one sleeve and finishing the next.  I also started work on my first colorwork project in a while.  I'm using the grid from Hestapeysa by Ístex Online Patterns and doing a top down cardigan in Vickie Howell's Sheepish.  I really like the yarn, but I really feel I'm doing a poor job on the colorwork.  I was once taught by an amazing knitting instructor to not go beyond, say, six stitches without using the second color again.  I'm going way beyond six, so I'm twisting in the back, but I'm still weirded out.



I'm back...

and i think for good...for no other reason than I used this blog today to look up something we'd gone through a few years back...like I was looking in a diary...so that's what I think I'll do...
ok...knitting
Elvira

That's Eloise modeling her dress made out of Arucania Nature Wool Multi.  She is two point five now, just went for her 2 and a half year visit today. 

 Here she is again.  She's now in the 80th percentile for height and 90th for weight.  She is 37 inches tall and weighs 34 lbs.

And this is her pinwheel, the second one I've started for her.  She out grew the first one in cotton tots from Bernat before I could finish it:)
This one is out of Berroco Ultra Alpaca...part of the last purchase I made at my favorite yarn store, Stix n Stitches in Montclair, NJ, before it closed down:(