Honestly, I haven't been completely idle

So much for my good intentions about another post is less than a week.

I will make it up to you by posting lots of pictures (keep in mind my standard of lots of pictures may be different than yours)

Lets start off with some knitting.

Practicing a diamond stitch on a dish cloth.

I've been trying to see if I can knit a pair of baby legs. I've got a model coming over this weekend so we'll see if I'm anywhere near close to the right sizing. I really like this sock yarn. It's uber cute. I decided to just knit these straight across and them seam them as opposed to knitting them in the round. We'll see whether I regret that decision soon enough.

This skirt I made yesterday, it's an elastic waist A line skirt. I followed the directions in the book Sew What Skirts to make this simple but cute skirt. I picked up a meter of this fabric almost two months ago. If I had known what length of skirt I really wanted to make I should have picked up one and a half meters. Since I was a little shy on fabric I decided to finish the hem with bias binding instead of heming the bottom up another inch. The hem sits just above my knees so it's not by any means way to short, I would just prefer another inch or so.

I think it looks fairly cute on, but I don't have any full length mirrors in my house so I can't be sure. I will have to post a picture at some point when I can have someone take one of me in the skirt.

A peek of something I'm making for my SIL's birthday.

And last but certainly not least an adorable picture of Natalie in the dress I made her. (Thanks Jen for letting me post this )

See I have been busy! (kinda, alittle bit, sorta)

Day Seven of Eleven

This is the seventh day of eleven I have off from work. And what do I have to show for all this time off?

Well I would be lying if I said I had a whole bunch of projects to show for my time off. But I do have freshly painted window frames on the outside of my house. So I have been up and down ladders and hanging out windows, and it's basically all done except for some scraping of paint off windows. I haven't done it all alone, Mom was here to give me a hand and of course I really appreciate it.

When we haven't been painting Mom and I were both working on some knitting. So we did get a little crafting time in.

As I promised in the last post here is another tea towel creation. This time a tote for my mother-in-law as part of her Mother's Day present. She hasn't got it yet, we're celebrating with her this weekend with a nice dinner out.

This one isn't lined at all but I did use french seams so it is still a nicely finished product.

The other tea towel bag from two posts ago became a part of my Mom's Mother's Day gift. She's already using it to carry around her knittitng.

Hopefully I will be back in less than a week with something new to show.

Check it Out

Check out this blog for all her great giveaways for Mother's day.
It's quite a line up.

I will be back soon with another tea towel creation.