Gloves from self striping sock yarn

Hooray! I finally finished a pair of gloves with ample pinky room space. I always mess up the little guy, but this time it was a success! A student of mine requested I make him a pair of gloves this summer and I had this yarn laying around from a Joanne's mark down (97 cents a skein). It only took one, so I can make another set like this. I think one of my brothers might like them.

Packages and a Simple Gift

These are all the packages to send out today. A summer's worth of work! I cannot sew at all, but I needed to sew up a gift. I found this great tutorial and used some canvas I had purchased when a Joanne's near my house was going out of business. I love this fabric and was going to make curtains for my brother Andrew (don't worry Andrew, I still have enough for curtains)!

Birthday Gifts

These are two aprons I made for two adorable little ladies that are having birthdays. Packaging them was a blast. The aprons were so simple and I followed a couple tutorials online on making ruffles and the rest just sort of came together.

Enjoy!

Best Birthday Cake & Quilt Day 2

This is a super cool monster quilt my friend Shawn made me

I made this awesome psychedelic cake for the girls~ they're 2 months today!!

Christmas Holly

I made these knitted Holly Pins for my BSF co-leaders using the free pattern on a blog titled Little Cotton Rabbits. I've linked to it before and I absolutely love the site. The pin backs are a little fiddly so getting them sewn together and on the card stock was rough. However, these were a lot of fun and I think they came out looking nice.

All packaged up and ready to go!

Gifts

This years gifts aren't as silly as last year

So I finished bagging up all the Christmas gifts I'm delivering to my family this week. I am pretty proud of myself, everything is made by me! Well, mostly everything. One brother won't use anything I knit so he got jams and an awesome antique store find. Everyone else- homespun!! When I was washing everything and had it laying out to dry Justin wanted me to take a picture and I never got around to it...arg! Oh well, I'll post pictures of the new stuff I'm working on when I get back from California. I still have four more hedgehogs to make, but those will get done on the drive down.

Fran- you're gift is finally done (yeah)!! It's up to Justin to get it sent out while I'm gone. I hope you enjoy it!

5am Productivity

Front of sweater (obviously). Sorry there is no fancy styling

This morning I could not sleep at all. I was up at 4:30 but managed to stay in bed until 5am. I decided if I was getting up then I was going to finish the sweater for my cousin's baby.
I posted the pictures here. I am crummy at finishing so I opted to not put buttons on this Debbie Bliss pattern. We don't know the gender yet so it's kind of mint ice cream color. Not baby mint and not grey but a nice middle shade. The yarn is Sublime from England but is spun and dyed in Germany from organic cotton.

All that's left is washing and blocking. I really hope they like it.