Don't read this entry, Jessi!

Not until Evan is here and Becca has come to see you, anyhow. :)

I am so very proud of this little knitting project. So proud.  I love it.

I felt like such a schmoe when I took store-bought items to Jessi's baby shower this summer.  I love to make things for babies, and I really didn't think I'd have a chance to get anything finished for Evan before he came into the world.  But since he's currently apparently very satisfied with his womb without a view, I managed to finish this little hat for him.

It's my first knitting project in the round, and it's my first attempt at striping something.  I think it went well on both accounts.

The stalk on the top isn't quite as large as it appears in the picture.  It's just the angle, I think.  And I stuck my hand in the photo for a size reference.

I have a couple of other projects in the works at this point, but I probably won't have photos up for a while.  Both projects are scarves, and both are taking much, much longer to complete than I anticipated.  I'll get them done, though.  Two more weeks.  :)

Scarves and Curtains and Skirts, Oh, My!

So I have been doing a lot of knitting lately. I'm getting ready to start on my first non-square-or-rectangle project, so I'll post that in a few weeks when I'm done.

In the meantime, here's a look at three scarves I've done recently. I currently have two more on needles waiting to be completed.

I also recently completed a few projects for my kitchen. I used to have little shutters in the set of double windows in the kitchen eating area. Bill really wanted them to go and be replaced by curtains, and we found these great shower curtains at HomeGoods. We bought two, thinking that we'd be able to use one for the double window, and I could cut up the other one to make a valance for the window over the sink and a skirt to go around the craft cart to hide all its messy crafty goodness.

Yeah, well, the best laid plans. I needed both curtains for the double window, and when I went back to HomeGoods the other three were all gone. I checked out clearance curtains at Pier 1 and several other places as well as clearance fabric at JoAnn and Hobby Lobby. Nothing was quite as nice. Then, when my mom was visiting, we took a chance on the HomeGoods in Carmel (I had gone to the one in Castleton), and lo and behold! There was one more curtain.

So I made my valance and cart-hiding skirt. And the bonus of using something that's already finished? The sides and bottom or top were already finished for me. SCORE!

Now, technically, I didn't make the curtains for the double window. But I did hang up the curtain rod--something I'm becoming very, very good at.