let's get started

<-- What i'm doing in almost all pictures of me. This is my wedding in 2001.





Maybe a good place to start is by showing you some of my projects that i've done over the last few years.

I made this for my daughter Mariah on her 4th birthday. She was going to be a big sister and to make her feel a little better about not being the baby anymore we remodled her room into a "big girl" room.

The dress in the middle ended up finding it's home on a Cabbage Patch Kid of my friends daughter. The dress on the bottom took me about 3 weeks. It's done with #10 thread and I searched forever for the pattern. It's in a discontinued book called Frilly Frocks. Since then, I have made one more (pictured on my Gypsy monster) and have had yet another sitting in a bag to "work on when I have time."

Lately I've just been trying to get rid of my leftovers. I went and bought a set of 50 knitting needles and have been using 5-6 strands of whatever I have (some even sort of match!) and making scarves. Maybe I should have done that BEFORE winter started. Oh well.

I've also been making shrugs and boleros. I made this awsome shrug last month. I even ordered the yarn so it was exactly the same colors (reminds me of my 70's baby blankie!) and it's soooo soft. One thing I found out... winding hanks into balls by hand is a real pain. Maybe I should invest in a ball winder... hmmmm.