Project Dating Profile - 5kcbwday2

This week I am participating in the 5th annual Knit and Crochet Blog Week, hosted by Eskimimi Makes. Today's topic is to write a dating profile for a project.

Name: Mitt Envy

Age: 5 months

Description: 6 inches tall. Colorful with a little bit of a dark side. A little bit complicated

Likes: Traveling - been traveling since an early age as a skein of yarn beginning in Iowa and traveling through Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico before heading to Arizona. Cold weather, but not too cold. An office that has the thermostat too low or a nice, sunny December day in Arizona is perfect.

Dislikes: Weather that is too hot or too cold. Doesn't like playing in the snow, but can't stand the heat.

Looking for: A warm weather knitter, who occasionally needs a little warmth. A sentimental knitter who will look at me and smile when she thinks about where I came from.

For other knitters' profiles, just search 5kcbwday2.

 

A Day in the Life of... - 5KCBWDAY1

Today kicks off Knitting and Crocheting Blog Week, hosted by Eskimimi Makes. The first topic is A Day in the Life of a Project. Since I tend to give away a lot of what I make I thought I would describe what life is like for one of my WIPs.

The Story of a Sock

As a sock to be, I am a very portable project. That means I get dragged around and plopped down everywhere until I am done. However I have had a more adventurous life than many of my fellow other socks. I was started the weekend before Mother's Day by a crazy knitter who thought there might be a chance of finishing a pair in a week for her mother, even though she had never done that before.

For the first two days I grew quickly, first ribbing, then cuff. Then life got interesting. I traveled in a purse to the doctors office, to occupy the knitter while she waited with her son to see the orthopedist - J broke his arm the previous week and was going in for a follow up appointment. Turns out he needed to go to the surgery center to get a few pins in his arm the next day. So that night I was knitted on quite a bit as the knitter couldn't sleep well, worrying about the next day.

On Tuesday I was crammed in the purse again, and travelled to the surgery center (along with a bunch of toy cars). I mostly sat in the purse, but did get worked on for a few minutes, while the knitter was sitting next to my intended owner. (Luckily she had no idea what the knitter was up to and thought the socks were for the knitter herself.) Then I went home and mostly sat on the table next to the knitter while she watched her son sleep, occasionally growing by a row.

At this point the knitter realized it was madness to try and finish both socks by Sunday so things slowed down a little bit. I was worked on some throughout the week and finished on Saturday evening. I was promptly put in a basket with some other goodies and a note pinned to me saying "IOU 1 sock". Unfortunately in her haste, the knitter neglected to take a picture of me.

I was taken out of the basket on Sunday afternoon, and tried on by my owner. I'm pretty sure that now I will get to relax a little as I wait for my other half.

To read other Day in a Life adventures, search 5KCBWDAY1.

So this happened this week

My poor baby broke his arm!

He's being a good sport about it (this pic was taken a few days after it happened) but I feel so badly for him!

 

Tiny Bunnies (part 2)

I finished my bunny nugget set this week - well technically on Sunday. On the Wednesday before Easter I had the idea to knit my nieces, nephews and kids little bunnies for Easter. Just a fun little project using up scrap sock yarn that probably would have been more enjoyable if I had decided more than four days ahead of time (I needed seven total).

By last Friday I had finished these two guys and had almost finished a third one (I talked about them here)

By the end of Friday, I had two more done:

I realized I was running behind by that point so I was pretty attached to my knitting. Unfortunately I had other things to do too, so by Saturday night I was really crunched.

I switched to sort of an assembly line style - first the three remaining bunny bodies, then do all three tails, then all three faces, etc. I actually ended up finishing them at my mom's house shortly before our egg hunt. I was so glad I made it - the only bummer is I never did get a picture of all the bunnies together.

The stragglers:

One last bunny:

Somebody (some bunny?) talk some sense into me if I try to last minute knit like this again!

For more finished objects check out Tami's Amis!

 

Easter brownie bites

I knew I wanted to make a dessert for Easter this year - holidays always seem like a chance to bust out something fun. I had an idea that started forming after I did the cupcakes for C's birthday party. (I wanted the cupcakes to look like grass and dirt so I did chocolate cupcakes and piped buttercream frosting to look like grass.) I realized I could sort of do the same thing for Easter just by adding some embellishments.

I changed it up a little and made brownie bites instead of cupcakes (truthfully I like brownies way better than cake). I found the most amazing recipe for brownies on All Recipes - to turn it into to bites, I just shortened the baking time to 15 minutes.

Then came the fun part. I made a basic buttercream frosting (3/4 cup of sugar beaten with vanilla until smooth, add 2 1/4 cups of powdered sugar a little bit at a time, add 1 tbps of milk to thin it slightly) and added green food dye to give it a pale green color. I piped this onto my brownies using a star tip. Then I added two candy eggs to the top - I used the Hershey's ones for half and the Reese's one for half. If I had to pick, I'd give a slight edge to the Reese's ones; the peanut butter was a really nice contrast.

I'm really excited that they looked as good on the plate as they did in my head plus they are so yummy!

 

Tiny bunnies

I had a "brilliant" idea a couple of days ago to make little bunnies for my boys and my nieces and nephews for Easter. Why I wait until the last minute for inspiration to strike, I'll never know.

I'm using Rebecca Danger's bunny nugget pattern which is so super cute but also knits up really fast. I'm doing the nuggets in all different colors of sock yarn leftovers so they are really tiny. Seriously they are the size of my palm.

One bunny...

Two bunnies...

I'm almost finished with the third (he just needs ears and stuffing). Numbers 4, 5, 6, and 7 will hopefully go as quickly - I'll post a pic of the whole group next week.

For more finished objects, check out Tami's Amis

 

So this happened today

 

Seriously, it's too early for this