Knitted Baby Booties!!!

We can all agree that miniature things are adoooooorable. Think ferocious dog, then think snugly puppy! Think tea pot, then a tiny tea pot charm on a necklace. Picture a book, then a mini journal for your mini thoughts. See -- this game works for anything. Let's continue: Imagine a semi truck hauling past you on the highway, as opposed to a matchbox car. Well - it works for most things.

The point is, no matter what - baby knitwear is a major competitor for the cutest thing ever. And baby booties are on the top fo my list because they can't be anything BUT adorable.

So, I was overjoyed when a friend of mine said, "Can you make baby booties??" Instead of replying, "Well, let's see. I've never made a pair before." I just said, "Of course." We left North Carolina for Washington, D.C. and I knitted busily during the drive. When we arrived the booties were finished and tied with the I-cord bow. I sat them on the dashboard as we drove into the city and "awww....they were so CUTE!!"

Better yet, I met the baby as well!

Here is the sweetie with his papa. Little does he know his feet are going to be very warm and snug on the trip home back to Istanbul.

Traveling and knitting

One thing I find to be so handy about knitting is the fact that you can always make room in your suitcase or backpack for a ball of yarn and knitting needles. My parents often drive me to the airport when I'm leaving for my next adventure and more than once my mom has crammed sock yarn into the last possible empty space in my luggage. She treats the supplies like vitamins, "You can't forget them!" Once there wasn't actually any space left so I just carried it in my hand to the gate and started knitting in the waiting area. Needless to say I've knitted quite a few things while living abroad.

I knitted this orange and blue vest while living in Madrid Spain in 2008.

This was taken in Plaza Mayor on a lazy Sunday afternoon with friends:

knitting on the metro:

During the summer I traveled north from Madrid to Scandinavia by train. I bought the big orange buttons from a shop in Paris. They are a carved flower design and actually sparkle a little.

The finished project:

Handspun, naturally dyed cable sweater

For Christmas in 2006 my mother gave me an I.O.U for "enough yarn to make a sweater." About six months after Christmas she and I found the time to sort through her raw fleeces in her basement studio and I picked out a light chocolate brown and I wanted naturally dyed green, yellow, and peach colors mixed in. The yellow was dyed with onion skins. The green was an over-dye of onion skins with indigo. The peach was a batch of madder root.

I designed the diamond cable pattern by thinking of designs I've seen in stained glass windows. I love stained glass and the cables here remind me of the mortar snaking around the glass pattern.



The sleeves change from solid light brown to the muli-colored darker brown at the elbows and cables follow along the top of the arm to the shoulder.



This has become my everyday sweater, perfect for wearing over a t-shirt with jeans. I finished the sweater while taking a jewelry making concentration at Penland School of Crafts in the spring of 2007.

Christmas Hat

I made this hat as a Christmas present and though it is almost springtime I haven't seen the top of his head since!!


View from the top:

These beautiful photographs were taken by Suzanne Tenuto based in Philadelphia. See more of her photos at: http://www.suzannetenuto.com/

The dress is finally delivered!

I was commissioned to design and make a knitted dress. Jessica, the recipient, drew a picture of her dream dress on a scrap piece of paper and I taped it into my design journal. After the sketches and measurements were made I set off to knit my first dress. I met with Jessica last Thursday night for dinner and I handed the creation over to her.



hood detail:



border:


Border detail:



hood side view:



Jessica, thank you for the opportunity!!