Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just wanted to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

And to get in the Christmas spirit, I made:


Snowman & Christmas Tree Cakes 

TADA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aren't they cute. I made a chocolate "wacky" cake for both of them, Yummy!!!!!!!! I can't wait to eat them.

I also made this cake:


SpongeBob Squarepants 

for a special little boy's birthday, Steven. I think he is really going to like it. It took me about 3 hours last night so he better like it. Just kidding, he will. Who doesn't like SpongeBob Squarepants?

Anyways, thanks to Greta mom is walking around the house carrying this:


Mom & Lobster 

her lobster pot of mohair. I think she really loves it. What do you think?

Anyways, I'm off to eat many more treats I made yesterday. I will add pictures of them later, because I didn't feel like going downstairs into the refrigerator to get them.

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm Done

Ok, so I'm finally done with Molly's Poncho and Hat. This button gave me sooooooooo much trouble. At first I didn't know how I wanted to put it on cause I thought it would look bad, then my mom was looking at it and the button fell on the floor and broke into pieces. Okay, so we head back to the yarn shop and guess what? They're closed. UGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO we get home and my mom calls them cause she swore they were open on Mondays and son of a gun, they were, we had just gotten there before they opened. So my mom went back out to the yarn shop to get the button. Finally I sewed it on and put a snap behind it so that it would stay, and here is how it looks:


The button 

SO after I sewed on the button and wove in all the loose ends, I made this hat for Molly. I think it is really cute. She will probably look like Jupiter in it, because of the rings of colors. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Molly's Hat 

And I'm still working on a scarf for Molly's mom, Mary, it looks like the hat, but in a scarf. I'll put pics up of the scarf later on. But so far here is the whole look. I think Molly is going to look adorable.


Finished 

What do you think? I told my mom, "Now, I want one." LOL!!!!!!!!! She said, "Yeah, in your dreams," just kidding. I couldn't imagine weaving in all the ends for a real people size.

What have I been up to?

Let's see. I think I've been going crazy lately making holiday gifts. Oh well. Here are some pictures from the past few weeks.
Okay, this one is of a Jupiter Shawl I made. The pattern is from my local yarn shop, Yarnings. I think I was going nuts with fringing here. It never seemed to end.


Fringe, Fringe & more Fringe 

And here is Kishka, my darling poodle, showing off the scarf I made him, He jsut won't take it off. I had to convince him that he should before he ate. That didn't go over to well. Oh well. I finally got it off of him. I call it the Tigger scarf because the yarn looks like Tigger from Winnie the Pooh. Isn't it cute? I think the coloring is just right for him.


Kishka's Scarf 

In the next picture, I'm working on a poncho,(while watching Law & Order SVU with my daddy)for a very special, one year old, name Molly (My dad was helping me keep all of the different yarns straight). I kinda used the pattern from the Knitter's but I had to adjust the size. What I did was, instead of making eight scarves, I casted on like 22 stitches and every three to four rows changed yarns, until I got it to how long I wanted it. Then I just sewed it together to make an L shape.


Knitting & Watching TV with Dad 

I also just learned how to sew seams together with the wrong-sides facing. I think it is called matress stitch, but I'm not sure. My mom just finished a sweater out of peace-fleece for a young boy at the rink, Andrew and I sewed it together yesterday. Check out his site. He is really cute and a great skater. It only took 2 long, long hours. Just kidding, it was fun, even though it did take me a while.


Sewing Side Seams 

And here is another picture of me sewing Andrew's sweater together. I think my mom got these pictures when I wasn't looking.


More Side Seams 

And here is a close up of the color's on Molly's Poncho. Don't the colors work great together?


Close-up of Molly's Poncho 

Well, I've gotten this far on the poncho. All I really have to do is sew in all the ends and add fringe. Then I'm pretty much done.


Molly's Poncho 

I'm also going to make Molly a corresponding hat, and I'm making her mom a scarf. Should be fun. But I haven't started those yet. I've been too busy, as you can see. Off to knit.