Knit Pullover Sweater for My Grandson

I knit this sweater for my 5-year old grandson using Lion Brand's Pound of Love yarn. It's a pattern called  Leif's Sweater from the book, "Knit Along with Debbie Macomber: Cedar Cove Collection".

I made this sweater a large size on purpose so that my grandson might get to wear it both this winter and next winter too.

 

It's knit in a basketweave stitch and seed stitch.

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Elephant Quilt

My daughter wants to decorate her dining room using Indian motifs. She has a couple of Ganesha statue nick knacks already, so I thought I would make her an elephant quilt. So I found some elephant ideas online and designed this quilt. I free-motion quilted it, added hand embroidery, sequins and flowers with buttons in the 4 corners.

Indian elephant quilt I made for my daughter.

Close look at the sequins and quilting.

Closer look at the elephant and quilting.

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Quilting Blogger Give-Away Winner is...

...AlessandraLace from Italy! Congratulations Alessandra. She is a new follower too and it was her second comment telling me that she was a new follower that landed her in the lucky number 96 spot that the random number generator picked. I emailed Alessandra the pdf tutorial.

I want to welcome new followers to my blog and hope you enjoy seeing my future posts. To my long time loyal followers, I want to thank you for continuing to visit my blog.

If you didn't win the strawberry tote bag, you can purchase the bag through Craftsy here.
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Quilting Blogger Give-Away Time

 

It's Quilting Gallery's 5th birthday and several blogs are participating by having give-aways on their blogs.  (click on the blog hop party button above to find all the participating blog links) I am joining in and having a give-away here too. Anyone who wants a chance at winning just has to leave me a comment no later than midnight (EST) December 15th to be in on the drawing. If you are a follower of my blog you can leave me a second comment for another chance at winning.

I am giving away one pdf tutorial for making the Strawberry Bag, pictured here:

Strawberry tote bag. The tote bag is stuffed into the strawberry and opens into a tote bag when opened. Makes great gifts and you can keep one in your purse to have a bag with you whenever you need one.

Good luck everyone! But if you don't win this or would like to purchase my easy step-by-step pdf pattern right now please go to my Craftsy Store. Thank you. Enjoy the Blog Hop.


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And the winner is...

...Rebeckah Austin who said: "Congrats on the 300!!! Good for you! I like how you have different tabs for different things, also that your blog is simple. It takes no time at all to load. I follow via google reader".

Congratulations Rebeckah. I have emailed you.
Thank you to all who follow my blog.
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Pajama Bottoms

I made these pajama pants for my daughter's boyfriend. My daughter bought the fabric and I made the pants. He likes Chinese dragons and this fabric was perfect.

I found this flannel fabric when I was at JoAnn Fabrics one day and there was just enough fabric to make these pajama pants. So I made these for my daughter. Both these pj bottoms are gifts for Christmas, so I hope they don't look at my blog.

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Red Knit Cardigan Sweater

This was an easy-to-knit pattern and I love how it looks. I used a wool yarn in variegated red (with touches of gray and burgundy). Remember the pinwheel sweater I knit a while back that didn't fit in the arms? Well this is the yarn I ripped out from that sweater. Yes, I ripped out that entire sweater! That's the one good thing about yarn is that you can start over again if you make a mistake or just don't like how your creation is turning out.
The sleeves of this cardigan came out too long (I should have measured and tried this sweater on more carefully). So I did end up ripping out the lower portion of the sleeves and re-knitting it shorter. I think I must have T-Rex arms and not gorilla arms, lol! I need to knit a larger size to fit in the bust as that's the biggest part of me, so the arms and everything else tends to be too large and I need to adjust everything else smaller in those other areas.

Here's a tip for wool knits: soak your wool knitted garment in cool water that you have added hair conditioner to the water and let sit for at least an hour. Then block your garment as usual. The hair conditioner makes the wool feel much softer and it smells great too. I use a good quality hair conditioner that I buy at places like Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, or other natural food stores. Good quality hair conditioners contain essential oils and other good ingredients rather than chemicals and artificial fragrances which are found in cheaper mainstream products. I have chemical sensitivities, so I only buy the good quality products.

Here's my newly knit cardigan. I bought the Mama Bear Cardigan pattern on Craftsy.

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