granny squares are awesome

I love granny squares. I love all the great things you can do with them and I love making them. Here are but a few of my favs..

Granny Square throw pillow from Ravelry



Granny Square baby booties from Ravelry


Granny Squares Basket

I really need to make this basket. I'm lying awake at night thinking of all the storage possiblities..

talk about good timing!

As my knittingness hits its peek, well don't I just come across this! Now that I can combine my love of decorating with wool, I think I might be unstoppable! {evil laugh}

The wonderful Life Through The Lens blog posted this tutorial today.

by golly, I've got it!

I'm happy to report that Crocheting is not as evil as I have previously believed. We are now getting along well as you can see by the granny square in the corner! Yuppi!

a mangled yarn

Well I've gone and blown my own mind. I'm taking a crochet course. Of course I mean that literally. My mind is very close now to complete system overload. Knitting and crochet seemed at first to be best friends, but now I realize that they are really arch enemies and have been engaged in an age old battle. The cramps in my fingers, the awkwardness whenever I look at that crochet hook. It's clear I was meant for knitting but I'm fighting the battle anyways.
As if you needed any more proof of my knitting-ness, here are just a few of the things flying off my needles lately.

This hat can be found on Ravelry under Lyon Hat and has removable ear flaps.

I think I'll be making many a pair of these. Christmas is the perfect time to give great mittens. They can also be found on Ravelry under Bella Mittens.

the race to Christmas

I think E needs this alarm clock.

Now that Halloween is over the stores are filling with Christmas decorations and cards. It seems Christmas is already right around the corner. And I haven't bought a thing.

So today I started my web shopping. Heh heh heh.

If you need to shop for alarm clocks too you'd better head here right away..

halloween is almost here!

I love finding wonderful new ways to celebrate and decorate for Halloween. These Monster brownies from Amanda's Cookin' are a wonderful new addition to our festivities. Click Amanda's blog for the link.

cowl growl

I have been knocking out knitting projects all over lately. One of my latest is a cowl. Until this year I wasn't even familiar with what that was.. but now I've made one. And its super soft and comfy. I don't think I'll go back to wearing scarfs with the cowl around:)

fall colours

Since following NieNie. I've been inspired to go on a fall colours tour. We've taken our yearly trip to Mountain Apple Orchard, gone on nature walks in the woods and this year I decided to get out the crayons and do wax paper leaves with the leaf pattern that Vanessa Christenson uses in her Crayon & Wax paper leaf tutorial. Check it out here.
I haven't seen anyone do wax paper leaves since my mom did them with us as kids. It's been great to do them again and I'm already thinking of a few ideas for Christmas that use wax paper too.