The Cutest Things You Ever Did See!
These arrived today - and they have to be the cutest things you ever did see!
Well OK, I will allow you to know that your own babies, when they were born, were the cutest things you ever did see, but these must be a close second! They came from Wee Ones and they are tiny, but perfectly formed.
This is the best bit
- can you see the tiny paw prints on his paws? You can get some idea about their size compared with my fingers. Jillian at Wee Ones makes all kinds of animals and will take special requests too!
Here is my first sock ever in progress. I am well on the way to losing my sock virginity. Having turned the heel successfully with only a couple of minor hiccups, I consider myself to have passed first base. Up to then it was just knitting a tube which can apply to lots of other projects as well as socks.
I am using Trekking XXL yarn that Katherine gave me for my birthday in a fabulous mixture of blues, the very generic Anne Budd pattern from her Handy Book Of Patterns, and the two circular method which I am finding great to use, apart from the occasional lapse in concentration when I somehow end up with all the stitches on one needle! It's easily sorted out though and off I go again. This pair will be my January contribution to the Crafty Threads And Yarns Sock-a-month challenge. I have been trying them on as I go and they fit nicely. I don't have extremely skinny ankles - that's the k2,p2 rib pulling them in! I am very nearly at the toe and that will be second base. Third and fourth base will be the second sock - I guess you have to make the whole pair to qualify as "someone who has made socks"
Hurray! You'll be hooked on socks now. Just wait until you wear them.
Posted by: margene | January 12, 2007 at 11:54 AM
You are well on your way!!! ;)
Posted by: Stitch-n-Snitch | January 12, 2007 at 11:55 AM
Those stitch markers are incredibly cute!
Posted by: Cheryl | January 12, 2007 at 05:31 PM
Yay socks!
Posted by: stefaneener | January 12, 2007 at 06:42 PM
i love the stitch markers they are sooooooo cute especially the paw prints. socks are looking good but then i have always enjoyed good socks;-)
Posted by: carolinne Willson | January 13, 2007 at 05:51 AM
I couldn't help it - I had to buy some stitch markers for myself!
Posted by: Cheryl | January 13, 2007 at 09:52 AM
Oh your weeones are georgeous, Jacquie :)
I'm still a sock virgin so you are one up on me :)
Posted by: gilraen | January 20, 2007 at 10:44 AM