Friday, June 29, 2007

The Great Baby Bootie Caper




I was wasting time one evening browsing different sites when I came across this:






After posting about it on http://www.craftster.org/ and getting many suggestions on how these were knit, I came up with the above.




I ended up knitting it like a sock from the leg to the toes. I used short rows for the heel and decided not to do the yo eyelets. Instead, I incorporated some intarsia stitches to create the toe triangle. I would now vote against intarsia and for duplicate stitch instead! What a mess.


I am still not completely satisfied with the result. The major complaint I have is that it does not seem like it would stay on a baby's foot. We'll see.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

She quilts, too!


So this is my fist official attempt at quilting. I decided to make a traditional scrap square pattern with non-traditional circles tossed randomly throughout. Guess what I found out? Even when appliqued, circles are a pain in the butt.


It's still in the quilting stage, but you can see how the pieces fit together and such. We'll see.