My Age of Brass and Steam Kerchief

When I first saw this scarf on Pinterest I knew that I just had to knit it, and then to find out that the pattern was free on Raverly it just made my day. The name of the pattern is The Age of Brass an Steam Kerchief, by Orange Flower.
Finding the yarn was another matter. You see I wanted the same color yarn that this person knittimo used that made me fall and love with it in the first place, Madelinetosh Composition Book Gray.
My favorite yarn shop Jimmy Bean didn't have it in stock. So I googled it and I found it at Webs.
Remember I saw this and I just had to knit it! So I bought the yarn and the beads copied the pattern and then I let it sit and wait with all the other patterns and yarn that I just had to have. Oh the life of a knitter! If you are one then you know what I mean!
Well I finally got around to knitting it and I am so glad that I did. I followed the pattern as written except I add an extra repeat of the stockinette and garter/eyelet sections. I also added beads like knittimo on every other k2tog.

I just love it and I cant wait for the weather to get warmer so that I can wear it before one of my daughters steals it from me!
The next thing I am going to knit is these boot socks.

 I found this kit on the clearance rack at Hobby Lobby and yes that is the price that I paid $3.25.

Not a bad price if I do say so myself!

My Knitted Acorn

I know it is a strange thing to knit; and yes it does take up space. But I think it is super cute, and I just love it. My knitted acorn!

I saw this on Pinterest! That has now become one of my favorite sayings. Will that is exactly where I saw this acorn and I just knew I had to make.

I showed Brandy the pin (that is a way of saying saved it on Pinterest) and I asked if she could find me a bowl at her job. She works at a store called Home Goods, and if you have never been to one you need to go.

Will she found a bowl the very next day, yes she only found one? She really wanted to find two bowls because now she also wanted to make one also.

She told me that she was going to knit herself a Scrat so that he could steal my acorn from me. If you don’t know who Scrat is then you need to watch Ice Age.

Will I am happy to say that my acorn is safe because Brandy has found herself a bowl also.
Here is the site that I found the acorn on Tried & True. I rewrote the pattern a little. But all the credit goes to her. I had to change the number of rows to knit the make my acorn long enough. You might have to do the same because of the bowl size and the weight of yarn that you use.

Knitted Acorn

Worsted weight yarn

Size 9 double pointed needles
Small wooden bowl (small hole drilled in center)
Stuffing

Cast on 45 sts on 3 dpn, join to knit in a round

Knit 28 rows
Begin decrease rounds:
Row 29: K3, K2tog, repeat
Row 30: Knit
Row 31: K2, K2tog repeat
Row 32: knit
Row 33: k1, K2tog repeat
Row 34: K2tog repeat

Break yarn and run needle through loops on needles and pull tight to close after stuffing the body of the acorn.

 Acorn stem

Make I-cord
I made a 6 stitch I-cord about 5 inches long. You can find knitting help all over the web I like the ones on youtube.
Pull stem through hole in bowl and glue the acorn body to the inside of bowl.

My New Sewing Chair

This is my new sewing chair. And I think it pretty cute!

 I use to have my sewing machine in my dining room; because that was the only place I had room for it. But after the girls moved out I was able to take over one of their rooms.  But that left me without a chair. I was using a folding chair but that doesn’t wasn’t working out to well.

So I found this chair at a garage sale for $3. What a deal! And I decide to reupholster it. How hard could that be?

First you need to take the chair apart.

Take out all the staples holding the old fabric on, saving all the pieces.

Then using all the pieces as a template cut out all your new pieces with the new fabric.

I chose to add a new padding and batting to make the chair more comfortable. Cut the padding a little bigger the seat; that way it will fold over the seat.

Then using a staple gun; stable the corners first, pulling tight, and then the sides.

Trim off the excess and then stable on the new bottom cover.  

Repeat with the back of the chair.

The back is actually two pieces. I did the front part just like I did the bottom seat part. The only thing different that I did was that I used brads to nail the two pieces back together.
My staple gun also uses brads how cool is that.

And now I have a beautiful new chair to enjoy!

My New Knitting Basket

The word organization, I don’t know if that word fits very well in my life, especially when it comes to knitting. I seem to have it all over the place.

I decided I wanted one of those knitting basket like our grandmothers to have, but where would I find one this day and age.

And like always when I want to find something out I start by looking l on the internet. And I found a tutorial for one at Canadian Living that I liked. 

 And with a little persuasion on my part, Richard helped me with cutting the wood pieces and drilling of the holes.

I found this really cute material on clearance at the fabric store. And because the pattern that I found didn’t have a liner I added one and a few pockets inside.

After staining the pieces I was ready to assemble the basket.

The instruction called for use to glue the pieces together, but we decided to use screws instead, which made it easier to assemble.

The hardest part about doing this was making sure that the dowels were in their right places.

And now I have a cute basket to hold my knitting in.

It even folds up so that I can put it behind the end table when friends come over.

I also would like to share this little bowl that I found at Michaels. Richard stained it for me. I keep it by my side of the couch so that I can toss my little stitch markers and such in. But mostly so that when Richard finds my little knitting stuff (that I have lost around the house) he has a place to put it.

Bunny Face Cake

I really enjoy learning new things.  But sometimes when I do I can go a little over board, especially when it comes to crafts. That is how I came across this Wilton Multi- purpose pans. A few years ago I took a few cake decorating classes at Michaels. By the time I was done I practically owned everything in the Wilton aisle at Michaels good thing I had a lot of 40% coupons. I ended up buying a lot of stuff from eBay too, that is how I came across this Wilton Multi- purpose pans. Good thing I also taught Brandy and Ariel how to decorate cake too. That way I have someone to leave all these cake pans to.

This pan is really cool, some of the inserts date back as far as 1974. I have learned that there is about 12 inserts in all.

 Today I decided to use the bunny insert, after all this cake is for Easter.

The pan only uses one box of cake mix!

But it is only a single layer, so I decided to cut the cake in half to make two layers.

 I like using this cake slicer because it makes the layers even.

I made two different butter cream frosting for the cake one is a vanilla butter cream which I also added food coloring to, and the other is a chocolate butter cream. You can fine the recipes for the frosting's on my cooking blog Stefanie's Cooking Spot.  I used the chocolate butter-cream between the layers and on the sides of the cake.

and the colored butter-cream for the top.

Hats for Charity

I am now going on 7 years of being cancer free. I was diagnosed with breast cancer back in 2004. I remember how hard it was to find hats that I liked, because I didn’t like wearing a wig because I thought that it was too itchy. So I was always looking for soft comfortable hats. And that is why I decided to make some hats for Halos of Hope.

My first hat that I made is called the Simplest Cap of All. I wanted something simple, fast and easy. And that is exactly what I found in this pattern. Thanks you to Judy Gibson the designer.

Simplest Cap of All

The next hat Handspun Ribbed Hat is also a very simple pattern I found this one by looking at different sites on the web. It is very easy to knit but I did get a little bored knitting the rib stitch for 9 ½ inches. But it is a cute hat and I know someone will enjoy it!

Handspun Ribbed Hat

My third hat that I knitted was the Hurricane Hat by Andrea Goutier. I like knitting this one it wasn’t boring I like watching the pattern unfold. This is a very beautiful patter. I was told by a woman who saw me knitting it that I do very nice work. I like it when something so simple looks so impressive when I am knitting.

Hurricane Hat

I have a few more hats that I am working on for Halos of Hope and I will be posting those soon!

L is for Lazy



I don't know why but I have been so lazy this week with my hat project. It usually takes me a day or two to turn out a hat but this one is taking forever, and it's an easy knit!
I knit a couple of rounds sit it down do somthing else come back a day later and knit a few more rounds. I really need to get this done.
My goal is to knit 6 hats for Halo's for Hope and I will get it done! Soon I hope!