Recent Knits

I haven't posted anything I've knit for quite awhile, but really it's because I don't want this to turn into a craft blog when really it's about our family. The truth is, though, that my love for my newest hobby grows each day and creating things for Imogen and others to wear is a creative outlet that I know I've been searching for for a very long time.

Recently, I went with a few friends to the Pittsburgh Knit & Crochet Festival in Cranberry. I saw some information there and heard people chatting about the relationship between math and knitting. (For anyone who doesn't know, I was a mathematics major in college and love, love, love it!) I think one of the reasons I love knitting so much is one of the same reasons that I love math -- you start out with something so jumbled, tangled, and unknown, and through a series of clearly layed out steps get to an end point of clarity...an answer....a finished object (FO in knitting terms!). I know it's crazy, but I love to take a skein of yarn, which if you're not careful with while winding can turn into a tangled mess, and lay the stitches in order in such a way that creates something beautiful. Every time I see new yarn, I'm always wondering what it would look like knitted up. Will it be beautiful? Will the colors clash? Will it be prettier than it looks in the skein? The unknown excites me -- it lights a fire under me that says....knit faster to find out!

Here are a couple things I've knit for Imogen recently...and I have so many more projects in my queue, that the infinity symbol comes to mind quite clearly :)

The Oriental Lily top knit in the colorway "Madeline" and dyed by Western Sky Knits. This colorway definitely looks way more beautiful knitted up than in the skein! I was surprised how much I love it!
This next top is called the Playtime Top and was written by DiscoBaby Knits. I knit it up in an unusual way -- I held together two strands of sock yarn to get the correct weight yarn for the pattern. The colorway is "Dandelion Chain" dyed by Dashing Dachs -- a dyer located in Erie, PA.

Imogen reading one of her FAVORITE books:

Trying on Mommy's shoes:

Sleeping Beauty

I came home from work on Thursday to find Imogen sleeping on the couch...like this. I guess it's just another trait she has from me -- the ability to sleep anywhere, anytime, anyway.

Round & Round She Goes

We brought our stroller in the house this weekend to clean it and left it sitting out to dry afterwards. Imogen decided she wanted to push it instead of her shopping cart this morning. She was remarkably good at steering it around and around our first floor, even navigating well through the tighter doorways.