OKay, let's try this again.
I just finished this pair of teensy longies for a baby shower I am going to Sunday for our friends Kate and Adam. They are huge Minnesota Twins fans, so I hope they like them. I did have a slight problem that is accentuated by this flash picture. When I changed skeins at the bottom of the bum of the pants, the dye lot of the new skein was different. You can see where it is lighter, and continues to be lighter on one leg. On the other leg, where I changed skeins again (I was trying to get rid of some ha;f skeins of navy I had) it goes back to the darker dye lot. Doh! I am hoping that since they aren't knitters they won't notice it as much. It doesn't look quite as bad in person, the flash really brings it out.
This order went out yesterday. She wanted the dump truck longies in those colors. When it came to the monster she said "Suprize me, but I want boyish colors and no red". I couldn't figure out what other color to use for the mouth since red is my usual color and black would have looked awful. I decided on the blue so that they'd kinda match the other longies without being too matchy matchy.
Finally, I finished these armwarmers and bribed Henry to model them for me. He did, but even the promise of chocolate couldn't make him sit still. I was going to give them to him, but he doesn't seem to really like anything on his hands like that.
In other business news, I heard from Robert from Mahar today. He said that my idea of replacing the hot water bottle cozy idea with smaller "boo boo bags" was "brilliant". Apparently Child Magazine has asked him to submit some "New in 2007" ideas for their February/March issue and he wants to use the boo boo bag idea. I need to get to work on the prototype. He also had two more holiday orders for me.
In OTHER knitting news, I have joined a new knitting for charity group called The Fiber Arts Avengers. They are currently raising money for a 3 year old boy nicknamed "The Professor" who is undergoing some pretty spendy chemo for brain cancer. Our very own Liz has agreed to stencil one of her amazingly cute shirts for a snowflake set for us to auction off, and my current collaboration partner Nickie from Nee Nee Face is also going to donate a "My Mom Rocks" shirt that she designed for our collaboration so we can auction off one of those sets.
This isn't the best picture of the shirt, but you get the idea of how cool it is. I'm going to pair it with either my MOM tattoo longies or the skull and bones.
Alright. I am going to hit publish and if this gets eaten I am going to cry.
I just finished this pair of teensy longies for a baby shower I am going to Sunday for our friends Kate and Adam. They are huge Minnesota Twins fans, so I hope they like them. I did have a slight problem that is accentuated by this flash picture. When I changed skeins at the bottom of the bum of the pants, the dye lot of the new skein was different. You can see where it is lighter, and continues to be lighter on one leg. On the other leg, where I changed skeins again (I was trying to get rid of some ha;f skeins of navy I had) it goes back to the darker dye lot. Doh! I am hoping that since they aren't knitters they won't notice it as much. It doesn't look quite as bad in person, the flash really brings it out.
This order went out yesterday. She wanted the dump truck longies in those colors. When it came to the monster she said "Suprize me, but I want boyish colors and no red". I couldn't figure out what other color to use for the mouth since red is my usual color and black would have looked awful. I decided on the blue so that they'd kinda match the other longies without being too matchy matchy.
Finally, I finished these armwarmers and bribed Henry to model them for me. He did, but even the promise of chocolate couldn't make him sit still. I was going to give them to him, but he doesn't seem to really like anything on his hands like that.
In other business news, I heard from Robert from Mahar today. He said that my idea of replacing the hot water bottle cozy idea with smaller "boo boo bags" was "brilliant". Apparently Child Magazine has asked him to submit some "New in 2007" ideas for their February/March issue and he wants to use the boo boo bag idea. I need to get to work on the prototype. He also had two more holiday orders for me.
In OTHER knitting news, I have joined a new knitting for charity group called The Fiber Arts Avengers. They are currently raising money for a 3 year old boy nicknamed "The Professor" who is undergoing some pretty spendy chemo for brain cancer. Our very own Liz has agreed to stencil one of her amazingly cute shirts for a snowflake set for us to auction off, and my current collaboration partner Nickie from Nee Nee Face is also going to donate a "My Mom Rocks" shirt that she designed for our collaboration so we can auction off one of those sets.
This isn't the best picture of the shirt, but you get the idea of how cool it is. I'm going to pair it with either my MOM tattoo longies or the skull and bones.
Alright. I am going to hit publish and if this gets eaten I am going to cry.
posted by KidTaster at 4:16 PM
2 Comments:
amy,
in reference to your post on my blog, you are so NOT lame! you are one productive mama if i ever saw one - and such bravery for throwing out new ideas (to robert and the avengers) and actually following through with them!
i am the queen of big ideas. but the following through part? not so much.
everything is super cute, as always. the rocking chair shirt looks awesome. nickie did a great job.
snowflake shirt is in the works and you'll see it this afternoon.
later, mama.
oh, and p.s. if your post gets eaten again, try hitting the 'recover post' button. sometimes that does actually work.
did you try that already? oh, okay.
Thanks guys! You can't really see in that picture because it's so dark, but there is a tiny little skull and bones on the top of the rocking chair. I love it!
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