As the heat comes up, and you are looking around for a summer knitting project, why not give this little kicky number consideration. It will be perfect for any coronations that you may have on your calendar for the fall. (hopefully her hair will have grown out from the accident by then)

June Brides

In honor of all the beautiful June Brides, here is a lovely crocheted inspiration.

Call PETA Immediately

Does this sweater make my nose look big?





















People say that dogs look like their owners. So perhaps Pink owns this little dog. Is Pink a knitter?

To Russia with love

This is so seasonally appropriate it makes me laugh.
What a beautiful model... Diamond brooch... lovely tweed coat. And then there are 16 pounds of hat on her head.

A Hat Trick

Three knit dresses.

Can you picture yourself in any of them? Do they look fun to knit? Are they flattering?

These are the questions that you need to ask yourself before you embark on any new project.
I'll let you consider the answers

Faux Hawk

Take a ride back to the punk days of London. The wonderfully defiant gritty urban statement. The MOHAWK :
















Fast forward to the latest infomercial invention: The Slipper Genie! Wear the slippers, clean your floors. Simple as that!










And then combine the two for a stunning knit creation.
Somewhere, this all went horribly wrong. You don't get the sharp point of teenage angst, and railing against the establishment. And you can't clean anything. And, you look like a muppet.
Still, I love that they tried!

"I Do" Ahoy!

Oh, I was going to get married, in a field, and carry daisies. Then I grabbed a pair of wedgie sandals, and ran out the door to a picnic. It's a costume-party, so I thought the red silk do-rag was PERFECT. I am a pirate. Ahoy! I was so pleased with my costume, I did a quick interpretive movement "dance". And then I woke up.

USS SAG

I was afraid that if I made a skirt, it may look saggy and droopy after I sat in it a few times. So I decided to make it look saggy on purpose, then no one would think my butt had pulled and stretched it out. In order to really get the full effect I employed all kinds of tricks. First I did stripes. These are super effective at highlighting the line. They actually form POINT that points out the sag. Then I did an increase so that the stripes slant down. Next, I wore a clingy, knit, fleshy colored top. And then I wrapped a beaded "belt" around me. I let THAT sag a little, in keeping with the theme. My favorite part of the whole outfit though, is the black men's-office socks that I wear under my boots. They really add such a great element of whimsy to the whole thing, don't you think?

Workin' shoe

This is one pimped up shoe. Get your hooks out, and do you up a shoe!

A Red Gown

And the Oscar goes to...

I saw some knit sushi once, and I felt very inspired. I decided I wanted to look like a salmon. Yummy and big.

Garden Party

This is my favorite little number for a garden party or a tea. I like to wear it with by high heel gladiator sandals, and a wide brim hat, to protect me from the ultra violet rays.

Animal Cruelty

Look at the poor thing. So unhappy.

The Runs

This sweater is fabulous. It fits well, and is a nice standard "guy" sweater. And then, some horrendous cat accident happened, and there are huge runs peppered about. What a shame. What? It was not an accident? No. If the run does not continue down, it was put in intentionally. I thought that urban grunge of this "green day" level of sophistication could only be found now in Seattle. Is grunge back? Can I wear long johns under my camo shorts?

A poncho wrap looking worn and tattered. The effect only exaggerated by the warn jeans. Yes. There is a limit to the size of needles. There is a limit to how big you want the stitch to get.

Angel or Spider

The sweater itself is not bad - but look closely, there are Wings. Actual WINGS.
Or, are those spiderwebs?

The real shock is how MAINSTREAM the source of this material is. Arguably, the largest most popular high end yarn distributer published this. And, might I add, JUST NOW. This is current. Bleeding edge, in fact. So as you grapple for a "Halloween" excuse, there isn't one. The statement from the designer is "A beautiful collection of etheral and dreamlike designs inspired by the crumbling ruins of an ancient abbey."
Really? So the Cob web was inspired by the spiders now installed in the ancient ruins?
Please, in the name of all that is holy, will someone explain this?

In a YEAR of posting, this will be hard to top. Lapses in judgment with fun fur are just low hanging fruit at this point. THIS...this is a top prize winner in my eyes.
I can't even discuss the "styling" on the hair. While it is a distracting bird's nest , that seems to be just a minor point. "Other than the wings, Mrs. Lincoln, what do you think of my hair?"

We'll have a vote later. But I am going to state now, this early on in the year, that this post will be a contender for the year's biggest mistake.

Double Scoop

This was SUCH a good idea, I decided to make two. And, I even did two pony tails, so that I would have a way to show off the double decker.

Swe - the first part of a sweater

Here is a really nice half a sweater. Excellent with a big tent dress. My steaming mug of Latte is bigger than the sweater.

Pirate's dream

A pirate's dream








sunken chest

Stitch count, needle sizes, gauge...it all went terribly wrong.

I worked out the stitch pattern, and it looked great. So I thought I'd work some buttons into it, and make a sweater. Cookie monster team colors. Woo hoo!

Ballarina

I am a dancer. I have worked my whole life to perfect my craft and my body. And now to highlight my dance, I have chosen this hand knit lower portion. It keeps me warm as I dance by the ocean. Nothing says "sculpted legs" like some pink/mauve fur, wouldn't you agree?

Pet Abuse

If you are going to make me wear a sweater, can I at least pick the color? I don't like teal. And we gotta get you out of those capris as well.

Tangled

I got a new ball winder for Christmas. It was working fine, for a while, and then this happened. I picked up the tangle form the floor, and I found there was a hole big enough for my head, and I pulled it on. It makes a perfect poncho.

Slippery Slope

Super cool, vintage fringed coat.

And here is something that just should not be done out of yarn.



And is it just me, or is there something proportionally wrong with the hips in this picture?

Mutton: Leg of...

For real? Black background with some strong color? Stripes? A bleach white stripe on the boobie? And then, three-quarter sleeves? Paired with ladies leather "driving gloves". Horizontal?
And the sleeve. A leg-of-mutton. Excellent. A strong "victorian era" design choice.
Christian on Project Runway would like the 80's back. And he can have them. All of them. I'll stick to my 90's!

Happy New Year

I got a hair cut to start the new year out clean. I love my monochromatic thing I have going here, my poncho, my scarf and my turtle neck are all looking rather green-ish. Big needles. Big fun.