The Latest Plarn Bag

Is made out of plastic grocery bags from SaveMart. 

In an attempt to give the bag more structure, I have made the base rectangular and seamed it to the circular body.

 This bag is easily holding 10 standard size cans of food. I love how durable these things are!

 This is what it looks like without 10 cans in it. 

These bags are the greatest...and THIS one can be found in my ETSY shop here! 

What are you knitting now?

Thats what Charlotte and Levi asked me on Monday at Monday Night Football dinner! Can I just say it warmed my heart that they knew I was knitting!!!
It also warmed my heart to see these pictures of the two of them in the hats their Grandma (find her blog here) bought for them!

 Levi with his bulky dino hat and Charlotte with her hat made to match her American Girl Doll's Hat!

Here's Charlotte's doll's hat.

Where's Wanda

Our (Val's first then mine) friend Laura invited me to go look for a hat a socks for her Halloween costume. She had made plans to be Wanda, Waldo's Girlfriend. In my experience scoping out knit items in chain stores I knew that there wouldn't be too many striped items, let alone red and white stripes. She said she'd just wear a red or white beanie, and being the authenticator in this whole deal I just couldn't have that.

I also couldn't resist the challenge.

2 skeins of bulky yarn later (one red and one white) and I had this bad boy ready to go to San Francisco with her this morning.

Where's Wanda?

On another note, at lunch today with my friend who shall remain unnamed to avoid bashing, I started showing her pictures of my latest Etsy projects. She was going through the pictures and in a disbelieving voice says: "These are good Jess." Tsch. Ye of little faith.

On that note, check out my Etsy shop HERE!

Open for Business

My Etsy store is.



Do come and check it out!

I've been hemming and hawing about pricing quite a bit.  I personally wouldn't take waltzing out and buying a hat more than $20 lightly. However, I use high quality yarns with natural fibres (see here for a few reasons I'm drawn to them other than how enjoyable they are to knit) and I spend quite a bit of time making sure the item is a quality item, made to withstand being passed down to friends and family alike. If I was charging an hourly wage, these hats would be hundred dollar hats, but it brings me great joy to share them with you and I have tried to set prices that will cover costs and a bit of time. Thank you for checking out my wares, and for supporting me in my craft!

Last Sneak Peak

before I open my Etsy store! I should have it open tomorrow!

Sellin Some Slippers

In response to your overwhelmingly positive reactions to the slippers I made and your request for orders(I didn't actually know I was selling them haha), I decided that I could indeed fulfill your requests to order slippers. I have put up a listing for custom slippers in my ETSY shop. <HERE>

You can also contact me through my ETSY shop if you have other requests for custom items!

The Dress

Here is the dress I want to get married in. Only it's black. My wedding dress will be white, and a little longer. This one is a practice version made by CherryPieVintage. I get to try it on and galavant about to make sure it will fit right, stay up, etc. You know the drill. Miss CherryPie Vintage just finnished the dress today. I cant wait for it to get here. I might check the mail every day. Even though I know it's coming from New York.