Please help find this missing girl

Hi, I am posting this for an online acquaintance, a fellow Raveler, whose daughter has gone missing. Here is a link to her blog to see the whole story, and a picture of Cassie. She left New Jersey and is possible heading for Virginia, so the more people that see this, the more can help spot her. Thanks and God bless.

Easter eggs and monkeys, Jack Russells and knitting designs

I know it is a few days past Easter, but here are the blondies tie-dyeing Easter eggs last Saturday.

And here are the finished eggs. Very nice. Our fingers looked much like the eggs.

This is one of my first designs, the Swingin' Summer Tank Top pattern, which is newly published and available from Knitpicks.com for only $1.99. This knitting pattern has sizes for 12 months, 2T, 4T, and 6. I'm very proud and excited to have this up on the Knitpicks website. I would be fully grateful for any purchases anyone makes of this. You can't beat it for $1.99.

For Easter, I whipped out 3 mini sock monkeys in 3 days. The pattern is the Funky Sock Monkey (not one of my patterns this time lol). This is Froot Loop.

This is Grapes.


And this is Bananas. The girls named the monkeys themselves. lol


We also made a special bunny cake for the family to enjoy after Easter dinner.


Lucy had a blast at Grandma's for Easter. Her best friend Mocha lives there.

She moves so quickly, it's tough to get a picture!


I hope you all had as nice of a holiday as I did.

Dances, birthdays, and paw prints

Seems we've been busy around here the last few days. Last weekend, two of the girls had a date with their dad to the Father-Daughter Dance. They love dressing up and going out, and Mommy gets to stay home with only one kid for a bit.


Today is my youngest's fourth birthday. We made a cake together, which she changed from a Barbie cake to a froggy cake just before pouring the batter in the pan. Ok, so the frog's leg broke off coming out of the pan and was stuck back on with frosting. So, we didn't have the mini Oreo's for the pupils, we used sprinkles. And oh, of course we had brought home chocolate frosting, so we had to quick mix up some vanilla frosting with green food coloring. He's not pretty, but she loves him, and requests to eat his eyeball after supper.


Here are a few pictures of the birthday girl with her favorite gifts. Notice the doll needed an outfit to match hers.


To top it off, our three year old next door neighbor gave her a Valentine today, a bit early. Check out this adorable box of chocolates, from a little boy to a little girl.


How cute is that? And finally, I'll leave with with a picture of what the coffee table is really meant for.

New design-- funnel neck cardigan

Well, I finally finished my newest design, and I'm ready to unveil it. After multiple revisions, the pattern is now available for sale. You can't beat it, a women's sweater pattern in 5 sizes for only $1.99! Soon to be available from Knitpicks, thus the fabulous price.

New design in progress

These are in-progress photos of a new cardigan design I'm working on. I purposely left them a bit rough so I didn't give much away! The pattern will be part of Knitpicks Independent Designer program once it is completed, hopefully, in the next few days here. The sleeves are almost ready to attach to the body and then there is just the yoke and collar to complete.

The gingerbread train

Well, I made the girls wait until after all the Christmas cookies and snacks were mostly gone before we put together the gingerbread train. This was a lot of fun, and it looks so cool! lol



Enjoy the view, keep warm, and check out my two favorite online yarn shops, Eat.Sleep.Knit. and The Loopy Ewe. The first rewards purchases by the yard (see the Yarnathon) and the second rewards by dollars spent. Woohoo! Rewards for buying yarn? Why not? I'm off to shop...

Happy new year!

Happy 2010, everyone! Let's hope this new year brings joy and goodness to us all. To start, if you are reading this blog, chances are you like knitting or crochet and love yarn. Well, Jeff here is having a contest on his blog, and he is giving away cool stitch markers and gift certificates to Eat.Sleep.Knit. My fave online yarn shop! So I thought you all might want to check out his blog, although if you don't, that means less competition for me. Mwahaha! Just kidding. Go check it out and enter this cool contest for yourself.