I have had the yarn for this project for a very long time, back from when I was obsessed with the Caron Simply Soft yarns. I bought a bunch of different colors – sage green, persimmon, plum wine, three shades of blue, and black. I gave the plum wine ones to my mom and had plans for the blues and black, but the sage and persimmon were still waiting for projects. When I was going through my stash and Pinterest board to try to find projects for the yarn I had accumulated, I knew the Remnant Stripe Cardigan was going to be perfect for this yarn. The yarn is silky soft and would drape beautifully, so I set out to knit one of the biggest projects I ever made. Continue reading “Green Silk Cardi” →

I came across a picture of tiny crochet monster slippers on Pinterest, and faced the same conundrum as the lady who reverse engineered them. It didn’t bring me any closer to a pattern though, so I decided to make my own, like she did. I found some green scrap yarn and got to work. My son J was so excited that he kept wanting to wear them everywhere, so I actually made another pair in red. Now he just wears them when it’s too cold for just socks at home. Continue reading “Green Monster Slippers” →

It has been over a year since I made this vest, but I never got around to posting it. I wanted something simple that would knit up very quickly and that I could wear with anything. So I bought myself some super bulky yarn in beige for Christmas and would have been done the same day if I didn’t run out of yarn. I needed two more skeins, but all the stores were either sold out or stopped carrying it, so I had to order it and wait another two weeks to finish my cool vest. It’s quite bulky, but so so warm at the office. I loved it with my navy button-down shirt, but the fabric of the shirt didn’t get along with the vest’s fibers, which ended up clinging to the shirt in a very uncool way. So white shirts that are not as stiff and a plum blouse have gone much better with it since. Continue reading “Chunky Cabled Vest” →

When my son J was only a few months old, I began stocking up on yarn to knit things for him with. I chose soft, delicate yarns in gorgeous colors, made from exquisite materials, and then just stashed everything away, waiting for enough time to knit. That time never came, so at some point, I just decided to make time for knitting because I needed that in my life. The occasional projects that never made it to the season they were intended for was not cutting it anymore. I had to make enough time in my life to knit cute things for my baby. Continue reading “Jade Cabled Vest” →