Knitting Basket

I just returned from Michaels where I got some things to organize my knitting basket. I've been using a shoe box (from Target, no less), so I bought a pretty fabric basket with handles and pockets around the edges.

I also got a little round tin for stitch markers and other bitty things, and a flat tin to hold a felt needle book. Now I am totally inspired to make a knitting needle roll, too. I will take pictures of the lovely organized result when I'm done! I also got the spring/summer Debbie Bliss knitting magazine - so pretty and well-photographed. And, as always, with the world's most adorable baby clothes - I love the pea coat, the striped dress and the bunny w/ sweater.


Here is a picture of the basket with all my knitting bits and bobs, and the finished needle roll, which I made in striped linen and flowered cotton. It was very easy, and only took a couple of hours. I don't have too many needles (this is about half), since I have a set of Knitpicks Harmony interchangeable circulars, which come in their own neat ordered little case.

Pretty Things for Spring

I am coveting pretty spring jewelry and accessories. Clothes, too, but they won't fit me (pregnant, remember?). Etsy, as always, is a fount of amazing handmade things, including:

Pretty hairpieces. I am looking at ones by whichgoose, which look like something you would wear for a picnic in a sunny meadow, and washedupmermaid, which are a little more darkly romantic.

Briolette drop earrings in pretty gemstone colors. CamileeDesigns has some gorgeous smoky quartz drops with pink pearls that are the perfect balance between feminine and mysterious.

The homemade Solar System

I looked at a lot of solar system mobiles. Some were expensive, some were flimsy, and I had a hankering to do some DIY. Not too much DIY, however, so I bought these:

They're already painted, and have little rings for hanging with fishing line, included. I hung them from a circular wreath form, with my husband as astronomy consultant to tell me the correct order, and hung the form from some striped ribbon from a hanging plant hook that my husband put up on a bookshelf next to Jack's bed. He can sit on the bed and fly his rocket ships from planet to planet. I didn't want something fragile that would have to be hung out of his reach. He has a great time!

Nursery Update

Thanks to a week of ice storms, snow, slush, and resulting time off work, I did a lot of work on Charlie's nursery last week. I wanted something a little brighter than Jack's nursery. The room was already a nice Wedgewood blue on 2 walls, white wood on two walls, so there was no painting involved. I bought some fabric and the crib bedding, but everything else we already had around the house.









Jack and I made a productive trip to the fabric store yesterday and bought a mobile, the sort of thing marketed as "room decor", but could be sold by some enterprising person at a modern baby boutique for 5 times the price ($4.99, for anyone who is interested). It's made of plastic circles, beads and bits of mirror, and to tell the truth, we all are kind of fascinated by it as well. We also got two lengths of striped fabric for new covers for the changing pad, and a mod pear print for a throw pillow to go on the rocking chair.

I am still looking for a comfy chair pad for the rocking chair. Country Curtains has some in ticking stripe, which would match Jack's little rocking chair.