New books!

I haven't written much lately, for two reasons. One is, quite simply, the Holidays, with the cooking, shopping, tree-decorating, gift-wrapping and, let's not forget, being on vacation and doing nothing except eating, sleeping, watching TV and doing crossword puzzles.

The other reason is that two of the projects I'm working on are for people I'm afraid will get the bright idea of reading this blog. So, you'll have to wait until the projects are finished to see them!

But I'm here for a reason tonight: I wanted to talk about my new books!


Toe-Up 2-at-a-Time Socks
Publisher's site

First there's this one I've been wanting to grab for a long time. The main reason I want to learn this technique is that my mother gave me wool she bought in New Zealand. One ball is supposed to be enough for a pair of socks. I have small feet so I'm not afraid to run out; but wool this special, I want to use it all, I don't want any leftovers! With this technique I can knit from both ends of the ball and have virtually no leftover at the end!

The Ohio Knitting Mills Knitting Book
Here's the publisher's site.

I saw this one when it first came out and thought it was a very beautiful book. I had only seen it online though, I'd never leafed through it. Those are patterns I'd actually like to make!

Socks à la carte 2: Toes Up!
From what I can gather, this is the publisher's site.

I've been wanting to try different styles of heels for a while, and this seemed like a great reference for the most common types of toes and heels. It also shows several different types of toe-up cast-ons.







Creepy Cute Crochet
Publisher's site

Finally, I splurged and bought a sqweeeeee! book... you'll see... they're squeeeeee cute! And... this will force me to learn to read charts, which can't be a bad thing, right?








Lots of projects to come!

Good night everybody!

Beautiful yarn

A gift from a friend. I don't know what I'm doing with it just yet. Socks? Fingerless gloves? Something else entirely?...

Baby stuff

I made these for a friend. They were finished about two weeks ago, but she reads this blog, so I couldn't show them to you before!

Here they are!

I can't wait to see them being worn!

Edit: 
The hat was made with Red Heart WR1840. -> Pattern here
The booties are from Bernat, but there's no number on my printed page, but the name is "Bernat Handicrafter Cotton Bernat Satin Baby's Booties (To Crochet)" -> Pattern here


If you want a SUPER EASY booties pattern to knit, there's one on the Bernat website. It's called "Bernat Handicrafter Cotton Bernat Satin Baby's Booties (To Knit)"-> Pattern here


Re-Edit:
Isn't she adorable?

La doudou pizza d'Aliénor

Voici la toute dernière photo de la doudou pizza que j'ai commencée après qu'Aliénor m'ait expliqué comment elle a fait la sienne. Le principe est simple: prendre des bouts de laines de fantaisie les plus différentes possibles et les couper en longueurs d'environ une longueur de bras étendus. Ensuite, les attacher bout à bout et faire une grosse balle de laines de fantaisie pas rapport. Ensuite, prendre des laines ordinaires de toutes les couleurs et les couper en bouts d'environ 6 longueurs de bras, les joindre ensemble et faire des balles. Crocheter ensemble une laine de fantaisie et une laine ordinaire.

En fait j'ai commencé ce projet en septembre dernier, mais j'ai été interrompue par l'Halloween, puis par Noël, puis par mes projets de teinture... ça avance, mais pas vite!

I'm in danger!

I found a wonderful yarn store right on the way home from work. A real yarn store, not one of those places selling only acrylic... Those places are very dangerous for me, and this one is really too close to be good...

Actually, I wanted to see how much a ball winder would cost. I totally forgot about it once I was in the store!

http://www.effiloche.com/

Enjoy!