SockPixie, the mother hen...

SockPixie is a mother hen right now, caring for her oldest chick as she is leaving on Tuesday for Paris.
That means a lot of last minute sewing...
So no colorways for this weekend.

Miss SockPixie...

Children grow up so fast. I can see Miss SockPixie so little and look at her now, on the eve of her departure for France, on the eve of her 20th birthday...

I will miss her a lot...

A Special Day for the SockPixie Family

Today is a special day for the SockPixie family. First, it is Mr.SockPixie's birthday!
Little Miss SockPixie and I went downtown Boston this morning to get him a present. We picked a lovely pen for him. We can hardly wait to give it to him.

When we got home, a package had arrived for Little Miss SockPixie. Guess what it was! It was her Tiny Betsy McCall doll!

Little Miss SockPixie got dressed for her daddy's birthday, and asked if I could take a picture of Betsy and her together.

It makes me so happy to see her so happy...and thinking about how happy Mr. SockPixie will be... what a beautiful day!

Tulip Colorway Collection

I am dyeing the colorways for this weeks's Tulip Collection. Tulips are such varied flowers, sometines subtle, sometimes bold, sometimes tone on tone, sometimes multi-colored.
I wanted to keep the green separate and thought it would be fun to give each colorway its companion mini green skein so that you may knit the cuff, heel and toe of your socks in the contrast colorway, or add a little contrasting edging to a shawlette, or do a fun ribbed edge with the barber pole worsted... The fun possibilities are endless.

I hope you will enjoy my bouquet of tulips!

Tiny Betsy McCall

You know that I like dolls a lot. I am afraid, I like them as much if not more than Little Miss SockPixie. I have now for years knit and sewn clothes her American Girl Dolls. I love everything to be a little retro wether it be a doll sweater, a baby or a doll sweater, or even something for grown girls.

Yesterday, I fell in love with a doll, the Tiny Betsy McCall(by Tonner ). Tiny Betsy McCall is a remake  of the original 1950's Betsy McCall. She is only 8". She is so perfect, I had to get her for Little Miss SockPixie!

I am going to have so much fun sewing and knitting for her. She will of course belong to Little Miss SockPixie...

Tulip Colorways

After the Spring Green Rhapsody colorways, this coming weekend will be tulips, tulip colorways.
Tulips are my favorite spring flowers. Their colors are so fresh and vibrant, a real breath of fresh air after the long winter months.

I am off to create colorways...

Premie Baby Sweater: Remake 1 and 2

A few days ago, I knit a premie baby sweater and loved it. I decided to write a pattern for it. The pattern will be for premie to 2 year old size.

I want to make a few changes to the original, but it will still be a quick easy knit for babies using a worsted weight yarn.

I picked colors today for the new samples. I picked colors that would make the yoke fun, and would give the sweaters a touch of retro French! ( The sweaters will be gifted to my new little cousin due to be born in May in Paris.)

One of the sweaters will be oatmeal and blue, while the other will be oatmeal and red. I can hardly wait to pick the buttons!

I had time to work on the pattern for the Retro Cardi for Girls last night aand have made some progress. It should be ready soon.

That's it for today. Now I need to go drink my coffee. I just realized thanks to the splitting headache, and an unusual impatience that I had forgotten to have coffee this morning...