Left Overs!

Well after all that knitting with Hempathy I had quite a bit left over to do something with. It seemed like the perfect amount for a wee baby sun dress! So I continued the stripe theme (but using chevrons this time) and came up with this over the weekend. The dress looks a little odd on the large hanger but I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. I literally had the exact amount of that pink!
It's for some dear friends back East who are about to have a little girl any day now!

Hip in Hemp

(note: I just added this image of my daughter's friend Hunter who was the happy recipient of the Hip In Hemp skirt)





















I Just got back from being away from my computer for the weekend and logged on....and I was blown away to see my design (and gorgeous daughter ) on the opening page of the Knitty website.
I have had part of this post prepared ahead of time so I could throw it onto my blog as soon as the new knitty issue came out.... So here she is....the Hip In Hemp design in a couple of other stripe/color variations (the possibilities here are almost endless)!

The skirt on Knitty in orange/brown/green stripes was modeled by my daughter but the skirt was a present for her friend Hunter who loved it so much she slept in it that night!
Hunter's Mum, Deanna was the recipient of the adult size and models it in the photos here.
The wee model is my niece Molly in New Zealand who obviously enjoyed posing for the pictures!

Just wanted to show anyone who's interested in knitting this skirt that you can really individualize it!

Summer tank

Here is my lovely model again in a summer tank I designed. Yes it is in Hempathy again...it really is a great yarn for the warmer weather which we are certainly getting here today in Colorado. I designed this to go with the culottes but Maya prefers wearing them separately. I took the post about the culottes off the blog as I wanted to use a similar design for submissions to magazines and thought I'd better not have it out there in cyberspace.

Some of my creations in Jamieson's Shetland Wool

Here are some of my own designs using Jamieson's wool from the mill down the road from where my parents live.

The bags and chair cushions are all made using Shetland Chunky from Jamieson's and have also been felted.


The sweaters and ponchos were made with double knitting weight.