I Sew, I Knit.

I didn't take a picture of the finished blanket but I will share with you what I have. My all time favorite baby blanket to make and give is Lionsbrand Bright Nursey Baby Throw. It's easy and knits up quickly.  To keep it cost effective I opted for the Bernat Blanket skein and needed to get a regular size skein to finish it. Below you will see the necessary info regarding the yarn. You start off with three stitches, then yarn over on the ends until you get 90 stitches and then you start to decrease. It make the boarder as you go. As you can see you might just need one skein, depending how loose or tight you knit. Here it when it was almost done. It really is one of my favorites. I also knitted a scarf in these beautiful earthtone colors to go with this jacket I am passing on to a friend. I believe this was knitted with Lionsbrand Homespun yarn. I had it in my yarn stash so it needed to be utilized or donated. I know my friend will enjoy it along with her new coat. ...

When the sewing mojo tends to wander I pick up my knitting needles to create. Well this time I didn't, I used my arms instead. Yes, the craze that I thought I could stay away from, well I blame Michael's sale. Yes, they entice me with coupons, yes, the yarn was on sale, yes, they had other colors beside purple. So I caved and this is what I picked up. The Bernat colors are Aran and Claret and Issac Mizrahi Craft yarn is new to Micheal's yarn and boy, the colors are gorgeous. Really it was his yarn that "inspired" me to think about arm knitting. Then the sale sign for Bernat was 2 for $10.00 so that helped seal the deal. Here are their stats below. Bernat yarn is really soft.... This color is referred to as Columbus, Lot number 329. See, very pretty and soft. This runs $5.99 a skein, not sure if it was on sale but I brought it anyway. So here are the color all together. Love them!!. I started on this yesterday and will be finishing it up in about 20...