The Little Green Frog

Ramblings of my motherhood experience with knitting and other projects thrown in.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

She wears short shorts



All right so they aren't really that short. But they are soo darn cute! I love the way they fit and I love the colors. Thanks to Dadee O who suggested using orange as the accent color. I knew he was good for something :wink


I'm making a pair of felted clogs out of the left overs. Which isn't a lot so I'm hoping that I can make it.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Captain Bogg and the Flirty Skirt



So I finished the flirty skirt. I am in love with it. DaddeeO wants me to make a longer skirt and a different more lacy trim for the colder months. It was a real easy knit once I figured out what I was doing. My leg holes came out really big but Theresa from LTK was very helpfull and answered my question right away.

The library had a really cool kids band come and play the other day. Captain Bogg and Salty is a pirate band! With Pirates of the Carrabean out, C man wanted to go and watch. I've never seen a library so full before! THey have 2 kids cd's out and an adult cd. We ended up getting the newest cd for kids and C man has been asking to listen to it everytime we are in the car. I think I know all the words to all the songs now. They will be playing at thePortland Pirate Festival in Sept.

So my current project is a pair of shorts for Ms M. The orange top is hand dyed by me and the middle is from a crocheted soaker that hadn't been used yet that I took apart. It has the Curly Purly waistband. I ran out of the middle part and only have orange left. Well I have some of the middle left but I was wanting to keep it for the bottom of the legs. I almost think I should frog it back some and do more orange. hmmm. I'm gonna sleep on it.

If anyone is reading this and knows where I can get a true camo colorway in wool to make some gloves let me know. DaddeeO likes the gloves I knit him before but he's now not liking the colorway. I have at least 5 more ounces of it. I might try and over dye it but I'm not sure if it would turn out.

Off to bed.

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Cedar Storage Chest





I was soo lucky to go across the street to my neighbor who is having a garage sale yesterday and found this beauty! So it's not too pretty as it was made in the 70's and totally looks like it's from the 70's. But it's a Lane chest. For only $25! C ran back to ask daddy for $24 for a box. Daddy came over wondering why a box would cost soo much. needless to say he handed over the money!

Thursday, July 13, 2006

A rant

For the last 3 days I have tried to cast on the flirty skirt.

I actually had it casted on done to the waistband, flipped the band and started the soaker and realized that my numbers were off. Not just a little but a lot! I wasn't going to do the edging and started at the st stitch but I started with too few stitches. AHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Dumb me didn't count like I normally do when I first start.

So now I'm back to the beginning. This time, I'm doing the edging but in black because I don't have enough of the hand dyed yarn I got fromDye-a-Rama on Hyena Cart. It's the Grape Ape Revisited. I don't have anything in my stash that matches it and I don't think I could reproduce anything that would. So I decided to do the skirt part in the hand dyded yarn and then the soaker in black.

Wish me luck. Hopefully I'll have it done in a couple of days.

Monday, July 10, 2006

dream swatch

I'm posting this so I remember to do it. I want to do it with some of the noro I have left over from clapotis.

dream swatch