Custom orders anyone??

I was really slow there for a while in March and April then I received two custom orders! How awesome is that? Anyway one is for a wonderful lady from the mid-west that has commissioned me to do an acrylic painting for her based off of the one listed on my etsy store called "Where night meets day" which by the way was painted from a couple of photos that I had taken of a beautiful sunrise a day or two before Christmas Eve one year. This painting will be different from the one listed as it will have softer tones to it and the size is a 20 X 30" as appose to the 36 X 47" one listed. Anyway I am about almost half way through to completion and was excited so far about the results that I wanted to share.

I also just got a custom order to do some denim baby booties! Only the size is going to be 6-9months instead of the 0-3months like the ones that I have listed. and since this is for an older baby I though that it might be appropriate to do a slipper bottom on it. What do you think? Since most babies like to start crawling and standing up by then.

I am working on some socks right now from a book called Charmed knits off of the Harry Potter Series, a great book for those of you who love to knit and love Harry Potter. I am making Harry's Sock. But in really bright self stripping sock yarn. It has been a joy to make. My goal is to make 5 pairs for each boy in my family so that's 15 pairs total! 30 socks! I want them all made for their next school year, think that I can do it?? I hope so!

Sampler Pillow Pattern

An image of the back of the pillow.
The Sampler Pillow is now available for purchase. I highly recommend it to anyone who would love to learn something new and to help them get past any fears that they might have about cabling, color work, simple lace, and buttonhole techniques. Thank you so much for stopping in and I hope to see you again soon. Happy Knitting, Abby

Crochet and knitted toys

These are some of my boys knitted and crocheted toys. the robot is from a book written by: Zoe Mellor called: Knitted Toys includes 25 patterns. The tooth fairy pillow is a free pattern that I got off of KnitPick.com. The earthworm is from Amigurumi Knits by: Hansi Singh whom use to have a store on etsy but I've only found here personally through flicker. Her book includes 20 cute knit patterns highly recommend this one its great. I recently started crocheting again, which I haven't done in years. Mostly inspired by my new love of the Amigurumi knitted and crocheted toys, I love them. They are great! My boys love them and I do too, especially since they use up all the scrap yarn that I didn't know what to do with otherwise. My new favorite book now is called Tasty crochet. So far I've tried the pumpkin pie and strawberries. I love the way that it works up so quickly! This book contains 33 patterns to choose from. My boys love all of these books and I highly recommend them all to you to try. Have fun with it. Happy knitting and crocheting, Abby

Sampler Pillow

Wow I am so excited to share this with you all! I just completed this pattern and have converted it to pdf so it is avalible in my etsy store @ Http://Abbyknits1997.etsy.com
It is a great pattern for those of you that are a bit more than a beginner knitter. Its primarily for Intermediate to Advanced level, but don't be discouraged because some of my new students who only started last fall attempted this one and with much success. So check it out when you get a chance and please let me know if you have any questions at all. Happy Knitting! Abby

Neck Warmer Pattern

Yeah, the pattern is ready! I have this pattern for sale in my etsy store now for $3. When it is purchased you will be able to receive this by email. If you purchase any of my recycled yarns in my store you will receive this pattern for free as an extra thank you.

This is a pattern designed for the beginner in mind. You have to know or learn how to cast on stitches, knit stitches and know how to bind off.

Creating Designs

Creating a design is so much fun. The technical part, not so much fun. Looking into and doing research about copyright laws and how to get one for my designs, and so on and so forth. It takes so much longer to go through the process. I am sure that it will be worth it in the end though. Here is a design that I came up with and have not yet converted it to a PDF file. I hope you like the preview. Leave a comment for me if you do. It's a Neck Warmer. Simple and sweet I made this one from some hand spun alpaca fiber and mixed it up with some really nice unraveled yarn from a sweater which I believe contained angora and Merino. Hope you like!