knitted baby booties

Here are some baby booties creations I've come up with in the past 2 weeks. the left one is a lined overlapping cuff, the middle designed to look like a moccasin and the right a simple Mary Jane. All knit in the round in one piece. I really prefer to avoid sewn seams up. I like to keep my knitting and sewing separate. Some helpful details i used to make these were the Kitchener stitch & the button hole loop.

Lilah Shepherd Jewelry

I've been itching to make some jewelry lately. and after my friend and i went to the Bead it store in Austin, Texas. that is surprisingly large inside compared to what it looks like outside. they had a pretty good collection. A little pricey but that is just because I'm used to buying from bead fairs where the price is closer to wholesale than retail. but I bought a bunch of beads and I'm already on a roll with making necklaces. The necklaces remind me of my abstract illustrations.

knitting project bag

102_1963, originally uploaded by lilah_ward.

I haven't sewn anything in a while because I need to get my serger and better sewing machine fixed and need to get over wanting to be perfect the first time by being meticulous and if I can't serge it it shouldn't stop me from creating so I designed something new. I haven't designed something new in a loner while than i haven't sewn and realized that that part of by brain had been sleeping so it was hard to visualize how to sew my creation at first trying to get all seam between outer and inner fabric. So I ended up drawing the steps instead of just explaining in words like usual. Here is the finished product of the first prototype. Just a plain bag to hold your current or on hold knitting projects. I notice that if I leave my project around and not up high and in a bag of some sort that the cats with chew on the needles, play with the yarn eventually sliding the stitches off the needles. So here is my solution. On the inside is a piece of ribbon sewn to the inside to slide circular needles through to keep the stitches on the needles and a little button hole at the top back side to stick straight needles through so that they don't poke a hole through the bag. the top of the bag folds over and both layers have button holes to button close with a cute fabric covered button.