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Ugg. My thesis work is grinding me under its heel. During my radio silence though I have been trying to get a small modular knit done each day if nothing else.

I have 6 squares (and 1 triangle) added to my memory blanket.

The top row, other than the first red one, and the triange in the 2nd row are all new over the last few days.

I have also have finished a few 4″ squares for a comfort blanket being knit and crocheted by several crafters for a 5 year old who was just diagnosed with leukemia and his twin.

This knit sweater is for my niece for Lunar New Year. Welcome to the Year of the Rat.

Pattern: Minnowknits China Doll by Jil Eaton
Size: 1 year
Yarn: 1.8 skeins Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece in 935 Salmon Berry Red
Supplier: The Knitting Room (now closed)
Needles: US 5 / 3.75 mm

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This card was a chance to play with my new Sizzex die “Tipsy Hearts” which we will be making my DD’s valentines for her class with this year.

This one was just a quickie as a proof of concept. It was made with made from a prismacolor marker, vanilla cardstock, and several different scrapbooking paper. I plan on including it with an ATC I am sending out this month for the Creative Mom Podcast ATC Swap.

I am taking this as an opportunity to finish some stuff that I had in progress. This pair of booties has sat almost finished in my stash for almost a year. Time to finish them before the baby out grows them!

yarn: Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino (0.52 skeins)
needles: US 2½ / 3.0 mm
pattern: Sandals by Debbie Bliss
pattern source: Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino

I absolutely love these. The garter stitch makes them so squishy, and the yarn is deliciously soft to begin with. I immediately cast on a mitered square for my memory blanket that I am working on.

I am in a knitting swap, where one of the requirements is to send a set of stitch markers in your partners Hogwarts house colors (from Harry Potter). This round my partner is in Gryffindor. As an added bonus these are also in a Project Spectrum color.

I always forget how much I like to work with beads until I have all the tools laid out on the desk. I should make some for myself too this month, as I really like to work with this size stitch marker in my knitting too.

Yesterday I dug into my yarn stash and pulled out all the yarns in this month’s Project Spectrum colors: red, orange and pink.

I have a surprising percentage of sock yarn in there. I can’t see me knitting a ton of socks, but I hope to get at least 2 pair done.