Yarn Along :: Tree doll blanket

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I have been so busy. We are so delay on homeschooling work, but it's just that with my kid learning three musical instruments plus theater and chess classes, and my work at the shop, we are kind of full. But instead of freaking out I'll just try to relax, and let things flow.

In the middle of all of this I have only had time to knit some small blankets for my kid's stuffed animals. This one is supposed to be a tree.

My very little reading is the first number of the National Geographic History Encyclopedia that is at the magazine stands every two weeks and we are collecting. I get distracted and I have to re read, but I really want to build some knowledge about history, and the pictures are amazing.

We have been watching Downton Abey and so I got this recipe book, which is great, even when I can't eat most of what is there for the gluten and dairy, but it's full historic details that I love to read.

What's on your needles this week?

Yarn Along :: Easter

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I wanted to share the eggs I made them with this pattern, also a bunny family that came out late but is very loved. Here my notes and pattern.

I'm also knitting the Melker Cardigan for my son. I finished reading Your Five Year Old very useful as the whole series of books. I also found this reading useful for mom's of boys.
I'm reading now Traditional foods are your best medicine that I will recommend very much.

I'm also knitting a diaper cover in this delicious bamboo yarn.

What about you?

Yarn Along, even more baby knitting

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 I finished the tangerine-orange sweater, I loved the pattern, very easy to follow and adapt to the particular size. my notes here.

Now I started the Saartje's Bootees, that I have always wanted to knit.

I have been strugling a little with my son, so I picked up Your Five Years Old, which has been enlighteing.

¿What's on your needles theses days?

Yarn Along, a juicy sweater

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I'm amazed on how much knitting I'm doing this days. I continue to knit for my baby's friend who will be born on September or something like that. I wish I have had knit this much for my own son, but five years ago I didn't knew almost anything about knitting. But I think he start that interest for me, I got my first knitting book when I was pregnant and went to a circus festival in San Miguel Allende

The first thing I knitted was a sweater for my baby.

Now I'm working on this sweater, inspired by our orange-mandarin breakfast juices. Love the yarn, so soft, is Premier Yarns Merit.

This week I'm not reading at all, since my father is moving in, so I have a lot of organizing to do.

Yarn Along, tiny wasabi pants for baby.

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I'm still on the baby knitting for this baby to come, I'm making Ze tiny pants, my notes here. 

I had to make modifications that I will post soon.

On the reading front I'm still on Little Women.

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Yarn Along, waiting for a baby

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I'm all girly these days, reading Little Women and knitting for baby's friend to be born. Next I'm thinking on make this pants.

Mexico tales: The sewing and knitting course

While we were in Mexico, we visit Xalapa, Veracruz, were I gave this course.

It was really nice and my lovely students were so happy and creative, I loved it.

There was all kind of projects.

Many of them bring their sewing machines, and this was the most strange I have ever seen, I was not able to find out how to fill the bobbin, which is not meant to be done on the top of the machine, but on the bottom.

This knitting machine was interesting to see too, even when I prefer hand knitting.

Yarn Along

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I just wanted to share I finished the skull sweater, but then Y ha to make ti longer and nw I´m redoing the hod because it did't fit him well.



We are visitng our homeland, Mexico, and I forgot my camera, so I jst have my cel phone photos, sorry.



I readed Laura Restrepo's,  La isla de la pasión, a great boo about Clipperton island around new year's eve, and now I'm with Love in the time of cholera from Gabriel García Márquez. I loved the first one and like the second I think I have read already.

Yarn along, almost done with the pirate sweater

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This week has been crazy, so reading was not possible but I did finish One Hundred Years of Solitude last week.

I'm almost done with the pirate sweater, it's kind of small, it fits him but it wont last to long, he is so happy.

Yarn along, still on the pirate sweater

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I'm still on the Pirate Sweater for my son, as he called it. It was much more easy than I thought but I did have to make adjustments because my yarn is thinner, I will update details here soon.

I'm still on One hundred years too, and happily surprised of how many English speakers have reed it, it's such a great book, I'm in the part of 17 Aurelianos already.

Last night I watch Le Concert, it was great, I even watched over imediatly, as I did with Garden State.

 What have you been working on?

We made a very simple advent calendar yesterday.

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Yarn Along, One hundred years of solitude

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My son is in need of a warm sweater for winter, so I let him pick a pattern, he liked this one for the pirate related thing with the skull, I like it because it has a hoodie, it's a free pattern, and it seams like is wide and can last a year, or at least I'm hoping that, this is the larger project I have ever made, I don't have black wool yarn so I will be using brown instead, details here.

I'm rereading One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, I recommend it very much, it's incredible.

Yarn Along, my first pattern on Ravelry.

Yarn Along it's a day of the week to share what you are knitting and reading created by Ginny, you can add your post here every Wed. or to the flickr group any day.

This week I made a little hat for a baby and I end up publishing my first Ravelry pattern, I'm so excited, it's Veikko's Hat, you can find it here. It's a newborn gnomy hat, maybe too simple for all you experienced knitters, but an easy fast gift for the holidays or baby to born, hope you like it.

I'm still reading I curse the river of time, by Per Petterson and loving it.

Veikko's hat, my first public pattern

 I'm so proud to announce that I have publish my first pattern on Ravelry, here is it.

It's Veikko's hat a very simple gnomy hat that I made for a Finn friend’s baby, Veikko. It’s a fast and easy last minute gift, also it needs very little yarn, so you can use whatever you have on your stash. I used some leftover from Restless Prairie Farm, an Etsy shop, I don’t know the brand of it but it’s organic and so soft.

You may download it here. 

Veikko's hat, my first knitting pattern

I have made my first knitting pattern, I'm so excited,I will be publishing it soon in Ravelry and here.


My son is better and me too, since I got ill too.

Yarn Along and Homescholing

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This week I'm still on the sleepers for my son, from last week, and a pair of baby sock for a surprise gift.

The yarn on the sleepers it's quite old, my mom gave it to me about 3 years ago, but I remember how it was always in her stash, so I showed to her and we calculated it's about 20 years old. And the good news is that is not acrylic, but wool, she made a little burning test (I didn't knew about this), and showed me how it will became ashes and not a hard plastic thing and there is also the smell of burned hair.

In the reading front there has been a lot of Calvert manuals being our first year and all the system very new for me, so I'm trying to figure it out, but today we had our fist lesson and we loved it, more on that tomorrow.

So what it's in you needles?

Yarn along with alpaca

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This week I was active on knitting but not in the reading front after have finished Freedom, which I loved, but still can't tell exactly why.

I made a pair of sock and mittens with an Alpaca skein I have had for about 3 years, but I don't have the label any more, so I  don't know how much alpaca is on it and if there is any other fiber, but the textures is great and I love the color too. And is so cute to make little things, I hope to post the pattern, which is my own, some day soon.

I had also some old yarn my mom's gave me, it's clearly acrylic, but still, my son needed some sleepers and I already had the soles from 2 years ago, I'm lucky they still fit him, and have a little space to grow into, he loved it, now I just need to make the pair. He loved them, and I feel so good to be able to do something for him among all the work.

And that's it, what about you?

Yarn Along, back to knit and crochet

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I'm still with Feedom, by Jonathan Franzer, still liking it a lot. Also making a baby blanket and some leg warmers for me.

What about you?

Freedom, and still stuck with Pebble vest

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I have almost made no progress on the vest, I have some kind of block, but I'm reading a lot, I got the Indiespensble box of wonder from Powell's a few months ago, and the first one I loved (The particular sadness of lemon cake), and the next I had not touched until last week when I got into Feedom, by Jonathan Franzer, and I just can put it down, I recommend it a lot.

How about you?

Yarn Along: Socks and Bees

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I'm so excited to have had cast the second sock (It's my first pair), I had to wait until last Saturday to get the second skein.

The pattern is Africa's socks, Ravelry notes here.

I just got this beautiful present, The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture the 1947 edition, hardcover with the bee (you can touch it), boy, it has me dreaming.

So what about you?

Yarn Along

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I had many planned, but haven't been able to publish them.

After this one, I started my first pair of socks, at least following a pattern, Africa's Socks, here are my Ravelry notes, it is a great challenge for me, I didn't understood many word, but I'm happy to say that I finished the first one. The week Istarted I  Fukuoka book, The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics), it's about Natural Farming and so much more, I recommend it a lot.

After that I finshed the diaper cover while reading some mystery stories I enjoyed a lot.

Now I'm making the Plain Vest, I didn't had number 9 needles and used 10, It's so big that I think it fits well my skinny 5 year old, too bad the colors are all girly, so I will have to find another owner.

I'm not reading much this week, I'm more into movies mood.

I changed the blog a little, hope you like it, and no, that's is not a mistake, in Costa Rica winter is the rainy season, from May to December, and then it comes summer (there is only two seasons), and it's funny, because summer it's the non-rainy time of the year.