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It’s astonishing to me how much I have grown to love knitting. For only doing it for a years time, it’s become my most loved hobby. I carry a knitting project everywhere with me and I often bring it out at work and knit a few rows on my lunch. I don’t get embarrassed or think of it as “the granny hobby”. The only time that I don’t like knitting is when I’m working on a project and I decide that I want to keep it. I decide that giving it to it’s rightful owner will kill me, so while the needles are flying, I’m putting together a plan so I don’t have to give up the knitted up. Like these….

Simply known as the purple longies. But if there was a way to be in love with a knitted item, I have found it. They are simply gorgeous. Just look at the colors and the pattern that the variegated yarn forms!

This next photo shows more true to life colors. And the cuff. The best part. A garter eyelet stitch cuff. And while I’m a fugly garter stitch hater, I’m a garter eyelet stitch lover.

But, I’m going to share some joyous news. I’m almost out of the yarn. This yarn. Cascade 220 Superwash Paints. In Grape. Such a scrumptious name! Cascade Superwash Paints is a wonderful yarn. Soft, machine washable, even though I would probably just handwash them. I mean, if the longies were mine. And I wish that they were. But then that means that I would need a little baby girl to wear them…..
Anyways… so I’m down to about 40 more yards of the yarn when I need at least 80-100 yards. So I ordered some more of the yarn (since I can use it for a super cute stocking cap to sell on my Etsy). So while I’m patiently waiting for the yarn, I’m enjoying my limited time with the longies. Gazing longingly at the colors and the sweet cuff. Admiring my stitch work. It really is nicely done.. Sigh… I really hope the owner loves these longies as much as I do…

The Fall Camo Longies are done. And even though I had a little sizing flaw in the beginning (and I hope not a sizing flaw currently!!), I really enjoyed knitting them.

I love how soft they are. Even though I really don’t like camo colorway, I love the colors of the longies.

and now, I present, the finished longies….

And I’m going to have custom longies available on Itty Bitty Knits.

I’m so excited!!

I know I don’t talk enough about my Itty Bitty Knits etsy shop. I have several different newborn to 1 year hats and I also offer custom order hats. Currently two different styles to choose from.
I’ve decided to also offer custom order booties. Very soon I will offer custom order socks.

I also have a Hyena Cart in the works. It won’t be completely opened until I can stock it this weekend, but I’m excited.

I also have been busy with client orders for knitted items.
Hopefully I can keep up a steady stream of work with client orders and my shops. I enjoy knitting and why shouldn’t someone enjoy their work.

Over the past week, I’ve learned some very valuable lessons.
#1- It’s very easy to lose your keys in the library. I found out today that I wasn’t the only person last weekend to lose my keys.
#2- A lot of car/truck keys have chips in them to start the ignition. This chip is VERY expensive. I found this out the hard way.
#3- NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER use UPS store to ship a package. Holy mother of insanity, $10 f’ing dollars to mail out a package that wasn’t even 1lb. I wish I had driven the extra 10 minutes to the post office. But a whiney, hungry toddler is not fun and usually doesn’t listen to reason. -sigh-

But the good news is that I’m getting through on my knitting projects. I have a bad habit of starting one project, working a few days and then abandoning it for another project. I keep doing this until I have 3-4 projects that I knit on rotation. I suddenly feel like this is a very OCD problem and luckily I’m pushing myself to finish each and every project I start, BEFORE I start a new one. I’ll let you know at the end of next week how this is working out.

And thanks to the very dear Kimberly, I have a fabulous new logo for Itty Bitty Knits. It’s simple, it’s to the point, it’s exactly what I wanted in a logo. Front side of the card has the logo, backside has a personalized note to the buyer. :)

Today I sent out the hat&booties set…

and the grumpasaurus. And for some strange reason, I felt a little sad about letting them go.

Now I’m off to bed to hopefully finish 1 out of 4 projects which are 95% completed…. I’ve got a problem…

I love newborn stocking caps.

I love how small and long they are. I love how when knit with the correct yarn, they produce such a fabulous drape. And the colors… definitely the colors. How you can use just about any color, or pairings of colors, and it looks great on ANY baby.

My most recent pairing is a simple blue and white. But I love it. And it will be perfect for a little boy due in August. I can’t wait to surprise his mom with it!

I’ve got loads and loads of yarn. My sister actually sent myself and our mom a box of random yarn and her crochet needles when we were interested in learning to crochet. I never learned, but I have decided that the yarn she sent is perfect yarn and needs to be used. No more letting it sit in the closet, I am on a mission to find projects and see how creative I can get while using up my yarn stash.

First project involved using 4 balls of Patons Soy Wool Stripes yarn. I loved it from first glance and knew I wanted to make something special.
First project was a mini cabled scarf.


Then I decided I need some fingerless gloves to match. So far I have one knit up but I will get the second one done in no time.

Next project is a Grumpasaurus. He was made from Brown Sheep’s Cotton Fleece. The colors I have wouldn’t work for my normal knitting projects, but I found the grumpasaurus pattern and knew this yarn was perfect. I still have to embroider his face, but he’s fun to play with right now.

I have a couple more toy animal projects I want to knit, but first I need to knit a stocking cap for part of a friends baby shower gift. Then it’s back to using up my yarn stash.

I’ve had plans on putting up a shop on Etsy for a few months. Finally, my shop is up.

Itty Bitty Knits

I offer newborn to 12mnt size hats in a wide range of colors and styles. The feature I’m most proud of? Special Order Itty Bitty hats! You tell me what style, color(s) and size and I make the hat special for you. There is no doubt that you will be happy with it.

I’m still putting up the goods, but check out the store. Comments and questions are always welcome :D