love is in the air and my sweater

 

Happy love day to everyone!  So sorry I've been neglecting the blog, lives been crazy.  This post is going to be a brief tutorial about this great felted heart! I found this on pinterest and needed to try it myself.  If you'd like to check on the original tutorial check out this great blog,honestlywtf

Our V Day dinner, because OLIVE you!

DIY HEART ELBOW PATCHES

• wool sweater
• wool roving
• heart cookie cutter
• felting needles
• foam for felting
• iron
• water

 

Use a wool sweater and eyeball about 1/2 inch under the elbow.  Place a piece of tape here. Place the cut foam into the sweater.

 Place the cookie cuter above the mark and get ready to fill with roving.

 Fill cutter evenly with roving.  Here's the fun part, start stabbing the roving into the foam with the needle.  Make sure you stab the need straight into the roving and foam (they are easy to break). Fair warning- this does take a while, you want it to flatten out and focus on the edges. The spritz with water and iron with wool setting. Enjoy lovers! XO

 Hanna rocking her diy elbows!

trinity hat

It's finished!  This is the hat that has been ripped out over and over and here it is.  I'm pretty happy with it, I think I could've made it a bit smaller and need some more practice with the trinity stitch but overall like it.  I made it to match my snood.  

I started with...56 stitches I think?  And k3, p3 for a few inches for the rim.  Then I started the trinity stitch and am in love with the texture it creates!  It totally reminds me of the "noogies" on my blanket when I was little.

 

I think I'm liking my slouchy hat with the seed stitch the best.  With any left over yarn I think I may make another one in navy or cream to match my favorite snood.

XO

if you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.

 Great potential news!  I got asked to take a long term sub job in kindergarten at one of my favorite schools today.  If all goes well I will be starting around April.  I immediately started thinking about what MY kindergarten classroom would look like and peeked at my "classroom" Pinterest board and found this fabulous quote.  Then I got out my Martha paints and a canvas and got painting.  I look forward to hanging this behind my desk in a few months!

 

Sample paints from Home Depot (a great way to buy nice paints for crafts!) 

 The orangy color I used (butterscotch)

 Gray lettering (crevecoeur)

 

Penciled in the words before paint

 final product

Have a wonderful weekend, go make a snow angel! xo

my new snood

 

Since moving to Madison, Mike and I have found a new store, Canvas- Lands End.  After the closing of Martin and Osa and the sky high J. Crew prices we needed to find another option. Canvas has young preppy, stylish, quality clothes for men and women.  They also have a great online store and they even send you a hand written note every time you order something from them, how sweet!

We were shopping there this weekend and I came across a gorgeous cream and navy striped snood.  Instead of buying it I was on a mission to make my own!  As Mike was checking out I frantically counted the stitches to help create my remake.  Here is the pattern I made up, it was SUPER DUPER easy! XO

I used...

• size 13 us needles (circular) 
• loops and thread (charisma) yarn in dark blue and off white

Cast on 56 stitches (blue)

Knit in the round


Row 1: Knit (blue)
Row 2: Pearl (blue)
Row 3: Knit (white)
Row 4: Pearl (white)


Continue this until you have 11 white stripes then...
Row 1: Knit (blue)
Row 2: Pearl (blue)
Row 3: Knit (blue)


Cast off and weave/tie in ends!


Let me know if you have questions- this is the first pattern I've typed up. Happy Knitting!!

floating words- finished

My book mobile is hung and ready to go.  I totally love it, I think it will look great in a nursery some day.  Off to spend the night with Mikey and Stell.  I can't imagine Mike working 2nd shift again, having him all night is AMAZING!

book mobile

So here is post number one.  I have been obsessed with blogs ever since Mike & I got engaged and decided I was ready to start one.  I'm in LOVE with Pinterest and saw this book mobile on there and have been dying to diy it ever since. 

You'll need:

• Old book
• Razor Blade
• Drill
• Wire
• Glue Gun

 

1.  I found an old book I had and ripped out the pages but left the front and back covers. 

 2.Then I drilled two holes into the binding and threaded floral wire through the holes to use to hang.  I decided to do this first before all the pages were glued in.  

 3. Next, I went glue gun crazy creating these little looped pages.  I glued along the edges and then in between the loops. 

4. Then I kept adding and adding more loops.  

The final product is coming next!!!