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A knitted baby blanket

August 7, 2013

A few months ago I found out my sister is going to have a baby! A little while later I found out she is having a boy. Sometime after that while I was visiting home I felt him kick for the first time, I was the first of anyone to feel him after my sister of course. It was a pretty special moment. I’m going to be an aunt and I’m so excited! She told me as soon as she could so I could start knitting.

I had a few projects in mind but I was most excited about making the baby blanket. I used this pattern by Purl Bee and cascade superwash 220. When I was nearly done I had this weird moment of envisioning the future when he would be all grown up and we’d look at his baby blanket together and reminisce about when aunt Jessica made it for him. It was weird and touching all at once.

I finished up the blanket and packaged up a few other things to send to my sister so she could open them during her shower. Sadly I couldn’t be there but we facetimed at the end of the party and she opened my gifts. It wasn’t quite like being there but at least we had that. I thought it would be more important for me to be there when he’s born so I’m saving my ticket for then. It’s hard being away from home and missing so much.

{the onesie is from Oh, Little Rabbit I got it in a trade I did with them a while back}

{facetiming with my sister while she was opening my gifts at the end of her baby shower}

I still have a few more projects to work on but I have about 2 1/2 months to get them done. Ready, set, knit!

Working with moorea seal

July 22, 2013

A couple of months ago I attended a blogger event here in Seattle where I met Moorea Seal for the first time. We got to talking and she told me all about her new venture curating a shop full of handpicked items by some of her favorite designers and artists. When we exchanged business cards I told her what I do and showed off the tiny gold Michigan necklace I wear all the time. She seemed to be impressed that I do all my work by hand and said I might be a good fit for her new shop! Ah! I was so excited I and I told Walker all about it when I got home.

A little while later I got in contact with her and we worked out which items of mine she would carry in her shop and I got to work making 35 tiny gold necklaces. I’ll tell you my hands were pretty tired when I was done. It didn’t matter though because I was too excited. Once they were all packaged up I got the honor of dropping them off in person at the Moorea Seal studio here in Seattle. It was really cool seeing where all the magic is taking place.

So today I’m super excited for Moorea and her team because her shop officially went live today! There are so many cute things, and of course my necklaces are over there, so check it out! Go to Mooreaseal.com. Let me know if you buy anything. I’ve got my eye on a few items also…

I’m at alt sf!

July 18, 2013

Right now I’m in San Francisco for the first time and I’m attending Alt SF! I’m no doubt wandering around trying to find my place and get the courage to talk to other attendees. I hope it’s going well. I will fill you in on everything when I return.

When I bought my ticket I started thinking of business card ideas. I already had the cards I was planning on using but I wanted a little gift that would represent what I do. After much thought I decided on California shaped pins with hearts over San Francisco.

I hand cut 75 CA shapes out of a softer wood, I sanded them, wood burned the hearts onto them as well as alt sf ’13 and it’s limited edition #. Next I squeezed on my blog address to the side and then glued the pin back on. Phew! I was hoping to make even more but time just didn’t allow so if you’re one of the first 75 people I meet at alt you’ll get one of these special pins. Yeah!

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