Elizabeth Smillie

This summer has been pretty busy with Etsy orders and moving and my knitting got set aside for a while. I picked up the needles again a few weeks ago though. (so glad I did – had really been missing it)
The little ones and I were going to the pumpkin patch with our MOPS group on a Monday and I found this pattern {here} for a hat for Ian {on Pinterest here} the Friday before.
I had both orange and green yarns in my stash, he didn’t have any warm hats that still fit (he has an amazingly large head), and so I set to work!

It knit up beautifully and was finished in time for Em to model it while “helping” John rake leaves. : )

The hat fits Ian beautifully and he loves it! Now I need to make one for Emma Grace (she seems to think I made it for her and can’t understand that it actually belongs on her brother’s head).   : )

{I’m linking this up on a few of these blogs}

I got the idea for this post from Lisa Leonard (thank you!)

http://www.incourage.me/2011/02/finding-contentment-with-what-you-have.html

there is something so satisfying about empty thread spools.

maybe because they speak of projects accomplished (!), clothes and things sewn. of love being put in with every stitch, inch by inch, foot by foot, yard by yard.
yes.

Have you checked out the “Ideas” page on the blog? I’ve been updating it with things that I would love to do/make – there are some really sweet projects listed!

These are some of the things I have for sale in the shop right now, and I decided to pull them out of their hiding places for a while, so that I could enjoy looking at them.

I love the colors in them: blue, crimson, spring green (they might be some of my favorites, come to think of it. they keep popping up around our home!).

So pretty.

John had to work on Sunday, a little earlier and longer than he had planned, so Emma and I stayed home from church.
Because we stayed home I didn’t get out to do the errands done that I had planned to do with Emma on Sunday while we waited for him to get off work. Instead, John and Emma spent a few hours together while I went out alone on Monday. (by the way, there is something very refreshing about doing some needed errands alone. when you would normally look for the shady spots to park so the car seat doesn’t get hot, you just … park. you don’t need a basket or a stroller, you can just walk through)
Anyway, John told me to take my time and I did.
I went to the craft store for yarn to finish my sweater, went to Starbucks, Babies R Us, Berean,and Borders. And I used gift cards!