mother's day monster

I really have the best mom that a girl could ask for! She's taught me so much and given me even more. She is also the one responsible for my blue eyes, my soft skin and my hard work ethic. AND she taught me how to sew. I can remember being a little girl making clay beads and friendship bracelets and every christmas she helped me make a holiday ornament for my family members. My mom has always encouraged me to be crafty and to try new things and to do what made me happy, no matter what others thought. Soooo - when mother's day comes around each year I feel the need to do something extra special for such a wonderful mother!

Something you should know about my mom is that she is really just a big kid at heart. She has countless craft books that are full of little stuffed animals and little things I call useless, but that she loves! She also has a book (one of her favorites) called Knitted Monsters. Even though she doesn't know how to knit, she still has this book. So I went to that and knitted up a monster just for her!

His name is Hugo..

My little helper! Sleeping right on my project, as usual!

I really enjoyed making Hugo for my mom. I knew she'd love him the minute she saw him. It was a super easy pattern and the construction was fairly simple. I made some small changes to the pattern but made him work just the same.

come on - how cute is that belly button?!

Instant best friends!

I love you Momma!!

edward photo of the day

edward helping me with the laundry. and by helping me with laundry i mean laying on all the piles of clean clothes i just recently folded. but come on - look at that face, who's going to make him move?

not me - that's for sure :-)

what i've been working on...

oh hi there! wow I know it's been FOORR-EV-ERR (you know the voice from the sandlot?) since I've been on my blog. i've been so busy that I lost track of it.. BUT I am determined to get back on track and update more often again. I have so many exciting projects and things to show you!!

so I always have like 8 projects on my knitting needles and it's no different right now, but I am currently teaching a class so i've been really focused on one project instead of 5 at a time.

Tinder, a beautiful sweater pattern by my favorite, Brooklyn Tweed, is what i'm working on now.

here is my back piece, finished! I always like to start with the biggest piece so now it's done and I just have all the smaller pieces to finish.

it has a nice 4 1/2 inches of ribbing before starting the pattern.

the main stitch for the sweater is a waffle stitch...pretty isn't it?!

and here is my first sleeve!

So you can see I have a lot left to go but it's knitting up really quickly and it's actually pretty fun. changing the stitch so often keeps me interested. also because I'm teaching this class, that's keeping me going so I can stay with what I want my students to have done.

I'll update again soon when it gets closer to being finished!

Hope you had a nice monday!