I will be adding a new pattern to my site this weekend. It will be for my Magnetic Katamari. These are very handy to hold all sorts of things! I have been promising this pattern for too long and I promise it will be up very soon.
On the knitting front, I haven’t gotten back to my Bug shawl after the Teeny incident a few weeks back. I did want to let you know who designed this fabulous shawl. It is Mindy. She designed this shawl with beautiful garden scenes that I can’t wait to knit, and it is in a great Choose Your Own Adventure format so your shawl can reflect your own personality. She is debating whether or not to publish this pattern and I say whole heartedly YES!
What I am working on is making some Sidewinders for my sister from this scrappy yarn
Here is a realy dark photo of her wearing the first one. I had her try it on to make sure it would fit her. The pattern calls for size 2/2.75 needles and all I had were size 3/3.25, so I made the size 7-8 instead of the 8-9 and it fit great.
She is a daycare worker in the infant room and they wear only socks at work, so she needed some fun and fancy socks! I think this will keep the babies very entertained. Just look how entertained she is!
I also wanted to show off something very exciting! For the longest time I have wanted a Hibiscus plant. Not just any Hibiscus, not the plain red or yellow-orange ones you see at every home center, but one exactly like the one that grows at my Grandmother’s house. They are the most visualy stunning flowers I have ever seen and I NEEDED one. When we got closer to moving into the house, I went on a search online looking for that elusive plant. I found it and I have been nurturing it for almost 6 moths now, and this week I was rewarded with this bloom
It is a variety called High Voltage and I got it from Hidden Valley Hibiscus. I am so completely in love! The bloom is about 6″ across and there is a second one waiting to bloom right behind it. And you can see that as of now it is the only thing growing in our back yard at the moment
My husband saw this photo and said it looked like one of those giant flowers that only bloom every 50 years or so. That it looked big enough to be eating neighborhood cats!
Amy's Babies 
September 8, 2007 at 11:59 am
That is a beautiful flower! And the sidewinders look really great, she seems to be thrilled, and very long legged, judging by that one photo. 🙂
September 8, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Wow, those sidwinders look fantastic. That is on my to knit list. Great job, the yarn works perfectly with the pattern.
That hibiscus is gorgeous too! I just have yellow and pink ones here, I really like the colors on that one, fantastic!!
Love the Katamari, it is so cute!
September 8, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Your magnetic Katamari is a super idea. I bet you used those heavy round magnets you can buy at Wal-Mart. What a useful thing to own.
The socks are great, too.
September 9, 2007 at 9:29 am
I adore your Katamari – my daughter is a huge Katamari Damarcy fan! You MUST put this pattern up – I’ll be forced to hold my breath until you do!
September 9, 2007 at 12:32 pm
OMG, LOVE the magnetic katamari! That’s so cool ^_^
Handspun sidewinders, lucky sister! Mmm, hibiscus. Are you thinking of doing any hibiscus soap or lotion? That’d be fun.
September 10, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I have a very similar hibiscus, grown from seed, that has been perennial here in MD. Called Southern Belle. Don’t know how it would work in the desert. Those socks will not only entertain but keep the kids awake! You’d never know from looking at the skein that there would be such long stripes.
September 11, 2007 at 5:18 am
Your Katamari is fantastic. I love it! And the sidewinder socks are too cute.