Life of a Knitphomaniac

Monday, January 13, 2025

Wedding of the Century!!!

Hey everyone! How are you? I am well. I am sorry I did not post last week. It was a crazy week.

Approx the day after my last post, I looked at the weather forecast for January 11th (date of my newphew's wedding).....and it said it was going to be COLD! So, being the genius that I am, I decided to knit a sweater in 8 days. After I started I knew I would run out of yarn, so the sweetest lady I found on ravelry agreed to overnight me some of the same yarn she had in her for sale or trade section....and I did it!

I ended up being a little too hot, but my mom was freezing so I gave her the sweater (I know she looks mad, but I promise she is not, I just shot the pic at the wrong time.

That is pretty much the only thing I have knit on since the last post....so now I need to jump back on darlene's sweater and the unicorn wrap I am making.

Other than that, I have been of course trying to eat healthier with some food prep

I got some super cute ziplock bags with dogs on them (quart size, now I am looking for Gallon size)

Lupe got his new Joe Montana Jersy and Paulette made him some slippers (she is the greatest friend), plus she sent me a cute Christmas ornament

I got a message from Coley that she got the package I sent her to Scotland for Christmas and the cutest girl in the world (Mia) loves her USA Sour Patch Kids (she says the scotland ones are not the same).

Lupe got a great pic of him with his pops and the hats I made them

Plus a pic of Lupe looking handsome

Here is a pic of Antonio and Amira.....these two are my world!

Now, before I give you a huge dump of wedding photos....I just want to say the cold sucks. Here is my Flower who also thinks it is too cold...LOL!

Okay....here is the Wedding of the Century....Congrats Sean and Leilani!

Have a great week!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Its 2025!!!

Here is the mantra for the year!

How are yall? I am well....I have been busy caston on new things.....I know yall are not surprised! LOL!

First, do you remember back around 4th of july I had bought some yarn to make a Unicorn Clud Wrap? Well I had also bough more yarn in October.....this black color

I have the gray to Darlene and she has started a wrap too...and Jennifer, Elizabeth and Melissa are also joining!

I have cast this thing on no less than 5 times....I even did a guage swatch but I liked how loose Jennifer's looked so I re-cast on several times...... It was too tight, too wide, too this, too that....and now it is like golidlocks and finall right on size 8 needle (calls for size 5) and the 100 stitch count

Jennifer is making this gorgeous one with pink lace yarn and a speckled slub yarn.....it is so gorgeous....and she is sooooooo amazing that she sent me 2 skeins of the slub yarn! I ordered some Emma's Yarn Suri Silk in the Sweet Magnolia colorway and I think it will look amazing!

Thank you Jennifer!

Here is hers.....and then the yarn she sent me......I LOVE IT!

I also started a playstation cover....I am winging this one and might write up a pattern....we will see. I got Lupe a new PS5 Pro for Christmas and he loves it but we want to keep dust and dog hair out of it.

I started an Ankers Sweater.....it is a birthday gift for someone special!

I got some new yarn in to make the embers cowl...this is like a shiny super thin lace weight yarn to hold with fingering I guess. I got Rose Gold and Silver