December 30, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized |
I am feeling very accomplished you guys! I’ve got two patterns coming out (as soon as I create the fancy PDF formatting and schematics etc, I’m a bit burnt out from petite purls so slacking on that front), I made my first cut-out sugar cookies from scratch with my own frosting, and they came out GREAT! And in the last 48 hours I have sewn up my first two completed items of clothing! I asked a long-time knitting buddy Brett if he could teach me how to sew, I needed a private lesson and lots of time (and forgiveness for awful baby behavior, tho really there was not much of that). He obliged as he is one quarter from graduating with a fashion design degree. How lucky am I to know such a cool dude? Claudia did introduce me though so she gets some credit there. Hah.
The time after Petite Purls launches is always nice, I just step away from it for a while and try not to think about it or stress about it. It also being the holiday season the husbeast has been home to help out a LOT with the kids. He watched LG and BG while I sewed for nearly 8 hours straight yesterday, and 2 or so hours today.
So yesterday when Brett came over, he was kind enough to hold miss LG when she was fussing and refusing to go to bed. She was SO over the husbeast, wouldn’t even let him hold her any more (remember, 8 hours!). So Brett was holding her and she got all excited and was smiling and flapping her arms, and then, just when things seemed okay, she spit up a very large amount on HIS FACE no less, right into his goatee, looked like he had poured cream all over it. It was awful and disgusting and I lost it so bad I could not stop laughing. Poor Brett, and do you know what sort of trooper he is? He offered to hold her, AGAIN! Those are some serious coolness points there people!
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I’ve been very tired and not been able to finish knitting as much as I would like, but last night I was determined LG would have a hat for herself, something super cut and chunky. I got my hot little hands on the new Spud & Chloe (Outer) colors coming out in January, and I really loved Sunkissed, it matches some of the fabric in her crib quilt, the trees have a bit of this peachy pink in them.
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December 16, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized |
I am trying to finish the milk pattern, but other stuff always gets in the way… like Petite Purls! We launched our first Winter issue ever and wow it has so many amazing patterns in it, 16 patterns this time around!! That’s triple our first issue at least!
Look at those adorable longies my good friend
Claudia knit for LG! They are so cute, and I loved the twisted drawstring she made for them.
I’m super tired, all that I have left on Milk #2 is to finish 3 rounds of crochet edging and block it again. I want to be done with photos and everything by Sunday. Wish me luck! The girls are keeping my very busy!
December 6, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized |
LG turned 4 months yesterday, and we have her doctor appointment first thing next week to get her stats! I am looking forward to seeing what her weight is. We’ve discovered she is teething and boy does she liked teething rings (something I’ve not had luck with in the past). We had one night were she slept 6 hours but mostly she’s still sticking to around 4 hours with random 2 or 3 hours in between. She sleeps from 9pm until 7am (with the frequent wake ups) but I’m fine and holding up reasonably well. She has settling into her own form of a schedule, sleeping 2-3 hours after she wakes up in the morning, then around noon or so, and another nap around 4 or 5 in the afternoon. On good days those naps last 1-2 hours. On bad days they last 30 minutes.
I accidently took her of her zantac a week ago, didn’t realize the syringe thingy wasn’t going down to the bottom of the bottle so I was putting nothing in her mouth (really obvious-dumb-sleep-deprive-mom-thing). So she went without it for well, probably several days. She started to get congested and spit up a whole lot more which was part of what made me realize something was up. Crazy how it really affected her, and reassuring that she’s not being medicated for no reason. I REALLY hope she grows out of this soon! Just in the last week she rolled from back to tummy, yay!! It was 4 in the morning when she did it the first time actually. I’ve also noticed she has a harder time rolling over in her cloth diapers, because at first she was only rolling over at night if I happen to put her down, which I have her in disposables at night to avoid leaks. So now I am making sure to have some “air” time with no diaper, lay some blankets out and she can roll around all she likes!
BG is as ever the dotting sister, and LG always smiles and giggles at her! My hair is starting to shed a bit as is to be expected at this stage of things. I can’ t believe its been 4 months, how crazy! I wish I could knit more for her, but between Petite Purls work, and then trying to finish patterns (which involves knitting the same things sometimes two or three times) I don’t have much time to knit as much as I would like! I always feel pressure to work on the patterns now, while I have a small model!
My good friend
Claudia took me and LG out for my birthday, we had lots of fun travling to Atlanta for Taco Mac and Knitch! I recieved the prettiest yarn as a present from her with my choice of pattern she would knit me something from it, I picked a Clapotis. I am so excited, it is the most beutiful yarn and she is such a phenomenal knitter. She totally spoiled me and LG on saturday and we had loads of fun! The three of us also have a “hair” trip planned soon, as I can not be so far from LG for too long with nursing, and my hair stylist is WAY far away (but so worth it) so Claudia is going to come with us! It’s always fun traveling with a baby (if they aren’t too fussy).
Do you recognize that sweater?
Speaking of traveling with a baby, she’s normally pretty fussy when i take her out, but last night I went to a friends house for a neighborhood gathering and she was SO good! it was late at night, and she’s fussy at night anyway so I figured why not, maybe avoid 2 hours of walking her around the house. I left BG and the husbeast at home and she only fussed in the car a bit, and was totally good while I was there (however a very loud pictionary game was going on, and one thing I have learned is babies do well in rooms with lots of noise!) and fell asleep on the way home and stayed asleep.
The holidays are coming and we are sticking close to home to avoid all the germs as best we can. Knocking on wood we can come out of the season unscathed by any major illness, and hoping it gets cold enough to take the girls to Snow Mountain.
My name is Brandy Fortune, and I design knit-wear for kids. I love Crème Brulée, Sci-Fi, 70 degree weather and reading a good book in bed. I spend my time knitting, sewing, taking pictures, co-editing the web-zine 
