Tag Archives: Moo Cotton

baby bretagne

when you have one of these . . . everything you think you’re going to accomplish, kind of comes to a halt or at least slows to a snail’s pace.  baby monstaa / holiday elf / ‘lil cupid has figured out how to crawl and cruise, leaving a bit less time than we had predicted for finishing projects.  we started this pint-sized bateau top for him back in march, thinking that he could wear it on a family trip to france.  of course, that didn’t…

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mint lemonade, anyone?

  it’s safe to say that we’ve been obsessed with this season’s mint and lemonade color combinations.  it’s been popping up everywhere, and we’re SMITTEN!  so much so, that for the last few days, we put all other projects on hold, picked up our needles, and started to knit a mint lemonade blanket in moo cotton that baby can use in warmer weather.

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lace and the miter square

while fiddling around with a section of our penelope pattern, we ended up making a little swatch that turned out to be a lace version of the miter square.  we’ve seen striped miter squares before but haven’t as yet come across a lacy concoction. . . it makes a nice little coaster by itself, and if ya whipped up a whole bunch, you might just end up with a really cool blanket!’

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shaking it up with color

  We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of the dream, Wandering by lone sea breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; — World losers and world forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world forever, it seems – Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Music and Moonlight THE LO-DOWN the first time we laid our eyes on 2 color shaker stitch, we thought it was a miracle.  vertical stripes appear while knitting horizontally, it almost seems as…

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