everything is coming up roses

i am oh so close to finishing up all the roses for my flower basket bag. i need to get the roses felted and then attach them to the bag with snaps. this was a recommendation by stacey at sheep in the city. if i remember right she saw it done that way at one of her lys. the snaps make it so i can change out the color of the roses when the mood strikes. so far i only have the red roses done though. the others will just have to wait.

speaking of roses, it is june, yah! always a very busy month for me. there are a lot of things going on in my family this month. my birthday, my brother's birthday, father's day and my parents anniversary. not to mention starting my new job and a couple of my friend's birthdays as well. and in typical june fashion, it is raining outside.

july will be a busy month as well, i will be attending two baby showers for a couple of my close friends. one reads this blog regularly so you won't be seeing any knits for her! but the other doesn't so i can show you the pinwheel blanket i have been working on. i hesitate to make baby blankets because i tend to get bored, but couldn't pass up the unique design of this one. i should join the knitalong, but i have been lazy.



some major swatching has been going on. i am trying to find some yarn in my stash to make the one skein wonder by stefanie at glampyre. i found the link while catching up on tami's blog blue rose knits. from her past behavior, my guess would be that tami will make more than one of these :) i bought the pattern last night (once again, love the pdf downloads!) and went through the stash. i came up with a couple yarns (i didn't want to do it in wool which is at least 75% of my stash!). the one below (karabella picnic) isn't getting gauge for height though, just width. i love this yarn, but it has some weird stretch, etc. so it may not be the best choice for this pattern.



a few weeks back i was chatting with my brother and he mentioned that all the hats i knit him for christmas made his eyes itch. the only conclusion? he is allergic to wool. which is too bad considering i made him several. a quick peek in my stash and some bernat acrylic was found in colors that i knew he would like. so for his birthday (which is just two days after mine) i knit him up a new beanie in acrylic. now, i don't particularly like the feel of it, but it isn't bad. i think he will like it. i don't think you will be too surprised by the colors :)



funny how i didn't manage to hide my 1 mistake in the picture. oops! and in case the colors don't come through well, they are brown and blue.

i have this week off before i start my new job monday. trying to do some fun little stuff before i head back to the day to day routine that i have avoided for the past 8 months. hopefully the sun will appear at some point :)