Baby blanket grows up!

For months, the members of my knitting group, the Knotty Girls, have embarked on a secret project to make a baby blanket for our friend Sina.

Lo, and behold, it's completed! We presented the blanket to Sina at her baby shower this weekend.
The 5-inch squares, 52 in total, are all garter stitch and lined up in contrasting patterns.

SOME PIG

A Yorkshire pig at the Marion County Fair. I always wanted to be Fern Arable.

le tote

A tote bag that I finished tonight, reconstructed from an XXL men's plaid shirt from Goodwill, a couple of linen napkins and a black baby T from my town Austin, Texas - it was a gem from which I could never part. And now it's immortalized in a tote bag.


Here's detail of the pocket. The black T-shirt was baby-sized, so I never wore it, but its logo hails from the Continental Club, a live music spot on Congress Avenue.