Vest

I just finished making a vest from the Thru-Hiker Minima Vest kit. It worked out quite well: it’s very warm and snug, and the material is highly breathable as well as water resistant.

A Warm hat for Mama

It was time for me to make myself a hat! The first project of 2013 and It turned out pretty nice but very very large. Guess there is something to knitting gauge afterall… Well good thing I have …

Warm Socks for Jess

Well it took me what felt like ages to makes these socks! But they are done now and they are AMAZING!

A Warm Hat for Gabriel

The sky is the limit! Or so I thought. It is good to feel that way once in awhile and I was on a massive high from making Simon’s socks when I began this project. I embarked on …

Prison pants

I have been hiking in jeans. They’re really heavy, and while they are very comfortable, if they were to get wet  they wouldn’t dry very quickly. I chose Supplex nylon to make some replacement hiking pants from, in …

Warm Socks for Simon

The time had come! I don’t know how many years it had been but I had wanted to knit a pair of socks for as long as I can remember. And now the time had finally come! I …

Stripy Thermals for G

After the success of my stripy thermals, I had to make some for Jess and Gabriel. Here is Gabriel modeling his, Jess to follow.

A Warm Hat for Simon

Having been recently reacquainted with knitting, it was first my intention to knit a hat for Simon. At the craft store Simon picked out a beautiful multi-colored woolen yarn and I grabbed a set of circular knitting needles- something I …

New Shoes for Gabriel

The first  pair of shoes I made for Gabriel were a raging success both functionally and aesthetically: He walked and hiked in them a lot without any disrepair and he also received many compliments on them! I am …

New Threads

After our experience at Cooper Falls where we got a bit chilly I decided it was time to bust out ol’ Faithful (Jess’s family sewing machine which we’ve been lucky enough to borrow on an extended basis from …

Shoes for Gabriel

Gabriel had worn the first hole in his Bobux soft soled leather shoes back in July when we went to Mammoth Lakes for a family vacation. Nearly two months and a few more holes later I have finally …

Quilt Complete

We finished our quilt! This design was another one we purchased from Ray and Jenny Jardine. Jess did all the measuring, cutting, and hand-basting and quilting, I did all the sewing machine work. Here’s the run-down of its …