Cowichan Pattern

One of my goals for 2017 is to knit myself a cowichan, but I wanted to keep it personalized to me. So, after a lot of scanning through Pinterest, and Google search engines, I've come up with the below pattern!

Front/Back pattern

Sleeve pattern

Progress to be posted to my Instagram account, finished product to be posted here eventually (before the end of the year!)

Cowichan inspired Leg Warmers

Looking through Pinterest, I ran across some beautiful looking cowichan leg warmers.

Not able to find a pattern, I decided to make my own.

Pattern width to be done in multiples of 20.

Desired length to be 14", 

Desired width based off of circumference of leg (plus an extra 2" to make sure it'll fit over snug fitting pants... remember to make in multiple of 20 stitches!)

Depending on how many inches it takes to make this pattern, I may add another iteration of the wave below the owl, But I don't want the pattern to fall below mid-calf of me.

I'll probably stick to the traditional colors of  grey, cream and black.

Will post finished product once it's finished (hopefully soon!)

Quiet Book

For Christmas this year I thought it would be fun to make a quiet book for one of my nieces.. set out with grand intentions, I scoured through Pinterest to find what I thought would be the best pages. Little did I know the enormous task that I had set for myself.
 Originally I had planned on 15 pages:

• A page showing a tree with spring leaves
• A page showing a tree with summer leaves
• A page showing a tree with fall leaves
• A page showing no leaves (for winter) but with snowflakes instead
• A page with an ice cream cone
• A page with shape matching
• A puzzle page
• A race track page (with cars to play with)
• A page with a fish bowl (with fish to play with)
• A zipper page
• An African safari page (with animals to play with)
• A page with things to button (and un-button)
• A page with fake crayons to match to their colored word
• A page with flowers on it (with a watering can to water said flowers)
• A dress up doll page

However, after spending 5 days making 7 pages I started to re-consider.
Of the planned pages I was able to get done:

• A page showing spring / summer leaves
• A page with an ice cream cone
• A puzzle page
• A race track page
• A page with a fish bowl
• A page with a zipper (which turned into also a storage page to keep all of the loose bits ie. cars)
• A page with flowers that can be un-buttoned

And of course, a snazzy cover page.

I think next time (if there is a next time) instead of sewing everything together I'll whip out my handy glue gun and give that method a whirl
(Sorry the pictures are sideways.. formatting them is proving a challenge)

Check out http://hand-mademoments.blogspot.ca/ for page tutorials

Happy Crafting