Our son thought he was dropping me off at the airport to say goodbye. We surprised him with a trip to North Lapland, Finland, above the Arctic Circle, for a magical meeting with Santa. Don't watch if you don't want to cry ;)
A few months ago a friend invited me to a Halloween party. People who go to this party take their costumes VERY seriously so I knew I had to up the ante. I set out on the task to knit myself and my son matching sloth onesies - these are all hand knit without a pattern. They have three-toed gloves and a hood with a sloth face flap that you can put up or down. Bonus? We now have our own custom sloth onesies we can wear at any occasion, of which there will be plenty - because, well, SLOTH! Happy Slothoween!
Knitting may seem like a slow way to make a Halloween costume, but with chunky wool it is very possible to pull of something like this pumpkin in a day (if you are willing to pull an all-nighter!) Having only a couple of days left to complete the task, I found some very chunky orange wool, and with a large circular needle I cast on around 100 stitches, ribbed for 8 rows, then increased in every stitch to make it balloon out. After knitting to his measurements I worked armholes by splitting the circle in two, casting off a few stitches on either end of each panel, knitting and then rejoining in the round to make a neck hole (which I also did in ribbing). The top was a simple beanie with a brown top and some green, spool (French) knit pieces on top of twisted pipe cleaners to look like vines. I knit a matching costume for his sloth toy, for good measure : ) Using such chunky wool it really didn’t take too long to make the costume. To avoid an all-night knitting session like I had to pull, give yourself a week to complete the task. Happy Halloween knitting!
This is the amazing knitted bus project that the rouge knitting crew "Knitta Please" did in Mexico City. It took five of them five days to get it together...
This is a bag from a stand in Seoul that serves "poo bread" - the bread is actually shaped like little turds, as shown on the bag, along with the instructions as to how the bread was made - apparently by someone taking a shit, it being examined with a magnifying glass and then just putting it in a bag.
A crew of rouge knitters tags landmarks around the world - they even covered a whole bus in Mexico City.
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