Monday Madness: MOM, Mary, Music, and Moving!

Another Monday, another update on the Mary figure I'm making for my mom. I've made some progress this week; her body, hair, veil, and cape are now completed, and I've started on her dress.

I'm going to let Mary knit her own dress for a while.

The bigger project underway in our household is our impending move. We are getting packed up and we ship out on Thursday.

That's our back door... pretty sure we're in violation of the fire code. Don't tell!

Finally, I missed last week's Hexipuff update because I was in Timonium, MD, attending the annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association. I got a lot of knitting done on one of my WIPs while I was there... any guesses which one? I'll reveal it on Wednesday (if we haven't packed up the computer and camera by then).

MOM Monday

Just a quick update on my latest MOM project...

Mary now has a full body, hair, and a veil. I'm working on her cape next, then she'll get a dress, face, and shoes. I'm aiming to finish her by April 1st, but with the upcoming move, I'll be happy whenever she gets finished.

I know it looks like a voodoo doll, but it's really the Virgin Mary!

Thursday Hexipuff Update!

It is my goal to update the blog with a running total of my Hexipuff count each Thursday. I'm aiming to complete my Beekeeper's Quilt (a total of approximately 384 puffs) by the end of 2012.

Today's Tally:

As of this posting, I have completed a total of 82 Hexipuffs! Only 302 more to go!

I am still making steady progress toward my goal. My pace suffered a bit over the past two weeks due to the old "life gets in the way" song and dance. To keep it short and sweet, TMG and I are in the process of packing up and moving yet again, this time on account of having the worst, loudest, drunkest neighbors known to man. Once the dust settles, I'm hoping to get back into full-scale puff production. 

Next week I'm heading to Baltimore for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Music Therapy conference. I'm hoping that this trip will afford me some much-needed knitting time, and allow me to make progress on both my puffs and a few other languishing projects. Updates to come!

MOM Monday

This weekend, I finally got started on the first piece of the Nativity set that I'm making for my mom from the book Knitivity by Fiona Goble. My mom gave me this book as a gift this past Christmas, and I decided to try to make her one piece per month so that she will have a complete (or nearly-complete) set in time for Christmas 2012.
The book offers two options for making the dolls, the "traditional doll," which has separate legs but cannot stand on its own, and the "standing doll" which is cone-shaped and stands independently. I decided to start with Mary, and I'm making her in the "traditional doll" style, as she will likely be seated in the scene, and this way, she can also sit on the donkey.

Here's a picture of my progress on Mary so far:

The construction is very interesting, but easy enough so far. I don't want to divulge the designer's secrets, so I will leave it at that! Stay tuned next week to see what progress I make on Mary between now and then.

FO Friday

I had hoped to complete this project in time to post it for last week's FO Friday, but I ended up finishing all the little bits and pieces on Friday night of last week. So, without further ado, meet Patty!

Patty O'Owl is ready to celebrate St. Patrick's Day!

Patty is made out of kitchen cotton yarn and stuffed with plastic beads and polyfil. Patty was commissioned by one of my mom's friends who saw my mom's owl,  Valentina, and just had to have an owl of her own.

Thursday Hexipuff Update!

It is my goal to update the blog with a running total of my Hexipuff count each Thursday. I'm aiming to complete my Beekeeper's Quilt (a total of approximately 384 puffs) by the end of 2012.

Today's Tally:

As of this posting, I have completed a total of 69 Hexipuffs! Only 315 more to go!

I completed 7 puffs this week, which keeps me on pace to finish by the end of the year. The big news is that the puffs overflowed the owl-print basket this week, so I moved them to a larger basket for photos. Eventually I'll need both baskets and a few more to hold all the puffs, but this is the first step.

Look at all those happy little puffs!