MOM Monday: Poll

It's time to get back into making Knitivity pieces for my Mom, after a break of over a month. I'm having a hard time deciding what figure to do next. So far, she has Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, an angel, and an ox. Other patterns in the book include wise men, shepherds, sheep, and a donkey. I have yarn for any of the figures except for the donkey.
What piece should make next? How does one prioritize the "characters" in the nativity story?

Five pieces so far... what will be next?

Don't forget to enter the contest for the Lo-Lo Love Sampler on last Tuesday's blog entry! I'll draw the winning entry tomorrow and announce it on Wednesday.

MOM Monday

This week is a double-dose of MOM Monday! It was brought to my attention that I never posted the finished pictures of Mary (whoops!), and I recently finished Joseph as well. Here they are:

Mary (please excuse the poor image quality)

Joseph

My mom is really loving the way that these are turning out, and I'm having fun with them as well. I have found the bodies to be a bit tedious, so I think next month I may make an animal instead of another doll. Stay tuned!

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

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.