It's been a while

Well, I have been a terrible blogger over the past month. But not only that, I have also been a terrible crafter! I had a little break in the calendar with few events and took advantage of the down time. Of course, it probably would have been smarter to get a jump on some upcoming gifts but instead I took a little vacation :)

Before I left for vacation, I celebrated my mom's birthday and father's day. The difficult part of making gifts is definitely finding a project that fits the person. Luckily, my mom is pretty easy to please and create for...my dad, that is a different story! So for my mom I played around with some yarn. I found this free pattern and tried my best to duplicate it without spending a ton of money on yarn and needles. I was pretty happy with it except I didn't K1 P1 like the pattern said because I realized it about 45 minutes into my knitting and I DID NOT want to pull it out!

I should have measured my finished product. I think I ended up casting on around 60 stitches...also did not follow the pattern.

I decided to sew a little band for easy storage

TA-DA!

As for my dad, I created a CD with all the songs that remind me of my dad. Most of the songs are ones I remember him playing around the house or listening to as we rode to school in the morning. I had to add a James Bond theme song and a parody song about NASCAR ;)