drew-o-rama

MOVING ALONG

I have been slowly changing around my apartment over the past year. The biggest project has been turning my dining room, which I never use as a dining room, into my studio. It's not quite ready for me to show you. But I did take some time off of the dining room conversion to finally hang some of the bad thrift store art I have been collecting over the past few months...

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I noticed that many of the pieces I bought were landscapes and cityscapes. So I decided to group them all together above my bed. I am not sure I like this configuration, but it's ok for now.

I also found some cool decoupage-y bird art that I hung by the old call box...

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Since I am getting rid of my land phone line in favor of my mobile phone, I put the hunter, the owl and the little deer on the shelf in place of the phone. Slowly, the apartment is coming together...

HELP

Spent some time on Thanksgiving day helping my mom reseam a shell she knit...

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CITROËN

I love these Citroën brochures from the 60s...

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Check out more of them here. Found via HI + LOW.

WERK

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I use this table at work to place things that inspire me. The items usually change every few weeks.

PILLOWS

I need some pillows for my chairs and sofa. So I got out the sewing machine, and made some...

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I used old bed sheets from thrift shops as well as some fabric I got a few years ago at IKEA.

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I think they turned out rather well. Going to make some more... excuse me, gotta run...

PUBLISHED

Son of Stitch 'n Bitch has finally been released. And look, there's my Ernie sweater pattern...

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I went to the book store today and headed straight for the craft section, of course. And low and behold, there was the book, sitting on the shelf. I had to call my mom immediately (we ended up talking forever which we always do.)

It was surreal opening the book and seeing the sweater I had knitted in one month (I knit the back in one weekend) with my name at the top of the page.

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If any of you out there are planning on knitting this, please let me know. I'd love to see your finished sweater. If you are afraid of the color, pick four other colors that are less, um, Muppet-y. I was thinking, as I was furiously knitting this sweater, that it would be great in shades of one color-maybe tans and browns. The Karabella Aurora 8 comes in a ton of colors.

I hope all of you like the pattern. I think the sweater itself is hilarious, something we can all can recall from our childhoods. Making it adult-sized is fantastic. Happy knitting!