Big Pink Cupcake

I’m a bit late posting this. As you can tell by the picture, Kate has pretty well worn them by now.

These knitted slippers come from a pattern in Knitting Pretty by Kris Percival and are my (Brian) first finished project that isn’t a square.
I used Lion’s Brand: Wool-Ease Chunky yarn and got both slippers out of one skein with plenty left over.

Saturday was a great day. We went to Porter Square Books to meet Vickie Howell from Knitty Gritty (among other things.) She was there to talk about her new book, new yarn and various other projects (she’s really busy.)

More pictures are on our flickr page. Vickie passed around projects made from her new yarns: Craft, Rock & Love. They were all really great and we are planning on picking some up as soon as possible.

She autographed a copy of her book, “Not Another Teen Knitting Book,” which even though both of us are well past our teenage years still has some really cool projects. Now we must do our best to make sure Roo doesn’t eat it, as she’s taken to chewing on the corners of every book we leave out.
Vickie was really nice in person and we chatted for a little bit before running off to Zuma Grill where Kate had her favorite mexican dish ever, the potato quesadilla. Yum.