FO Friday The Thursday Night Edition

I'm so excited that I just might burst!  My pattern was published on the Knit Picks website tonight!  That means that I can finally reveal to you all what it is.

The photo is courtesy of the lovely people at Knit Picks.  I love it, but at the same time I want to reach into it and fix his scarf a bit.  Anyway, what do you think of my Penguin Pillow?  Since I heard that it was available, I've been busy getting the pattern up on Etsy and Ravelry as well, but if you are interested in purchasing it, I recommend buying it on knitpicks.com where it is available at a discounted price!  Finished Penguin Pillows are also now available in my Etsy store.

I have a few other things to share this week.  I'm cheating a bit, because they weren't all completed this week, but I've been too lazy to blog about them.  First, I got a request from my second cousin.  I've given her a lot of knitted gifts in the past, mostly American Girl doll and Barbie clothes, so I was honored when she thought of me when looking for some birthday gifts for one of her friends.  She requested a poncho and hair kerchief to fit an American Girl doll in lime green and a turtle.

She wanted the poncho and hair kerchief, because she liked the ones I had given her so much.  The only problem was that I had made those a LONG time ago.  Way back when I was first learning how to knit, so I had no idea how I had made them.  Luckily, I still had one of the ponchos laying around, so I could at least use it as a guide.  For the turtle, I sent her a few pictures to choose from, and of course she liked Sheldon the best.  I'll be honest and admit that I wasn't exactly thrilled with the prospect of having to knit another Sheldon, even though the pattern does hold a special place in my heart.  You may remember that I knit one up for my first wedding anniversary after my husband printed out the pattern for me as a gift (since the first anniversary gift is paper).  Don't get me wrong.  It's a great pattern, but I just find the shell so difficult to put together correctly.  My finished turtle is by no means perfect.  Things are a little crooked in spots, but I'm hoping that I'm the only one who will notice all of the mistakes.  A funny thing happened while I was knitting him up, though.  I released that when I knit my 1rst Sheldon I messed him up and put his face on his butt and his shell on his head...lol.  Whoops!  I still love him anyway.  All of the items in the picture were knit using Knit Picks Shine Sport in Green Apple and some royal blue color (I don't feel like getting up and finding the label at the moment).

I also knit up a Baby Penguin using Barbara Prime's pattern.  I used Cotton tots yarn in pastel colors.  I had a little trouble figuring out how I wanted to attach his feet, but I think the final outcome turned out well.  This little guy is available in my Etsy store.  He would make a great baby shower gift.  I thought about trying to insert a rattle into him somehow, but I thought I'd wait and see how much demand there is for little cotton animals first.

Lastly, and I finished this so long ago it's embarrassing that I haven't shared him yet, it's a blue alien for my Etsy store.  Like the green one, he was knit using the Twins 22 The Alien pattern and Lion Brand Vanna's Choice yarn.

I think I've covered everything.  Well, I actually have one more thing that I finished today, but it's part of a larger whole, so I'll save that for another week.  Wow, what a long post.  I'll try to get better about blogging things as I finish them.  I think part of the problem is that I was out of town two weekends ago for my cousin's wedding, and I had a procedure done at the hospital last week that left me not feeling well for a few days.  I guess I should just be glad that while I haven't felt like blogging, I have been getting things accomplished.

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