Mood: lazy
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Knit a Harebell Lace Dishcloth using Sugar and Cream Stripes Cotton. It will be a gift for my swap partner in Duluth. Hope she likes it.
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Knit a Harebell Lace Dishcloth using Sugar and Cream Stripes Cotton. It will be a gift for my swap partner in Duluth. Hope she likes it.
We had such a lovely weekend. Jackie was home and attended the high school football game with Wayne and the girls. I was a bit under the weather and stayed home for a lovely evening of peace, quiet and reading. Saturday we caught up on chores then had great fun playing games and family dancing in the evening. Sunday was quiet and ended with a three mile walk at the park. Monday was super. We headed off to the Canfield (Mahoning County, Ohio) Fair. Spent the afternoon checking out all the sights and the evening at a Big and Rich concert. It was fantastic!
Finished up another couple of pairs of footies for this fall. The pink pair went off to my swap partner. I sure hope she likes them.
Finished yet another pair of socks. These are made with Sinfornia cotton yarn and I really like them. The yarn is very silky soft. I've been doing a lot of sewing in the past week and am making some cute "wrist" bags for knitting socks while walking.
My best bud, Cathi is doing a table at our community garage/craft sale and said I can sell some of these there. I'm also sewing large slouch bags that work perfect for knitting bags. It's sitting in my new wicker chair Cathi found at Hobby Lobby for $18! What a deal!
I've caught a great case of "finish'em up-itis" and am working on completing quite a few projects. Below are just a few. I've been knitting with silver wire to make bracelets and the socks are a project I started in Alaska. I bought the worsted weight yarn in Anchorage and knit the first sock on during the 12 hour train ride from there to Fairbanks. They'll be wonderful with clogs this winter.
My 24 year old daughter, Jackie recently went to Virginia to visit my oldest son, Mike, his wife Karrie, and my granddaughter, Kat. This is Jackie and Kat swimming.
Kat and Karrie went on a "Mommy and Me" cruise last weekend to the Bahamas. Kat looks like she was enjoying the water.
Here's her pattern:
Here's the second questionaire for Secret Pal 11.
1. What is the one knitting accessory you could not live without? My row counter
2. If you're heading on vacation, do you take knitting with you? Sure do If so, how much and what type of project? I take along two projects, a complicated one for quiet time (usually a shawl) and an easy pair of socks for noisy times
3. Where have you travelled to that you'd consider your favorite spot? Alaska. We went there in June and traveled all the way south to Seward and all the way north to North Pole City and Fairbanks. I can not wait to go back again. We also have a summer place in the North Central Pennsylvania mountains that I love going to. I'd rather be there than just about anywhere.
4. What is your favorite knitting book at the moment? All of Elizabeth Zimmermann's Do you own it? yes I own all five and Meg's books
5. Do you listen to podcasts? yes Which is your favorite(s)? Knit Picks, Unwound, and Pointy Sticks
The local knitting guild I belong to recently had a great class on gauge. The swatches everyone made were donated to me for a lapghan. Below is a picture.
It will be donated to the VFW for use at the VA hospital. Another of our members, Sandy donated some knit strips that needed to be joined together. It turned out to be a lovely blanket and I'm planning on donating it for a yard sale our group is having to raise money for a local boy who was critically injured a few weeks ago.
Finished a few new projects. Made my first Babies and Bears Sweater using Bernat Pink Camo and Light Sage Red Heart. I made the 9 months size hoping it would fit my granddaughter but, she takes after her dad and has really long arms. This one will go to charity and I'll make her another with much longer sleeves.
I also completed a "plain vanilla" Christmas stocking. My local knitting guild is having a Christmas in July month and we're going to knit stockings as well as have a "Christmas" picnic.
Don't put the shawl you've been working on for weeks in your suitcase without putting it in a bag. My luggage got checked and the shawl got stuck in the zipper... Big hole. Rip it, rip it!
It was a lovely Fan and Feather Circular Shawl. Now I rip and begin again! I thought I needed to be using a larger needle anyway soooooo.... I'm not toooo upset.
The Bable's are back from Alaska. What a wonderful trip and I can't wait to go back!! We traveled as far south as Seward and as far north as Fairbanks. Had two cruises (Portage Glacier and Riverboat Discovery), a train trip from Anchorage to Fairbanks on the Alaska Railroad, did a lot of hiking and visited the Summer Solitice Festival in Fairbanks. The above picture is of a close encounter with a grizzly while hiking the trails at Eagle River. We decided to take the right fork in the trail after running into him!
More later.
My cousin Matt and his wife just had a new baby girl, Reagan Elizabeth.
Shown with her proud parents and grandparents, my Aunt Janis and Uncle Ron.
I just finished a new sweater set for the baby and am sending it out in today's mail.
Look who got two new teeth! This is our granddaughter #2, Little Miss Kit Kat. She and her folks live 5 hours away now in northern Virginia, so I'll get to see her a lot more often now. They did live in Omaha up until three weeks ago.
I get to go watch her next weekend while her foks are away. Can't wait!
Our 26 year old, Ben got married yesterday. The wedding was just beautiful and we had such a great time. Above is Matt our 19 year old, our new daughter in law's sister Nikki, Crystal, Ben and our daughter Wendy and her husband Rick. My pictures didn't come out too great, I was pretty far back trying to stay out of the photographers way.
Ben, Wayne and Matt right before the wedding.
My dear friend Josie blessed me with a whole box of sport weight baby yarn. I plan to use it making baby dresses and onsies for the Cheyenne River Reservation. This is my latest project.
My granddaughter Kat in the Beribboned Eyelet Sweater I knit her for Easter. I wish you could see her hair better, it's bright red! Love that baby !