Posted in Celebrate, Gardening, Seasons, Summer, The Outdoors on Jun 27th, 2006
The state fair is coming and I am so excited. I was practically raised at fairs. My mom is, and my grandma was, a fair judge. They judge baked goods, jams, jellies, sewing, crafts, you name it, they can stick a ribbon (or not) on it. Some of my earliest memories …
Posted in Create, Felted Sweaters, Places, Portland on Jun 18th, 2006
This post is going to be mostly pictures and few words because it’s late and I’m tired. You may remember this sweater from a while back. The sweather that I loved for many years that finally got too many holes to wear. Well, I have transformed it into this!I felted it, embroidered it with …
It is becoming apparent that I have a problem. A serious problem finishing my projects. I finished knitting this lovely tank top ages ago but only 1/2 the fabric is sewed on. I try to make myself feel better by saying that I knit 2 mother’s day scarves and 2 silly apple cozies in the [...]
Posted in Create, For the Home, knitting, Knitting Patterns, Patterns & Tutorials on Jun 1st, 2006
Okay y’all. The Knitorama pattern sucked so much that I totally changed it when I knit my apple cozies. There’s been some interest so I’ll share it with you. Materials: I used size 8 dpns and Lion brand woolease. Guage doesn’t really matter, you just want it to fit an apple. If you get to [...]
Last month, I didn’t do any Project Spectrum-themed knitting. This month, by accident I already have! When I realized last weekend that Mother’s Day is coming up soon, I decided to knit something for my mom and my mom-in-law. I needed something quick, since I have to send it early enough for it …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, I know. Life has been insane lately but I think it’s getting back to normal, whatever that really is. I still haven’t finished my “modern bustier”. I think that’s a stupid name for the pattern. Does anyone have a better name? I did buy the things I need [...]
Posted in Family on Mar 29th, 2006
I have finished another project that was cast aside last summer! My satisfaction with Soleil led to my finishing of this: It started out as Tempting from Knitty but quickly morphed into something different. I hate knitting ribbing so I chose a cabled rib pattern to jazz it up. I don’t know if it was [...]
Posted in Create, Eat Well, knitting, Local Eating, sweaters on Mar 21st, 2006
I finished something! I started knitting soleil last summer and just now finished! I didn’t quite finish it last summer when the weather started getting cold so I put it away until now. In honor of project spectrum, I decided to finally finish it. I thought I had a bit more to knit on the [...]
Posted in Create, knitting, Nature, socks, The Outdoors on Mar 6th, 2006
E is for evergreens and emerging life. One of the great things about my job is that there is a trail through the woods on the property. I love the evergreens for their height and beauty and I get to look at them all day. When not looking high in the trees, though, the trail [...]
The olympic knitting continues. We’re over 30% through the olympics and amazingly, I’m over 30% done with River! I had a minor setback when I had to tink back 3 rows but that little problem of an extra yarn over has been fixed. I knit a ton on Monday because I had the day off [...]
