Yesterday, I swallowd my pride and returned to the place of my mortification. I am so glad I did, I had such a good time and I met so many nice, local knitters; several I knew from their blogs or from KALs. It was nice to be able to put a face to the names.
After the incident [...]
No, really, I used to sew - a lot. I sewed almost all of the kids clothes, I made baby quilts as gifts for friends, I sewed bags and purses, and accessories for the home. Now, not so much.
I was looking thru some things on the computer and found the backups for two old web sites I [...]
Yesterday after my MoRH(tm Brenda Dayne) I bought yarn, nothing like a little retail therapy. I needed some red cotton for the mid-May dishcloth for the Monthly Dishcloth Along. I hit Fred Meyer because they had a buy two get one free deal and they carry Lion Cotton, I picked up three balls, but no red. BTW, Fred [...]
For most of the last three weeks I have been cooped up at home with two sick children. Oh, the joys of motherhood; fevers, cough, vomiting and laundry. Just the tip of the iceberg.
Today, I was thrilled to pack the knitting bag, some snacks and a chair and head off to the Dulaan Knit In. Wait, [...]
. . . a finished object. I have been working on too many projects at the same time. This makes for lots of knitting but no finishing. That is, until today. Today I sat down and knit up a washcloth from the Dishcloth a Month KAL and it felt very nice to actually finish something.
pattern: flower [...]
Random musings mostly on knitting:ÂÂ
I was able to spend the morning with my daughter at the clinic. She has had a cough for almost 2 weeks, so after a blood test and chest x-rays (both were fine) we were sent home with two prescriptions and instructions to return if she wasn’t better in a week or so. [...]
Are men so helpless? (ok, maybe not all men, but it seems like it today) Our son has a cold, picked it up from Daughter, and we are out of almost all of the necessary cold type meds. Hubby volunteered to go to the store and pick them up, I said no, that I would do it, [...]