June 15, 2011
Last week I was on vacation. Nothing too big planned just rest. My husband and I decided to take a day trip to San Francisco to visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It is about a 4 hr drive ...
May 28, 2011
n With another grandbaby on the way ( makes 7 total )I have decided to make the Shetland Shawl baby blanket. The color requested was green. I am using Knit Picks Stroll Fingering wt yarn in color Peap...
May 15, 2011
My daughter loves knee high socks so I told her to pick a pattern and I would make her a pair for her birthday. It usually takes me about 10 days to make a pair of socks so I started on March 1st. Her...
Mar 27, 2011
Finally (baby is 6 months old) the lace gown that started all this blogging with me was put to use. Baby Anadi ( ana-dee) had her little Dedication prayer at church today. She looks so like an Angel ...
Feb 27, 2011
Trilobites are remarkable, hard-shelled, segmented creatures that existed over 300 million years ago in the Earth's ancient seas. They went extinct before dinosaurs even came into existence, and are o...
Feb 19, 2011
Some times we do things wrong but they still turn out anyways, like the chocolate chip cookie, sticky notes, ect. That's what happened to one of my recent knitting projects. I had the assignment to m...
Jan 19, 2011
Well, 19 days down, I haven't bought any new yarn. I have actually made a couple of Items from my stash. First I made my 2nd daughters baby ( the baby I made the ribbons and lace baby dress for ) a l...
Jan 16, 2011
You've heard the expression that "even too much of a good thing is not good". I LOVE YARN. I get happy just looking at a big stash of it. I cannot go into a store that has yarn, even a very small sel...
Oct 24, 2010
I have made some beanies for my new Grandaughter Anadi (anna-dee) She is one month old.I love these patterns, they are super easy and super fun. All are from the book "Baby Beanies" by Amanda Keeys. N...
Oct 17, 2010
I have been working off and on for the last two months on this baby blanket. It was a request from my daughter in Texas for her sister-in-law who is expecting her first baby anytime now. Once I made ...
Oct 6, 2010
I was shopping at the local Target store and saw at the check out stand a food magazine called " Italian cooking"On the cover was a picture of this lasagna that just looks so yummmy I just had to get...
Sept 25, 2010
I signed up for a knitters challenge to make 6 socks during the month of September ( 3 pair ) Sounded fun, I like socks. I have found what I don't like is a deadline. I did finish all socks. 1st pair...
Sept 22, 2010
My husband showed me an article from a near-by town with a new twist on graffiti.Yarnbombing - about a street artist that spins and knits pole cozies and puts them on street poles around the towns of...
Sept 20, 2010
About a month ago I got a Jury Duty summons in the mail. How festive. Went to the appointed court on the appointed day, was nearly the last one called up and ended up on a murder trial. Gang drive-by...
Sept 12, 2010
This weekend was the annual cancer society 24hr Relay for Life. I was on a team from Kaweah Delta Home Health. We had some one walking continually from 9am Saturday to 9am Sunday. I walked froom 6am t...