Working the needles

Oh sorry….was the click, click, click, click bothering you??

I apologize. I gave my mom a couple of these scarves for her b-day a few weeks ago and a bunch of the ladies in her building have been asking where she got them. When she said “my daughter makes them”, they were all excited.

I’ve been enlisted to make a bunch and bring them over for the ladies to peruse.

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201206/19

Missing Tea

I never realized that I’d be busy over summer.

Honestly, I don’t know where the times goes.

I’m afraid my Tea Tuesday friends from Kimmie’s blog may have forgotten about me or worse, thought I forgot about them.

I’m skipping the tea for today and going for a big glass of ice water.

We’ve had so much rain here. Now high temps and humidity…with more storms due tonight.

My garden is mud…

Luckily the plants aren’t seeming to mind.

I’ve got tomatoes on every plant.

In addition to gardening, I’ve been “home-schooling” this summer. Trying to keep the kids brains engaged so they can retain the info they’ve already learned.

Other craft goodness has been on the agenda as well.

We just came home from knitting group…

And I’ve been sewing as well.

So I guess when you add up everything going on, it’s not to difficult to see where the time went.

What’s keeping you busy this summer?

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201205/24

Ruffle scarf and rainy days

I finally got a half way decent picture taken of my latest scarf.

It’s so dark and dreary that my usual photo op spots just wouldn’t work.

We are definitely out of the drought…

I dumped 4.2 inches out of our rain gauge this morning…and it’s raining again.

I’ve started on a blue one for Little J. I was surprised at her choice of color…usually she’s all about the bright and wild colors. Her newest thing is to wear two different colored socks. I’m glad she marches to the beat of her own drummer!! I’m like that now but definitely wasn’t as a kid.

Ruffle scarf and knitting success

I completed another ruffle scarf yesterday while at knitting group.

Thank goodness I was there because I was knitting away and came to the end of the skein without realizing it. My “teacher” Pat had to do some “tinking”…which is knitting backward…to fix my mistake.

Isn’t it pretty?!?!

It’s going to be a gift but I know she never visits me here. :)

I also learned…or re-learned from Pat…how to cast on stitches with regular yarn.

When I got home a watched a YouTube video on how to purl so now I can do this!!! Hooray!

I still need to learn to keep my stitches looser but I just so excited that it has finally clicked for me.

To knit or crochet

I finally learned how to knit on needles…albeit only with a new special kind of yarn. There are many brands and styles of this yarn on the market…but this was the only one at the fancy pants yarn shop that a few of my knitting group friends and I went to last week.

I made this knitted scarf. The surprising thing (that will only make sense to knitters)is that there are only 6 stitches per row….all knit stitches!

I even figured out how to bind off by myself!! It was without a near catastrophe but I managed to save it….thank goodness.

I think I’d have cried it it had fallen apart.

Then last night while watching “Wheel of Fortune”,

hey it’s educational for the kids,

I crocheted this scarf with the leftover yarn.

I can’t believe how quickly it went!

Of course it’s much thinner and much longer.

I am pretty sure I have to stop all yarnwork for a while.

I’ve had a pain in my basal thumb joint for a couple of months now. I had some stiffness and then something that felt like it came out of joint and popped back in. Honestly, after that it felt better than is had in a month or so…but now it has flared up again.

I’ve decided (with my non-existent medical degree) that it’s either tendonitis or arthritis….hopefully the former.

Knitting again

I have finally gone beyond just the standard dishcloth project.
Not that I won’t be making more of these but now I’ve been experimenting a bit.

I made a slight bigger doll hat and am planning a matching scarf.

I wanted more of an elf hat look for this one so I came up with my own “pattern”. The “pattern” is still a work in progress. :)

Now I’m working on this new stitch on my loom…

Looks like popcorn to me!!
Since Pinterest has gotten so big I’ve decided to start labeling my photos so that if they are “pinned”, the credit goes to me.