Project 365/52

I joined a new group over at Ravelry. It's called Project 365 and we're supposed to take a pix a day for a year. Part of the reason I signed up is b/c I'd like to start posting more frequently. There's more info about the challenge here. You can check out the photos on flickr if you'd like. Yesterday 12-11 was day one. That's the Christmas bulb. I took it b/c I was trying to get a pix of the girls for our Christmas cards. (yeah I'm a little early this year) I must have been speaking a different language or something b/c every time I would say smile the girls would start to cry. well really it was only the bub and she's only 8 I tell you! too freakin early for hormones. UGH! I finally got a pix and made our cards. During one of the crying fits I thought hey a pix of this pretty red bulb may just be what I need today. (that and a stiff drink, if i actually drank, though I'm pondering taking that up as puberty approaches EEEK!)

Today I went to work, the same as I do everyday and my friend had me look out the window in the girls restroom. So i did and as I looked over the yard towards the garage, I was greeted with this and I thought Yeah I'm taking a pix of that! Now I appreciate graffiti art but I also think everything has it's place. On on the wall of the church is not the place. Of course it's a huge deal and the gossip of the church.. sigh.. I need a break. If you look over on my side bar you'll see the Project 365/52 blog ring if you'd like to join click away! LMK if you do so I can check out your blog.

I've been knitting like crazy. How about you? I have finished a few things that I've been wanting to update but being Christmas season and all... well you know! Anyways, I finished my DH's hat. I used this pattern and some awesome cascade baby alpaca chunky in a nice chocolate brown. I swear I must be speaking a different language b/c I asked him to smile too... Note to self: make up a name for your new language. The had decreases really nice and the top looks really nice and tidy. It's a really quick pattern and knits up really fast. I just shortened it a bit since my DH doesn't like to fold his hats up. He likes this hat, I don't blame him the yarn is glorious! I picked up a skein of the brown and a light pink for myself... just have to finish Christmas presents first....

I also forgot to tell you about the Christmas Stocking I made, the pattern is my own.
I made it for my LYS and also so I could get some students into my class, but being Christmas time no one signed up. How sad is that? January is a new year right? I think I'm going to submit the pattern to the pattern a day calendar.

Do you remember over a year ago when I made a sweater for my friend Kelly's newest addition to the family? Well she's finally fitting in it. (I made it for a 1 year old) Not only is she fitting in it but she's WEARING it, along with the slippers. It's not very often that I get photos of my little recipients wearing the stuff I've made them so this just tickled me pink! Isn't she just the cutest? Ok I'm going on and on... sorry I'm just so excited!

An experiment in Color part 1....

I've been meaning to up-date my blog now for some time! My brother, for Christmas, would like some striped socks, kinda like my stocking I made for the shop. I figured I'd dye some yarn the colors I wanted and have fun doing it. But before my yarn from knit picks got here I decided to try out some of the colors on some yarn I had at home. This yarn, my friend Danielle sent me after finding like 30 skeins of it at a garage sale. she knows I love yarn and it was 100% wool an that natural/off white color so she picked it up for me and sent it to me. It's actually been sitting around waiting for me to do something with it. It's worsted weight so it won't do for socks... I'd re-wound 3 skeins before hand (a long long time ago) using 2 chairs and walking from one end of the room to the other. I wanted to try for some self striping yarn. I couldn't say no b/c I'd caught the bug again. Thanks to my What a Kool way to dye ravelry group! So I got out my cheap kool-aid also know as mix-ade, and some of my Wilton's cake dyes. For the really dark blue and green and reddish skein which I named deep dark. I used Wilton's cornflower blue and willow green, and some strawberry mix-aid. The blue and green skein, named sea weed, I used just a tad of the Wilton's cornflower blue dye and a bunch of the lemon-lime mix-aid. The last skein which, cleverly, I named Patrick meets Squidward. I used some of the Wilton's rose petal pink and one cherry mix-ade packet, the berry-blue mix-aid and a tiny bit of the willow green (Wilton's). There's some photos of the dye baths of 2 of the skeins. When I started this experiment I also thought I'd try different ways of dying the sea weed skein I dyed in the microwave. the other 2 I did on the stove top. All in all it was a lot of fun. the white stick thingy picture is the CAB niddy-noddy my DH made for me. I printed out a tute and had him make it for me. it cost about $1.75! can't beat that! Plus it made the skeins look so nice. I think a few of them might actually be self-striping! we'll see when we make something out of them!
My next experiment in color I will talk about when I take the pix... until next time.

Knitter's Coffee Swap the 3rd

I've got a new BFF and she's from Canada! my newest friend is Penny. She was my swapee and I her's for this round of the KCS. I got my package today and boy did I ever get spoiled! she labeled everything with little tags (funny thing I did the same with post-its)
I took individual pix of the "groups" of things i got. First up.... I got the pampering things there's some foot soak, lotion and a scratchy pumice stick thing for your feet. How'd she know I love to get and try out new foot care stuff? There's also a mug to match with pin and brown circles on it. (I heart pink and brown together) She also sent me some really cool coffee napkins b/c we know how messy coffee drinking can get and a nice napkin just sets the scene! Now if only I can find some friends here who would like to come over for coffee.... sigh. And you'll see my fave in this pix it the book! it's a new series about murder and coffee. Can it get any better? I love reading!
what goes best with coffee but snacks right? Penny sent me some clodhoppers (a Canadian yummy), some mint chocolate cookies (to die for), and some maple cookies straight from Canada.
Of course the main reason for this swap the coffee. It was roasted locally in Penny's town. I personally love the name, it makes me want to watch all the Pirates movies!
and we can't be with out the fiber goodness. Penny sent me some beautiful yarn. the Regia had little nubbys all over it, I think it should make for an interesting sock. Then there's some sock yarn that i won't even try to pronounce or spell. but it's pretty and soft and I'm itching to start a pair of socks... but alas i can not! I must concentrate on the Knitting gifts I've put off until the last min. Yes I'm a little crazy. but the urge to make gifts for my family just takes over and I MUST KNIT! Today i spent a couple of hours dying yarn and also baking bread... actually it's baking now but all the grunt work was what I was doing before.
Penny, thank you so much! you're the best I can't wait to see when you get your package!

Do I really have time to post?

As promised I have a little story for you. Almost every time we go to visit my parents, either my sister's kids are sick or my kids are sick. This time it actually started with me. I thought it was just from the long trip that i wasn't feeling well but then when the beady got it.. well I think it was some sort of virus. Chloe, my niece, got it the day after the bead, then my brother's got it this week. Anyways the last time we went to WI, Jessica's friend Amy and I tried to meet then but it didn't work out.
So this time we tried to get together but with the bead being sick and me not wanting to get Amy's kiddos sick we just kinda met in the "hallway" or the entry way so not to get out sick germs on her. It was wonderful and exciting, though short. She's the first blogger I've gotten to meet. We took pix. I'm holding Chloe. Not only that, she showed up with a gift for me! how sweet is that? So inside the cute little red box was a bag with some stitch markers in there! they're so pretty! (i think she may have made them, you'd have to ask her
though) There are actually 4 stitch markers one, I started using that night. They work wonderfully! thank you so much Amy! you're the best maybe next time we won't be sick!
I'm sure most of us crafters are busy busy busy, makingChristmas presents. Maybe I should say those of us who are procrastinators. Anyways I made 2 more necklaces since my last post. this first one is for a gift. I'm not sure who it's for yet. I made it with different green and brownish-red beads. Kinda an earthly tone type of thing. the close up isn't that great , but i blame that on the almost non existent sunlight in the winter.
The next one I've made to wear tomorrow, we're all wearing green and then we're going to take our Christmas pix for our Christmas cards. Yeah we're really big procrastinators... LOL Thank goodness for Walmart! I usually upload the pix to the website and get the 1 hour photo cards and go pick them up. Though I think last year I just took my memory card and did it on the machine they have in the store. Anyways back to the necklace, I'm still up in the air about if I'm going to keep it or not. But I'm wearing it tomorrow regardless. My husbands kinda 'eh about most things so I'd like some input on these necklaces. What do you think? are they worth making and giving as presents? Do you think I could sell them on etsy? INPUT people!


PS I hope that wasn't too pushy

Finally Some Finished Items...

I've had this post on hold for a couple of days now. I've been busy. With Christmas coming and all and me being a BIG procrastinator... I should be busy!
All of these things I've made are not Christmas gifts! silly me. Ok first off I've test crocheted some Ugg Baby Booties by Susan or Crochetroo. It's a wonderful pattern. I think she'll be selling it in her etsy shop.
I used some left over Wool-ease for these booties and they turned out so cute. I let my mom give them to a friend who's having a baby boy. I'd love to see what they look like in more girly girl yarns, sadly my littlest one isn't small enough anymore.... SNIFF! SNIFF!
Anyways when she finishes up with the pattern I'd say buy it. It's well written and also really quick to make. I have to apologize to Susan, though b/c during the testing I hurt my back and was OUT OF IT. for a week or two and I'm afraid I may have slowed down her testing process. But I've finished and sent her some pix and other things you do when you test a pattern. I hope she's able to finish in time for the holidays!
Ok over thanksgiving we went to my parents house. Part of the reason was to go to my HS reunion. Why? you ask I don't know really. we went and it was really well dumb. I'm not one of those people who think my life was over the day I graduated. (I really think that's when it started) So I'm not sure what I was thinking about going to the reunion. Esp since I haven't really been good at keeping in touch with my friends from HS. So I had no idea if they would be there. Which they weren't I saw about 2 or so people I knew. Others I vaguely remembered. so my and my DH left early and went to Cold Stone... Yeah Ice cream will make up for anything! Anyways back to my topic.. finished items. Before leaving for my trip I decided to try my hand at crocheting with wire. And I made a necklace. I think it turned out really nice. I wanted it to be snug on my neck but not choking or bothering me. I used different shades of pink beads and some black ones. I took a close up... my parent's front room is excellent for picture taking in the day! (it's the big windows)
I had so much fun visiting. (not so much fun coming home) My DH and I bought some of those 5 hour energy drinks for the trip home. (it's 11 Hours) So when my DH was getting tired he drank one and was WIDE awake and full of energy to drive. When I started getting tired I drank one and almost immediately fell asleep. I'm sooo not kidding! I was OUT like a light! So much for that crap, it was gross. I'll stick with coffee aka java aka heaven's nectar!
Also before the trip I started making some finger puppets for friends of ours girl. But I didn't finish in time for her b-day party so since the beady was wanting some of her own... I decided to give them to her. I used the fairy tales at your fingertips from crochetme. and a dog finger puppet from barnyard finger puppets over at crochet pattern central. I wanted to make the duck but i don't have ANY orange yarn and I can't see buying a whole skein for just an itty bitty beak. Yeah I'm not a huge orange fan. I wonder if has anything to do with the color of my hair... Hmm that's something to ponder.
I also made one of Dot's little diddy bags for the bead to hold her puppets in. Really it's so she doesn't loose them... yes I know my children. I changed it a little by holding 2 strands of yarn together and doing HDC through the middle, I wanted it to finish faster... yeah I'm that lazy! LOL
All of this is updated in ravelry of course! If you'd like to go look for all the yarn details and added pix. Plus I didn't want my new obsession with ravelry to kill off my blog! So leave me some love and let me know you appreciate my rambling on and on.
Have a great day, I must go knit or crochet and get some presents done.

oh PS tomorrow or the next day I'm going to blog about meeting a blogger friend and what she gave me.. how sweet is that?

I got Paid!

A while ago I signed up for this new thing called Pay Per Post. I did a few post and got paid then I have to say I kinda forgot to post anymore! Then just recently I "remembered" Pay Per Post (or really I saw a friend of mine who was doing it) so I've started Pay Per Posting again. It's really simple! Here click the link payperpost. Basically what you do is sign up and pick what you want to post about and then write up a post and post your post. Then you wait (about a month)and finally you get paid. I just got paid today, which is why I'm so excited. It's always nice to have a few extra bucks to spend. I just have to start remembering to post about things. No one forces me to post about anything. I get to choose what I want to talk about. I can do it as often (or not so often) as I'd like and I still will get paid. If you're going to blog and you'd like to try and make some money blogging, I would recommend Pay Per Post! If you head on over there so sign up please tell them I sent you. (ullena at yahoo dot com is my email) I'll tell you what it's enough to buy a few patterns and even some yarn.... go ahead, you know you want to!

Crocheting a beanie, but wait ROBOTS ATTACK!!!

This is really funny! If you're on dial up it's about 5 mins long! if only I could find robots like that.

What I did for my thanksgiving was.......

This thanksgiving we drove 11 hours to WI to spend the holiday with my family.
I got to meet my adorable niece Chloe. she's sooo cute and just as sweet as her pix on my Sister's blog. At dinner I snapped a photo of her eating her mashed taters. and since I can't just take one photo, I took pix of the whole fam.
You'll recognize the bub and next to her is my nephew, Gabe. I got to sit next to this chick magnet! He's acts shy when I talk with him but really he's not.
Of course you need to see my brothers. whom look exactly alike just 10 years apart. and Trev (in black) has longer hair.Jared just got back from China, where he was working but is thinking about going back to finish learning the language! (amazing really) You may not be able to see the similarities but it was really bad when Trevor was about 10, and we would come home b/c I mostly remember Jared being 10 and they looked exactly alike so I kept calling Trevor, Jared. (actually i still do) LOL I'm a dork.
Here's my BIL Joe and niece Leah. She's on her 2nd helping I think. I actually think i skipped a pix of my Sister... but that's ok she's told me she really didn't like the pix I took of her.
Next, is a photo of my brother making a face and my mom.
Yes I timed all my photos so i took a pix of everyone while they were either taking a bite or chewing or some other form of bad photo pose.. but hey it's the fam.
Finally i have a photo of my DH and The beady... LOL he actually was posing in this photo. He likes to fool around.
All in all it was a wonderful dinner. too bad my stomach is all choppy this weekend. I only ate a little bit. (the scale enjoyed it this morning at Weight Watchers)
After dinner we watched The Santa Clause 3. It was a cute movie and of course after every turkey day dinner we have the sleepers. That's my dad who was cut in half in those pix above. So I hope you enjoyed my photo presentation of what I did for my thanksgiving....
Not pictured in any of these photos is my older sister, Dawn who had to leave Wednesday morning to go back to CO where she lives. (we missed her too!)
so how was your thanksgiving?

A recipe for a crochet hat

I know we knitters have knittinghelp to watch videos for learning to knit. But us crocheters don't have anything like that. That is until now....
over at YouTube if you type in crochet you can find some great tutes! Like this kid for one... though his terms are a little off. when he says wool he means yarn. He has 3 videos on how to make these hats. they're a little dark in lighting but fun to watch.

Note: when he says double he means 2 single crochet stitches in the same stitch. When he says single he means one single crochet in the next stitch.

HTH!

Busy Day!

Last Sunday was Michaels, "Big Yarn Event" there was supposed to be yarn demo's from 1-6 at all Micheals stores. Well at my Michaels that was me. So I got to sit around for 5 hours crocheting things, getting paid for it! Michaels had projects we were to make. But since I'm the Crochet instructor I switched a few to promote my classes and a few I didn't like the patterns a I didn't follow any of the patterns to the T......nd did my own thing. OkLOL
The first hour I made this scarf. I only did 4 rows b/c I don't like thick scarves.
The second hour was supposed to be a nifty knitter made bag. I don't want to go off on what I think of the nifty knitters..so I'll move on.
The third hour was a one skein scarf. It went back and forth, back and forth which I don't like. so I changed it. to a Simple Skinny Scarf. (I also typed up the pattern for my classes).
I skipped the 4th hour project, and went right to the baby hat. I changed that one too. LOL then I was done and had 4 projects finished in 5 hours. I had super fun talking with people! I came home sooo happy that I get to get paid to do what I enjoy!

Hello Kitty KAL

Look what I just joined! i'm soooo pumped! It's only for ravelry people in the HK group. don't you wish you'd joined ravelry already? ok i'm done rubbing it in. I love Hello Kitty so this was something I just had to join. I'm off to add the button to my sidebar...

Kisses

Kisses always make our boo boo's better.
Today when I was trying (and moaning and wincing in pain) to get up my 3 year old said "Momma, can I kiss your back?"
How sweet is that? Too bad it doesn't work that way huh?

I Do Love Him!

My husband is a sweetheart. Since I've been working a lot more lately he's picked up the slack a bit and learned to cook chicken and rice. (the kind made with cream of chicken soup I'm sooo proud!) Today he decided to make that for lunch......
When I got home from work it was almost done. He pulled it out and said... um Hun, was the lid supposed to go in the oven?
me: Yeah it can go in.
Dh: The plastic one?
me: What plastic lid?! (trying not to sound shrill)
Dh: The one for the stone.
me: the stone has a stone lid. (dreading what would come next)
Dh: OH....

So my dear husband has melted my lid.. but hey that's ok I wasn't crazy about it b/c it didn't seem to fit right.

Yesterday I hurt my back.. today I'm shuffling around the house trying not to puke from the pain.. sigh.. I'm going to go lay down to try and get some sleep, hopefully tomorrow I can get in to see the Dr.

fingers crossed!

Apologizing all around

I must apologize for the quality of these photos. Or at least wait for natural light to take a photo.
anyways Here is a baby gift I whipped up for my neighbor who just had a baby girl. I started it when she went in to the hospital (2 Fridays ago) before I knew what she was having. so I picked a yarn that could go both ways. I used my sister's Baby Pixy Hat pattern. It's in the Knitting Pattern a day 2008 Calendarr. I paired the hat with a pair of Saartje's Booties.
I have to also say sorry for not posting much anymore. I can't seem to find much time. I seem to work come home spend time with the girls, make dinner, get them ready for bed, hopefully work out/exercise, then sit down relax and knit or crochet or veg out. I know, not a really good explanation but it is what it is none-the-less.
Finally I need to tell my Sister I'm sooo sooo soooo sorry for not getting my niece's baby gift done. I'm not sure I'm ever going to get it done. I may just bring it along on our trip up there for thanksgiving. Which I'm totally excited about! Aren't you?

Got Clutter?

When we moved to our new house we also got our things out of storage. It's all sitting in the basement now waiting to be unpacked. Sometimes when we need something we look through it, but most of the time it looks like a tornado came through and dropped of a ton of clutter. We're planning on building a garage soon and I'm thinking of using some of these storage solutions . We could organize and store all of our outside toys. My husband would love to have a place to store his tools. Lets not forget our outside tools and lawn equipment. I'm even dreaming of getting some of those cabinets and drawers for my yarn and craft supplies. Oh imagine making the garage my own personal crafting room/building. That would be heaven! CarGuyGarage.com carries over 1,000 products to make the garage another room in your house. so what do you have that needs storage solutions?

Gift complete!

I actually finished this sweater on Monday! I know don't fall off your chair! It was a really quick knit I just had to make myself work on it. Don't get me wrong, I love this pattern, I just wanted to start so many other projects and I've been trying to teach myself to finish first then start... (it's not going over so well) Ravelry doesn't help much! (not that I'm complaining though) I just have to wash it and then I'll be gifting it to a friend. I'm of course worried it won't fit! I know I'm such a goober. I got these really cute sports related buttons at Joann's a couple of weeks ago so I used the hat. it looks really cute don't you think?
I'm also going to be testing some Ugg booties for a gal over at crochetville. They're really cute. so I think when those are done I'll be giving them to my friend also. I plan on doing them this weekend.
My neighbor had a baby girl. I quick whipped up a hat for her and I'm working on booties also. I love being able to knit up a hat and booties (if that doesn't work go here and on the right hand side are the saartje's booties click on it) sooo quickly. they make such a nice gift!
Tonight i was going to go to my LYS and knit but my sitter backed out at the last min so I've been scrambling around all day trying to find another sitter. Hopefully I can find one b/c I'd really like to go tonight!
Well I'd better pretend I'm working again!

Smells Good!

Yesterday when my husband and I got home from work we walked into the house and said "it smells good!" and it wasn't the BBQ chicken I had in the crock pot. It smelled nice and clean, so at first we thought it was the carpet. (we'd just cleaned them with a carpet machine Wednesday) But really it didn't smell like the carpet machine stuff so I continued to search for the smell. I found it when I went upstairs to my bathroom! The culprit: the glade air thingy. (I forget what it's called) Here's the problem... this particular one I have in my bathroom I noticed wasn't working so I'd put new batteries in it about a week or 2 or so ago. Well it still wasn't spritzing the air freshener. So to tell you the truth I didn't give it another thought. that is until... yesterday. The wonderful thing malfunctioned and all day yesterday began spraying every 1 min or so the whole day. It went through that brand new 60 day air freshener in ONE DAY!!! How do I know this? well when I went upstairs I heard it spritzing but not really b/c the can was empty. Then walking further into the bathroom I noticed the floor and counter was wet from the air freshener! It's crazy! sooo i threw away the now empty can and the malfunctioning air spritzer thingy... Bummer. Though it is nice b/c the house smells sooo good b/c our bathroom is now an air freshener all by it's self!
The craziness!

Mom's Overture by Anita Renfroe

This is hilarious! I laughed so hard. I know this has been running around fwds lately but it's too funny not to post

Knitters' Coffee Swap 3

Here's my Questions!

1. Whole bean or ground? I love to grind my own beans, so whole beans it is!
2. Fully-loaded or decaf? Fully loaded please (i really don't see the point in decaf)
3. Regular or flavored? Both. but i don't like chocolate flavored (it gives me headaches)
4. How do you drink your coffee? Well first I pick the mug I want to use, then I pour the coffee into the mug and add just a little bit of low fat or fat free creamer and sit down and enjoy the coffee
5. Favorite coffee ever? My fave coffee to enjoy is from California coffee roasters their Moka Java blend is my favorite
6. Are you fussy about your coffee or will any old bean do? I'm pretty much a coffee snob.
7. Favorite treats to have with your coffee? OK this may sound really weird but I love to have popcorn with coffee. OH and chocolate!
8. Anything else about your coffee preferences? Um...what would you like to know?
9. Yarn/fiber you love? I love it all!
10. Yarn/fiber you hate? OK I lied in that last question, I really don't like the squeaky scratchy and yucky acrylic.
11. What's on your needles? I've always got socks on the needles, along with multiple baby gifts, right now it's a baby sweater.
12. Favorite colors? I love browns and greens and blues. Also deep rich purple.
13. Allergies? nope
14. Anything you really love, really don't like, or just need to get off your chest? I really love this swap!

Yummo!

Oh I just have to share this sandwich with you.... before it was grilled and then after... YUMMO! I first saw the pix of this sandwich on Tried and Trues blog. Then I followed the link to the Pioneer Woman Cooks' blog and had to make it. I love rye bread so I knew this was going to be good! I did skip a stage and just used dijonaise and I couldn't find the whole green chilis so I used diced. But it is AWESOME!!! look at that picture just delish! Though I made it for the girls too.... and they picked apart the sandwich and didn't do the onions. (they take after their father that way) But it was so good I had to make it again. I'm pondering making it again today! I just can't get enough of it. Though I'm also pondering using only 2 slices of cheese to cut back on the points. But I've def been getting my milk requirements for the past few days.
So what are you waiting for?? Go and make one for yourself, you'll be glad you did!

On to other things....
remember last year when I submitted my patterns to the Pattern a day calendars? Well when you submit your patterns to the calendars you get a free calendar. (the deadline this year is Dec 15th, 2007 for the 2009 calendars) Well they shipped their calendars out in July/Aug time frame and I never got mine. so I kindly emailed the editors and asked what happened thinking they probably overlooked me since there were SOOO many contributors.I really didn't mind I just wanted to find out what happened. They were very kind and got on it right away. A couple of weeks ago I received my crochet calendar, there are quite a few projects I'd like to make. Then yesterday I got my Knitting one! and the editors are soooo nice they sent a handwritten note with it apologizing for the delay. I'm sooo happy to have gotten them now, there is just something sweet about seeing your patterns published! I've got to remember to email and thank them.

Actual Knitting Proof

I'm trying to be more update-ish on my blog b/c who likes to read a blog that isn't updated weekly if not every couple of days? So my goal is to post at least weekly if not bi-weekly. But ever since I got my ravelry invite I've been consumed every waking online hour with getting that squared away. I'm adding my finished projects and the ones I'm working on and I'm now working on my stash! It's so wonderful! I love ravelry! I'm StarKnits there if you're interested in hooking up.

Anyways to prove that I've been knitting I took pix.. OK really I took them to put them in ravelry but I figured since I've got them on flickr I might-as-well blog! LOL So first we have my Toasty Toosties that I knitted for my LYS as a shop model and to adjust the pattern for Cascade 220. Here they are in their natural habitat. I took them on Friday when I went to my 1st Knitting night out at the LYS. It was fun! (Remember I now teach knitting at Knit 1 at Blacksmith Exchange.) If you live in J-town the shop is in Moxham. So going to the knitting night was good for business so to speak. It enabled me to meet the people taking classes and let them get to know me. (being the new knitting teacher and all) Though I went to knit for myself I found myself helping a bunch of people with their problems. But that didn't bother me, I'm a teacher. It was a fun night and I got to meet a great bunch of knitters.

Sunday I finished the bead's sweater, all I had to do was the sewing Sunday night. I don't think I mind the sewing too much. I actually really like seeing everything come together. The pattern is called Little Luxury Kimono from Lion Brand's website. (you have to register, for free, to see the pattern) Yesterday I got some pix of the bead in her sweater. She was being silly. of course the Bub wants a sweater now too. Yeah I can get rid of that yucky acrylic yarn in my stash that's just sitting there not being used b/c I don't like it.
Well I've got to go... ravelry calls.