Project updates and such…

Well I figured I better at least get some projects posted before I totally forget about them.  I finished up the Felted Baguette by Isela Phelps.  It was a fun and easy pattern to follow.  I had to improvise a little as I didn’t buy enough Noro yarn on vacation, so I found some that seemed suitable in my stash.    This is how it turned out.  I use it as my knitting bag which works out great!  I am also working on Isela’s Rowan Handbag.  I love the tapering of this bag.  I have the bag itself done.  I just needs to be sewn up and  the strap to finish, but I have other projects that have taken the priority.  I had a shrug I made for my Voci performance on Monday and Tuesday.  This was needle knit and it turned out okay…the sleeves were a little long.  Oh well.  Speaking of Tuesday, Scott and I celebrated our 13th Wedding Anniversary.  He bought me a dozen long-stemmed red roses.  I guess he really does love me. 

I am also working on a design for a purse for Markman Farms Spring Pattern contest.  I am inviting you all to stop by her website and vote for your favorite pattern.  She should have the poll up this weekend.  I have two patterns up (or will)  one for Simple Fingerless Mitts and the other for my Midnight Sky Purse (picture coming soon).  The fingerless mitts I thought on Lynn’s Beginning Loom Knitting Class this week.  I am either a good teacher (hahaha) or not many are doing the class.  It has been so quiet.  Not many questions.  It has been fun and I hope to teach some more classes again.  I will be teaching an afghan square for Loom Class in June which will entail lace knitting.

For those of you who like to design, I am taking submissions for the 2009 Loom Knit Dishcloth Calendar until August 31st.  Check out the submission guidelines and submit them as soon as possible.

Well I think I have finally ran out of things to say.  I am going to enjoy our very warm, summer like weather ,this weekend and work on my tan, in addition to showing my rabbits.  I am hoping to get another leg on my  polish bunny Zorro.  He managed to pick up one last weekend for Best of Opposite Sex Breed under judge Kevin Rudolph.  Just 2 more to go and I can grand him.  Go Zorro!  Here are the three babies we had 3 1/2 weeks ago, which I will leave you with.  Their father is Marshmellow and Breezy calls them Mini Marshmellows. Aren’t they the cutest?

Friday Fill-ins

 

1. There is absolutely NO way you can get me to drive over the Hood River Bridge!
2. The hot weather, 85-95 degrees, reminds me that summer is almost here!
3. I cannot live without my internet and knitting.
4. Spinning and hairpin lace are two things I’d like to try.
5. When life hands you lemons get a Corona.
6. Riding my horse is my favorite childhood memory.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to getting to bed early, tomorrow my plans include going to Canby for a rabbit show with my daughter and Sunday, I want to enjoy the hot weather before it gets cold again!

Friday Fill-ins

 

1. The meatloaf had an extra secret ingredient; it was love!
2. I see hummingbirds through my window.
3. Right now, I need hug.
4. Xtapa(sp) is where I went Thursday night; it was very good and fillng.
5. Why does exercise hurt so much?
6. All I can think of is the rabbit show I will be attending in Astoria and my knitting.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to being in Astoria (not looking forward to the 3 hour drive), tomorrow my plans include showing at the Columbia-Pacific Rabbit Show in Astoria with my daughter and friends and Sunday, I want to be pampered for Mother’s Day and just knit!

Friday Fill-ins

1. Two of my favorite ingredients in a drink are strawberries & tequila!
2. My kids often amaze me.
3. You can keep doing that forever, the dog is dead.
4. Broccoli, onions, eggs, hot dogs, potatoes, salt and pepper, mix it all together and voila! You have Scotty Surprise! (my husband’s specialty)
5. If I had a yard with a garden, I would love to grow lots and lots of beautiful flowers including roses instead of the weeds I have now.
6. Iced tea is best au naturel.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to knitting and watching a movie, tomorrow my plans include and working at our Church’s Thriftshop and Sunday, I want to enjoy the warm weather we are supposed to have.  It’s supposed to be close to 70!

Wordless Wednesday - Signs of Spring

Friday Fill-ins

 

1. When I fell in love everything was the way it was suppose to be!
2. I love it when the flowers bloom and it heats up outside!
3. Oh no! The internet connection is down, I’m going crazy, GIVE ME MY INTERNET!!  I NEED MY INTERNET!  (this happend to me this week when a fiber optics line was cut)
4. My Hero is the craziest tv show ever.
5. Cheese and crackers make a great meal!
6. Plant a garden.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to not going anywhere, tomorrow my plans include knitting and Sunday, I want to knit even more!

Wordless Wednesday

My little joker!

My personality

You Are An INFP

The IdealistYou are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. In love, you tend to have high (and often unrealistic) standards. You are very sensitive. You tend to have intense feelings. At work, you need to do something that expresses your personal values. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist. How you see yourself: Unselfish, empathetic, and spiritual When other people don’t get you, they see you as: Unrealistic, naive, and weak

What’s Your Personality Type?

Friday Fill-ins

I’ve been reading these on Karen’s blog I thought this would give me a good reason to at least blog once a week and you all could get to know me a little more….(not sure that you would want to).

1. The last time I lost my temper I (me lose my temper?!?  NEVER)  LOL!
2. Trying to get my oldest son to do his schoolwork is what I’m fed up with!
3. The next book I’d like to read is the sequl to Loom Knitting Primer out in May.
4. Mom and Dad coming out to stay for the summer is what I’m looking forward to.
5. If you can’t get rid of the skeleton[s] in your closet, HIDE!
6. The best thing I got in the mail recently was my driver’s license back.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to going to bed early, tomorrow my plans include going to a 4-H rabbit show with my daughter and her friend and Sunday, I want to spend time with friends and relax!

Our Trip to AZ (and looming/knitting, of course)

Well we finally got back from our 3 week long vacation on Friday.  The trip was quite a success, but exhausting.  We left home on Easter morning about 8 am and made it to Susanville, CA that night.  I was able to meet up with Lynn Markman on Monday before we headed down to Bishop to do a little rockhounding, the next day.  I think we picked up some apache tears.  We then left Bishop and headed to Death Valley National Park.  We stopped along the way to look at an abandoned mining cemetary and an abandoned mine.  

While in Death Valley at one of the lookouts, we actually saw fighter jets fly by.  If you can see a little green dot in the picture, it’s the jet.  We also saw 4 planes refueling a jet.  The kids thought that was pretty cool. That night we stayed in Lake Havasu, AZ. The next day we finally made it to our destination, my mom and dad’s place in Rio Rico.  We managed to take most of the backroads there which was quite an adventure.  Found out that one of the Forest Service roads we took, which had an old ghost town, Ruby, AZ, is where a lot of the drug dealings and illegals take place.  Wish we would have known about that before hand!!! LOL  After 4 days in the car with 3 kids and me riding in the back between two, I was ready to relax!

On the way down, I worked on the lace and cable scarf from Dipsy Doodle.  It is turning out very well I think and I hope the person receiving it likes it as well.

I also tried Bethany’s baby booties, but did it in 100% cotton yarn.  Not a good choice, not give and I ended up breaking the yarn.  :o(  So I put that away.  I did, however, buy some yarn in Prescott, AZ at A Good Yarn that is 50% cotton and 50% acrylic.  I aslo figured I would need to make the bootie bigger as the baby I am making them for is almost 6 months old.  I will post a picture as soon as I get them done.

While in Prescott, I was able to meet up with Lisa Anderson.  It was so great to meet her.  We had a great time hitting the Yarn stores.  I think she has rubbed off on me as far as buying yarn.  It was a hoot!  Her husband, Nate, was the chauffer and he didn’t complain all that much.  He actually does WAY better than my husband would ever do.  I bought yarn for the felted baguette of Isela’s…Noro Kureyon, but found out that I didn’t get enough so I am improvising with some wool I have at home to finish it.  I hope it turns out okay.  I also picked up some cotton yarn and a tank pattern for needles that uses the daisy stitch.  I can’t wait to try it.  It may be next year by the time I get everything I want to do done.   I am hoping to make this an annual event with Lisa as it was so much fun!  Thanks Lisa!!

I will post more pictures of our vacation as soon as I get them off our camera and on to the computer along with pics of the projects I have finished.  I did manage to knit a pair of Ribbed Anklets from May’s issue of Creative Knitting Magazine and finished them this last weekend.  I knit them on two circulars.  I definitely like this way instead of using dpns. 

On another crafty note, if you haven’t already been there, check out Karen’s (cre8tivkj) patterns blog.   She has some wonderful patterns for sale and for free.  I was lucky enough to test knit her Bunnies in Love pattern which was a lot of fun.  She is also having a contest right now to win a MP3 player.  Doesn’t that sound like fun?  Check it out.

Enough chattering right now.  Need to let my son get going on his school work.