Samantha is prepared to nurse Isaiah and since some members of society have a problem with mother’s nursing in public she requested that I make her some nursing covers. She looked at the Hooter Hiders online and they were $31 each. I made her 3 in less than 2 hours and it came to a total of $23 for all.
I found the pattern online and it was sooooooooo easy to follow. I used this pattern.
I knitted Caleb a hat and in the end it was too small for him. I will put it in my stash of knitted items and my next grandchild can wear this. I thought this hat was too cute.
You can find the free pattern for this hat at A Knitters Muse.
Caleb love to do arts and crafts with me when he visits on Saturday. He is very good in working with glue and crayons. He is too little for scissors but he can punch things out and tear like no tomorrow. A friend recommended this craft website for ideas for crafts to do with toddlers.
If you have time this week how about trying to let your kids try making some placecard holders for the table or napkin rings. She has a ton of Thanksgiving projects on her site now.
One thing that I don’t understand is the addiction to coffee. My husband I neither one drink coffee but both of our children do. Go figure. Our daughter in particular is truly addicted to coffee. She makes almost daily runs to Barnes and Noble for her coffee fix. One day she sent me a picture of a coffee cozy and asked me if I could make her one.
I went online at www.ravelry.com and found one that I loved the look of but being a new knitter I couldn’t manage to get it started the way it suggested in the pattern. So after years of crocheting I decided to add crochet and knitting together and came up with this.
I found the original pattern at the following website.
What I did differently is I did not do this on double pointed needles. I used straight needles and instead of doing the knit rows I purled. Once I got to the end I cast off and when it got to one stitch on the needle I changed to a crochet hook of the same size. I did 2 rows of single crochet across the top, attached the sides together by pulling a yarn through both sides, then put two rows of single crochet across the bottom.
This is a very simple pattern and very easy to follow while watching TV in the evening with the hubby. I want to make a couple more but need to get more of this yarn before I can. Once you use a handmade dishcloth you will never want to use anything else again.
I finally finished my kitchen rug that I have been knitting. I had bought the yarn a year ago when I went on a road trip with my knitwits. I had waited to get started on it because we were working on the kitchen and I knew that I wouldn’t be putting it down until we were finished. Well now it is done and I love it.
I found this pattern on the Michael’s website at this location.
The rug measures 26 X 36 without the fringe. Add another 8 inches on it for the fringe. The pattern calls for you to cast on 99 stitches. Had I cast on 99 my rug would have been more than 40 inches wide. I had to play around with it and found that by casting on 69 I was able to get the correct dimensions that the end result should be.
I also used Bernat Cotton thread and you need to knit it using 2 strands at a time. I ended up needing twice the amount of yarn than the pattern called for. It is a good thing that I had bought enough to do two rugs or I would not have had enough yarn to do the one I got.
I love this pattern. It was very simple and I love the end result. If you decide to do this pattern just remember to cast on 69 and buy twice the amount of yarn that it calls for.
This past week I finished my lavender One Row Lace Scarf and I love it. I had never knitted with baby alpaca brush yarn before and it was so soft and dreamy. A friend that I met online sent me a huge box of yarn last year and this is some of the yarn that she had gifted me. I made the scarf 5 feet long and opted not to add fringe to the end. I hate to wear scarfs with fly away fringe on the ends and since I will be using this at some point in the fall I left it off.
I want to make this scarf again using a bolder more polished yarn. This was a very easy scarf to make and it only took me a few weeks. I only knit in the evenings and weekends when I have free time so I am not exactly a quick knitter. Most people could have completed it in a weekend.
You can find this pattern on Ravelry and also get to see the other finished products that other Ravelry members have shown of this pattern. I love Ravelry and it makes finding patterns and getting suggestions from others very easy.
For a couple of years now my family has been rock climbing. Up until now I was always the one standing at the bottom and taking pictures or videos. Why, you ask? That was because I was too overweight to climb the rock. That is until now.
Some people make plans that if they reach a certain achievement they will get a tattoo or piercing. I am not saying there is anything wrong with that but my goal was to go rock climbing with my family and not just sit and watch them climb. My son-in-law, Ben is certified in belaying so he was the one guiding us and taking up the slack on the rope at the bottom of the rock.
Samantha held the camera and you can hear her encouraging me along the path. This was a beginner’s path on the rock and for me it was just what I needed. I do hope to go back often and try to get better each time. When I watched the video I had to laugh. After now losing 105 pounds I have flabby arms which you can see in the video. I plan to work out my arms more but if the arms stay flabby due to having been so large for so long than so be it. That is the price that I will pay.
Mike has been rock climbing for a couple of years now and he is also very in shape. He works construction and he is used to climbing up ladders that are several stories high and walking on thin boards so this is nothing for him. I accidentally held the camera sideways so it looks as if it is crawling but you can still tell what an accomplishment this climb was. His rocks came out from the wall and he was having to make big climbs. Be sure to check out the one move when he is literally doing a complete split very high in the air.
I was able to get some great pics of Samantha and unfortunately her video is sideways too. I am going to add more rock climbing pictures and possibly her video if I can get it upright. I want to ask her opinion on it first. Until now I am sharing my personal triumph. I am no longer standing at the bottom holding the camera. I am joining in and living life with my family. Unless you have been in my shoes you have no idea how I felt. It was amazing.
I have been officially knitting now for 11 months. Within the last 11 months I have accumulated the following yarn stockpile.
I have been told that this large amount of yarn is not unusual for knitters to own. I am trying not to buy more yarn and to just use what is in my stash but it gets difficult. I will see a great deal online or in stores and I get heart palpitations at the thought of it.
What knitter hasn’t gone into a yarn store and just spent hours squishing the yarn in their hands? On my last roadtrip with my fellow “knitwits” I did not purchase any yarn. I am determined to begin using my stockpile. I am currently making this pattern using a very lovely heathered lavender baby alpaca brush yarn.
I will share it once it is finished. I have about 1.5 feet of it completed and will need to get at least 5 feet before I bind off. It is a very simple pattern really. I want to make a rug for my kitchen now that Mike has gotten the new tile completed in there. I bought that yarn last September but did not rush to knit the rug because I knew it would take months to get the tile done since Mike works so many hours.
So tell me that I am not the only one to have this much yarn in their stockpile. Show me your stockpiles. I dare you. Just please don’t judge me. LOL
