Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Lunch Bag Shrunk!


The Lunch Bag is shrunk! It didn’t shrink down to lunch bag size though. It shrank to the right height but the width is much bigger than I calculated. I guess that is the unpredictability of felting. I like it and will make a hand bag out of it. I still have to make a clasp on the fold over edge. I’m still recovering from my daughters sleepover party so I’ll give the summary after I process the pictures.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Birthday News


My dear daughter was a bit disappointed with this year’s birthday. It seems the fact that her presents were not a surprise and being on a Monday her friends forgot it was her birthday. We had purchased all her presents together. That’s me, Mom being too practical and not thinking as a kid might. I wanted to make sure we got what she wanted and that the clothes fit. I think she was still hoping I would find her something special. Well, to be honest I had hoped too, but I just couldn’t find the time. I hope I can make it up to her. This weekend she is having a birthday party with her friends and maybe I’ll be able to find something special to slip in the stack of presents that her friends bring.

There were some other details, which detracted from my daughter’s birthday. Our sweet dog Jessie was scheduled to be spayed. Jessie came home from the surgery totally drugged out. When she finally came too Jessie was whimpering. Even I was upset so, I can understand why my daughter was crying. Thankfully, Jessie is reviving abit. She doesn’t whine any more but the medicine really knocks her out. She can’t seem to wake up in time to pee outside. The last two days I’ve been making sure that she has a towel under her butt in case she leaks. I hope Jessie is better in time for my daughter’s sleepover this Friday.

Even though my daughter knew I was running behind on the lunch bag I think she was disappointed that I hadn’t finished it on her birthday. She helped me to pick out the wool and knew I was shooting targeting her birthday as a finishing point. Shopping, shoveling snow and taking care of Jessie were taking longer than we thought. I finished all the tying in of yarn ends and the edges this morning. Take a look at the before felting view. It’s huge! As soon as my daughter comes home from school I’ll shrink it in the washing machine

Friday, March 16, 2007

Eye Candy Friday 3.16.07

Our backyard bird feeder in snow. We are in the middle of another snow storm. We've had the wierdest winter. It was warm through December. NewEngland got their first snowfall after Christmas. So now it is snowing still into Spring.








I thought I should check in with some knitting news. See Below to see how far I have gotten on the lunch bag. I'm a little more than half way.

Friday, March 09, 2007

Eye Candy Friday 3.9.07


A "Sheeply" Delicious Cake!
My daughter and I made this chocolate cake. She couldn't wait for the cake to cool and stole a piece before it was ready for frosting. Because of it's misshape and that the frosting became lumpy we turned it into a sheep shape. "Ace of Cakes" Beware!

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Jessie is a sneak

I get up from the sofa and look who is sneaking my knitting. I sometimes think she is a playful cat instead of a dog. She just loves balls of yarn. The other thing she likes is the chase game when you RUN to catch Jessie and the knitting project before it completely comes off the needles. There is one nice thing about her though. She doesn’t chew to destroy things. She has never torn any yarn or toy, she just mouths them.

If you can see she has the beginnings of the Lunch Bag. I am still working on the bag’s bottom. I thought I had the gauge down, but after casting on and knitting about 12 rows I realized that I was 2 inches too big. I find figuring gauges for really big needles such as US # 15’s tough. If you are off by a stitch or two it can add up to several inches, as was the case here.

Monday, March 05, 2007

Approved for Membership



I've been approved for membership in the Knitting Bloggers netring. So now when you click on my Knit Blogging Logo you get in. Yippee. Now I need to add some knitting stuff. But I don't have any current pictures so I'll show you a quilted pocket instead.

My husband brought home a free backpack from a convention. It is a very nice bag but I always felt self conscience going around advertising some technology show that I know nothing about. So I covered it up with this nice quilt pocket.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Eye Candy Friday 3.2.07


As much as I like snow its getting a little old. We are experiencing another ice storm today.


This is a shot that my daughter took. Creative, huh!

Thursday, March 01, 2007

YAH!! I figured it out!

I am very proud of myself! I figured out how to ADD and LINK the side buttons. The last two days I've spent figuring out how to rearrange my blog site. The reason for the change was I needed to add the sidebar site link for the "Knitting Blogs" web ring logo. (I'm not officially joined in yet, I'm in the Queue waiting to be added.) I've also added side bar favorite links (The list is short, I do plan to add more once I get going)!!!!

I'm not sure if I needed too, but I added the buttons using html code in blogger. I couldn't seem to add the pictures using the new add picture functionality.

To do this I had to get out my notes from my html coding class. I'm sure there must to be an easier way but, I got it to work this way instead.

Now, I can get back to knitting!