I'm back

Monday,  September 24, 2012

Back in the blogiverse.    Life got  busy   we traveled to  Washington DC,   and Chicago  went to  high school graduations for a niece and a nephew.  visited  Chicago for 4th of July. 

I knit  8 bears, 5 monsters, 7 pairs of mittens  10  hats all for charity.  won a couple of blue ribbons at the county fair.   and we got a new cat  I've named Oscar Wilde. 

I've read  lots of books  just finished  All Roads  lead to Austen.   it was a fun read  I recommend it for all fans of Miss Austen's works.  

I've been knitting ruffle scarves

my latest charity project is   from a patern in  Mason-Dixon knitting.  It's a traveling blanket.   one person knits the first round and passes on to another knitter.    pretty fun way to  make a baby blanket

 I got obsessed with making can cozies from dishcloth yarn this summer.   I love playing with  dishcloth cotton  and made a ton of these

last week  I finished a hat and a sweater for a friend's one year old   his parents are  serious Washington Redskins  fans

Huddle hat

summer's over and fall is here. In my refrigerator,  watermelon and sweet corn have made way  for apples and squash

Update

March 27,2012

It's been a while since  I've posted to my blog.   We've had a busy couple of months.   We have bought new bedroom furniture. from IKea  and it's fantastic.   I've been knitting bears for motherbear project inspired from Downton Abbey.

New Year New Car

January has been a very strange month.   It began with a MVA  for Kris and I.  No one was hurt  but our poor 1992  dodge caravan  was totalled by the insurance company.  after spending this month car shopping  we have a new car   A 2012  Kia Soul

Kris and I are thrilled with our new  spicy red car.    Car shopping is so different now.    

Wednesdays

Wednesdays tend to be my day to caught up on things.  household chores,  odd bits of knitting  and  the always full laundry cupboard

finished off a pair of mitts for our nephew Tanner.   this is the last of the knits for our neices and nephews.


my tree is up and I put on the new ornaments for 2011

The navy and army hats are christmas gifts from Tom and Rose.   the bear was made  by a fellow Motherbear (Marcie Titus)   it is a crocheted miniture version of the bears we sent to children  in Africa who have  HIV

Happy Halloween

Sunday, October 30    11p.m.

We are ready for Halloween.   Candy is  bought .  A huge bag of candy because we get lots of trick or treaters   every year.  

Tonight Kris and I carved pumpkins

Notice he has a power tool for this task. 

This is  his pumpkin;

This is my pumpkin:

Happy Halloween!!

Casting on and binding off

projects are cycling off and on my size 5 and size 7   40 inch circulars.

finished Lauren's mukluks.   working on socks for the guys and mitts for me  and cast on   an orange hat for Kris.  I'm using the WWII watch cap pattern.   

Saw Sherlock Holmes at the community Theater yesterday.   it was fun.

news last week:  Glenn will stay in Charleston for another three months  but the good news is he will be able to come home for Christmas.  

On the nightstand:  the mistress of the Vatican  and   South of Broad by Conroy.   I really enjoy his prose.
Some recently finished projects

                                                                    Trenton's mitts

                                                mukluks for the women's shelter

                                                               mukluks for  Lauren

Tried two new recipes this  month   shirl's apple cake  which is really good .  the dough is so hard that Kris has to stir in the apples and walnuts.   He doesn't mind this.     I also tried a Turkey and  Quinoa  meatloaf that  was great.   

See you all in the funny  papers.

Sunny Day and Mondays

October 3, 2011

The Joy:  Beautiful warm sunny day.   the leaves on the trees are colors only God can make.
The  Challenge:   a nasty cold.

news this past week:

Glenn is nearly set to  head to  New York.   He can hardly wait. 

Ryan  is back from yakima, WA and is training his soldiers. 

Kris and I spent Saturday at the Mpls farmer's market.

I finished a few projects this past week.  and I can only show one of them. Kris' mukluks are done.  the rest are birthday and/or Christmas gifts.  I may not be able to show many of my FOs for a while  most of my projects on the needles are gifts.

Looking forward to   the Motherbear tea on Friday.