Hello everyone! Today America is 230 years old! Wow – that is amazing! The day looks like it will be beautiful here – it is sunny and the birds are singing!
This vacation week is flying by – we took a boat ride yesterday and I sat in the sun and knit! I ask you – does life get better than that?
We met friends for burgers last night – mmmmmmm, they were good – as was Linda, Ramona, and Ed’s company!
Well, I need another cup of coffee – have a safe 4th everyone!!
Hello everyone! Today is my first day of vacation! We are heading up to our cottage – and I am declaring July – UFO month. I am going to use this week off to work on all UFO’s hanging around this house! That should keep me from buying any yarn this month – I am saving my money for a Road Trip to Lansing with some Michigan Bloggers and Lynne – who will be visiting Michigan! I have some socks from the very first sock class I took – I never finished them – they were not my best effort, which I frogged trying to fix beginner errors that I am going to cast on to knit Grumperina’s Jaywalker socks! It is really lovely Mountain Colors Barefoot yarn that deserves to be knit into something lovely – rather than the first try toe up socks that I was learning. Sunshine and knitting sound like a great combination to me – heck, rain and knitting are not too bad either!
Hope you all have a great 4th of July! I shall try and check in next week if I can find an internet connection!
Hello everyone! Ugh, this summer cold is gettin’ me down! I had an email from my SP from SP8, she let me know she had a cold which was laying her low – and yesterday I was certainly on the path of getting the cold. Must be a sympathy cold because misery loves company. 🙂 She is such a nice SP, I did not want her to suffer alone.
I stayed in my office all afternoon yesterday so I would not infect anyone else – in the words of Garrison Keillor – I am feelin’ pretty puny!
Hope you all have a great Wednesday – hopefully it is all down hill from here!
Hello everyone! Well, it is Monday and I cannot believe that next week is the 4th of July! This month has just flown by! The weather has been lovely, but today we are supposed to get some scattered showers here in West Michigan.
I spent the weekend doing housework (yuck!!) and laundry (double yuck!!) and frogging the lace socks – okay, so maybe the third time is the charm. I am through the heel flap and have turned the heel also – they look so much better than the last two attempts. Lacework is fun – but challenging. Also, knitting with dpns is not something I am used to doing. I am not thinking about the “kitchner toe” that I will have to figure out. On this last cast on, I did incorporate a new technique I read about online – I did a 3-needle join on my last round of the picot edge – it looks so awesome! One less step on the completion of sock – I will not have to stitch that down! When my son gets up, I will have him help me post a picture of my sock.
Hope you all have a great week!
Okay, there is a definate pattern here with Friday posts! I will work on trying to update the other days as well. I am working on those lovely lace socks from the spring IK – I cast on and then took them out and re-cast on. This time looks much nicer – no mistakes in the lace pattern!! I am almost to the heel flap on sock 1 – so I am working on them! My SP and I are doing a KAL with these socks! I bet she is farther them me!! I am enjoying teaching classes – but I want to knit for me!!
Have any of you seen the scarves from the latest Rowan book – the ones knit with denim and then you add adornments with bleach – ?? We are all (the ladies from Lizzie Ann’s) knitting scarves right now – then we are having a “bleaching” party! We will all get together with our scarves and bleach them. They are going to be the window dressing for August! I have to have my scarf done after the 4th of July – and I only have about 3″ knit thus far! I really like how the denim is knitting up though – it feels so nice to knit with it.
We are taking off for the cottage starting next Friday – so I can sit in the sun with my daughter and knit!! (She will just be laying in the sun – I cannot seem to infect her with my enthusiasm for knitting!!)
Then – before I know it Lynne – http://iwasknittogetherinmymotherswomb.typepad.com/ – is coming to West Michigan and we are going to get together to knit!! I am so excited to meet her – I read her blog and she is such a great knitter, blogger, person – I am excited to spend some time knitting with her!
Well – I better get moving off to work – have a great weekend everyone!
Wow, I cannot believe that it is Friday already – this week has just sped by! I had another sock class last night with 4 lovely ladies who wanted to learn how to knit 2 socks on one circular, toe up. They were a great group, I am excited to see how their socks look in two weeks. We are heading to the cottage this weekend – and 90 degree weather!
I have been working on some ideas for my secret pal – I am working on the cable footies from the 1 Skein book for her! This has been fun – thinking about what goodies I can send her!
Hope you all had a great week – and enjoy the beautiful weekend!
