D is for ...

Dunn Bros. Coffee Shop in Champlin MN
We meet there every Friday from 9am to noon and knit or crochet.

Come join us!!

Can you believe it?

For St. Brigid's Day

I found this idea here and it linked to here.

I love their poetry selections and here is mine.
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Introduction To Poetry

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

Billy Collins

B is for ...

Ballband Dishcloths!

These have been a lot of fun and I love using them too.

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/QoE/ballband-dishcloth

Some knitting?

I have been working on Hedera (Cookie A.'s sock from Knitty.com) and I think I did something wrong on the gusset, but I am not stopping. It will be just fine.









I really wanted a pair of WARM socks so I tried using Lamb's Pride worsted and some leftover yarn and size 6 needles and I love these guys. They are warm and cozy and a little goofy. Next time I might put the darker color on the ankle and the lighter color on the foot.








Here are the Alligator Scarves from Morehouse Farms.
These were fun to knit and if the grandkidlets hadn't been using them as toys, they wouldn't be all stretched out.






And here are Joe and Laura playing carpet hockey.
Laura thought they should be wearing helmets, so that is why they have the hardhats on. Don't ask why we have hardhats in the living room.

This is the Argosy Scarf from Knitty.com .

The Noro Kureyon Sock yarn is beautiful, but I was hating the way it worked up in socks.





I just can't wait to finish and block this!

Trying to finish up the GIFTS!

Logan is in the unfelted stocking.
He will be six in March.







Laura is in the smaller stocking.
She is 2 1/2.

Now I need to spend a little time with my washer!!

Kinda fun!

OMG, it's been a long time

I received my invitation to Ravelry and I haven't been remembering to update this too.
I have been knitting socks and mittens and hats and I will get the pictures up here ASAP.
Like tomorrow! ;-D

I am finally enjoying this sock.
I can actually imagine knitting the second sock!

Now I find this

Wonderful idea, no stress and it fits my life-style.

Still here (with my almost monthly post)

I had been working of this sock for a long time and it finally dawned on me that I really didn't like it.
Into the frog pond we went!






Here's the same yarn with a different pattern and I am really liking it. It is the Opal Hundertwasser and I am using the Eagle's Flight pattern from the PT Yarn site.

Free money!

Here's a chance to win $2500! Just post this on your blog!

Over at Ashwin’s blog, you will find one crazy blog owner!! You can win $2500!! To enter just copy this text and paste it in your blog!! But hurry, this competition will not last long! So get posting!

Good luck and if you win, please share ;-D

New Pet ;-D

adopt your own virtual pet!

I'm in!!

I finally received my invitation to Ravelry!

35W

Please leave a comment so I know you are ok!
My MN based family has checked in. How about yours?

What is your Power Element?

Your Power Element is Wood

Your power colors: green and brown Your energy: generative Your season: spring Like a tree, you are always growing and changing. And while your life is dynamic, you are firmly grounded. You have high morals and great confidence in yourself and others. You have a wide set of interests, and you make for intersting company.

What's Your Power Element?

I have the pieces done!

I am posting these pictures so that someone will bug me until I have sewn it up!!

Tonyia asked what pattern and what yarn I used: it is from Oat Couture Patterns and is the Crocus Cardigan for baby. I used the sock yarn from Brown Sheep (the name escapes me right now)

I am weak

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces Judith Viorst

Saturday Sky of the month ;-D

Yes, I have been knitting. Just not blogging.
Here is a picture of my dishcloth in progress.
I went in the house to check on my 150 year old dog and this is what happened!
It hailed on my stuff! I rescued it before the rain really started.
We don't get a lot of sky around here. Too many huge trees. But that helps keep the house cool ;-D

We should cook to have something good to eat and because cooking itself is nourishing to our souls.

Have you seen this?

KnitNet is a knitting magazine published six times a year on the World Wide Web.
KnitNet has been published since 1998 and has more than 40,000 readers in 80 countries.
Now a subscriber magazine, KnitNet also has free patterns and articles available to visitors. KnitNet subscriber features include videotaped knitting instruction, an online store available to everyone and Knitters' Network, a column that allows knitters to help each other.

Take a look. I have been a subscriber since the beginning and have used many of their patterns.