tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184796272024-03-14T09:27:33.519-04:00Stitching in the Buff...one project at a timekatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.comBlogger739125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-1212983875428700352014-10-08T13:12:00.004-04:002014-10-08T13:12:47.563-04:00tedium
This is my shaped triangle shawl that I started...one hundred and ten years ago. NOT REALLY, it was actually November 2011. Which seems like an eternity ago when I think about who and where I was then as compared to now. Crikey, my son had only just turned 3.
Anyway, I have knitted the first 29 repeats of the border, which, for my attention span and interest, is about 28 repeats too many.katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-5362934875266576132014-10-03T08:00:00.000-04:002014-10-03T08:00:01.416-04:00museum day live
Last Saturday was Smithsonian Museum Day Live - if you don't know about it, click the link and see if there is a participating museum near you! My daughter and I went last year and this year to my very favorite place: Genesee Country Village and Museum. It's a living history museum with very little gimmicky stuff...just the buildings and interpreters and so much beauty katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-59255042699434033322014-10-01T20:26:00.001-04:002014-10-01T20:26:29.042-04:00prayer shawls
I made a bunch of shawls for the new prayer shawl ministry at my church.
Everyone at the last meeting had brought shawls and lap robes in shades of blue and green (and my lone tan basketweave shawl). So next up will be one or two in more "feminine" colors.
Thanks to my lovely daughter for modeling!
katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-44698312451856023542014-09-19T14:19:00.002-04:002014-09-19T14:19:55.804-04:00pjs for my girlI thought I would make two nightgowns but ended up with one nightgown and one set of pajamas.
Whatever, I do what I want!*
*Eric Cartman
katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-31600742640706667412014-09-18T13:24:00.000-04:002014-09-18T13:24:39.342-04:00where did summer go?Gahhh, I'm not ready! I love autumn but this summer was so darn nice, never going much above 80 degrees where I live, breezy, pleasant...I want to stay in it a little longer. Most years I am chomping at the bit for cold, rainy days, pumpkin flavors and cinnamon scents by now because I'm wrung out after weeks of sticky hot days. Not this year!
Alas, time marches on. School has started (FOR katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-26920017622974185592014-07-09T15:12:00.003-04:002014-07-09T15:13:19.344-04:00yarn along
Yarning along. Second pair of my "summer of socks" - these are just 60-stitch socks in Knitpicks Stroll handpainted, Cartoons colorway.
Super busy day, got a bunch of kids over here playing. No time to blog!
katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-15665854119436413282014-07-04T13:48:00.001-04:002014-07-04T13:48:49.084-04:00Happy 4th!
*Boom!*
*Crackle!*
*Pop!*
Happy 4th of July!
First socks of summer are done.
katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-16294413176971528202014-07-02T17:12:00.000-04:002014-07-02T17:12:24.518-04:00yarn along...better late than never!
Eep! Almost missed yarn along day, but I'm sneaking in under the wire.
I've nearly finished my stripey socks, just 1/2 of the second foot to go. And while it doesn't really qualify as reading, I'm totally geeking out over my new planner, turning each page and getting to know what's in it. I lust after an Erin Condren planner, as many do, but simply cannot justify $50 for what is, at its katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-48410271023629158952014-06-27T11:58:00.001-04:002014-06-27T11:59:07.947-04:00summer at last
First day of summer vacation! Yes, our kids were in school until yesterday. Our schools start after Labor Day and end late in June. I now have a rising 4th grader and a soon-to-be kindergartener. Crazy! It is so true what they say: the days are long but the years are short. My babies are no longer babies.
Since we finally have a day with zero obligations and no place to be, I got around to katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-69492663650690895002014-06-26T16:45:00.000-04:002014-06-26T16:45:18.065-04:00peaceful knitting at the playground
Loving that my kids are big now and can just take off at the playground, leaving me under a shady tree in peace. :)
katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-62233808731260071842014-06-25T11:52:00.004-04:002014-06-25T11:55:39.794-04:00yarn alongI finished the purple tank from my previous post, tried it on...and it was a sack. I was so bummed out because it was not an insignificant amount of knitting.
So I think for summer knitting I'm going to go for guaranteed success. This morning I assembled a Sock Basket filled with pretty, bright yarns for summertime fun knitting. The two balls are hand-wound from hanks of Knitpicks Stroll, katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-2362426036438000022014-06-11T09:00:00.003-04:002014-06-11T09:00:54.649-04:00yarn along
Oh seriously, with the time flying...slow down already, life! I was laughing to myself this morning thinking about how I used to blog every single day, sometimes wanting to write twice a day, because the days felt so long and lonely and boring. Then my kids started growing up and now the days all blend together in a giant whirlwind of passing time.
In other words, it's Wednesday again, katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-5376899485736878012014-06-05T13:11:00.000-04:002014-06-05T13:11:06.146-04:00bad pictures of a great dress
I made a new dress! I made this pattern once, last summer, and intended to make more but just never got to it. I picked up some quilter's showcase calico at JoAnn for $2.49/yard and used this brown tone-on-tone for Butterick 4443.
I know some people would be aghast at making a dress out of cheap calico like this but frankly, I am kind of sweaty all summer, exacerbated by the fact that katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-34450393335127586472014-06-04T08:20:00.002-04:002014-06-04T08:59:40.422-04:00yarn along
Sometimes it freaks me out how fast the weeks go by.
Here we are for another Wednesday Yarn Along!
Still working on the prayer shawl I started last week but now it's about 4 feet long and nearing completion. I will know it's done when the yarn is gone! My book is "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" and so far, over just a few pages, it's pretty good and a little creepy.
katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-9220072106364525302014-06-02T08:00:00.000-04:002014-06-02T08:00:05.482-04:00mom's sweat shop
I'm going to start my own clothing line and call it "Skinny Minnies" - it will be bottoms for boys and girls who are not part of the obesity epidemic.
I cannot find one single pair of commercially produced shorts or pants that fit my daughter off the rack. Everything, including plain old Hanes sweatpants, has to be altered. I have better luck with my son because boy shorts are katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-84081801187650008482014-05-28T11:16:00.001-04:002014-05-28T11:16:27.406-04:00yarn along
Jumping back into Ginny's yarn along this week.
The knitting is the same thing I showed yesterday, a prayer shawl for the brand new ministry started by some ladies at my church. My mom and I are doing this together, and actually are making the same shawl in different yarns right now.
The book is Whole by T. Colin Campbell. If you are familiar with Forks Over Knives you know Dr. katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-573183956627763512014-05-27T15:11:00.001-04:002014-05-27T15:11:57.962-04:00the next knit
I had the great pleasure of attending a talk by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the Yarn Harlot herself, last week. I was supposed to attend with my mom, but she was unable to go, and I waffled on whether I wanted to go by myself or not. This was a knitting guild event, and the organizers are always reminding us that if we want these good teachers to keep coming to Buffalo, we need to show them our katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-18513438069379806042014-05-23T10:57:00.000-04:002014-05-23T10:57:07.935-04:00is this thing on?
So.
My baby graduated from preschool yesterday. My sweet baby boy, nearly six years old (his birthday will be on the first day of Kindergarten this September), and I am left wondering where the time went.
This was a challenging fall/winter/spring for me. In large part due to the weather, which, let's be honest, really stunk, and all the driving hither and yon to preschool and speech katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-90837770542898902472013-11-06T15:22:00.000-05:002013-11-06T15:22:47.223-05:00the yellow sweaterA day off of school for one kid and a sick day for the other left me with an entire day trapped to get stuff done at home (yesterday). Once I got the eleventy-billion loads of laundry started, I hunkered down to finish a languishing project.
I haven't knit sweaters for my kids this year because...*sob*...they just won't wear them. And I can't say I blame either one. The classrooms at my katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-23040256950027077432013-10-31T15:55:00.000-04:002013-10-31T15:55:39.675-04:00HalloweenieHappy Halloween! I don't get real jazzed up about Halloween, but now I'm rethinking that policy. I got to be there for both of my kids' holiday experiences at school (this is still such a cool novelty to me!) and it was pretty awesome to see everyone so into it. I did break out my black & orange stripey knee socks but now I'm thinking I could at least stop by Target or Old Navy and grab a katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-73488705849645887412013-10-22T11:39:00.000-04:002013-10-22T11:39:00.981-04:00pulling it together (sort of)
Life has changed so, so much around here. I thought I was busy when my kids were little, and believe me, caring for my son when he had his medical issues after birth and having therapists here every day for the better part of 5 years was certainly a lot of work, but it is really different these days.
I spend too much time in the car, shuttling children (mostly my son) to and fro.
katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-8398238231825468092013-09-06T17:03:00.000-04:002013-09-06T17:03:24.395-04:00a whole new world
I don't really like it when people just put all their pictures in a huge stack like this, with no explanations, but it takes forever to sort them all out with the new(ish) blogger interface and get all the justifications and alignments right so today it's what I'm doing.
We are off to a great start for the new school year...and this year it really is a whole new experience. In katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-16264020587335206892013-07-17T11:16:00.002-04:002013-07-17T11:16:57.989-04:00too hotIt's official...I prefer cool or even cold weather to this soggy, stinky, swampy hotness. The air is thick and heavy, and the only thing to do is hide in my bedroom in front of the air conditioner (I shudder to think of the upcoming electric bill) or float around in the pool doing nothing. At least when it is cold you can pull on some knee socks and another sweater and get stuff done. I'm a katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-51389425074328677112013-06-14T20:05:00.000-04:002013-06-14T20:05:23.450-04:007 day quiltLately I've found a lot of stress relief at my sewing machine.
This quilt was cut, pieced, quilted, bound, washed, dried and photographed in 7 days. Which might tell you how much stress I've been under for the past week! It's ok, everything worked out fine, but it was a tad tense for me so I took it out on my stash. :)
This has been my view for many days. The quilt is just 5 inch katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18479627.post-83914673960628280822013-06-04T15:06:00.000-04:002013-06-04T15:06:12.458-04:00buttercup
Got some fat quarters or scraps you don't know what to do with? Quick, gather them up and make a buttercup bag! The pattern is free, and it is excellent and easy to follow. This little bag only took maybe a couple of hours start to finish. The only mildly fiddly part is sewing that top band to the pleated bottom section because it's a curve. But the pieces fit together properly so it isn't katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09962243760714546382noreply@blogger.com1