Archive for April, 2007
Don’t cha wish your mom was cool like mine?
My mom came over today. Can you guess what she did from this picture?
She’s prepping to make a pattern from one of my store bought skirts.
Cutting the first piece of the pattern out…..
The finished pattern pieces all cut out….
Who needs store bought patterns, when I have a mom who’ll whip up a [...]
Posted: April 28th, 2007 under sewing.
Comments: 12
A little crazy
I had a bad time at the doctor’s office last week. I won’t get into it (I AM ok though), but I left there in tears, and felt the need for some shopping as a pick-me-up. I had already ordered from KnitPicks, some yarn to make yet more baby gifts, some socks for [...]
Posted: April 25th, 2007 under knitting.
Comments: 9
Spinning in the park
The forecast for today was supposed to be 72 and sunny. I wanted to go to the playground and let Danny run loose, but instead of a knitting project, I wanted to spin. Lulu is portable, but how would it go over in the playground? Hubby said I would look like a [...]
Posted: April 21st, 2007 under knitting, spinning.
Comments: 8
A quickie
Just real quick while I have a minute, to announce the winner of the blog contest. Jennifer, I know I have your address somewhere, but please email me again with it, for you are the winner! Jennifer guessed 4 pounds, and the sock yarn stash’s weight was 4.5 pounds, or 2041 grams. [...]
Posted: April 20th, 2007 under knitting.
Comments: 4
Now there’s sewing!
I spent 20 minutes at the sewing machine the other night, manual in hand trying to figure out how to thread the needle….and it has a needle threader on it! Mom walked me thru it over the phone the next morning when I called to complain that I must be a moron. Friday [...]
Posted: April 15th, 2007 under knitting, sewing, spinning.
Comments: 11
More socks
The Monkey socks were finished on Sunday. They would have been finished on Sat., had I not had a small freak out that I was going to be deposited at the wrong train station in CT and have no one to pick me up and be forced to wander around a strange state by [...]
Posted: April 11th, 2007 under knitting, sewing.
Comments: 10
Yarn and socks. Socks and yarn.
My boys are out of town this week, so I don’t have to rush home for anything. My train station is a block away from Seaport Yarns, and I took a walk there the other day. I was not planning on buying anything, just looking. The CTH yarns called to me and [...]
Posted: April 4th, 2007 under knitting.
Comments: 13
It’s that time of year…
…to Flash Your Stash! I won’t be flashing the entire stash, as it’s a bit difficult to get to (under the bed), and hubby is still home. I’d like to stay married, thankyouverymuch. In fact, I wasn’t going to flash at all, but I realized that flashing some of the stash is [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2007 under knitting.
Comments: 32