‘Fun Stuff’ Archive
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 11:09 am, by knitwit
in Category Fun Stuff, Just Chattin', Life
August was a busy month for us. And a fantastic one!
My sister from Montana came to visit for 2 weeks and she and L had a wonderful time together.
We miss her tons!
Kisses
While Colleen was here, we went to visit our brother Glen and his family on their Farm in Iowa. One of the best places in the world to be, if you ask me!
With fantastic views:
Inter
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Fun stuff for kids of all ages:
My nephew "Eviel Kneivel"
A Boy in his natural habitat...dirt
Best of all…lots and lots of family!
My sisters, brothers (all but one), nephews, cousins, parents. All in one place. Couldn’t be better!
My siblings and cousins
A supremely relaxing weekend.
Next time: August Part 2: The County Fair! With Actual knitting content!
Posted on January 21, 2008 at 5:10 pm, by knitwit
in Category Blankets, Color work, Fun Stuff, Knitting, Log Cabin, Mittens/gloves
I've totally neglected my blog for far too long. It wasn't entirely my fault, it was down for awhile and it took some crafty work by Hubby to get it up and running again. It's still not perfect. For some reason when I upload a photo, it says there is no thumbnail available so I have to import a larger size into the post, but you can't click on it to make it bigger. I am still recovering from PTSD due to some really disastrous Christmas knitting and so I have had to back away from the needles for a while. I haven't completely stopped knitting, I've actually gone back to this blanket
(this you can enlarge, it was imported before the blog demons attacked)
which I started last May. I will finally finish it and then I can move on to another log cabin style baby blanket that I hope to finish before our little guy gets here.
So why didn't my Christmas knitting turn out? I blame it all on pregnancy brain! Every time I tried something it totally bombed. The only thing to survive was this meager little mitten/headband set:
My mother-in-law was the lucky recipient of the only handknitted item to be gifted this year. The mittens are from Elizabeth Zimmermann's book Knitting Around, but I created my own cuff pattern. For the headband, I just used a basic Norwegian star pattern and plugged in the right numbers to make it fit. Kind of a fly-by-the-seat project which, consequently, is why no one else got anything, because as I tried to wing my way through more headbands, they all came out waaaaay too big. I tried making fingerless mittens for the guys in my family and they also turned out too large. I don't know what happened to my sense of gauge from the first mittens I knitted…
and the next several, but something happened and it all turned to crap. Maybe it's all the relaxin hormones that come with pregnancy and make your joints loosen up that is screwing with my gauge.
Thus I am temporarily at least turning to projects where gauge is not an issue…like the unfinished giant log cabin blanket. Maybe I'll have better luck with that!
ETA: The giant log cabin blanket is done and in the washing machine as we speak! I'll try to get some pics of it tomorrow. I'm sure they will be dark and gloomy pics as it is about 10 degrees here and snowing (so no way am I going to try to take pics outside) but I'll see what I can do!
Posted on November 23, 2007 at 3:48 pm, by knitwit
in Category Fun Stuff, Just Chattin', Life
table and centerpiece
(click in images to make bigger as usual)
I have been worried all week about hosting my first Thanksgiving dinner at our house. I guess I had nothing to worry about: I didn't drop, spill or break anything, no one went home wearing their dinner, nothing was burned or undercooked, no one has called to tell me they have food poisoning. All in all a pretty good day I think!
Mike carves the turkey
The food turned out great! We did end up eating a little later than planned as the turkey didn't get done when I thought it would, but we had enough food for an army so no one went without!
Yummy!
I would never have been able to pull it off without all of the help from my family. My mom made relish trays and came over in the morning to help me cook, Brad helped a ton, and Susie, my MIL brought sweet potatoes, cranberries and pumpkin pie which also helped me out a ton! I was pretty worn out as I hadn't been able to sleep the night before but everyone jumped in to clear the table and clean up the leftovers so I could relax, that was truly something to be thankful for!
Enough food for an army!
Today the dishes have been done, leftovers have been are being eaten and I'm going to have a little relaxation time before we hit the road again. Tomorrow we're off to Sioux City for B's cousin's wedding so we'll get to spend time with the fam again. Hopefully I'll have recovered by Monday and can be back in knitting order. Christmas will be here before we know it and probably before I have all my knitting done!
Hope everyone in blog land had a great Thanksgiving too!
Posted on October 10, 2007 at 11:36 am, by knitwit
in Category Baby news, Fun Stuff, Just Chattin', Life
Sunday was a pretty memorable day for the pipsqueak, whom we've affectionatly named "Spike" after one of B's favorite singers Spike Jones, (I use the term affectionaly loosely here. When I told B I wanted to think up a nickname for the baby so we didn't have to call it "IT" for 9 months, he immediately said SPIKE! [our last name is Jones] You have to choose your battles and I gave him the win on this one!). Anyway, Spike got to attend his first concert–Sir Elton John!!!!
Here we are, ready to rock
Not much of a baby bump yet. But I will tell you secretly that the jeans I'm wearing were a last minute purchase because my "regular" jeans are getting too tight. These jeans are a size bigger than I usually wear and were much more comfortable for rockin out at a concert. And they gave more room for the Tiny Dancer in my Belly!
And did I mention I think we're having twins?
I'm carrying one and B is carrying the other for me!
We were so excited before the concert, can't you tell?
what a couple of cheeseheads
It was a totally awesome concert. I never would have imagined Elton John coming to a tiny podunk arena like Sioux Falls, it only hold about 7000 people. I guess when you've been performing for 38 years and you've made about a gazillion dollars you don't really care too much about the size of the venue you play in anymore!
I've loved Elton John for about as long as I can remember and while we should have spent the money on baby stuff, I figured this was a once in a lifetime opportunity and hey, who needs a crib when you have a perfectly good laundry basket the kid can sleep in?!
So that was our last big hoorah before we have to start be respectable, responsible parents and save our pennies for necessities like cribs and diapers and all that jazz. We're saving the concert tickets for Spike's baby book!
In knitting news, I did manage to get something pretty close to finished yesterday. Hopefully I can get a few shots today and actually have some knitting to share with you. Till then…
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