Category Archives: knitting

Pictures later

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I’m still recovering from the weekend with my grandkids and daughter-in-law.  When you reach the mid-century mark (plus a few years) it takes awhile to recover from too much fun.

Bishop wanted nothing to do with the crafty goodies I planned except for the stencils I made.  We used cotton balls as daubers.  That lasted a total of 10 minutes.  Pictures later.

I knit a hat Friday night to mail to a friend who thinks knitting isn’t cool.  He just got his hair cut and now his head is cold.  Pictures later.

Last night I was finishing up my special project and started getting a headache.  I’m using a dark yarn and binding off the edge.  The stitches kept sliding off the double-point needles and I couldn’t see the stitches to pick them back up.  I know that knitting at night with a dark yarn is never good for me but I wanted to finish this project.  After fiddling with it for a few minutes with my hands directly under a light, I got the edge bound off.  Finished.  Pictures later.

Gotta run.  Remember: pictures later.

Stop it

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Stop saying knitting is something only old ladies do.

I learned to knit when I was a kid.  I knit scarves for my friends when I was in high school. 

I knit when I became a stay-at-home-mom.

I’ve knit off and on my whole life.  I didn’t consider myself “old” then and I certainly don’t consider myself “old” now.

Kids knit.  Teenagers knit.  Women of all ages knit.  Men of all ages knit.

Knitting is not something only old ladies do.

So just stop it.

Foggy brain

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Happy Groundhog Day!  No matter what the groundhog sees or doesn’t see, we’re still having six more weeks of winter.

It’s foggy outside.  Very foggy.  I don’t know why some people drive 65 mph when they can’t see one car length in front of them.  About seven years ago there was a 100+ car pile-up close to where I now work because people drove 65 miles an hour in the fog when they couldn’t see one car length in front of them.

No knitting happened yesterday.  I did go to work late once the temperature rose above freezing and I could drive down the driveway and hill to the main road.  Sliding a half mile downhill in my car is not my idea of fun.

I am 3/4 of the way done with the special project that I wanted to have finished on Monday.  And I still have the left side and sleeve to seam on the papaya cardi.

Am I afraid to finish these?  I don’t know.  My brain is foggy.

Crafting help

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Icy driveway and roads have me at home today.  If it warms up, I may try to go to work.  Yeah, right.

My daughter-in-law, 5-year old grandson, one-year-old granddaughter are coming this weekend.  It’s cold and the ground is covered in crusty snow right now and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be much better for the weekend.

I need some crafty help.  Do you have some suggestions as to what we can do craft-wise to entertain them?

This is one of the main reasons I want to have my own craft room instead of using the kitchen and stopping everything to fix a meal.

I thought about making Valentines.  Maybe Bishop needs some for his pre-K classes.  (Yes, his name is Bishop.  I love it.)  Anyway I can make stencils that he can use with cotton ball dauber to make cards.

I also have those clear flat glass “rocks”. We can glue pictures to the bottom and make magnets.

I also saw a project from Martha with crayon shavings, waxed paper, and an iron.

Any other ideas?