No medals for Me

Well, I blew the Ravelry Olympics. Here is a Picture of what I needed to do to finish the blanket.

All I had to do was to finish the lettering on the one balloon, attach the 3 balloons and the Tweety to the blanket. add the border on the blanket. That was it.

But instead of doing what needed done. Medical issues came up and I was unable to do what I wanted. I have let my team mates down. But I shall finish the blanket before the end of the year.

I am working on UFO's the rest of this year. That will be a lot of Christmas Gifts for this year.

Wipswrestling '08

I have joined the ravelympics 2008. I have joined Team Chicago. I will be doing the wipswrestling, which is projects that have been set aside for a while.

I will be working on two. My grand children's blankets that I haven't finished. Their about 8 and 9 years old. So I think Isn't about time I finish them. The goal is to get them done during the Summer Olympics.

Hope to get pictures up of before and after of them up soon.

new pics

Some things I have been up to. The color is really off!?! The Top one is yellow and dark green. The bottom one is multi color and dark green together.

March Is really over?

Here I have let another month slip by and not started my son's blanket . At this rate it might be done by Christmas, but, then again????

But I did get a few things done. Some yard work.,No. 4 son signed up for Little League, Got son No.3 his Bass Guitar to go with the band he has started so he can learn to play,Daughters 2 and 3 looking into college courses for the summer, Daughter 4 taking summer classes to finish her Senior year, and I did do some , but , very little crocheting:



The first one is a clover Hot Pad for St. Paddy day, But the color is distorted, it is actually green, The second is a colorful bookmark.

Plus had the grand kids for spring break. Poor kids didn't have much fun as it was wet, rainy and cold. But I think they still had some fun.
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Latest Books I have read.

I have been reading Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss book 100 Crochet Projects. Your pictures are wonderful and the instructions are very clear to understand.

It always amazes me what you can do with a string and and a hook. You can make things to keep people warm, you can clothe people, entertain people, all with just string and a hook.

Then there is all the useful things you can make to keep your home clean and looking nice, and to decorate you home as well.

I would like to Thank all the Designers that take the time to write down your designs for those of us who just like to crochet and not write out designs. You keep us in stitches. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Need to get started.

Still haven't started on my Son's blanket he wants. Uh, his Birthday was yesterday and the poor kid was sick with a nasty cold. At least he is feeling better today.

But I do have it graphed out, Colors chosen, now to figure out how to do the intarsia on the LK-150 without an intarsia key plate.

The colors have changed to black and white.

January is a slow month

These are a few of the things I did in January. It seems that I slow down after Decembers' rush for Christmas.

But I am still working on making the graph and blanket for Son #3.

AK Has given me some great advice. I think I will go ahead and make it in intarsia. Thank you for the graph link you gave me. It will come in very handy.

Ak I hope you are feeling better.

Afghans

Here is the picture he has chosen. Help in converting this into a coloring page format. To make it into a 2 color Afghan.

Converting, and knitting

Son #3 has decided on who he wants on his Afghan. Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 .

I have a picture but I can't seem to post it right now.

What I would like to do with it is make it in 2 colors only on my LK150 kniting machine. I need some help in converting the picture into a coloring page to do this.
Any advise Help would be appreciated.

His chosen colors are Navy Blue character and white back ground.

Crafting News of the week

Well, we have narrowed the Colors down to two for son no. 3's afghan. Navy Blue and White.

Now to get the character that he wants in coloring page format. But first he has to choose the character. This will be knitted on my LK150 machine.

To stay on top of what I did last week in crochet, well, It wasn't much but, it was something. I made a cross bookmark for a friend.
Daughter no. 3 was home and has asked for a couple that she can give as gifts, so I know what I will be doing in Crochet this week.

New Beginnings--With a New Year

New Year and New Creations to make.

This Year I plan on making each child of mine an afghan for their birthday. So I have about six weeks to make the first one. It is for Son number 3.

Now, to figure out which character to make? Star Wars, Final Fantasy, or Escaflowne.

Well at least I know his favorite colors. That is a good start.

Time to play "I Spy" and see what he wants without him finding out what I am up too. Will this make me a secret agent? Hmmmm

Christmas Home Tours

Do to having work done on the house this month we are not doing much but We do have a few things up. Hope you enjoy.

Nativity set at night.


Can you find the cat three quarters up the Tree?


Camera Phones don't make for the best pictures but one of my Daughter's has the digital.


Nativity set in day time. As if you couldn't tell.


Sorry I don't have any cookies left as my Hubby and children ate all of them. But, I do have my recipe for you.

Drop Cookies

1 cup soft butter
2/3 cup brown sugar, packed
2/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/3 cups flour
2 eggs

Preheat Oven to 375.
lightly grease baking sheets.
In large bowl, beat butter, sugars, vanilla with mixer until fluffy.
Beat in eggs, baking soda and salt until combined.
Add flour and beat on low speed until blended.
Drop by rounded tablespoons about 1 1/2 inches apart on baking sheets.
Bake in pre-heated oven for 8 to 9 minutes until edges brown.
Cool on sheets 2 minutes before removing to wire rack to cool completely.

You can change the flavor by adding any of these things to the same mix.

1. 1 cup of favorite nuts
2. 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
3. 1/2 cup finely chopped peppermint candy
4. 1 cup of chocolate chips
5. Anything else you think of that you would like in your
cookies.


Don't need much to enjoy the season of Christmas. "Jesus Is The Reason For the Season", let us not forget what He has done for us.

Chiristmas Tour

I have borrowed this button from BooMama as she has suggested we have a Christmas Tour of Homes! Go to BooMama web site for all the details. This is going to be alot of fun.

Card stuffers

I thought these would make a great Card stuffer. Now to get them mailed out.

Have a very Merry Christmas!!!!!

Lonsome skien knitalong

Well I joined this group and have made a few things and have not posted anything about it.

so without futher ado here is some pictures of what I have done.









Will add more pictures next week when I get the camera back from the kids. (Like that is going to happen soon)

I have finnished!!!!!

I have succeeded in completing the simple granny square poncho I started last Sept. 2005 For my grandaughter. It took me a year. Isn't that a shame. As it is very simple to do. But she loves it. And yes it still fits.I gave it to her on her
Birthday this year.

Flat Braid Square joining

What happened to the granny square poncho for my granddaughter I started back in Sept. for her birthday? Well I am still working on it. I am using the Flat Braid Square joining. It is easy to do but has many ends to finish up. The Poncho has 24 granny squares.

What's new?

As you can see I have already messed up on my New Years goal for this blog. I told you I would load pictures of my work as I am not a writer. Well I haven't finished anything. So I guess I will post inprogress pictures along with pictures as I finish them.
Now to explain why there is no picture today, Drum roll Please!!!! I am still learning to load and down load pictures. So bear with me and have a little patience please. I shall learn and post shortly.
I hope to have one new picture a week at least. Now I am off to go learn how to load just one or two pictures from the camera to the computer. Or something like that.
Oh, can you teach an old cat new tricks??? I can leave you with a picture of Garfield.

New Year and New Year resos!

Well I have had this blog for a year and have not done a good job on it but have learn a lot from doing it.
I hope to be a better blogger this year. I believe I will do a lot more Pictures as I am not a gifted writer like a lot of you are. And you know the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words".
I will leave you with this picture promising not be as lazy as this.

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