Lake Erie

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Knitting ART!

I love it when I find knitting in art. Saturday wasn't any exception. Had lunch with a couple friends at Haiku. Halfway through the meal I noticed this on the wall at our table. Now I want to make something similar because it is way cool.

Sock yarn leftovers

I have accumulated a good deal of left over sock yarn ends. After several attempts at using those ends I believe I have found the winner. Yesterday I stumbled upon Kary's Chevron Scarf pattern and thought hummm that might work.

When I got home last evening I grabbed my sock yarn ends and cast on 36 stitches using the long tail cast-on method. I modified my color changes a little bit. I am knitting the 4 pattern rows with one color and then changing to another color. It is going to leave me with many ends but that is OK because I don't mind sewing in ends. Of course this project may help to change my mind.

I am thinking about sewing them in as I go like I used to do in my early knitting life. I remember stating at knit group early on that I hated having all the ends sticking out so I would sew them as I went. I have since learned this isn't always the best thing to do especially when knitting a garment because sometimes things go wrong and if the ends are already wound in it could cause another round of bad. OK enough rambling.....

Market bag

Yeah! I am finally making a market bag. I decided on the Girlfriend Market Bag pattern by Laura Spradlin. The yarn is Hempathy by Elsebeth Lavold. I have wanted to use this yarn for a long while and I am so glad I finally am knitting with it. How can you go wrong with hemp anyway? Guess I really am a hippy after all. ;-)

Love the yarn and really am enjoying knitting this one.

Super Delicious Giveaway!

Fellow knitter Dropped Stitches is having a blog giveaway. If you would like to enter to win some yarn go here.

Bombshell FO

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This week has been a rough one but there was a bright spot! A FO.... That is short for Finished Object. I finished knitting my third Bombshell (pattern from Big Girl Knits). Check out the project page here!

Not a great picture but hey I took it myself using my iPhone so I could only get as far away as my arm would go. ;-)

This is by far the best yet. LOVE it.....

April Fool's Surprise.....

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There were plans last week for my cousin Amy (middle girlie) to come to C-bus from Rochester (NY where I am from well actually I am from Webster but who cares right?) for the weekend. So I left work early on Thursday to be at the house when Amy arrived.

She was in the house about 2 minutes when the doorbell started ringing over and over and over and over yet there wasn't anyone standing in the doorway. The crazy thing is Amy didn't enter the house through the front door so it wasn't like the doorbell got hit and accidentally stuck or anything. Yes, all this stuff went through my head while trying to figure out why the doorbell was making me nutso.

So I went to the door and looked to the side and standing there was Ashley (girlie on the left)! :-) OMG they fooled me big time and I loved it. We had a blast.

Here is a picture of the three of us. Can you tell we all have the same blood in us?