Just finished the little knitted bag. The leaf detail is so fun to make – it’s super easy. Well, I’m calling it an early night. Brian’s fighting off a cold and I want to stay healthy, so off to bed soon.
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From the category archives:
Knitting
My mom taught me how to knit about four years ago while I was sick during Christmas. My mom is always working on some knitting project. I haven’t knitted for many, many months, but with her here visiting, I got inspired to do a little knitting again. I know if I ever drop a stitch or get stuck, mom can lend a hand!
Today’s piece is a little knitted bag that I learned how to do a few years ago in a class. It was my first venture into decreasing and increasing and is a great standby for when I want to have a finished product in a relatively short amount of time. I still need to finish up the i-cord and the little leaf detail, but I’ll do that tomorrow. Felt good to be working with yarn and needles again. Maybe my next project will be the felted dog collar pattern from the teacher I took my other classes from. I think Emmett would like that.
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Our book club pick for this round was artist Beatrice Wood’s autobiography, “I Shock Myself.” Francisca dished up a delicious bohemian spread of lentils, quinoa, beets, salad, pita bread, hummus and all sorts of other goodies. Christina picked tangerines from the tree.
As an homage to the creative process, Francisca asked us each to bring pieces we’ve been working on. Christina, Francisca and I shared some knitting, Kristen brought photos and of course Lily brought her latest creation…
… Jacob whom we all met for the first time.
We are on our seventh year of our book club. And even though we hardly talk about the books, we know it’s more about just spending time together laughing, eating, enjoying each other’s company and…
just being silly together (Francisca and I sporting our “Blue Steel” Zoolander poses).
Ahhhh, another perfect book club afternoon!
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Was tagged by Matlide for a 7 random things about me meme. Thanks Matilde!
Here are the rules:
Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself. Tag 7 random people participating in nablopomo at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
So, here it goes…
- I can burp the alphabet.
- I’m a really speedy speed player (and quite a sore loser when it comes to pretty much any card or board game, so watch out).
- I missed my high school graduation day to compete in Dramatic Interpretation at the national speech championships in Fargo, ND (was cool to be able to say I’d been to Fargo once the movie of the same name came out!).
- My husband and I met at our college newspaper.
- My favorite movie when I was in junior high school was Sixteen Candles. I could recite practically every line. Ironically, my brother got married the day before my sweet 16 (in the movie Samantha’s sister gets married the day after). Alas, there was no Jake Ryan and no red Porsche waiting outside the church for me! ;).
- I’m a total Elmyra when it comes to my dog . He’s just so cute I can’t stand it!
- My mom taught me how to knit a few Christmases ago when I was sick with the stomach flu and bored out of my mind.
I’m tagging:
- Paul at Invisible Lives
- Shea at Cakes and Icing
- Caren at The Skeptic Yogi
- Marilyn at The Land of Moo
- Bodhi Dreaming
I’m tired and need to go to bed, so I’ve just tagged 5 and I’ll call it a night.
Today I felted yet another spotty basket. I went to the yarn shop yesterday and got some different colors, so I’m looking forward to experimenting with new color combos now that this one is done.
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This weekend was all about catching up.
Yesterday I got to catch up with my college roomies. Matea was in Sacramento visiting for Thanksgiving, so we all met up at Julie’s house to hang out. It was amazing to see how much Carson had grown in the several weeks since I last saw him. We missed seeing our other roomie, Katie, who also just had her second son not too long after Julie. Times sure have changed since our college days!
I had no idea how tired I was. Upon coming home after the long drive from Sacramento, I fell asleep before 9pm and was out for about 15 hours! Yes, 1-5. Guess I had to catch up on some much needed sleep!
Today, I’m getting caught up on my knitting and on my AEDM and NaBloPoMo posts that I missed yesterday. Finished my second felted basket. I like how this one has more structure than the first one I did. I actually refelted the first one, too, and am happier about how it came out this time.
[tags]National Blog Posting Month, NaBloPoMo, Art Every Day Month, knitting, felting[/tags]
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