Friday, March 27, 2009

The beautiful teapot














My sister is an artist. I'm not sure if she knows this, but she is. This is an old teapot that she had laying around, that she handpainted the scenery on and then filled with flowers.













Some more pictures taken by my son. Keeps reinforcing the idea that he needs a nice digital camera.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Proof that Spring is on the Way










This is proof that spring is on the way, finally. These photos were taken by my son with his cell phone. Got me thinking that if he can take these types of photos with a phone maybe a camera for his birthday is a good idea. He would at least enjoy it and I could get some nice photos to share and frame for the house. As we finish the basement off into rooms they will need photos on the walls. Hope you enjoy the scenery these photos provide.




Tuesday, March 10, 2009


Not that you can see this very well, because it's a crappy picture but this is my new project. This is the back of a sweater I am making for my niece. It's has stripes of a blue green, gray, white, and a soft green. I think there's about 5-6 inches done so far and probably if it wasn't for the stripes it would be just as boring as my husband's sweater that I'm avoiding by working on this one.





So here is the sweater that needs 21 buttons, complete except for the buttons.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Sweaters

I completed my sweater finally. It took me 3 days to decide on how I was going to sew the underarm area so that I actually thought it looked half way decent. And I'm still not convinced that it looks okay. I am now on the search for 21 buttons, that's right 21 buttons, to sew onto this sweater. So far I have not found what I want for buttons. And when I do finally find them it will take days for me to have the will power to actually sew them onto the sweater. I detest sewing, especially hand sewing, once again why it took me 3 days to sew the underarm of the sweater to begin with.
I have moved on to working on my husband's sweater, that huge, horrible boring sweater. I have finally reached the 16 1/8 inches that I needed so that I could start the fair isle and this is even worse then the boring part. I hate hate hate this chart. There is a chart for the front of the sweater and a separate chart for the back. Who thought this was a good idea? If that wasn't enough, it's tiny, the squares are very tiny and there are 326 stitches on this wretched thing. It is only March so I may be able to finish it by Christmas, but I'm not so sure.
Will post pics of sweaters as soon as I remember to actually take the pictures of them, maybe tonight, unless I decide to fight with that chart again tonight.
Until the next post.....

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

More Needles

Because I don't have enough knitting needles floating around my house, sitting on tables, stuck in skeins of yarn with half finished projects, in wine bottle boxes, you get the picture. Today I ordered the Harmony wood needles in the set of sizes used most to make socks.
I have some of these sizes in aluminum needles but when I try to use the thin sock yarn my stitches fall off my double points, which in turn frustrates me and I have sock yarn but no socks. So thank you to Sue from my knitting group that said she uses the wood needles and her stitches stay put. Yippee!
And I will be the proud owner of wood needles within the next two weeks and maybe, just maybe some of my sock yarn stash will become a smaller stash. Or at least that's what I'm telling my husband as the reason is when those wonderful needles show up in the mailbox. Maybe if I make him another nice pair of socks he'll understand.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

I have started a knit group called the Mohawk Valley Knitters on Ravelry. We had our first meet up over the weekend. I think we had a very good turn out, 13 members were there and we have decided to leave this open weekly at the Herkimer Library from 1-3 for those who can be there weekly or as often as can make it. It was a good time and there seems to be many levels of knitters to bounce ideas and patterns off of. Looking forward to this weekly meet and would love to see this group grow.

The Bella Mittens are finished. They were an easy knit and went quickly due ot the bulky yarn that I used. One gift down, and many more to go.