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of being a homeschool mom is that during those rare moments when:my son is done early with school and in another universe (a lego one) andmy daughter is in latin land andmy other daughter is in science land andmy other daughter is done early with school work and is quietly playing upstairs with a friend....I get to cook dinner uninterrupted. I get to check facebook and see people's blogs, and

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Several weeks ago, a lovely lady from our church had her third child, a girl.I thought Hayley should have a baby quilt, so I made her one.I loved the different fabrics, with varying textures.There was a quilt number two. But I forgot to take a picture.

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I finished my first quilt!The pattern is beautiful and the help given is class was invaluable. I chose the fabrics with a little help from my kids, and love the wild result. It was made for my new niece, E. She isn't so terribly new anymore but I hope she will be able to use it often!It was so fun, I am making another one, a different quilt pattern in pretty blues and greens and browns. My

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I have now taken a class on quilting and am almost done with my first quilt, a very late baby gift for a dear baby girl. I've started in on another quilt, another late one for a baby boy. I love this skill: quilting is so very different than knitting. Thank, Judy, for the teaching and effort you are putting into this class.It seems the landscape has been filled with snow most of the year so

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Jan Karon (of the Mitford book series fame) began a new series a year or two ago. The first book in the series was fine, but the second, "In The Company of Others" was fantastic! I've been knitting a sleeve for my new Kindle, which I love! I am using my very first ever sock yarn, a gift from Tammy...and I have no record of what it was (bright two-tone blue), but I know she got it from

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Good books can demand your attention and can broaden your knowledge. Ivanhoe does both. While it does not aspire to the higher thoughts of some great authors, it's daring adventures, brave heroines, carefully crafted villains and all-star cast of extras (including Robin Hood, Little John and Friar Tuck!) is satisfying and fun!I just finished Ivanhoe today (while I was supposed to be doing other

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Thanks for all the button advice! I've been finished with the "February Lady" sweater for several months, and been able to wear it for a month or two, since it got colder. On our way out the door to Lyceum today, a willing daughter snapped a couple of shots of it for me. I love its thick and cozy warmth!More FO's coming soon as soon as they are clean again, and I can get a decent photo.And..

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What color buttons should I use for my wonderfully soft and warm February lady Sweater. The color is in the pictures from the last post and it is all knit up, but it has no buttons. Any advice?light brown? Light blue? something else? I am feeling silly to ask...but this one is confounding me. I'll probably wear it mostly with jeans and black skirts, and will wear black shirts and brown ones

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We've been watching the Olympics. It's been terrific.Did you know Hannah Kearney was a knitter? She just won the Gold medal in Freestyle mogul skiing on Sat night. It was an amazing run and she was vindicated after failing to qualify for the finals in Torino in 2006, although she had been the favorite to win. The picture at right is from NBC, (c) NBC Sports / USOC.She is so genuine and sweet

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My DH has been in dire need of good gloves. He asked me two YEARS ago to knit some for him. But alas, I COULD NOT find a normal pattern and was a little wary of making it up.Finally, after watching him suffer last year in the 0 degree weather with his airplane prep...I decided to go for it....without a pattern.It was knitting up well. I used a nice wool and when I had the wrist and thumb hole

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Thank you for being there with me in the year 2009. It was a good one, seeing friends and family in CA, and continuing to build relationships in Illinois. The changes in our lives make the internet so much more important. Thanks for being a part of it with me.I read a lot this past year, and look forward to finishing a good one, "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand....interesting! If you want to

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I received an Advance Copy of "Powers" by John B. Olson and was intrigued. While the publisher is a Christian one, the book seemed to be something of an urban fantasy. Also, it was a sequel to an earlier novel, "Shade".As I began to read, I found the words and phrases to be disjointed and poetic, almost as if I was watching something unfold before me which was blurred and somewhat

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What a fun night! Click on the photo to see it big. It was a huge bonfire. We had a Reformation Day picnic and bonfire last night. Hay rides, Chili and lots of other fun.

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This Fall started out gorgeous and then degenerated into a soggy mess. The trees, which had promised to be gorgeous for some time, lost many of their leaves and we were left with trying to catch the last of them.Making jokes proved good for treetime smiles.Collecting leaves from the ground after the rain stopped was fun.These cuties were dancing and jumping for Joy on October 31st.The pink

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What a joy kids are! Motherhood is never easy, but so worth it! Happy birthday, sonny! I hope this year is even better than the last.These are some socks I made for Sara's baby, her first. She's a nice gal from church and so beautiful, too. I am so glad for her, and know she'll be a great mom.It is so beautiful here in the Midwest, with the fall trees and the chilly weather. So Chilly, in

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Early summer brought a brief job for one of my kinder. She needed the $$$$ for her gymnastics team fees. Sometimes a little sis can be a fun companion on the first trip through the route.Sometimes they have to be laughed at too!She could use another job, cause we keep writing those checks! Get moving, girl!

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One of my new friends is a wonderful author who Keegan introduced me to last Spring. I love it when people share great books with me. While I have read several of her books (Ok more like 15 now), it is the books about the Old Testament kings which has impacted me the most. Have you ever read the stories about David and his descendants and all those kings? For me, they are hard to keep track

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We've been without a working computer for a couple of weeks now, and have been in Washington DC for a family field trip for another week...so no posts have made it in lately...but I think we've got the computer going again...!

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"Confection" is a baby shrug just right for a baby/toddler gift. It is perfect for that adorable little one. I've got another (in a lavender color) to give to a beautiful new baby at church.I made it using Misti International "Pima Cotton and Silk" yarn and also Crystal Palace "Waikiki" yarn with size 8 needles. It was a very quick knit, on the plane to CA and then during the trip up to

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hospitalitytraveling in grand styleThis is what the elephants see when we look at their quarter (we are inside looking out)feasting (many times)We are on a vacation and are visiting our friends and family in Ca., the kids and I. It is home. It is so nice to be here, and see everything that is familiar.On the way, we got to see some family who live in Northern CA. We are so glad to see them.

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I bought some of the Knit Picks Bare, a 100% Merino DK weight which I planned to dye with some friends. We never got around to it, possibly because I couldn't commit to a color choice, not knowing what I would make out of the yarn. Each of my two skeins of this stuff might make a nice baby gift so I thought I'd make a boy scheme and a girl one. This is the boy color scheme:It's a darkish red

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Stealing Home by Allison Pittman is an interesting tale of living against the tide of tradition, existing under (and fighting against) blame, regret and excuses. It is fiction, set in the great days of baseball in the early days of the 20th century. The plot revolves around four main characters, a baseball star in need of peace and quiet, a woman scorned by her small town and living in

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I've got so very many things I wanted to blog about over the last month or two, but haven't.Now, for some unknowable reason, I feel like going back and hitting the high points.This is my good friend Tammy above, right who came to visit me in April. We met up with some other knitters from the St. Louis area while they attended The Loopy Ewe's Spring Fling. While chatting there, Tammy ran into

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I received a huge gift from a wonderful blogging friend, Laura. She is one of my favorite reading bloggers and has recommended some great books, as well as passing some on to me. She is also a wonderful homeschooling mom and a knitter. These two pack, below, are some colorwork sweaters she passed on to me.They are gorgeous, soft and rich colors, wonderful wool.The yarn is so luscious, it calls

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The Easter bunny came today instead of yesterday. He was in the backyard when I was taking photos of another creature, below. Isn't he cute. This was the creature I was outside photographing....can you see what he is holding?There...can you see it better now? I guess we forgot one. Ha!He was very happy gnawing away.

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Redbud is the name of this tree above, the purple/pink one. It is everywhere here...Spring beauty.This last photo begs to be clicked on to see its photo quality. Apple.

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Donovan Campbell's book, Joker One, subtitled A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood is a first-hand account of a marine platoon in Ramadi at the beginning of a local Jihad there in 2004. It was the first time I read any book about our work in Iraq and it was gripping, insightful and revealing. Not knowing much about soldier's lives and work, I found myself admiring

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Here is my friend who is moving to Maine. Can you see how glad she is to go? We are glad along with her, and also her hubby...who didn't get photographed. Lucky guy. Happy birthday, dear friend, and I am glad you will enjoy the warm scarf.

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Yesterday's post started with my men, working happily and tireless in the snow for my present. I couldn't get blogger to work very well for me....so that's all I ended up with.But there was more. Much more.First was the Enchiladas my eldest made (with fatherly shopping help). They were so good. A Pioneer Woman Recipe, one of many which have graced our table this year. Thank you so much #1!

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My birthday began with snow and with my men beginning my birthday present. They are making me a garden. They are such good gift givers. I am blessed. More birthday to come.

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I finished this scarf a week or so ago, but haven't been able to bring myself to post it or to give it to it's recipient, Linda. Her birthday even came and went but I couldn't bring myself to call. She will be leaving the state next month. Earlier than I thought. I am grieving. She was my matron of honor, my best friend in high school and my stalwart sister in the Lord. I have missed her

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I often struggle to understand the world around me. I cannot be everywhere and understand everything. What must it be like to live under Islamic law as a woman in Saudi? What is really going on with Tibet and China? Why does the gov't in Cambodia evict people with no recompense? I really have no clue. But I want to know.Books are a good way to get an idea of something previously unfathomable

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Sometimes finished knits get posted here right away...sometimes not. These three pair of socks have been neglected and have been crying out for their moment of glory...such as it is.These are made with Noro Kureyon Sock yarn with a US1 needle. They are Long!These are warm and wool, made with KnitPicks Wool of The Andes with US 4 needle, ribbed 6 X2 with a little baby cable in the inside two

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2 medium onions1/2 cup butter, salted1/2 cup flour1 Tbl Herbs de Provence (or other mix - Italian mix will do)1 Tbl Dried Tarragon3 cups cooked chicken, torn into bite size pieces16 oz frozen vegetables (your choice)4 cups 2% milk2- Your favorite recipe for pie crust, or refrigerated pie crust.Optional: half and half , "Better than Boullion", sinful bacon or sausage fatTurn oven to 350

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Recipe will follow. Love will too!

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Tolstoy is one of those authors whose books literally weigh so much that many prospective readers will not even attempt his novels. So many characters dwell within those pages that many who attempt to read them are put off by remembering them, as well as all the permutations of those names. For instance, Princess Darya Alexandrovna may be referred to as Dolly, as Darya, as Princess, or many

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I have long wanted to share a book with you: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger.It was recommended by John Piper; so I read it.While Peace Like a River is fiction, it is important in ways that fiction should be. Many classic works have this same quality, both engrossing and readable, but spine-tingling important. This is one of them for me.I have been trying to write this post for three weeks,

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Warning: if you aren't interested in an overly enthusiastic account of the snow, you'd better skip the words. I am smitten.Pure powder snow for sledding on our second snow day. This is a local homeschooling mom's "secret place" and it was perfect! Here we are, ready to GO!It is on a levee with fields all around us, gorgeous and pure white. When we moved here they were full of ready crops,

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Today was a snow day. it was around 20 degrees, for a high. Not uncommon, but snow is more rare to us so far here:If you click on the pictures, you can see the snow coming down. It still is.The plows are doing their job and the roads are fairly clear. We just haven't had much actual snow this year here...so we were ready for it!Besides some fun playing in the snow outside, we went to a local

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How I love to make the recipes that Ree gives us on her "Confessions of a Pioneer Woman" Blog!This week I made her Pot Roast again, and ohhhhh...this is so good.I also made my own butternut squash soup:We make it often, so I though maybe you'd like to try it.First turn your oven to 350. Cut two medium butternut squash into halves and place on cookie sheet, cut side down. Cook them for about 45

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Margaret Grace (author Camille Minichino) sent me via Laura's blog a book, "Murder in Miniature". Although I have several books I want to share with you, I have to do a quickie on this one. I really didn't have time to read it, but I knew it would be relatively quick read and so I gave it an afternoon indulge. Who was to know, the setting was an Eichler home. I, myself, grew up in a

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Some of my favorite bloggers have recently been interviewed by other bloggers. Dlyn gave an interesting interview a couple of days ago and asked us if any of us wanted to be interviewed as well. I said...yes. I like Dyln's sense of humor and figured she'd be fun. So here's her questions for me and my answers. (If you would like to be interviewed, tell me in the comments section)So here's

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Each year we get a live tree and decorate it on Christmas Eve. For the last two years, the day after Christmas my favorite woodsman wants to hack it to pieces as soon as possible. First, he takes the branches off:Then he chops it into two large pieces to be used for Easter. This year, he got carried away. I think I kept him waiting too long. It wasn't until after New Year that he got to it.

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We took a trip to a local house, built in 1820. Since ours was built in 1890, I wanted to see if I could tell any difference.....whoa what a difference. The people in that house had money! And servants. One of the servants had a very interesting fiber-related item:While these boys may look bored, they were not. They were salivating: some aromatic hot buns were just pulled out of the huge

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Let me start by saying the books read here are a list of the books I read in many ways. Some of them I read by myself, for my own enjoyment. Some were read aloud to the kids. Some were even enjoyed by audio book or even by listing to my husband read them aloud. I plan to write a review of the graphic novel "A Christmas Carol" and "Peace Like A River". You can find the list on my reading

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Donna over at the Quiet Life asked for pictures of our oldest Christmas ornaments a couple of weeks ago, and I am finally getting to it:This one and it fraternal twin (which has one angel in it) are my favorite. My mom made them, blew the egg out and decorated them so beautifully. I don't know how old they are. I love finding all the cherished ornaments each year. This year my mom and the

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The Fall here in the Midwest had such amazing colors, ones I used to decorate my home with using fabric and holiday decor. Now here it was all around me:The kids love the state parks. Pere Marquette, Father Marquette is a local historical figure and this park is names after him. Climbing the rocks and the trees...This one is being lit up from behind, in the late afternoon sun.BUT THEN:It got

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I wanted to get these photos of a finished product before I start posting the winter stuff. Winter here really exists...and I think it started this week. Others who live here tell me this is still mild weather. I think they are just putting me on. It couldn't get down to 10 degrees for a month, could it?Anyway, the mild weather photos here of of my long-term project, Lady Eleanor Stole from

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A note to readers: This post is about our field trips over the last couple of weeks. It has a lot of pictures and some quick descriptions....if you are here to hear about the knitting...maybe you ought to skip this one and wait for another post! Click on any of the photos to see them bigger.If you want, you can even copy and save to your computer.The St. Louis Zoo is free. We went a couple of

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This was a fascinating, engrossing and very important book. (Thank you Kaki, for sending it to me!). It is a true story, an autobiography.Prior to this book being written by a refugee from Somalia who has refuted Islam, the author was threatened. The threat was given in a most terrifying format, posted on the brutally murdered body of a co-worker. That threat haunts the author today, but

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This is FINALLY my pictures of the Easy Flame Lace Scarf that I finished forever ago during the Ravelympics. It even got me the prize. Yeah! (For the knitters out there, it is made of Malabrigo Lace, color number #88 and knit with size 4 needles.) It is excruciatingly soft.I took #2 out in the chilly afternoon today to document the finished product and her good mood vanished fairly quickly.

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Here's my take on the book everyone seems to be reading:It is a new look at some things that many people were too bored too look at, and many of us see every day, but could always use a fresh perspective on. The thing which is too mundane for many? God.In "The Shack", William Young wanted to tell his children about God, with his worldview and biases, of course, in the mix. Most people who have

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I've got TWO WHOLE SKEINS of that Wollmeise. Tammy snagged several skeins and decided to share them with her "good yarns" friend. Look how beautiful...My next step will be to completely ignore this yarn for the rest of my life, knowing that any pattern I find could never be just right for it.Please, ....Help me to actually use this yarn. You can browbeat me and mock me all you want....just

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One day a few months ago, my friend Danielle told me the local library was having a book sale. I went, knowing I'd like to see if I could find any good classics to add to the summer reading list. One I found was:I later found the news to be reporting that the author, a past prisoner of the Gulag in Russia, had died. This book was his expose of the gulag. It was fictional, but based on his

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...to pick up the needles again, and to tell you all about the billions of books I've read in the last month and a half. Keep tuned...

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Do you want a planter? How about Monoploy? No?? Well how about some great ski boots, or some puzzles? How about a few dozen kitchen gadgets or some great dishes, a whole set or two? We're getting rid of it all this and more. OK, most of it is gone already. The Goodwill and The Salvation Army have been our frequent drop-off place almost every day.It makes me ponder: How much stuff can

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Bear with me...I had fun with these. Nothing special on the point and shoot camera, and no special settings, just the usual automatic. I had such fun with the photos which appeared, the blue in the end of the wings and the details. I couldn't believe they came out, because the butterfly never really stopped moving.

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We've been interested in nature lately. This fungus started cropping up yesterday. It grew by the inch every few hours:This one is showing her nature:So is this one:This one...not so much. I had to tell her to close her mouth and stop talking. Three times.Showing her music-long nature, this one fiddles with her iPod.We're getting rid of stuff. Purging half our house, and it feels good.

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Today, my dear friend Tammy and I are going to visit Wild Fiber and A Mano yarns in the Santa Monica area. Hopefully she'll let me take her out to lunch as well. Her friendship is something I cherish. Go give her some blogging love!We went to Wildfiber, A Mano Yarn Center and also Unwind in Burbank...and we had a fabulous lunch at Border Grill. Thanks for giving me an excuse for an

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(Here I am, trying to pretend everything is normal, day to day. So for this moment, the knitting will begin the post.) I do love have another baby to knit for. A firefighter friend and his wife are expecting their first child and I get to give her a little gift before we leave. Can you guess the pattern?It's the Mason-Dixon Knitting book's One-Piece Baby Kimono. I am in love with the colors

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Many of you have known about the new turn our family is taking. For the rest of you, we are changing things in a big way! DH is leaving his job with the fire dept. (!!!) Then he'll train for a year to take his private pilot license up to a commercial (and instrument rating etc) until he is a capable commercial pilot. Then another year of airframe and powerplant school to learn to fix

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Really!I hope you can click on it to see it big. How cool is that!My MIL sent the photo to me. I guess it originated in San Marcos. Whoever did this is extremely talented. What do you think?

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Have you ever been late with a hostess gift? We have some friends we visited in April and I just finally finished their gift. It's never too late, right? Sometimes people are just so special to you that you have to give a gift. I am hoping they will think these will be perfect washcloths for their bathroom. This is #3. He is handy with an axe (has been since age 5) and now has mastered

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"Home Girl: Building a Dream House on Lawless Street" is a non-fiction book by Judith Matloff, a US foreign correspondent of many years who comes home (the most foreign place of all for her lately) and tries to settle down in the US. While her husband is still on assignment somewhere else in the world, Judith falls in love with a decrepit old house in a colorful neighborhood, suitable for one

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My wonderful friend Tammy gifted me some of that luscious Manos De Uruguay Silk Blend and I'd been wanted to make the Branching Out scarf in a worsted weight ever since I saw Lynda's.The silk and wool blend are so beautiful to touch. It has a classy and subtle shine to it and knits like air.The first skein had some wonder variation in color, while the second was from a different dye lot and is

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I LOOOVE this shirt. It's a Knitty pattern called Yosemite. I've been working on it for quite a while now, hearing about other people's issues with sizing...and worrying a bit that I'd have to rip it out. But no......I am so very pleased to say it fits.I know, maybe it could be tighter...but really, we just didn't want it that way.It is knit in size Small, with US 7 needles and 6 balls of

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A little blocking and now we don't need to pretend at all!I am so happy that it fits. Look at her; she is so happy, too!I wet it and did a little smoothing (but no actual stretching)and now we have a fit!I was so grateful for my children on mother's day, beginning with my kids making me stuffed french toast and chocolate covered strawberries. MMMmmm...

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Picovoli, the super-easy fitted tee/tank I am finished making for #1, doesn't fit. Yes, the earlier pictures looked great, but the rest of it is too small.I am flabbergasted. It was so easy. She is so small and sweet and this t-shirt/tank should be a perfect throw-on piece of her wardrobe. It isn't. Should I blame her.... "You Grew!!!" (accusation intended here)? I think so. If not, I am

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I frogged these socks long ago and recently began them anew in a smaller needle size (size 0 instead of size 2). What a difference!!!! They knit up more quickly and with nicer stitch definition and the stripes seem to work better, too. I still have to finish the foot on sock #2, but I was so happy with them today, I thought I'd post on them. Why am I so happy with them? Well, they are nice,

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This is my progress on Picovoli by Grumperina.#1 did agree to let me knit it up for her and it is going well. It may be a little monotonous to make without any pattern interest for the knitter, but it makes up for it because the recipient is dying to wear it!!!!It may be too tight.But it looks great on her, huh?I think I am going to keep going. If it's too small soon, she can pass it on to # 2.

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Last weekend my youngest had another birthday. This is just too much for me. Look at her glowing at her homemade ladybug ice cream cake. And this is some of her friends playing chain tag at her party. The weather here has been hot on the weekends. I think it's 85 today. We spent the morning walking along the beach. This flower is one of thousands, if not millions of them growing in the dunes

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"A Daughter of the Land" is a book I read because my mother, down from my grandmother, passed this book on to me. I received it way back in my teenage years and I read it then. I found it harsh and depressing...the story of the 12th child, a daughter, who was expected to slave at home for her family while the other children received many comforts and wealth from their austere, but abundant

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Eat your heart out, Ree! Look at my guy....he's got the coat, the sock , the smile and my heart:Not to mention, he's funny. What's this sticking out of the sock.... ?Oh my...it looks like the yarn is unraveling....Panic hits when the sock starts exploding....Oh, yeah...Just look at that face!!!!!I can't seem to delete this sideways video. I didn't mean to upload it and now it seems to be

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And it was!It was WARM weather and bright skies and a perfect day for celebrating the resurrection.The daffodils bloomed:The Clivia were in seasonThe Easter Story was told. The myriad of kids here told the story admirably. They get the point. And the candy. They get the candy. :-)Do you like this:It makes me smirk. I clearly have issues.I also have cake. Ree's Carrot cake. Yum. Just

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My cousin had a baby; a sweet precious girl, born not too long ago and she is 9 pounds now - with tiny feet.Her feet are so tiny that the preemie size socks don't fit.And her little feet were cold...so I went to work. We had driven to San Francisco to visit her lovely parents and her grandparents, my wonderful aunt and uncle, on Friday and returned on Sunday. Although it was a quick trip, it was

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Last week I was in a knitting funk, feeling grumbly and snarfy because of the fiasco at the Loopy Ewe. Did you get any? Wollmeise yarn, that is.I had badly wanted to try out the newest and greatest superlative yarn and my favorite online shop was going to get a shipment. :-) Tammy and I were on the ball...first she was on the watch for it, then me. We were constantly on guard, patiently

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This is why Winter Camp is good.

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I've mentioned it before, but I'll say it again....I love it when we babysit large groups of kids. It is so fun to have several family groups here at one time. It is like a party: the Food, the GAMES, the TRAMPOLINE and the sleepovers can't be beat, or so my kids tell me. All my normal rules are relaxed and we get to have so much more play time. And this time I even relaxed the food rules

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****This post was from 2-23-08 (I forgot to post it)****I began Grumperina's t-shirt two days ago in a fit of knitting. I call it a fit because it happened in the midst of an emotional frenzy to get knitting a real garment, not an accessory.I begged my two oldest kids once again to look at a couple of garments I was seeing on Ravelry and....#1 said she's kinda like this one. #2 said she liked

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My dear friend Tammy tagged me. The rules are this:1) Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.2) Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.3) Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.4) Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.So here are the random and weird facts:1) My house has

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Do you watch Lost? I've seen it on DVD only...no TV here in this house. I like to see the whole season at once. So...I wait. While you might be gobbling up the new episodes, I've got to content myself with games:Which Lost Character Are You?and also Find815.com. Have you been there? And who are you? find out. In praise of Serl, our new (-ish) Language program for two of the kids, I must

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This is a man carrying is load in the streets in front of a marketplace in Nairobi Kenya last year. He reminds me of "The Rag Man".Please bear with me....I really want to share this with you:The situation in Kenya is continuing with IDP's (Internally Displaced People) numbering the the hundreds of thousands and confusion and violence throughout. When I visited last year at this time of year,

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Happy Day of Love!Socks done: DIC Shooshy, Chinatown Apple color , twisted cable rib (C. Schurch)This below is what I woke up to today from #4, my 6 y/o. My favorite candies that she and DH found for me. Can you hear me sigh with emotion from the words. Words: they mean so much to me.Then my #3 said he had a message for me last night:What can it be? A hint?Love, that's it!Words; they mean so

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Yes, there were birds at the park, but it was the sheer number of people that was impressive. I've only seen that many people there for a big summer event, like a concert. It was two days ago, Sunday after lunch.Lent is the time between Ash Wednesday and Easter and it has been historically recognized by the church as a time to mentally prepare for the resurrection of Jesus. Most Reformed

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I've been working on a fingerless glove pattern by Knitty called Fetching. It look me a day or two way back in the Fall to do the first one and the other has just waited patiently to be knit up. I finally got to it this weekend. Above is a picture of the underside. For a picture of the first one modeled next to a great work of literature see this post. The two gloves were knit so far apart

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This series by Jennifer Chiaverini is a fun read. It begins about 8 books ago. Some books are set in the past (like arriving in America 200 years ago and also in the underground railroad) and some are set all over the country. But all of them revolve around quilts and quilt-making and have certain core set of characters. I am so inspired by all the quilt making in the books that I even bought

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Who needs the Superbowl when you have a soggy steep trail going from the local mountains to the sea??? We don't!A good friend and I dropped off the 8 kids and two dads at the trail head and said goodbye. This is what they did:Nine miles to the sea. Trees and hills and many, many new pools.They got a little wet.And a little muddy! They even found a bit of sunshine.Meanwhile, Danielle's car

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Finished with the Calormitery headband from Knitty.I used Artyarns Reality on size 8 needles. Tomorrow I'll post pictures of our day avoiding the super event on TV.

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This is my Noro Striped Scarf: DH actually wore it today before going up in a cold small airplane. Daring of him, isn't it?This is another view,And another. the next one is the beginnings of my Calormitery:using Art Yarns Reality. And this below is a shot of the fun we had yesterday. I even wore the striped scarf for that one. It sure has gotten a lot of use lately.

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Ok, most people in Southern California are hiding inside because of the torrential rain we have been receiving. My kids and their cousins didn't think there was enough rain. We've got the dryer going quite often because they want to be out in it and need more dry clothes every couple of hours.I got out the camera catch the fun. I keep seeing them in the trampoline so..... I went with a smile

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We're having some real weather here today. This weird wet stuff started falling out of the sky today, a sky that was gray,silver and dark. Then some white stuff started falling out too. I went out to examine this new thing....it was cold and wet. Then some huge bombs must of been going off somewhere nearby because I heard a huge boom or two or three.See? ANY IDEAS WHAT THIS STUFF IS?

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...because I've won an award. I've always wanted to be awarded something and I've gotta say that it feels good to make someone's day. I've just got to wonder, was it the recycled kids that put me over the top to win?Thanks to Tammy for the award! She also passed on a Book Meme, in which you take out the book on your bedstand and go to page 161 and copy down the fifth sentence from the top.I am

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What in the world is that...a yard waste can?Why does the DH want me to see inside...maybe a dead rodent or gross mold?Nope, but I guess we are recycling the kids?!!!!!This book was a quick read and perfect for inspiration.Noel Piper, the wife of John Piper, is the author. She tells the story of several women who inspire her. I has previous knowledge of two of them, but the others were

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This is what #2 saw when I asked her to come sit by me. The view you see here does not in any way reresent the huge, gargantuan nature of this BLACK WIDOW. I was sitting here:And Knitting and listening to a book on tape and she saw it right there between the wall and that end table. I went quickly into action, admonishing my four terrified children to "stay!" and wait for their heroic mother

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This is the first sock finished. The yarn is Dream In Color "Smooshy" in Chinatown Apple colorway. I do like the pattern and yarn.This is what it looked like when it came to me from The Loopy Ewe:This is what it looked like when I wound it by hand. I don't know about you, but I really enjoy the way yarn feels and looks when I roll it by hand. Yes, the yarn swift and yarn ball-maker are so

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This is me frogging 11 skeins of Noro Silk Garden from Lady Eleanor. It took me all day. All Day. I just sat and frogged and it was not an easy frogging because the wonderful fibers of this yarn had done their job: entwining themselves amongst the other fibers nearby. I was not pleased with them this time. Can you see the tears coursing down my cheeks?Yes, it was a long day:Can you see my

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(I can't believe I never finished this post!!!! I just found it in my drafts folder from 11/15/07 - oops)Yes, Moby Dick did almost kill me. It was NOT a joyous addition to my literary education. It was a knock-down drag-out war just to finish the weighty tome. Really. I would fight with myself just to convince myself to get through every page.WHY?????? Why would I do this to myself? Well,

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This holiday season, Thanksgiving through New year's Day, was the best I can remember since we combined our family units through marriage.By the numbers, it was far, far calmer than usual, but the numbers are still staggering. Or at least, they left ME staggering and you'll see why knitting was done only for that precious baby born to my cousin.We won't get into the usual large gatherings for

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There is so much to say, I am going to have to do it in several posts.First of all, it's well past New Year's Day, but....We still have our Christmas Tree up. No, not because we are so enthusiastic about the tree, but because we just haven't had the time to take it down. Honestly, we seem to be a bit late on things this year. The important things got done, but we never even decorated the tree.

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