Posts Tagged ‘monthlydishclothkal’
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
The mid-April KAL was called April Showers and designed by Deborah C. Tilley. It does look like falling rain. The yarn is Sugar””””n Cream Faded Denim and was knit on US 6 needles. My Moebius wrap is getting ever wider and getting closer to being done. The picture here was taken on 4-24-09, but I””””ve made significant progress since then. The kids had a blast dying eggs on Easter Sunday, before Sarah went back to school. The eggs were boiled on the Saturday before, but we ran out of time, then. I””””ve also enjoyed watching the flowers grow and bloom.
We are hoping that the flu passes us by. So far we””””ve been lucky, although Emily and I recently had colds. Mine is still here, but getting better everyday. So far, Gary has still been healthy. Emily is hoping they DON”T have a “flu-cation” from school. She thinks it”””’’s bad enough that we have to make up the wintry days on June 12th and June 15th.
Today, the sun is shining and the temperature is in the high 50”””’’s, which is a huge improvement over last week”””’’s rain. A few blocks from us, a sewer collapsed, so a major intersection is going to closed off for a month. Ugh. I hope the time goes fast.
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Kids coloring Easter Eggs on 4-12-09
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Easter Eggs 09
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2009 Mid-April KAL – April Showers
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Moebius Progress 4-24-09
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Grape Hyacinths from 4-24-09
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Tulips by the house
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Mount Hood Daffodils 09
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Orange Daffodils by the Garage
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Flowering crab leaves on a foggy morning 4-30-09
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Lupines getting bigger on 4-30-09
Tags: 2009, 2009DishclothChallenge, daffodils, floweringcrab, grapehyacinths, leaves, lupines, monthlydishclothkal, mounthooddaffodils, spring, sugar'n cream, tulips, Weather
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Tags: 2009DishclothChallenge, cellphone, dishcloths, dog treats, monthlydishclothkal, peaches&creme, Sam's Yams, sugar'n cream, sweet potatoes
Posted in 2009 Dishcloth Challenge, Dog, Finished Project, Kids, Knitting, My Life | 3 Comments »
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Holy cow! I got so busy at work and just had no time for extras. I was barely even getting email read, let along posting in my blog. Someone quit, then someone was hired, but then she had to be trained. Then people were off, in December. I barely had time to breathe! So, the blog waited and waited and waited. Now I have 14 pictures to post of finished objects, snow from December 19th, and big waves from January 3rd!
My family was very happy that Obama won the election and that it was a done deal even before we went to bed on November 4th. We look forward to the Inauguration now!
We had a great Thanksgiving and a wonderful Christmas, although I was so busy I barely got to enjoy it. Had fun at Christmas celebrations on both sides of the family. My family did a White Elephant gift exchange. Parameters were that the gift had to weigh about a pound and cost $10 or less. I ended up with some Charmin’ Ultra Plush toilet paper and while my sister thought toilet paper would be the ultimate gag gift (and we did laugh about it!), my family was in desperate need of toilet paper, at that precise moment, so we were glad to get it! LOL! Gary got a bundle of bungie cords, Sarah got some fancy hot chocolate mix, and Emily I can’t remember anymore. Gary almost got candy, but that was stolen away by a candy-hungry nephew! Bungie cords are more useful for him, anyway.
I didn’t get to open Gary’s present, until we were together with Gary’s family. He had it shipped to their house and then had my SIL wrap it in 3 different boxes, each one completely wrapped with ribbons and bows, too. It turned out to be an 8G iPod Nano in turquoise blue! So, I’ve been busy uploading music and getting that all set up to my specifications! Also, we had to delete a ton of music from my iTunes library that even Sarah wouldn’t be listening to anymore.
Emily earned all but $20 towards a Nintendo DS. She got Polar White and is enjoying it very much. Sarah was doing some video work for my nephew Ryan and got paid nicely for that, so she went out and bought a Wii. We’ve all been having fun with that. I bowl better on the Wii, than I do in real life! The cow racing game on Wii Play is hysterical. It’s also hard to play the game, when everyone is laughing really hard.
I’m way behind on posting pictures of finished knitting projects, but I was finding time to get them photographed.
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2008 Mid-September – Woven Cables
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2008 October KAL – Frankenstein
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2008 Mid-October Autumn’s Country Quilt
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2008 Mid-October Autumn’s Country Quilt
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2008 November KAL – Native American
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2008 Mid-November KAL – Candy Cane Illusion
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2008 December KAL – Grandmother’s Favorite Snowman
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2008 December KAL – Grandmother’s Favorite Snowman
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2008 Mid-December Doily Style Dishcloth
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2008 Mid-December – detail shot
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Christmas Dots-within-Stripes (2008)
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Bathing Beauty Leaf Lace 11-08
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Toddler-sized Asherton hat
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Hearts in a Box
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We missed school that day (12-19-08)
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Easterly winds will do this, to Lake Michigan
Tags: 2008 dishcloth challenge, cotton, dishcloth, dots within stripes, ecru, finished objects, Jasmine, Knitting, monthlydishclothkal, peaches&creme, Sheboygan, snow, sugar'n cream, Weather
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
We went out to look and there were none to be seen. Not sure where they all went. We had so many. Unless they were killed by predatory bugs or something. We still have a few eggs, though. Maybe we’ll have to go to Maywood Park and see if we can find some caterpillars there, to photograph. We are all rather bummed.
We are also wondering how long it takes tomatoes to turn red! Can you tell we are impatient? There is one that is so big, too! Can’t you just see it in a bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich? Yummy. [Insert green tomato picture]
I finally got a picture of my latest dishcloth! It’s called Summer Breeze, by Sue Schaefer. I knit it with Aqua Mist Ombre Peaches & Creme yarn and US 7 needles. You had to be careful reading the pattern on this one. Sometimes, there was a k2tog, that you wouldn’t expect and it kept messing up my stitch count, if I wasn’t paying attention! LOL! This is the 14th of the 24 dishcloths I expect to knit this year!
2008 Mid-July KAL - Summer Breeze
Tags: 2008dishclothchallenge, aquamistombre, caterpillars, cotton, monthlydishclothkal, peaches&creme, tomatoes
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I have not been keeping up with this, too well! LOL! This year, two milkweed plants sprouted spontaneously, by my garage. We’ve have them grow there before, but really do nothing to encourage them, so they either come or they don’t. Of all the times, we’ve had milkweed plants, I don’t think we’ve ever had a crop of monarch caterpillars, like we do this year. It’s our own personal biology/science lab!
2 caterpillars – about 3/4 inch long
1 caterpillar – about 1/2-inch long
3 caterpilalrs – newly hatched today!
This is so exciting and we are out there all the time, keeping tabs on them. We did research on the internet, to find out what the eggs look like and seen videos on YouTube to watch them hatch. We discovered that there were lots of eggs on our two plants, so we have a lot of watching ahead of us.
Of the few that hatched today, one was so newly hatched, he hadn’t eaten his egg shell yet, and they do, since it has important nutrients for them to get started with. Our leaves have lots of holes in them already! These milkweed plants are in a shady spot, and don’t even have buds that would indicate they’re about to bloom yet. I wonder if they will even flower, since most other milkweed plants seem to be blooming already.
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| They were only half-an-inch long, on Saturday. Today, 3 days later, they are about 3/4 of an inch and a little bit thicker. The front antenna are longer, too. It’s been fun watching them grow! |
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| Here’s my July dishcloth. It was called Love to Knit, by Alice Imholte. I used light blue Sugar’n Cream, with US 7 needles. |
Tags: 2008Dishcloth Challenge, butterflies, caterpillars, commonmilkweed, cotton, Knitting, lightblue, milkweed, monarch, monthlydishclothkal, sugarncream
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
This was fun to do, with lots of yo, k2tog,and p2tog! I’ve never done a pattern before, where the number of stitches changes from row to row, but it’s okay! It varied between 39 and 44 stitches. The yarn is 181 Faded Denim Peaches & Creme and knit with US 7 needles. It was designed by Jamie Monaghan.
I finished my second red scarf, too, last Thursday! Woohoo! I should be swatching my sock yarn, about now! LOL!
The weather has calmed down, although it could be warmer. I’m guess I’m not complaining, since it’s saving us a bundle in air conditioning costs.
Tags: 181fadeddenim, 2008dishclothchallenge, cotton, Knitting, monthlydishclothkal, peaches&creme
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
This is the June 2008 KAL. It was worked with 54 Baby Green Peaches and Creme yarn, on US7 needles. It makes me want to take a tropical vacation! It was designed by Andi Worthy of the Monthly Dishcloth KAL yahoo group!
This is the mid-June KAL with 2 days finished. I’ve been too busy posting my pictures to knit, this morning! LOL! It’s just yo, k2tog, p2tog, etc, that is making the cable-y design. We aren’t using a cable needle. I love the lacy texture! I’m having fun knitting it. The yarn is 181 Faded Denim Peaches and Creme yarn, on US7 needles.
Oh yeah. It finally stopped raining. My computer corner is all back together, with a new rug on the floor. I love how the new feels to my feet. It’s a lot cushier than the 10-year-old rug was. The laptop was nice, but my regular computer, even at 7 years old, is a lot faster and has a much better monitor.
My heart goes out to the people still affected by the flooding. Ugh. Even when we had 18 inches of water in our basement, 10 years ago, it still wasn’t as bad as other people had it.
Tags: 2008 dishcloth challenge, babygreen, cotton, dishcloths, faded denim, junekal, Knitting, mid-junekal, monthlydishclothkal, peaches&creme
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The Rachael Ray dinner was delicious. I just finished eating it for the second time tonight! We cooked up 6 chicken breasts, at once, since that would make 2 supper’s worth of sandwiches for the 3 of us. We only made half a recipe (8-oz of pre-shredded cabbage), of the cole slaw and that was easily enough for 2 night’s worth, for the three of us.
It was also nice, that I’d done most of the hard work, on Monday night, since on Tuesday, I had to work at 5pm. My hubby and daughter only had to assemble the sandwiches, and serve the coleslaw for last night’s supper.
Emily and I also know now, that in the absence of lemon juice to keep the avocado fresh, we can keep the second half in the peel, face-down on a plate, covered tightly with plastic wrap, to be able to use it the next night. We meant to buy a lemon, but we forgot. We also forgot to buy the green onions for the cole slaw. Maybe next time!
It was definitely worth all the hard work of juicing 3 limes! They are harder to juice, than lemons.
We had a sunny day today, which was nice, after all of yesterday’s rain. It’s also supposed to rain tomorrow night. That’s better than Duluth, MN, who is under a blizzard warning for tomorrow night! Ugh. Temp was in the low 50’s today.
I recently finished a new Monthly Dishcloth KAL. This one was a spring scene with flowers in a field, called The Meadow. It was designed by Lindy, She’s only 16. Doesn’t she do a great job?
Tags: 2008dishclothchallenge, april, chicken, coleslaw, lindy, monthlydishclothkal, supper, themeadow, Weather, yummy
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