New WIP, New Tee!

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The project is the Brick Work Baby Blanket , it’s a free Ravelry download. Have a new little one due from a friend at Church. It’s too warm for a sweater and sweaters really only fit for a few months so I chose a blanket again, takes longer but I was more in the mood to knit a blanket than a sweater. I chose yellow in the Crafter’s Secret Big Idea 16 ozs 810 Yards. It’s acrylic for easier washing. It should hopefully be plenty, it calls for 700 yards but I’m using the needle it calls for US size 8, 29″ cable, and I would normally, because of the gauge I get with my style of knitting (combined continental) I knit a little loose and generally go down 1 size needle, hope I’m not going to be playing yarn chicken. If I think I am I’ll end it early :P. I’m still on the top border (yeah they are starting on the top border instead of the bottom – tho I can’t think with this pattern it will make any difference which is top and which is bottom) and again this one starts row one on the wrong side of the work, so it won’t confuse me this time!!

I did buy another shirt, I just love these funny shirts (this was a picture on Etsy). Honestly I could cross off the ignore part and it would still work :P. One more shirt and an another pair of jeans and I should be good to go with clothes for a couple of years. The shirt and jeans will be next month’s purchase, clothes are expensive!!

Winter Tree in the Spring!

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This tree does actually have leaves and flowers when it’s not winter :P. Pretty pink flowers. I wish my neighbor would quit feeding the deer with the corn she puts under the tree. We have deer running all over the place in town, makes it not safe to drive at night!! Time to cull the excess deer around here, it makes it safer for the people driving at night and stops diseases in the deer like the wasting disease for one.

Happy Easter 2026

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He’s Risen!!

I love General Conference Weekend. General Conference is generally the 1st weekend in April and Oct every year. It’s listening to wonderful spiritual talks by our Prophet and Apostles and other leaders of our Church. The peace and council help ground us and remind us of how much our Heavenly Father and his Son Jesus Christ love us all. We are all brothers and sisters and knowing that helps in a chaotic world. We are here learning lessons of forgiving and serving others like our Savior did so that we can learn to be like him, not always an easy task, but necessary.

Hope you will join in listening to this General Conference. If you miss any of talks and want to go back and listen they will be on the Church’s website.  https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org  Saturday they are central time 11am to 1pm and 3pm to 5pm, the same times tomorrow (Sunday.)

Hope everyone has a Happy Easter as we think about the Savior.

FO (Finished Object for My Non Knitting Friends)

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This is the pattern for the Messy Bun Hat I chose. I probably got it on Etsy, but I’m sure you can find it on Ravelry as well, I will probably choose a different one next time. It was easy to knit but not quite what I wanted, tho what I wanted would not have shown up well with the very dark chocolate brown (almost black) color. If I knit this again I would chose a 2X2 rib, so it would pull in a little more to be a little bit more snug around the head, (this is a 2X1 rib) and maybe go down a needle size on the head. the red kinda looks like fireflies, except instead of yellow their lights are red :P. Maybe re-dye this with a yellow tied off under the black or dark brown and call the color Fireflies. Sorry, you can’t see where the bun would come out because my mannequin’s head has no hair :P.