1st Snowfall Winter 2015-2016
Our first snowfall for this winter season was a dozy. About 5 inches fell from yesterday evening thorough overnight. I know winter isn’t officially here yet, but I don’t think winter knows that 😛
Polypay 2×2 ribbed hat view 1
Polypay 2×2 ribbed hat view 2
I did finish the 2×2 ribbed hat from the Polypay yarn. It turned out pretty nice. I am pleased with the result. I hope he will enjoy it as well.
Trying to decide what to make next with that yarn :).
Star Wars Knot Bag 2 view 1
Star Wars Knot Bag 2 view 2
I did get this sewn up today :). Cute fabric with the some of the original Star Wars characters, Darth Vader, R2D2, C3PO, and Luke Skywalker.
I have two of the Winter series bags cut out, one is a medium size and the other a large. Might get one sewn up tomorrow, but it might be next week before I get them done.
I didn’t finish the knitted hat yesterday, but very close and it will be finished for sure today :). I will get a picture of it put up tomorrow because I intend to give it to the recipient Sunday. 🙂
Winter storm watch today, and about 5 to 8 inches of snow expected overnight they said. Winter appears to be here. Is it Spring yet?
Christmas Ivy Bag
This is the last Holiday bag I have planned to sew for this season, tho I do enjoy all the beautiful Holiday fabrics. I do have another Star Wars bag cut out and a Winter bag cut out. I will be adding a Winter bag collection to my Etsy shop after the Star Wars bag is finished. 🙂 Some of those will be larger bags like the Cowboy bag in the previous post. They will be large enough for a good sized shawl and perhaps a sweater.
I’m close to finishing the knitted hat I’m working on for my friend’s husband. I’ll post a picture of it when it is done, maybe tomorrow. 🙂
Speaking of tomorrow, we are suppose to have a mixture of snow and rain tomorrow, turning into just snow in the evening and overnight. Projections for amounts are around 3 inches or more, depending on how warm the ground is and how much of it melts. I knew it had to come, but I’m never ready for snow :P.
Cowboys Bag 3 sizes
I got the large Cowboys bag made for my son in law. I took a picture of all three sizes so you could see the differences between them. The larger bag takes more fabric (3/4 of a yard of main fabric and same for liner), but is a little easier to sew around the handles so I guess it’s a trade off. 🙂 If you click on the picture it will enlarge in another window.
We had some really bad Thunderstorms through last night. High winds and tornado warnings. They said someone sighted a tornado touch down in one of the surrounding towns but we didn’t have one here thank goodness. I didn’t hear of anyone getting hurt, but there were branches blown off trees in the road and peoples trash cans in the roads. The rains stopped this morning sometime but the winds didn’t die down until about 6pm. I’m ready for some sun now ;P.
The 2nd hat I’m knitting out of the polypay is coming along. The first one (that I forgot to get a picture of 😦 ) was 1×1 rib, this one is a 2×2 rib. Playing to see what looks best. I’m hoping “crosses fingers” to have it done by Saturday evening.
Hearts Bag 2 view 1
Hearts Bag 2 view 2
I made another Hearts Knot Bag. This one I have put in my Etsy Shop, I might have to buy some more of this fabric and make one for myself because I think the fabric is so beautiful :).
The last two weeks have been sooooo hectic, I’m hoping after this week end that my life might get back to some kind of normalcy. Time will tell.
I’m working on a hat from the polypay yarn for my friend and it’s almost finished, I will post a picture when it’s done. I will have her son try it on before I do the other one so I know if the size was correct for the other one I need to knit for her husband.
Star Wars Bag view 1
Star Wars Bag view 2
My computer bit the dust and for a about 1 1/2 weeks I had to use my daughters computer to get online for my email and Etsy shop. My dad was kind enough to get me another lap top. Hard to have an online business and not have a way to be on line :P. Dad’s are wonderful :).
This is my Star Wars medium size bag. I love Star Wars and since they are getting ready to have a new Star Wars movie come out in December I have access to fabrics with Star Wars designs :). I may get one more Star Wars design fabric.
I have been working on other bags as well, pictures posted below. They are embroidered instead of using the patterned fabrics I have been using. It’s interesting deciding on the embroidery designs for them. I chose “I Love Knitting with Handspun” and “Obsessed Knitter” for these two, I will be make more of the embroidery bags.
The hurricane that went through Mexico and Texas sure gave us some really rainy, windy weather Tuesday and Wednesday in the midwest. Tuesday was down pours most of the day, today was light rain most of the day but it seems to have subsided now. Even tho the temps were in the 40’s and that is not really cold for here, that cold/wet wind seemed bone chilling. Just a not so gentle reminder that winter is on the way :(.
I Love Knitting with Handspun bag view 2
Obsessed Knitter Bag view 2
Alpaca – 5-15
Yes, I did get out to the park yesterday afternoon to spin again, but oops once again I forgot my camera, sigh :(. So I took this picture at my house after getting back, sorry. It was a beautiful day at the park, there was some kind of a birthday party going on, but I didn’t set up to spin in that area. Was a little bit breezy but all in all a beautiful day.
I’m almost done with this spool of singles, so I will be starting my 2nd spool soon in anticipation of plying and having yarn for a nice hat for my dad for his birthday :).
We have had a ton of rain this year (I’m sure California is wishing they had some of it, and to be honest, if I could send some of it down there I would :P). It makes everything green and beautiful, but I would love to have a few more sunny dry days :).
Snow Woman!
Is this not so cute? My sister made this for me for Christmas. She promised to put the instructions up on her blog Eat It Anyway. I’ll keep bugging her until she does cos’ I want to make a pair (snowman and snowwoman) lol. She has some awesome things under Share It on her blog. If you haven’t visited her site I would suggest it, she’s very crafty (in a good way :P).
For those of you following the weather here in IA, yes we are VERY cold. It is -3F outside and if that were all it wouldn’t be too bad but with the wind chill it is about -28F, brrrrr. It will only continue to get colder as the day goes on. They closed the schools here today because of the wind chill. It will be colder tonight at -17F ambient temp so I imagine the wind chill will be in the -30’s to -40’s depending on the wind. I’m inside where I am safe and warm :). On a positive note, it will be up to 17 on Saturday and maybe the low 20’s on Sunday :).
No matter where you live, stay warm today :).
My sister called today and among our regular chit chat we started talking about the Raggedy Ann dolls my mom and grandmother made for us. Ah the memories, I told her the one I have was one that our grandmother had made for me one year when she asked me what I would like for Christmas and I told her that I would like her to make me a Raggedy Ann doll. She had made me one when I was much younger and of course it went the way of all things that little kids have, sigh. I am so glad she agreed to make me another one. She passed away in 1988 and it is so nice to have something that she made me. I don’t have one that my mom made, but my sister has one that mom made her. The difference is the one my mom made had embroidered a little heart on it with the words I love you in the heart. My grandmother sewed well but I don’t think it was her favorite thing to do. My mom sewed but it wasn’t her favorite thing to do when she was young because she was very into sports and band in high school so she learned her sewing skills after getting married, when it was more fun :P.
I’m working on a sympathy shawl until I get the yarn I need for the Little Lace Daisy Scarf I’ll be making for my friend’s wife. The scarf won’t take very long then I will get back to the sympathy shawl.
Comfort Shawl 10-14
Updating from my last post. I have finished the comfort shawl and have given it to the friend that lost her babies. Comfort shawls are always nice because it helps let the receiver know that someone is thinking about them and that they don’t have to be alone in the grieving process. You can’t see the colors really well (not sure if it’s my camera or my lack of photography skills :P) but it has red, orange and a turquoise color in it. I have also finished knitting the scarf I was working on but will post a picture along with the pattern later this week, it’s blocking at the moment and I wanted to get a nice picture of it to post with the pattern. Now I can work on finishing the sweater I started for the special little someone, who is still reminding me it’s getting cold and she needs it, lol.
Annual Soup Cook-off 3rd Place Winner
Well to the right you see a picture of an award I won last night at the Annual Soup Cook-off at my church. It’s in conjunction with a ward get together and “trunk or treat” for the kids. We had a nice array of soups to taste. There were 25 brought in and they were all so yummy. I didn’t bring mine in with any intention of winning anything and actually kinda winged it with a last min addition to my taco soup. I usually add canned green chilies (mild) to my soup but I forgot to get them, so to add some zing I added a dry packet of Guacamole to it. It added a wonderful little bit of spicy flavor. The judges must have thought so to because I won 3rd place. The little awards they gave us were very cute and I was so surprised when they called the number on my crockpot (they put numbers on a bit of tape on all the soups as we brought them in and put them on the tables.) The 1st place was a long wooden spoon painted gold, the 2nd place was a little shorter painted silver and the 3rd was a short spoon painted bronze. HAHA, very cute, someone went to a lot of work to prepare them for us :).
