the life and times of a domestic diva extraordinaire
Posted in Knitting on Jan 10th, 2007
I’m making a hat for myself. I’ve already made mittens out of the same yarn to wear when I exercise in cold weather. The intended use for the hat is the same. Of course, I’m not using a pattern as I seem to be physically unable to do that these days. I thought and thought […]
Posted in Ben, Knitting, Life at Our House on Jan 8th, 2007
Well, we took Ben to the doctor Saturday morning. He spent most of Thursday and Friday sleeping on the wood floors in our house (his choice, not mine). Then he threw up Friday evening, had hardly eaten or drank anything for the past three days, and would just lie on the floor and moan (or […]
Posted in Knitting on Jan 5th, 2007
Enough about sickness. Let’s talk about knitting. I have decided to join the Stash Game of 2007. For those of you who are not knitters…we knitters have this habit of buying yarn that we’re going to knit and then building up a “stash” which is a collection of that yarn which has not yet been […]
Posted in Knitting on Nov 29th, 2006
This morning while I was heating the water for my chai, Steve started laughing at me and said I was pacing the kitchen with an odd smile on my face. Goodness gracious! Am I not allowed to smile? He wanted to know what I was thinking about and I told him “knitting.” I deserve to […]
This morning I had pictures taken of the boys at JCPenny. For $8.55, I am getting 2 8x10s, 2 5x7s, 4 3 1/2x5s, and a whole raft of wallet and billfold sized pictures. Enough pictures to give one to everyone in our family. Incidently, this is one piece of advice from my mother-in-law that I […]
Posted in Knitting on Oct 27th, 2006
They’re breastpads made of 100% wool. I had one finished, two finished pending burying ends, and the other not yet started before Joey arrived. I finished them this morning since I knew I would be needing them soon. Otherwise, my knitting needles have been resting peacefully on the shelf.