Always In Stitches

A New and A New Look of sorts

I am working on several projects and I have recently been accepted at RAVELRY, which is a cool place.  Any project I am working on I can put down the specifics and I don't have to reply on slips of paper to know what yarn I used or the pattern I used or modifications I made.

I am also updating the family life as well, I have 3 blogs to work with, this is the 1st one, but I may devote the other two to things I do it my life.

Finally!!!!

I finally got the widgets to work.  I have a work widget on the left and a life widget on the right.  The page is coming out better than I thought.  Now if I can come up with any ideas to put on here. 

The two scarf I made were cut down versions of other patterns which I changed to create the right length. 

More later, my DS is bugging me to go to the den.  He has been sick today with strepe (?) throat.

I just love the more you can do to this space

See ya

completed Loom Knitting Projects

                                 

This a picture of the first Slipper Sock I made last month.  It took me awhile but I finally got the heel right.  They are so comfortable.  Since I have made these I made a 2nd pair for my sister. 

                                  

This was made for my son, it is the 1st scarf I have  ever knitted.  It rolled on the ends but with practice, my panels will be flat.

                                  

This is the last completed item I have done, this is a scarf for my daughter.  It is using fun fur and I had to reduce the pattern just like the scarf for my son above because they are only 5 1/2 years old and the scarfs would be down to their feet.

Well this is only the beginning.

Gone Away

Today is my third day in D.C.  A group of us went to Old Town Alexandra last night and had a blast.  I bought some things for the children.  Always things for the children.  The city is so, I don't know, old for one thing but that is what makes it great.  The streets are small but some of the houses are hugh and right on the street no back from the street.  The houses were probably here before the street. :)

We are suppose to go on a tour of D.C. but I don't know if it is going to happen.  We will see.

New and Exciting Projects!!!!

I am starting to knit using a loom and it is so exciting because I have always wanted to knit but the needle "thing" has always got me.  I crochet and while I have success with it, I wanted to learn more about other crafts specifically meedle arts that have long since past.  Back in the 1800s, women of, for lack of a better word, breeding was to learn to sing, dance, draw and do needle arts. 

In the early years of this country, we used what we had or just figured out how to make say thread or yarn, etc.  People who forged a new frontier did not have a Wal-mart or Target to go buy thing at they made it with there hands through techniques brought down through the generations from there mothers and mother's mother before them. 

I have just finished my first project for the round loom and will post the item later.  I being one who never starts at the bottom, started with a difficult project a pair of sock or slipper/socks.  I must say after being shown what to do I did not have any problems making the sock.  I did drop a stitch here or there but they are mine socks and I think they are grand. 

I am also learning how to use this blog space.  I want to put my own touches on this blog and I will.  If know one ever reads this I still want to have the best blog space around. 

Enough for today, I have to go knit some more.