Blogoversary Today!

3 years already - my, how the time flies!

Happy Second Blogoversary!

I would have missed my second blogoversary if Teena hadn't commented on it!! Thanks, Teena!

Canada Day

Happy 141st Birthday, Canada!









This dishcloth is from the pattern found on this site. Scroll down the page to "Melissa's Garden Maple Leaf Knitted Dishcloth".

Now I've got No Excuse!

I thought that I could blog (ack! I hate it when nouns are used as verbs! I hate it even more when I'm the offending verbifier) more often once school was out for the summer, which happened June 25. Funny, I don't see a blog post dated June 26. I had Saturday and Sunday off work, yet still no blog post. I've just received a call from work to say that I have tonight off. Yay! So, (cue the fanfare) here's the overdue post:

I've made precious little progress on the "Pull Mystère". Partly, I've been putting it off in favour of quick, fun projects, and partly, there were Teacher Presents that were a higher priority.











These crocheted violets became another bookmark. The pattern for the violets is here. I had difficulty making nice-looking flower centres! VBG
There were several other bookmarks, but I seem not to have taken photos of them.

There have been a series of flowers since then.


These 2 turned out not as nicely as I had hoped.









My favourite flowers are pansies, so I've been looking for every possible pansy pattern. The 2 large pansies in the photo are from the book, "Floral Doilies", which is from 1949. Then I decided to try a pansy from an on-line pattern, which turned out to be the same pattern, word-for-word, as the pattern in "Floral Doilies"! I found that pretty humourous.














The flowers in the next photo are also from "Floral Doilies", minus the doily, of course! I'm not sure what I'm making out of them. I started out thinking that my DD might like them sewn on a T-shirt, say, at the neckline, but she declined. So, who knows!









This next flower was a custom colour combo for DD. When it was done, she said, "Could it have a yellow centre that covers that stuff in the middle?"

I Want This

Oooh, can't wait until it's out!

Happy New Year!

I resolve to post a little more often in the new year. :)

Did I Mention....?

Having a Wonderful Time!



Heart made
here.

My Sesame Street Persona

Snuffleupagus - You scored 66% Organization, 50% abstract, and 42% extroverted!
This was a fun little test. I'm surprised to have scored so high on "extroverted". You can take the test
here.

On Notice!

1. Black Hole at the Centre of the Galaxy: who wants that?! (Every on notice board I saw started with this one. Great minds think alike!)

2. Winter: I firmly believe that I could be quite happy living somewhere that doesn't have winter. Never cared for it.

3. Grizzly Bears: OK, as if camping/hiking/roughing it isn't rough enough.

4. Violence: I'm against it. Imagine a world without violence. Lovely.

5. Excessive Wind: See #2. Excessive wind causes too much damage. There's no need for it. I'm just saying.

6. Mud: I could live without it. Also causes too much damage.

7. Politics: Oh, ick! I realise there have to be leaders, but do they have to talk so much and be so self-serving?

8. Centipedes: Ewww! Years ago, I lived in an old apartment that had these nasty huge centipedes, not like the kind I see in the garden (not your garden-variety centipedes - get it? Groan.) Their legs were 2 inches long, and they just gave me the creeps. I've never seen any near that size since, thank goodness!

Knitting Then...

I used to be that knitter, with an aura of blue words swirling about my head! Especially when working any stitch pattern more complicated than stockinette. Now, I embrace the counting, the errors, the frogging...

Links and Buttons

I haven't been posting a lot on my blog, but I've been busy adding links and buttons. Mmm, links and buttons... what fun!

A fun site I've just found is www.cuteoverload.com Lots of pictures of cute animals.


That is not my pug, BTW, but who can resist a pug in a motorbike cookie jar?

The Fair

We had a good time at our local fair recently. Lots of rides, cotton candy, and a few livestock. I saw goats but no sheep. I wasn't thinking, I should have taken a knitting project to get a cool goat-and-knitting picture, like on the Mason-Dixon knit-along website! Blogger is labouring mightily to upload my photos, so they might not appear today. :-[

What's Wrong With This Picture?

This is my first attempt at a mitred square dishcloth, LOL! Apparently, I was distracted a few times. I pondered whether to frog the beast or keep it as is, but I've decided to frog it. I just wouldn't be able to bear seeing it in the dishcloth drawer. Next time, I resolve to be more diligent in following the pattern!

Mudgirl

Yesterday, my 8 year old daughter was playing with a water squirt gun in the backyard. Water + dirt = MUD. It seems that she created a small mud wallow, because she came in only a short while later, covered with mud from head to toe! I had not previously been aware of how well mud clings to sunscreen; it took some serious scrubbing to remove.

Knitting: I have several projects OTN at the moment. I was commissioned by a co-worker to knit a baby blankie from Red Heart Baby Clouds, and I should have this finished today. I'm also working on a sweater for CIC, red cabled toddler socks for CIC, a baby kimono in blue Cottontots, and an Absorba! "Absorba" always seems to need an exclamation mark after it. :D