It's Friday Night!

Well it's Friday night and I am at home sitting in front of the t.v. watching 20/20, and surfing the net. I have not worked on my sock today. I will read later tonight. Spent some time sitting out on the deck very nice and relaxing. I am fighting the urge to start any new projects before I finish my socks. I want to start a scarf . I am really trying to be strong. A display at Bella Filati. I love chickens.

Friday Eve!

It's Thursday night and I can't believe I still have on more day before the weekend. I came home today and relaxed for a few minutes and then ate dinner, then spent time working on my long suffering sock project. I plan to read a few minutes before I go to sleep. So I think I will give myself at least a B for working on my sock almost everyday this week. Happy crafting!

Keeping a promise

I made a promise to myself that I would spend sometime every night knitting a few row's on my sock. So far I so good spent some time this evening after work knitting a few rows on the sock. I have been reading and visiting Ravelry and crochetville tonight. I don't think I will knit anymore tonight getting ready to get in bed and relax do some reading. I need to get Death by Cashmere read by the 26th. I should go to the bookstore and by the book so I can have the pattern at the end of the book. In a previous post I talked about my visit to Bella Filati in Southern Pines in a previous post. The picture is of the window at Bella Filati. www.bellafilati.com

Time

I feel that there is not enough time in a day to do the things that I want to do. First out of necessity I have to spend 8 hours per day working. Gotta pay the mortgage,car payment, and keep up the utilities. Then by the time you come home unwind for an hour or two it does not leave you with much time for reading, knitting, and blogging. So little time so much to accomplish. I made myself spent time knitting a few rows on my sock while I listened to this week's lionbrand podcast. I am determined to get both socks done before the end of the summer and start a new pair. Went by the library on Monday and picked up my interlibrary loan, Death by Cashmere, by Sally Goldenbaum it is A Seaside Knitters Mystery. I did not realize so many author's wrote knitting mysteries. I love the books because they don't go all CSI and at the end of the book some add either a recipe and pattern or just a pattern. I started the book last night and I think it will make another great summer read. It is better if you can buy the books that way later on you can try the pattern checking the book out of the library does not give you enough time. The flower is Spider Flower, Cleome Sparkler Hybrid (hassleriana) a very nice woman that I work with gave me a few plants. It is a very pretty flower. I received a catalog in the mail last week from Park Seed Co. In the catalog they have the plant listed as an annual but the plant that my friend gave me reseed's it self I think this one is the Blush it comes in 4 colors.

Weekend over

Sunday and a new episode of True Blood on HBO! It was great and I can't wait to see next week's. I did something that I hardly ever do I cooked today. It was very simple just baked chicken, fried okra, and box macaroni and cheese. Tried to knit a dishcloth had to rip it out again and made a trip to Walmart. My black eyed susan's are starting to bloom. Tomorrow's Monday and I am ready for the weekend.

World Wide Knit In Public Day!

Well I went to Southern Pines, NC to participate in WWKIPD. I had a great time meet some very nice ladies and a very nice young lady all of them great knitter's. We sat under a very big Magnolia tree and a few other's right by the downtown farmers market. I think the music went along with the farmers market. The WWKIPD was sponsored by Bella Filati the local yarn shop in Southern Pines. If you live in NC and you want to do a nice weekend road trip you need to make your way to downtown Southern Pines and Bella Filati! Everyone at the WWKIPD and Bella Filati very friendly. The shop has a lot of great yarn they had my favorite Noro love the stuff. To visit the website www.bellafilati.com Sign up for the newsletter and check out all the great yarn and classes. I have wanted to visit the shop for such a long time since right after I learned how to knit. Then we went to visit my cousin Rose and we went to Ruby Tuesday and had a great salad. After that off to my Aunt's house after a couple of hours went had dinner with them and paid a visit to the nursing home to see my Grandmother. Pretty good day today. I worked on my sock while knitting in public. That's me in the peach shirt.

Middle of the week

Well another long day at work. Then I went to my nieces graduation she graduated from High School today. She was accepted at Fayetteville State University and in late August she will be on her way to school. I did not get a chance to get a picture of her in her cap and gown. At the last minute the school decided to hold the graduation in the gym and I had to sit in the over flow section and did not make it in the gym. I had to watch on screen in the auditorium. At least they had air conditioning. So not to much on the knitting front. I Will spend a little time knitting. I need to do a little reading tonight. Picture of fish my daughter took during the cruise.

I vote that we stop Monday's!

Well it's Monday night and I am watching Big Bang, blogging and worked a few rows on my dishcloth. Long day at work, very busy. Went out and looked at the garden after work an things are looking good. I will watch the news tonight and if there is no rain in the forecast for tomorrow I will need to water when I get home from work. I noticed that the plants grow quickly once you have them in the ground. I really don't think it would be to late for me to plant more tomato's or squash. I read a blog yesterday and the guy on the blog put out a few roma's and zucchini just last week. I paid a visit to Ravelry and Gate City Yarns has invited people to come to downtown Greensboro for World Wide Knit in Public Day. I think I will try and go for a few hours maybe bring my unfinished sock and to work and then maybe I can finish the first sock and start the second. Still reading By Hook or By Crook, by Betty Hechtman. On payday I will get Maggie Sefton's lasted in the knitting series Dropped Dead Stitches at least I think that's the name. This is a picture of the Pingtung Long Eggplant I planted in the garden.

Busy weekend.

Spent most of the day on Saturday trying to clean out my garage. It has Lot's of stuff in it mostly stuff on one uses anymore. A lot of the stuff is my Mother's when she moved in with me in 2006 she had stuff from her house. She moved out of her house because she had to put her Mother my Grandmother in a nursing home. I get along well with my Mother so it is not to much of a problem that we live together now. I was hoping however that I would get a year or tow of living by my self before she moved in the house. I did not only a few months. I am getting off track a cousin of ours needed a place to live so she let her move into her house since she had moved in with me so last year she had to clean out the house in order for the cousin to move in and although she Say's she gave and threw a lot of stuff away a lot of in landed in my garage. 2 sets of what I call Blue Willow dishes one set is for me and the other my daughter's not complete sets but lots of place setting. If I can one day I plan to try and complete set. I live not to far away from Replacements, LTD I think you can find just about any item you want or need to replace from thousands of china patterns. www.replacements.com Then we went to Lowe's Hardware and picked up 2 eggplants one Black Beauty and one Green never heard of a Green eggplant until this week. I already have a Pingtung Long eggplant in the ground last year this eggplant was a good producer. We cooked out and I spent time reading By Hook or By Crook, by Betty Hechtman. It is a good read, I am on page 104 and really enjoying the book. I knit a few rows on my dishcloth and my daughter told me today that she wants some knit dishcloths for her new apartment. She said She needed to look through my yarn to see what colors she wanted me to use for the dishcloths. So that's about it for me.

Udates!

Well not to much on the knitting front to busy getting the garden together and I have thrown a few pity parties. I finished reading Debbie Macomber's Summer on Blossom Street. A good read. I picked up By Hook or By Crook by Betty Hechtman. I am on chapter 2, page 16. I love this series. Great summer of reading ahead. I worked a row or to of a dishcloth. Still no work on the sock I am so ashamed of my self. I don't know what I am waiting on the finish the first sock and start the second. I really like sock knitting! I have been a little down and can't seem to knit my way out of this funk. Posting a picture of the lily that bloomed in my yard around my deck.

Thursday planting

Well finally today I made it out to the garden today because it was over cast and not to hot. I cut the holes in the plastic and had help from my nieces and nephew to get all most of the tomato's and all the squash and zucchini planted today. I found out I only brought 3 zucchini plants and I need more, I love zucchini and love to put them on the grill so the more I have the better. I need more plastic and 3 or 4 zucchini plants. I have to plant the okra, jalapenos and tomatillo's. I need a Cheyenne pepper too. The little tag on the tomatillo states reseeds so does this mean I should plant some where I would not till next year and it will come back? Will one plant do well in a large pot? I will take a picture of the garden and post this weekend. I am reading Summer on Blossom Street, by Debbie Macomber. So far so good picked it up at my local library yesterday. It took a few weeks. I was on hold for the book. A new crochet mystery comes out on next week by Betty Hechtman. I think on Tuesday! I plan to go by my local Books-A-Million right after work. I think this summer promises some great new in the series reading. I have started a new dish cloth and knit a few rows on Tuesday. I read last night and no knitting. I have not worked on my sock in over a week. I am so ashamed of myself. I keep taking it out of the project bag and looking at it almost everyday. I will work on it this weekend if it is the last thing I do! I have to finish this project. I love sock yarn and I want more sock yarn. I have to use it if I buy more yarn. Happy crafting and gardening.

Garden

Well I have had a not so bad weekend, Friday started pretty rocky but by Saturday things has turned around. Spent time with my daughter looking at apartments and furniture. The apartment we looked at with my daughter looked great, fell in love with two of the apartments. One with a huge and I mean huge master bathroom, and one with a very pretty little deck on the third floor. The Second and third floor had small decks and the first I guess it would have been considered a patio. The rent was a little out of my daughter's price range without a room mate. I could see a planter or two on the deck with a tomato and flower's. Then on Sunday just did nothing at all but talk to my daughter and watch TV. Today I got up around 10:00 or a little after got dressed an spent a few hours in the garden. We have a problem with getting the garden started on time. My brother in law tilled the garden last Thursday. So my Mother and I put most of the plastic down today. We ran out of plastic so I have to get another roll on Friday. I think tomorrow after work we will cut the holes in the plastic to plant the squash and zucchini. I have to wait until this Friday to buy another roll of plastic for the rest of the garden. I did get all of my cherry and grape tomato's planted in hanging baskets. I have 2 planter's that I plan to get 2 patio tomato's on Friday and plant. I know my garden will get started a little late but I think it will still turn out okay. We planted 3 pots of Petunia's and one pot with a petunia, geranium, and begonia. We had 3 grape tomato's to come back in a hanging basket we did last summer put that in a pot because I thought it would do better in a big pot. I was afraid of trying to separate the plants.

Apartment hunting

Spent some of today looking at apartments with my daughter. She looked at several. Some of the the kitchen was so small I don't think two people could be in there at the same time. She did a lot of searching before today. She found one that she likes today and I think on Friday she will put money down to hold the apartment until August. I spent some time on Thursday working on my sock. Maybe tomorrow I will work a few more rows. I am glad I don't have a family that's waiting in me to supply them with warm socks for the winter. Watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The picture is from Kendra's trip to the Bahama's.

Tuesday Post

On Saturday I did a very quick post to mark a very important day. I did not have time to go into details because I had to go with my daughter back to Winston Salem and leave her there to catch a bus to Florida so that she could go on a cruise. Her boyfriend an a lot of her friend in her senior class went on this trip. It is her first cruise. I hope she has not been seasick. I hope she and her boyfriend can get along without arguing. I don't think they argue a lot but you know how it is if every now and then if you spend to much time together. Kendra can be a bit bossy and high strung at times. Maybe it is an only child thing! Well the graduation was wonderful Hill Harper the man is just beautiful and very smart and talented. He plays Dr. Sheldon Hawkes on CSI: NY, he has written books and is a lecturer, and activist. Hill Harper gave a wonderful address it was interesting and you did not get bored and wish he would stop talking. I am so proud of my daughter she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Fiance and a degree in Marketing. She has a job that she starts in June and that is a blessing these days. After the graduation we went to Mellow Mushroom, love the place even though it was only my second time eating at the restaurant. They have wonderful pizza, they how have a restaurant in Greensboro I plan to go as soon as possible. Best pizza around. I love downtown Winston-Salem. Now that my daughter will be working, an living in Winston Salem for awhile I will get to visit more often than I do at this time. I am ashamed to say no work all week long on my socks . I have spent some time reading and that about all I have done.

Graduation Day!

The big day arrived graduation day! I have waited on this day for a long time.

Gusset!

Well on Sunday I was sure I would be able to get my gusset done. Somewhere along the way something went wrong with the gusset it was all my fault and so dump. After picking up my stitches I needed to knit a round the shape my gusset well I started knitting in the wrong direction! When I looked at the sock I just could not figure out why my stockinette was on the inside of the sock. I knew it would need ripping back but I was not sure how far back. So I did not finish my homework and took my mess to class today and Carl helped my get back on the right track. First by ripping back and re picking up stitches. Carl is so patient and Angela the other woman in the class was so nice too. She had her homework done so she was able to finish the toe. I had to place different color stitch markers on the right side on all my needles and then write down which color was needle 1,2, and 3. Sad but true. This is a big help with row one because you have to do something different on all three needles during row one, row two straight knit. So I worked through rows one and two of the gusset now my stitches and on the right side. Happy, happy. Sometime tomorrow I need to measure my foot to see how far I need to knit before the toe.

Turning the heel

Great class on Saturday, I learned how to turn my heel and how to pick up stitches. I found turning the heel tricky but I am sure after turning a few it will get better. Picking up stitches is a little tedious too. Our homework is to pick up stitches and knitting down the sock I started out with rib stitches all the way down my sock. I was the only one to contiue with the rib stitches. I don't plan to finish in rib stitch. It is after all as Carl pointed out inside the shoe. Carl is a great teacher and I am enjoying the class. The time passes so fast. The last class is for the toe. We will see how the picking up stiches and the gusset goes.

Heel Flap

Well working in my heel flap. I started around 6:00 and that did not work out so I had to turn on my computer and go to youtube to see if I could find a video on heel flaps. I did and now I think I am on the road to a good heel flap. Second class tomorrow. I hope I have things right and I have started on the right side with my heel flap. I need 31 or 32 rows and I think I have lost count on my rows even though I am marking off my rows. I think I am on 7. I hope I won't screw up to bad. Well it's late and I need to get to work.

Still working on my sock

Almost 7 inches on my sock. I think I will work about 30 minutes on the rest of my 7 inches tonight when I go to bed. Then while relaxing tomorrow night work the heel flap. I think I can work the heel flap while watching Wife Swap not that I think the heel flap will be easy, but you to switch from knit and purl to slip 1 knit 1. Tomorrow's Friday and I am glad. Long week. I will try and post a picture tomorrow. I went out tonight with a friend from work and her daughter. First we went to eat at a new steakhouse in Randleman great steak and strawberry cobbler! then to hear Lane Ragsdale and friends sing at the Library. I had a great time. Craft on!

Homework

Well for the first time in a very long time I have Homework. I have to have 6 or 7 inches and the heel flap knit on my sock by Saturday. Carl wanted us to try and knit from 1 to 1 1/2 inches per day and if I have measured correctly I have 3 inches. I think I see a mistake on a row but I counted all the stitches on each needle and still 16 stitches on each needle. I hope Jane has sock experience I think I will need help with the heel flap. Well tomorrow marks the start of a brand new week, I am not ready. Happy knitting and Crochet.