Large Heart

Well it's Good Friday and the office was closed today. I spent most of the day in bed. I got up watched t.v and finished up my dishcloth. Large Heart from #3253 Leisure Arts dishcloths From The Heart. I should have spent the morning raking leaves, by the time I pulled my self together it started raining. Well maybe tomorrow or Monday since I took the day off on Monday I will get the leaves to the end of the road. Craft on!. Have a great weekend.

Sunny day!

Well after I finally got out of bed. I got dressed and spent some time in the yard picking up sticks and branches. I raked some leaves. I must say having a yard is to much work. I plan to get up tomorrow and plant a few vegetable seeds to put in the garden. I hope my brother in law will be able to till my garden spot by the first weekend in May. I have a mystery plant growing in a container , my Mother thinks it is garlic, but I don't remember planting garlic in the container. It looks great and it does smell like garlic. We shall see what happens. I cleaned the weeds and leaves away from the deck and I my daisies, black eyed Susan, and lilies are coming back. I have a four day work week starting on Monday. Still working the Large Heart dishcloth, from Leisure Arts dishcloths from the heart #3253. So far so good with the dishcloth. The night is long and lonely. Craft on!

April

Well it is April Fool's day. The first day of April. I had a long hard day. I finished another dishcloth today and cast on a dishcloth. I finished Nine Hearts from Leisure Arts #3253 dishcloths from the hearts by Evelyn A. Clark. I use Lily Sugar' N Cream , Hot Green. I cast on Large Heart from the same book . Only 2 days to go for the work week. Craft on!!

BETA GAMMA SIGMA

Friday night my Mother, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin, and I attend an Induction Ceremony and Banquet at Winston-Salem State University. It was for the School of Business & Economics. It is an honor society that service Business Programs accredited by AASB international. My daughter was inducted and received was the recipient of the Blue & Gold cord. Her friend Ginnerfra Daniels who served as the Vice President also was a recipient of the Blue & Gold cord. The dinner music and speaker was wonderful and we had a great time. I have a picture but it is not very good a little dark. Spent most of the day yesterday working on my bedroom it really needs a good cleaning. I discovered over the last 2 weekends that I have a lot of cotton yarn. Most of it scrap yarn from previous dishcloths. Some new skeins and some very large skeins from mill ends. Lot's of sugar 'n cream, Peaches & creme, Bernat and, a little I love this cotton. Some of the balls are to small for a dishcloth. So I am not sure what kind of project I can do with all these little balls. Maybe a grocery bag. If I can find an easy pattern. Well still no word on when the sock class will start. I hope soon. Sock knitting is one of my goals for the year, along with circular needles, and cables.

Sick

Well I spent the whole glorious weekend sick with a cold or allergies and may I just say i would still rather be at home on the weekend sick than working. I am thankful and happy that I still have employment and I hope it continues to remain that way unless I win the lottery. I live for the weekend. Since my last post on Tuesday I did not get in a lot of knitting or reading because Kendra was here until Thursday morning and my Sister and her family came over on Wednesday so to much going on to knit, or read. Well on Thursday night I started sneezing and feeling a little funny by Friday morning I felt very bad and left work at 12:00 came home spent most of the day in bed. Repeat on Saturday most of the day in bed and then in front of the TV, on the Internet, knitting, and reading. I love clean house marathon's. I will be glad when Neeice Nash returns. I really like her a lot. So I finished up another dishcloth today that I started earlier in the week. #6 Cascading Hearts, #3253 Leisure Arts dishcloths From The Heart, by Evelyn A. Clark. I used 191 Peppermint Peaches & Creme 100% cotton. I think it turned out pretty good.

St Patrick's Day

Well a pretty good day today it's St. Patrick's Day, and today was the Kiwanis Annual Pancake Day!!! My daughter and I have attended Pancake day since she was 2 or 3 years old. I remember after the first time we went she would ask me everyday if we could go eat pancakes. In honor of St. Patrick's Day I spent some of my weekend knitting a Shamrock dishcloth. Lily Sugar ' n Cream cotton yarn, color Emerald Green. Very easy pattern found at www.knittingknonsense.com/shamrockcloth/html . Three more days until the weekend. I recast last night the cascading hearts dishcloth and read a few pages of Fleece Navidad, by Maggie Sefton. Knit on!

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday!!! to my daughter Kendra Rochelle Bruton born March 16, 1987 @ 2:50 am. She is 22 today and soon to graduate from college time passes by quickly. I am very excited about this phase in her life. I never did have that oh I am so sad my baby is gone empty nest thing that so many people seem to go through. I was always happy because she was happy about growing up. I cast on another dishcloth last night #6 Cascading Hearts, By Evelyn A Clark Leisure Arts dishcloth From The Heart #3253 . 24 rows into the cascading hearts dishcloth. 4 more days until the weekend. Craft on!

Tangled web of cotton

It's Saturday and I spent a large part of the day trying to untangle my used cotton yarn. I have several balls of used cotton yarn in both Peaches & Creme and Sugar' n Cream I had this yarn in a plastic bin and it all got tangled together. Some of the balls I am sure I could manage another dishcloth and others only a few row on something. I hope to find a nice and easy grocery bag to knit with my scrap yarn. Cast on an Shamrock Cloth last night I plan to add a few rows tonight and get most of in done tomorrow I want to finish the dishcloth by Tuesday St Patrick's day. The pattern I cast on is Knitted Shamrock Cloth, by Rhonda K. White located at http://wwwknittingknonsense.com/shamrockcloth.html . Now I am on the couch posting and watching t.v. what a way to spend a Saturday night. I need to read a few chapters of Fleece navidad. Craft on!!! Posting a picture of where I want to be instead of Asheboro North Carolina, I hope I will get to visit the beach again before I die during the summer and winter.

Radiating Hearts

I finished the Radiating Hearts dishcloth tonight. You can find this patten in Leisure Arts #3253 dishcloths From The Hearts, By Evelyn A. Clark. I used Lily The Original Sugar ' n Cream cotton yarn in Hot Orange. I love the color and feel the dishcloth turned out pretty good. So tomorrow is Friday and payday so after work I am off to Hobby Lobby for a skein of green cotton yarn I found a pattern on Ravelry for a shamrock dishcloth . St Patrick's day on the 17th and so I plan to cast on in so that the dishcloth will be finished by Tuesday in honor of St Pa tricks day. I still have enough time to crochet a scarf or granny square of national crochet month. Happy, happy tomorrow's Friday! Craft on ! Picture of my Radiating Hearts Dishcloth.

Recast

So last night I recast on the Radiating Hearts dishcloth that I cast on the first time on Saturday night. So far so good on the recast. I am on row 29 plan to knit a few more rows tonight. I knit a row or 2 during my morning break at work the first morning break I have taken in a long time I might add, then night a few rows during lunch. I can make out the the start of the first heart. This is a dishcloth you have to count your stitches. You have a lot of increasing, decreasing, and slip,slip, knit. If you want to get in good practice with most of your stitches a dishcloth can take you there you learn a lot. Three days until the weekend. Craft on! Posting a picture of the first 27 rows I think of the Radiating Hearts recast.

Sock yarn

Well just a quick damn it's Monday update. Last night I had to rip out all my hard work in the Radiating Hearts dishcloth apparently knitting and watching Big Love don't mix. It was a long hard day today and only 4 days until the weekend. So I have to start over on the dishcloth maybe tonight I am not sure. I might read for a few minutes tonight. I am posting a picture of the sock yarn I brought for my sock class. It is Trekking hand art made in Germany, it is hand painted very pretty and very bright color Tonga 510. I want to cast on the dishcloth not the socks, and I want to read. I can't do both. Oh well craft on!!

That horrible feeling it's Sunday night

Well the weekend is coming to a close. I got up late on Saturday and made my way to Gate City Yarns. I brought my supplies for my sock class. The dates for the class have been changed so I have to wait closer to the end of the month. Which is not that bad. I have the yarn, pattern and needles. I will post a picture of the yarn later this week. Cast on a dishcloth last night #4 Radiating Hearts from #3253 Leisure Arts dishcloths FROM THE HEART by Evelyn A. Clark. A heart is starting to form. This cloth starts off like the Grandmother's Favorite Dishcloth, from Dishcloths Boutique. I made it to row 30 last night I think I will add a few rows tonight. I am using Lily The Original Sugar' n Cream in Hot Orange. Posting a picture later in the week as so as I finish the dishcloth. I read a page or 2 of Club Dead and I want to read a few pages of Fleece Navidad. So much you want to do and so little time. Posting picture's of the cats just because. Bond off beginner's basic II Ribbed-for-Her-Pleasure Scarf from Stitch ' N bitch The Knitter's Handbook, by Debbie Stoller.

The top picture is Hermes and the bottom picture is Goldie. I am not sure what she was looking at out the storm door. I could not see it my self I think it was the flowers blowing it was very windy today. Hermes laying in a great sun spot by the sliding door.

Oh happy day!!! it's friday

Oh happy day !! its Friday and I am so happy. It has been a long week. It started with snow and will end with 75 degree temperature's!. I went yesterday to see my daughter cheer her last home game. It was a late night. Wednesday I knit a few rows on the beginner's basic II ribbed-for-her-pleasure scarf only a few more rows to go before bind off. I am trying not to cast on another scarf. I plan to print a shamrock dishcloth for St. Patrick's day and a scarf for national crochet month. This just a quick post to check in at the end of the week. Craft on!

Hot Blue

Well after ripping this pattern out over and over again last year I have finally knit this dishcloth. I started it last year June 27, 2008 and to repeat myself I had to rip it out more than I want to remember. So tired of it and frustrated I put down the pattern and did not pick it back up until last weekend. I am not sure what it was about the pattern that kept me from completing this dish cloth. The dish cloth in question is 10. Shapely Diamond from #3824 Leisure Arts Kitchen Bright Dishcloths 10 Knit Designs, Hot Blue Lily The Original' n Cream cotton yarn. I am not sure which dish cloth to try next but with all the cotton yarn in the stash no need to buy any more cotton yarn for a long time. Craft on!

March snow day!

In like a lion. Well March arrived with a bang with rain, sleet, and snow. This time you could not see the grass by the time it was all said and done. I did not make it to work today until around 11:00 am. It was very pretty I love snow but since my office does not close for snow it makes things so complicated. So got up got dressed emailed and called into work. Then watched the Morning Show, did breakfast and cleaned off the car as much a possible. I hope I can make it to work tomorrow due to the wet roads and melting snow I might have to deal with black ice. This is North Carolina snow today and by the end of the week they say we will hit the 70's. Snow a rare thing and this time it covered up the grass. I am ready for spring. My rosemary bush is laying over on the ground full of snow I hope it will straighten up. One day down 4 to go until the weekend. Still going strong with the shapely diamond dishcloth. I will add a few rows tonight. Craft on!!

10. SHAPELY DIAMOND

Well so far so good on the dishcloth I started last night. I made it through row 21 without any trouble. Still have the right number of stitches and the diamond pattern seems to be taking shape. The blue is really nice and bright a happy color. It is cold and it is still raining earlier today we did have some ice on the trees but that has gone away. Still no snow. I am happy about this and I hope nothing happens later tonight or in the early morning. Weather I want to or not I need to be able to get to work. Made my way out in the cold and rain to go to Walmart and Books.A.Million the book I ordered came in on Wednesday, Fleece Navidad, by Maggie Sefton it is a knitting mystery. Well I think I will add a few rows to my dishcloth while listening to Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban performance by Jim Dale. Still need to buy the other cd's in the series. Oh well craft on!. Update It is snowing and it has been for a few hours now. I don't think I will make it to work by 8:00 AM , and now I am sure even if I make it tomorrow I will spend the day doing interviews and not process cases and that's what I need to do. Row 41 on the Shapely Diamond dishcloth. What a day what a day.

Cold wet Saturday night

Well I made another trip to Costco and Gate City Yarns today. In all the trips that I have made to Costco I have never ever seen so many people it was wild. I loved it great samples, grapefruit cups, frozen pizza, clam chowder, pink salmon, lobster spread. Tonight I plan to cast on shapely Diamond dish cloth from Leisure arts Kitchen Bright Dishcloths 10 knit designs. This dishcloth for some reason is the thorn in my side. I have cast on and ripped out this cloth so many times just can't seem to get it right. Well after many months of putting it off the time is now. Gate City Yarns I needed to trade the yarn I brought last Saturday. I could not get the color I wanted so I traded for a different color being slow on the up take I did not think to ask if I could trade it for the needles I need for my sock knitting class next month. Oh well I will go to the yarn shop again next Saturday to get the yarn and needles since I won't get paid again before the first class. what I would not give to have money. I love to spend it think of all the yarn I could buy and the trips to Costco. Once again here in this area of NC we have a chance for sleet, freezing, and snow tomorrow and early Monday morning. I hope we don't get any bad weather I need to make it to work Monday morning. Craft on!

Knitting , reading, and cooking

Well I cooked today, this is something I rarely do cooking. I am not the best cook and I have to follow a recipe. I made one of my favorites Catfish Chowder I have a previous post about the chowder. On an off today I have been knitting and reading, Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris. I need to spend the rest of the week reading so I can finish the book on time to return it to the library. I love the cranberry swirl yarn I am using for my daughters scarf. I have purchased pink and green yarn to start a scarf weeks ago. I want to use circular needles on the scarf so I have put off starting the scarf never used circulars. I wish someone would offer a class on how to use circular needles.

Great Saturday

Well had a great day today. Got up this morning and my Mother and I got dressed and went to Costco I love Costco and I wish I pay a monthly visit. I can't believe I did not try any sample's today. Big crowd today and The samples just did not appeal to me today. Left Costco and proceeded to Gate City Yarns brought the wrong yarn and signed up and paid for a sock knitting class. I did not discover I had the wrong yarn until I got home. I think I will take it back next weekend I did not notice that I picked up the worsted weight Lamb's Pride instead of the bulky right color wrong weight. Then after leaving the yarn shop we met my daughter and her boyfriend and Ganache Restaurant & Bakery we had a lot of fun. The she crab soup and shrimp and grits awesome. Hit Total Wine and Borders the came back to then depressing city of Asheboro. I have been watching tv, reading, visiting my favorite site on the web no knitting so far tonight. I might get in a row or two before the night is over. It is hard to work in all the things you want to do in a day. Happy crafting.

Oh, Oh, Oh it is the weekend

Well I made it until the end of the week. Friday and it is the weekend baby. I live for the weekend. I have nothing exciting planned for tonight. I came home from work watched The View and Dr Phil then a few things on tv. I am in bed at this time surrounded by knitting patterns and projects. I am having a hard time with the Wavy gravy pattern in the stitch'n bitch Nation pattern book by Debbie Stoller. I am not sure if it is because I am reading he pattern wrong or if I wait to late in the night to start the pattern. I just can't get it to come out right. I have cast on and ripped out several times in the last week. I will cast on again tomorrow, I re-read the pattern today and will re-read tomorrow. I am not sure where I am going wrong. I will pay a visit to Gate City Yarns tomorrow to get a few skeins of Lamb's Pride Bulky in M250 Cranberry Swirl to make a hat for my Daughter. I have a scarf going in that color using the beginner's basic II ribbed-for-Her-Pleasure scarf from Debbie Stoller's stitch' N bitch The Knitter's Handbook. So I plan to give her the scarf because she has a very pretty pea coat that will go great with the scarf and then knit a hat to match, the Hot Head hat on page 162 of the same book. I plan to use a solid color I think it will take only one more skein but just in case I will buy 2 maybe 3 better safe than sorry. I hope they still have the color in stock. It is so hard to work everything in that I would like to do. read,knit, blog and watch tv. My current reads Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris, Knitting Rules, by Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee, and Saved Folk in the House, by Sonnie Beverly. I guess I need to read a few pages and then knit a few rows. I knit a few row last night on my long running Bias scarf and the ribbed-ribbed-for-Her-Pleasure scarf, read a page or two in club dead. Happy Crafting. I will keep you updated on my progress this weekend.