The week has flown

That is my daughter and Nephew. Going 800 feet up over the sound. Crazy kids.She had the best time. Her brother was in the boat taking the shots and she took her own in the air.

After they did that, it was more seafood!!! As the week winds down, we are sad.

Everyone wants to come again in August.... Sounds like a plan....

The picture to the left is her in the air, only about 400 feet.... And at the right, watching the dolphins play. That hairy leg, is her cousins.

I love the BEACH!

Knitting. Not much going on here. Too busy. This is the view right outside our house. The weather is perfect. We are having the best time.

I picked up some yarn from the greatest shop down here. It makes a complete baby sweater. Post pictures later, as I am on my way to breakfast.

Our house is OK. It is not as nice as last year, But it is closer to everything. It is centrally located in the Outer Banks. Which makes driving anywhere, a lot faster.

From the top of the Currituck lighthouse to the bottom of the sea, Have A GREAT day!

5 Day's and counting

Yes....5 days and counting till we hit the OB!!! 

I am crazy busy. Got the son together today for the trip, shoes, shorts, shirts, swimsuit.

Of course nothing fit him from last summer. I think he grew 10 inches!!!

Yesterday the girls going had a Pedi party! I was the coordinator. I supplied snacks, beach theme  and of course the FUN!

Husband gets his new tennis shoes tomorrow. His are so grass stained, its kinda embarrassing....

Daughter has a JOB, and is 20, do I have to buy for her? She has more in her savings than    me!!!So she is on her own.

Then there is me.......Clothes? Shoes? NAH, PROJECTS!!! 

I decided it would be UFO trip this year. Yes I am leaving with started projects and returning with them done!!!

First on the list is the halfway completed sock for hubby. It was in my last blog. I should have that done by Ohio. It is that far along.

Second. The Camo socks on the left are young sons. Started....I don't remember. I had to rip back due to a miscalculation in the foot part. So to sleep they went. 

The other, black and white are the skull mittens for my daughter. I started them over the winter and the first mitten was completed in a few

 evenings. BUT it was extremely small! And I read the pattern color chart wrong. SO I started a new pair, with a  much larger needle and the correct color chart. BUT, I messed up somewhere and now need to rip to the line ribbing and start again. SO off to sleep they went.....

This was a kit I picked up at BLOOMIN Yarns, over the fall, last week of October for sure. I loved the colors, my daughter was with me and said she would like them. Once again, I started them and everything was going good, TILL, I missed two rows and used the wrong color!!! Damn, you must think I don't know anything!!!

So I need to rip back this pair to the orange design and begin again.....AGHHHH!!

AND here it is!!!!!!!!!!! The G&*^%mn lace shaw!! The satan pattern. It has been ripped Several times. I am thinking, I may save it for the last thing I do. I am being positive...I am bringing two different yarns. In hopes that I will make two.....

It is fun to get these together and then see them finished! I will be so happy, if in two weeks from today I come back with almost if all of these projects completed. I mean, they are small. Not too difficult to do. And very portable. I can take them down to the beach. Time will tell.....

I am thinking positive.  You think positive also....GO grab a UFO and FINISH IT!!! We will all feel better!!! Peace out my Knittin Peeps!!! Keep those needles clicking!

The VERY busy month of MAY!

The look on my face....Well that is how May has been..... CRAZY! I am holding my ID badge while one of my Hormonally challenged 7th graders snaps my pic. We laugh like this a lot. I enjoy my job very much. Yeah, they are middle schoolers, trying to figure it all out while at the same time, thinking they know it all. BUT, they keep me young and make me laugh. What job do you know that can do that?

May was a blur...Every, and I mean every weekend wa

s packed with something to attend. Which means a few things.

1. The laundry is now taken over and is demanding we either wash it

 or move, so it may keep growing. 

2.Dust bunnies have turned into dust monsters and I think they ate the cat.

3. I still have a full freezer  of meat because we have eaten, birthday, graduation, mothers day and shower food every five days twice! Get that.

4. The most painful.......my knitting is really behind.

I am working on four different projects. This is a beautiful pattern from last summer's  Knit-n- Style. It is really easy pattern work. And moves quickly, unless of course you have a party to attend........

Also I finished one of hubbies socks. Started the second on monday at a waterboard session. I mean, inservice.

Also in the works....The vest for hubby and the cardigan out of the farmhouse yarn. 

If you are in need of a yarn fix, please visit your local yarn shops....This is a hard time of the year for them. They need us...Do you part....BUY YARN from your LYS!!! 

OK, I am off the soap box. Yes I am going to my LYS tomorrow. Really. And I am going to buy something. Really!

 JUNE, You must go SLOWLY and how about some sun? Where are you? Feels more like a fall break, not summer.

I leave in 15 days to go back to the Outer Banks with the fam!!! Can't wait. What will I take? Sock yarn of course. AND.........I am going to try my g*#@ lace again!!! Will send photos with the phone. And let you know how that is going.....

Till the next time I blog....Peace out, keep your needles moving and your yarn shops running..

A step back in time

20 years ago I made this. It is the softest, yummiest of wools. I knitted it on size 2 needles. There are pearl buttons at the top with french lace around her neck. 

I am, or I have many

WIP and don't feel like showing the half done projects. So I decided to  take

 a trip down memory lane.... You in? Come on...... it will be fun.....

This was a quick knit, soft cotton dress with little panties in the same cotton I made for her during the spring. She was about three months old in this picture. It was a pattern that I could still make today. It is timeless. Also the christening gown could be made today just as it was twenty years ago

This little cardi was made

 when the fun fur yarns

 were brand new to the knitting world. The pattern came from one of my knitting magazines and I think it took one weekend to make.

Man, I was good!!!! Knittin Fool

O, I made her outfit underneath the sweater.  Hey I was a stay at home mom with one kid!!!

First birthday outfit! Tooo cute!!! It had little pieces of polka dot fabric sewn into the yarn.  I remember it being soooo expensive, $8.00 a

 skein! And I was happy I only needed, I think three!!! I made her pants out of the same polka dot fabric. It was adorable! I even made her the barrette in her hair

And this extremely cute, and I cannot find anywhere now, was made in the car on the way to a picnic four hours away. I had it completely done and on her the next day. Well not completely, I lied. I had to go and buy a zipper. It was from, the now out of production, Disney pattern book. And was a breeze to make. I wonder if I can still knit that fast? Little kids are really easy to knit for. Their size alone, makes knitting fast and fun. 

I have many more old time projects, but these were crying out to me....Remember when!!! Wish I could go back to that simpler time. Things were so much easier, so much I would hold on to a little longer. Hug her a little bit more, kiss her goodnight a few times more. Not worry so much about how clean my house is.  O but I digress......

 

I am getting my summer projects together, and one is getting all my pictures in albums. Thus the trip back through memory lane. These pictures are not in albums yet and were easy to scan. A lot of their sweaters I made are in books and tucked away.  I made my son some really cute sweaters. Bright colors and dump trucks to snakes! It was fun times... But now all are tucked away, waiting on the next generation to wear them. 

Have a great day, hold on to those you love, give them an extra hug and let them know you love them very much.

As it is said and so true......Time waits for no one......

Everything old is new again!

Really, this blog would have been updated last week, but SOMEONE, misplaced the camera cord to transfer the pictures.

I have decided to put away

 some heavy projects and pull out the summer ones, that should have been done last summer.

But it does make you feel so good when you finish a big project, like this BORING summer sweater on the left!!! Since the picture, both sleeves are done and the neck is being finished.  This is the yarn that smells like lavender.  You would know that, if you are one of my longtime blog readers.

And also pulled from the archives is this cute cotton vest.  It is on size 6 needles. It to is slow moving. Since some of the work is completed, It doesn't feel so boring.

The yarn is a hand dyed cotton with Cotton Fleece. I love that yarn.  The pattern is from Knitty, called Leftovers. Very nice pattern.

And finally,coming along nicely, the purse for the daughter.

So, from the looks of things, I have the knitting bug back, full force.  Not pictured are a few other UFO's.  My cotton lace cardi.  a vest for the hubby(for Christmas) and a sweater for the nephew.  Yeah just a few things...... I hope your knitting is coming along as good as mine.  Its a real good feeling. The kind that makes you want to put on your shoes and run to the yarn shop and get some more!!! Stash? stash? huh? what stash? For real, I have to use the stash..... But I need to replenish that.......right? 

Peace out! Keep you needles clicking and your stash flow full....  And can somebody shut my motor mouth husband up, while I am blogging!!! GOD! 

Please enjoy the the sandpipers!

Nothin!  I got nothin! I have been trying, but........NOTHIN!!!!!! So please take a moment to enjoy the birds, the warm sand and the ocean.

I have decided to take a stab at LACE (AKA: I HATE MYSELF, Lets FROG, FROG, did I say FROG!) knitting. This is beautiful to look at. The yarn is light and oh so pretty. BUTTTTTT!

Now, I have been knitting for 23 years. I have been teaching knitting for almost as long. 

But, now, my knitting and brain are not on the same planet. My mind cannot stay focused on the the yarn overs, ssk and counting! Somebody help!

I joined the KAL at Bloomin. Yeah that worked.......NOT!  Then I picked up a the magazine "Crafts and Things" for the first time in years, and, OH MY, the projects! One is a lace doily. Well I thought, something smaller, you can handle, butter brain. OH NO! I ripped that sucker at least 5 times.

So with all that said, here I sit.......Its going to snow! It only figures.  With nothing but frustration on my needles. I think I will do some garter stitch, yeah that will work. 

Is it me, or is lace knitting, Satan in the wool?

Peace out, and hopefully this knitter will get her act together and have a project to share next time.