Herbs

Fresh herbs from my garden. Lemon Thyme, basil, rosemary, and sage. The brown stuff is basil seeds.

Study Partner

Bruce helping me study by pinning me to the chair and not letting me be distracted by other things.

Counting Sheep

As a knitter I love most anything to do with fiber. (The kind that you can spin or knit with anyway. Not that I have anything against celery, but thats a different post.) So I was really excited when Grandma let me dig through her fabric stash, and I found a light-weight blue flannel with sheep all over it. What flashed through my mind was how cute a pair of PJ's this would make.

I had enough of the fabric to make a pair of long pants, a top, and a bath robe. The robe is my favorite. It's light enough to cut the chill of the AC but not to heavy that is is unbearable in the Georgia weather.

Thanks Grandma.

Dice Dice Baby

With a happy 18th birthday to Jon Paul I present The Giant Orange Fuzzy Dice. They are his birthday present from mom and me. Mom bought the supplies and I made the dice. We picked orange so it would match the orange plaid in Sandy. Sandy is the 1977 Volare (FYI).


I made Bruce help because he likes to sit on my chair, and so you could see how big they really are.

Girls in White Dresses

My latest finished sewing project.

Not Quite Knee High

I had a bunch of wool sock yarn. Can you guess what I decided to knit with it...? YES..SOCKS! Knee high socks to be exact, for those cold days when your feet are freezing but you don't want to put on shoes, or when you go up to the mountains to play in the snow.
I had two skeins of black (one for each sock) and several random skeins of browns, greens and blue. So I doubled up one of the other colors with a black, to get the random stripes you see below. The black all through gives it that speckled look, instead of clean sharp lines between the colors. This worked until I ran out of black. Then I added about an inch of tan ribbing to the top and called it quits. They come to the widest part of my calf, not quite knee high sock, but close enough.
They are finished but for weaving in the ends, of which I have to many because I didn't think, and joined the colors the wrong way. Oh well.

New Shawl

So this is my new shawl. I wanted something quick and simple to do, I had a ball of cream colored cotton, so I made a shawl. Its just a basic triangle with little flowers around the edge, something I could do with out a pattern. I kept going until I ran out of yarn. It's just big enough to go over my shoulders. Will I ever actually were it? Who knows.


It took my whole arsonal (and then some) of pins to block it. I don't know what I am going to do when it comes time to block my PNW shawl.







Artfully draped over the chest and dresser. Or maybe not...I tried.