surprise!

yesterday.......

i received a fabulous package!

when husbeast (ha!) brought me a box that said "thank you for your order" it was a bit concerning!

he thinks i buy MORE yarny stuff now than before i retired ~ nope actually ~ it's less!

plus i couldn't remember just what i might have purchased ~ i told him i was getting this and this

it's my Dishcloth Swap package!!!

woot! lots of loot! from cindy v

thanks so much!!! i love it all!!

the mouse is too adorable! ..................... !! LOL :)

one more..

CLOTH!!!

my pal's package goes out today & should arrive by saturday

~ but i'm sure i'll still bore you with cloths!!!!

oh......i made the pattern up, welp, really it's not a pattern, just notes jotted ~ #2 son says i should have knit earlier with the white!!

crazy cloth making!

supposed to be a pumpkin!




crazy franken head!


DW cloth


ghostly!


baby hat (from leftover sock yarn)


batty!

think i have enough choices for my swap pal?? !

weekly topic #4

So, for this week's topic - we have a little quiz. You need NOT get the questions correct for it to count - just post the answers somewhere in a post this week


Q1: Where did the idea of Jack-O-Lanterns originate?

A) Scotland
B) England
C) Ireland
D) Wales

Q2: Halloween is the 2nd most successful commercial Holiday - what's the first?
A) Christmas
B) Valentine's Day
C) New Year's
D) Easter

Q3: What is the intense fear of Halloween called?
A) Hallowphobia
B) Samhainophobia
C) Ghostophobia
D) Mortephobia

Q4: The mask worn by Michael Meyers in Halloween (the Movie) was actually a mask of who?
A) Leonard Nimoy
B) William Shatner
C) DeForest Kelly
D) No one - it was an old hockey mask


Q5: In 2004, what was the most popular Halloween Candy?
A) Candy Corn
B) Snickers
C) Dum Dums
D) Milky Way


And finally - tell us what YOUR favorite Halloween Candy is!
candy corn and "pumpkin" corn!

alpaca Socks!

have 2 skeins of this in stash ~ alpaca sox meets Socks that Rock !

the October Sockamania pattern is out so cast on for it ~ great pattern!

still making cloths (there are so many here already that i might get over-run here in a bit!) but who can't use a cloth????? and they are instant gratification ;)

monthly KAL frankenstein??

shirley's KAL can you see? i think it's a ghost!

crochet cloth

but really, i am supposed to be dealing with organizing the mess that came out of all the bedrooms and won't go back in them :O

maybe later! my new bag courtesy of S & J ~ i lurv me some Happy Bunny!!

clothie clothie

trying to get together the perfect cloths for my Dishcloth Swap secret pal!

witch's hat

dolphins (i know, not halloweenie)

mystery cloth KAL is still a mystery ~~can't tell the design, is it trees?? flowers??

falling water?

next up will be bat......spider.......skull.......pumpkin!!!

not a good patient

let me get that out there first!!! i know i know, you're supposed to do what the doctor tellsyou. however, i know from working in the healthcare field for 24years that the doctor is not always right ~ ~ shocking for you???? !!

but i do admit i'm a sucky patient......just ask S! when i smashed my fingers and had the broken one in a splint - seconds after leaving the place i said "he's freaking crazy if he thinks i'm wearing this" and promptly took it off. hey, the thing was #1 on too tight #2 pushing the nail bed that popped out -back in! and then when S helped me fashion a splint out of popsicle sticks (that was not painful) ~~~ seconds after she left, i took it off :P

so when a car decided to dart out in front of me and cause me to smash my car and my airbags exploded i had no doubt i wouldn't be able to follow orders ~~~ PEOPLE listen to your bodies, it knows what you need!! and listen to your common sense (welp, assuming you have some ~hee!).

after an ambulance ride (no siren darn it!) and a couple hours for xrays and such i'm sent home with crutches/air splint and instructions of "no weight bearing" for a couple days -- please tell me how to even use the crutches!! it's my right ankle and my left hand/wrist. ~~my left hand swollen and unable to grip crutches, needless to say i ditched the crutches, got out my trusty frog slipper and hopped! oh and in the car, i'm taking off the air splint and husbeast (ha!) says what are you doing and i believe i responded (murky here cuz of the pain med) "he's freaking crazy if he thinks i'm wearing this"

all this leads up to.............i found that if i held my left hand fingers a certain way, they didn't hurt and i could............KNIT! tho it did take me 4 days to figure this out (pain med again)


these are done!

started a dishcloth for my Dishcloth Swap partner

any hoo, finally after 6 days my ankle and arms are feeling better, the swelling is down ~ i drove yesterday and i wasn't scared.

see my pretty purple "rings" around my toe-sies???!still can't find my ankle bone tho.

next up Socks!

made this


made this


can you see it? it's a rooster! amazingly husbeast (ha!) saw it right away :)

bought this! i love it that it says 101 of 100!!!!

this cloth was.........ahhhhhh.........difficult to photograph ~ took probably 20 pictures ~ only 4 came out


on the rest my camera said "unrecognized format"

then when downloaded.....one of the four said the file "existed but was damaged" and wouldn't let me view it!

is the cloth possessed????

whoa! yay! yippee!!

got home today ~ look what i found! (or foun dead as one of the boys used to say!)

restrained myself and went for the camera ~ this is progress


what a lovely package!!

i love the starfish cloth, i love the beach scene cup!!


of course i adore the sock yarn!


and oooooo a cinnamon candle! chocolate covered pretzels! (brave woman to mail those!) and some yummy smelling peach iced tea mix ~ yep! i smelled it! hey! i smelled the sock yarn too!!!

a cute little smiley face box with some balloon racers for me munchkins! since i'll be over there this evening, i'll take them with me!! L B returns from Girl Scout camp tonite :)

Knit 'Til Dawn aka Nicole H was the sweetie who sent all the fun!!! Thank YOU!

now am anxiously waiting for my person to receive her package !

okay #2 son, did i use enough !!!!!!! points for ya?!

final topic

Here's this week's topic: Go check out one other person's blog who's answered some of the weekly topics.. find someone you have something in common with, who posted a really cool cloth pattern, or who 'calls' to you for some other reason, and post about them on your blog sharing why!

hmmmmm.......tough one! i found myself returning to 8ball Knits i'm not sure she answered any topics and i'm not sure how i got there but.............

she has some really awesome photos! check it out :)

topic week 3

Well now that Summer has OFFICIALLY begun.. what do you do to beat the heat? A nice tall glass of lemonade? Frozen Coffee? A dip in the pool? What's your favorite way to keep cool this summer as things heat up?

our home doesn't have central heating or cooling so years ago i'd take the boys to the beach.

these days, i just hang around the backyard with ice water or iced tea (unsweet!)

when L B, L J, C D B are here we use the hose alot!! it's fun to jump on the trampoline while someone is spraying you :) sometimes we put ice cubes on the trampoline too!

when it gets hotter and more humid will have to put in the window ac units ~ but i prefer the fresh air ~ being only a couple blocks or more from the bay ~ it's not quite as uncomfortable as it is "inland"


this cloth has fascinated me for awhile, i resisted the urge to begin because:


1. i detest color changes 2. i detest weaving in ends on color changes AND 3. i detest color changes!

oh, i can DO them and HAVE done intarsia, etc. and love the effect, but i detest color changing!


it was easy and fun, i carried the colors up the sides cause you're changing colors ever 2 rows and it's do~able, only took me an hour!

i did change a few things ~ did a crochet cast on, picked up the stitches on the last part and kitchenered them instead of seaming ~ did i forget to mention i detest seaming! OOPS!


the pattern is here Optical Illusion Cloth Knitting Pattern

and here is another ~ will do this today?? Pinwheel Cloth Knitting Pattern