Easter Monday is still a Monday

I snagged this from Robyn's blog! Funniest reference to Easter I've read so far this morning!


The Rainey Sisters contributed this one, which is a close runner up!

Finished up the socks yesterday. Washed, blocked and going to work today! They fit perfectly! For all the trouble they started out to be. Oh, and when all was finished I had about two feet of yarn left over. Talk about sweating it down to the last Kitchener stitch!


I worked on some of my mittens last night while watching John Adams on HBO. That is really a great series and, I think, far more realistic about colonial life than many are. David Morse makes a great George Washington!

Anway, I finished one mitten and frogged another. CO a muffatee. So currently I have 2 pair thumbless mittens and about 25% of a muffatee. Plans for the day is to knit four thumbs and probably CO another pair.

Easter was pretty uneventful for us. Pork chops, couscous and green beans for dinner with the Easter Bunny providing the dessert. 3rd Son called to send greetings of the day. All is well there in TN.

Oldest Granddaughter is sick on her first day back at school after Spring Break. Youngest Daughter thought it was too much candy, but seeing it's continuing, I'm guess some kind of flu. Are we all loosing our immune systems or is there some really, really, mutant flu bugs?

Cali suggested I invest in a binding machine to do my own spiral bindings on my knitting books. In my lifetime, I would never buy enough books (approximately 40) to make it worth the amount of money one of the machines would cost, and secondly, it really isn't that expensive. With two clear sheets of plastic included in the binding, I think, a Kinko's, it cost me about $7.00. $5 if I don't have the plastic sheets..... I can see where the binding machine would be a good investment if one bought lots of paperback knitting books, but.... All my knitting books together take up less than a foot of space on a bookshelf.

April 8, 2007

Bunny Day!

I hope, for those of you celebrating today, the Bunny brought you marvelous treats! We did very well! I even got a clock for my kitchen!

I got quite a bit of knitting done yesterday while I caught up on my TV shows and watched a movie. The DVR (TiVo, MoxiBox, etc.) is the greatest invention in the world to date. I love that I can record all my favorite shows (even those that are on at the same time) and watch at my leisure while speeding through the commercials. And I had a movie from Netflix <--click Sherlock: Case of Evil. Vincent D'Onofrio plays Professor Moriarty. I really like Vincent D'Onofrio...especially his character on Law & Order CI. Oh, back to the knitting. I got the leg done, and am working on the heel gusset now.

Cast on a new hat for Michelle. This one is two strands of Red Heart Luster Sheen in a hot pink and orange. Again it will be bright.

Another use for left over food coloring dyes is to make some really cool wrapping paper. We folded up the tissue paper into squares or triangles and dipped the points in the diluted food coloring. You'll get results like these! <--click

I guess it's time to start crocheting again! Granny Squares are back!

This is from click-->Anthropologie. This sells for $148. And it could cost me about $10 to make + time. And wouldn't I look stylish? And feel like a throw back to the 70s. A younger lady would like stylish....I'd look like a bag lady.....