by 123pizza on January 30, 2009
So I’m part of this competition and am working on finishing books I have started reading but not finished. (What a concept.) This is the second book I’ve finished for the competition, The Reader. I started this book sometime last year with the intent of reading it with Best Friend. Somehow life got in the [...]
by 123pizza on January 29, 2009
As the recipient of this wonderful pair of handmade, wool socks I just want to say how grateful I am for all the effort that was put into them. I couldn’t do it all on my own, so I would like to thank my Lovely Wife for picking out the pattern and doing something or [...]
by 123pizza on January 28, 2009
This is our first snow of the season so the kids were glad to be able to use their sleds. Technically, it’s not snow. It’s sleet and has been falling pretty much all the time since Monday afternoon. Therefore, there was no school today and no school tomorrow. As much as I love my children, [...]
by 123pizza on January 27, 2009
USB cable so I can easily upload my pictures Hubby’s socks Bite Me scarf Clapotis scarf pencil bag filled with stitch markers, pencil, cable needles, tape measure, end protectors, crochet hooks, scissors, tapestry needles, and whatever else I may have forgotten. folder holding my current patterns, patterns I’ve finished recently, and patterns I’d like to [...]
by 123pizza on January 26, 2009
This is what I do when I’m bored and have nothing better to do like, you know, go to bed because I need sleep. I think the last one is my favorite. Not sure why, but it is. What do you do when you’re bored?
by 123pizza on January 23, 2009
I am still working on hubby’s socks. They are taking longer than I thought they would but I’ve never worked with sock yarn before so I didn’t realize how thin it was. I am happy with how they are turning out. I’m knitting them toe-up and like the fact he can try them on as [...]
by 123pizza on January 22, 2009
I posted this picture on twitter yesterday showing my attempt at wearing a scarf all day. You know, wearing the scarf as an accessory and not as a piece to keep warm. I made this scarf in hopes that I would actually wear it and so far it has been hanging in the coat closet. [...]
by 123pizza on January 21, 2009
The other day my friend, JS, asked me how I stashed my yarn. Before I could answer her she told me how our friend, CH, keeps her yarn in a tote. (Well, of course, what else are you supposed to do with it?) She, JS, then proceeded to say how she couldn’t do that, have [...]
by 123pizza on January 19, 2009
Rick is having a little competition for this year. It’s finish reading books you have started but haven’t finished reading. I thought it was excellent so I signed up. The rules are simple. Only books you have previously started count and you have to take a photo of the book. My first finished book is [...]
by 123pizza on January 19, 2009
Hubby found this yarn and asked me to knit him a pair of socks out of it. I don’t know if you can see the picture well or not but the color of the yarn is yellow. Most of you don’t know my husband but yellow socks is not something I would have ever thought [...]