Teaching

The owner of the newest LYS and my friend, has asked me to teach a crochet class this Saturday, I couldn't be more excited. Let me share what I'm teaching: Isn't that cute! The colors are great and the yarn worked up really easy but maybe I could have put the colors together in a different way. Putting colors together is definitely not one of my strong suits. Speaking of colors, my husband and I are going to be painting out house the end of May when we finally get to take a vacation (vacation as in we are taking time off from work to work at home). So we have been looking into different ideas of what colors we want to use. Lets say this, I'm better at matching colors than him. For example, I want to paint the master bath an olive or sage green so when we were talking about it Gary makes a suggestion to paint the trim black. Oh no not going to happen. While that bathroom is very large its not that large I would really like it to remain large in apperance. No not black trim. But he did have great ideas about the exterior, so I must give him a bit of credit. I will post pictures of what we come up with, hopefully it won't be that bad.

This past weekend was a hoot. My mom and I had a carport sale I say I but really it was all her. She did most of the work while I was running around with kids. I have to say it turned out really well and I am most grateful. The city had an event for Arbor Day at the local park . My daughter and I went for a bit and I bought a couple of plants that they had for sale and we walked around a bit just checking stuff out. One of the booths that was set up was a rehabilitation center for wild animals and they had a large owl with them to show. The owl had been injured and lost a wing so it could never be released back into the wild.

What a gorgeous creature. The owl really did not like it when the helicopter started to take off.

Yesterday was a lazy day of sorts. Gary didn't get in till early in the morning Sunday but I got up early Sunday and went to Walmart for dirt and tomato plants. I have this old wash tub that I got from an estate sale so I poked a couple of holes at the bottom and filled it with dirt. I planted 2 tomato plants and 2 pepper plants along with some small marigolds. Then I also have an old coal bucket that I put petunia's in. So then I also bought a couple of basil plants, chives, and more marigolds so I took a plastic tub and put holes in the bottom, filled it with dirt and planted them also. After that I sat on my back porch and ate breakfast. It was so nice just to sit back there with the dogs with a nice breeze blowing thru. So after all the yard work I went in and showered, ate some lunch and did some laundry. Tori and I went back in the bedroom to watch TV. So I finished the baby blanket for her teacher and worked on my socks. She fell asleep and took a great nap. I looked over and Dakota had stretched out on the chair next to the bed and was just snoozing away. I couldn't help myself I had to take a picture of him.

Is that not pitiful or what? I guess I should have been snoozing as well.

I completed a second fair isle hat Sunday. I still messed up on the pattern, just can't figure out what the heck I'm doing wrong on it. Apparently I can not count. The hat is still cute and I figure once I put the pom pom on it no one will notice the mess up. Not likely anyone will anyway and really who cares the kids that wear them won't they will be happy just to have them. I will get it right eventually but in the mean time I'm just going to have fun knitting its really not that serious of a sport....er hobby.

Ok lets see what else is up, I have started a pair of socks with some yarn I bought at Kathys shop. The colors are just beautiful. I will have to take a picture and post it in the next few days. I also have a baby blanket on a hook that I have to pick up some more yarn so that I can finish the one I started. And then I have another one that has to be done by the end of the month as well. All these new babies. I really want to start knitting the pattern of Kathys the felted bag. Last night I went thru my yarn looking for the right colors to use and I think I found what I want to use. Also, Raggie crochets baby girl dresses out of the crochet thread and I want to learn how to make them. When she comes home we are going to sit down and she said that she would teach me.

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First Fair Isle

Thursday night there was a sweet lady at the after hours knitting group who had just learned to knit fair isle. The process looked very interesting to me so I thought that I would attempt to teach myself how to do it. Yesterday was a very rainy day, it rained pert near all day long and it was a good day to sit and knit with my good friend Raggie. I sat with her while she crocheted and I knitted while we enjoyed each others company as well as some wonderful conversation that caused some tears and laughter. It's a good thing to be able to sit with a good friend and not be in a hurry. While there with her I taught myself to knit fair isle. The hat is not the best in the world but its my first and I'm just impressed that I was able to work two strands of yarn at the same time. Here's a picture of what I had done as of yesterday evening.

I think I messed up on the pattern somewhere but thats ok really since it was my first. I will do much better on the next one.