I knitted these up over the weekend for two little girls we know. Aren't they cute!!! I just love the pigtails on top. They are just going to love them. This is a pattern out of One Skein Wonders lots of great one skein patterns in this book. I have ordered another one skein book and hopefully it will be here this week sometime. I am going to make them a set of mittens each also to go with their pigtail hats and a hat and maybe a sweater for their little brother as well.

As promised here is the finished illuision scarf. Cody wore it to school on Monday for the first time and the other kids had a fit over it.


Gotta go to work!!

Saturday I started a Booga Bag for my friends daughter's birthday and finished it yesterday evening. I think it turned out rather cute. I did learn something in the process of making this one.

1) When doing fairisle don't work the stitches to tight where the yarn is being carried over.

2) When felting do not wash a darker color item with a white towel. Left some white fuzzy stuff.

Unfelted

Felted and finished bag.

Garter Stitch Bath Mat

I made this Garter Stitch Bath Mat and thought if anyone was interested in how I made it I would post the way I did it.

Garter Stitch Bath Mat

1. I used 3 Skeins of Wool Ease Thick and Quick (318 yards total)
2. Size 13 Needles
3. Size N Crochet Hook

• CO as many stitches as you wish for as long as you wish.
• Knit every row till it is as big as you want.
• Cast off, Leave a long enough tail to create a loop for crochet hook
• Pick up your crochet hook and with the tail create your loop
• Starting in the corner sc in each stitch around entire rug. Once.
• Sc 5 times in corner and sc in each stitch around with 5 sc in each corner all the way around.
• Cut yarn and fasten off. Tuck in all ends.

You can either buy a backing to sew on to the back or there is a brush on backing that you can buy also.

My family loves the one I make, it is absorbant and durable. I can throw it in the washer and dryer and it comes out looking good as new.

This past weekend my son and I went to my friends from work, daughters wedding. I had gone to get my hair cut, thats another topic all together, and had asked my husband to help Shelby get dressed for the wedding. I was thinking a pair of slacks and a nice shirt but when I came in the door this is what I saw:

Gary had dressed him in his suit, Gary's not Shelby's and it fit him. It's a bit to big thru the chest area but other than that he looked great. We drove what seemed like forever to Carahills, was a nice drive but looonnnggg. Anyway, Shelby was a perfect gentleman, no elbows on the table and he even asked my friend, the mother of the bride, to dance with him. He took her around the waist and began to dance with her. He didn't even step on her toes. The photographer saw him dancing with her and ran over to get a shot. After that dance was up, he went and asked another girl more close to his age. She tried to lead and he kept bringing her back for his lead. Where does he get this stuff? And where did he learn how to do that? I was impressed to say the least.

Illusion Scarf

I have been working on this Illusion Scarf forever it seems.

And I'm about sick of this scarf!! It is going to be really cool looking when I'm done but for now its driving me nuts. I'm working on the last leg of it now and should be finished within the week, I hope!! I still have a sock to finish and the cable scarf I'm working on. I so much want to work on some baby sweaters

I finally was able to take a picture of London that shows how she is with my husband. I tried to get a better one than this where she is laying on his chest. But this one shows how she is. Usually she does this when she wants a bone. She is bone addicted, I mean she is really addicted to these bones. I have to be a good doggy mommy and not give in everytime she wants one because I don't want her to get fat and she would too. I mean really, she walks around woo wooing all the time demanding one of us gets up and gives her what she wants. So when that doesn't work she resorts to this,

This is not a very good picture but you get the point. I didn't have time to get up and get my good camera so I used the cell phone camera to take it. I wish I had been just a minute sooner, she had her head thrown back looking at him upside down and batting her eyes at him but she moved as soon as I tried to take the picture. She's such a suck up.

Here is a picture of my oldest son Cody. He will be 17 this year and is a junior in high school. He plays football for his school and is a great kid.

He had shown up at my work one day after football practice to see me. It is so hard to believe that he is already 17 years old it seems like yesterday he was just a baby. I would very much appreciate you guys that read my blog to keep him in your prayers, thoughts or what ever you do. He is having severe migranes and the doctor is sending him to a neurologist to check him out. I try not to worry but he has enough problems to deal with. Cody is ADHD, he has learned to deal with it to some extent but he is going thru a lot more than that. Most kids do not like him because he is different than they are. Hes not that good ole boy mentality that is very prevelant around here, he is just Cody. Cody is highly intellegent and is more comfortable with adults than around kids. Since he was small he has been able to carry on more adult conversations than those with people his own age. Most adults love him because his honest, trusting, and very hard working. It breaks my heart when he comes home and tells me of what cruel things the other kids say to him. Don't get me wrong he is not perfect but he is a good kid and I will do anything to keep him that way.

One the knitting front, this is what I'm working on for my son. He loves Harry Potter and saw this scarf and begged me to make it for him. I am trying very hard to get it done in the next couple of weeks so he will have it for Halloween.

Ok, I'm back to work it's trial day and its moving so very slow today.