House Warming

Wow, what a unique and difficult process, I never thought that buying a house and renovating would end up driving everyone to distraction. I really like my house, and am not exactly done doing things to it. I still have not finished the bathroom, (mostly paint). And I purchased some things to hang in the kitchen and they arrived today, yay. But I also still have several small projects to do, and shall get done at some point. And then the biggest job of all, I would like to renovate the back room and make it into a bathroom, rustic style, vintage. For some reason I seem to like things calm, peacefull, and classic. I like to sit outside in the sun and let the day pass, playing with the kids in the water or whatever. I hope to plant some pretty things and have a nice yard. So much to do, and so little time! I welcome visitors though, but do pardon my slow progress, lol.

So much to do...

And so little time, my house is supposed to close on Monday, and I am really not sure what is going to happen from there. You know when you think everything is sorta ok, and then its not, I have some of that going on right now. I am not sure that I will ever trust men fully. The only two that I have ever found that won't ever lie to me...my dad and my grandfather. Why? I don't know. Should women today have to put up with lies all the time? I don't like being taken for granted, and I cannot stand it when someone tries to spin me a story. I know when I am being lied to. I am not stupid. Nor will I be treated as though I am not smart enough to see through the pile of crap story that's being heaved at me. I was mad the other day because a few dollars walked away, and it was automatically suggested I take my daughters money to replace it. What you say? I was outraged. And then when I ask a direct question, I get neatly sidestepped. Really? It makes me want to quit. If someone is not going to put enough effort into telling the truth even though it is something they may get into trouble for, then I don't want them.
Ugh! Anyhow, I am working on a pattern for Jean. Hope she likes it. Knitting tomorrow at Panera in Joplin 6:30 for everyone that can make it.

Oh the holidays...

So we have once again made it past that time of year when it seems that most of us are in some kind of marathon to create the most knitted gifts of anyone we know, or just trying to overwork ourselves... I made some hats for the military, and I made house socks for my grandmother. A hat and scarf were mafe for Heather, as a secret Santa exchange. Almost done with the house socks for my grandfather. And there were some filler items as well, and new requests. My nephew liked my sons slippers and he requested that I make him a pair in lime green and black, so now I need to find linme green wool. Black is easy... I mase a sweater vest the other day, and I pretty much hate it. It is not flattering at all, and I am sure that I may either give it away or redesign it, not sure yet. But below are some pics of completed items.

Military knitting

So, as some of you know, Charlie at work asked us knitterly folk to make hats for the brave at the hospital in Fayetteville, in the psych ward. This is a place that is close to my heart. Many of the wonderful people in my family have served time in the military and some in the psych ward. I am not sad for either, we learned things on both accounts that make things better today. We were originally trying to do as many as possible, started last week, and then we found out that we would only need to be knitting for women, and that about 10 hats would be required. We have 7 already and 2 more on the needles....Tina a kind heart does not know how to knit, but she donated money for us to buy yarn with. Thank you Tina. I have made two so far with the yarn money that she donated. I have a bin of yarn too that I think I may go through tonight and bring to knitting to see if anyone would like to use. I will post pictures, and I have a new pattern. One I had to make up off the cuff, since nothing I was doing was working. I thought that Lionbrand Thick & Quick Jiffy and Lionbrand Thick & Quick Wool-ease were the same guage approximately, I was wrong. Lol. But I now have an even quicker pattern for a hat that can be done in about 3 hours tops, on size 11 needles, it's quite dense and very warm, a great gift idea if you're looking.

Changes...

So I was going through my blog and I noticed that there was a lot of stuff on here that seemed like immature behavior. I was using my blog to have a one sided conversation; airing my thoughts. Well, I think I shared too much. Some of the things I typed would have seemed intentionally hurtful, not just truthful. I have since changed those posts and hope that I never made anyone mad with them. It was never my intent.
I have recently posted two more patterns online and hope that people get to enjoy them too. They are patterns that have been here on Blogger but are now available as a downloadable PDF on Ravelry.
More knitting later, lol....

Pattern Creation

I have so been enjoying the visual numbers climbing on my website and checking to see how many times I have been dowloaded. So Fun! I hope to have many more patterns out soon, more to come such as the adult version of my baby basket beret, and a mitten pattern that would match rosi-g's capitan hat, and several other things...I have some other knitting going on at the moment though....looking forward to hearing from you all.

Still Going

I now have a few challenges before me....I have a pattern that I made for my son, and I have a request, to make a knitted mitten pattern to go with the capitan hat...and I want to make a bolero pattern, one that would be suitable for work, and I have that cable jacket to post....ideas, just keep going. Should have a new pattern up in a bit.