I was just trying to reduce my emails and I fold a link to my old blog I have not used in ages.We are now empty nesters. Candace is an old lady. John got married this summer to Amber B. I lost my job at Zephyr just before the wedding. Isaiah had married Alicia Owens back in May 2015 on his grandfather birthday.

going back

May 2019 I got my Associate of Arts degree. NICC

May 2020 I got my Accounting Specialist degree. NICC

April 2022 I got my bachelor's degree in business- Accounting from University of Dubuque. 

 August 2022 I started at Zephyr. 

That up to date.

I had started these before my dad passed away 12/06. Then running over there to take care of mom while still home educating our sons and life I was quite busy. Mom passed 8/08 and I thought i would finish them soon. I knep starting and stopping. I finished home educating in fall of 2013. In the summer of 2013 I started college. May 2019 I earned my AA degree worked Sept-Jan 2020 and took the one class needed to earn my two year Accounting Specialist.  Since all went nuts in March of 2020 I have been home. I graduated in May 2020 the second program. and have been busy sewing mask. I need to finish my sons project (loom knitting) Then finish these gloves.  However i need to make my sewn dress form when before our second son leaves in a month and a half.

New Camera...

I'm getting a new camera tomorrow: hopefully this will mean lots of new pics for lots of new posts on this 'ere blog. It's a digi camera - a Fuji Finepix S1850 which is not an SLR (too expensive not to mention technical) but got a great zoom lens so I'm hoping for good images.

Any one still working on these?

Anyone still working on these? Just wondering if I am the only one that started but never finished them or if there are others in the same boat. One finger done, mitten raised, second finger made too long. I think I frogged it back and need to march on, any one to join me?

almost time to knit gloves

i know it's July ... the time when MOST people are thinking about summer
but knitters are thinking of knitting stuff for cold weather

maybe it's time to start knitting the gloves - got the yarn, needles & pattern

gloves

since i am the one that convinced karen to do the KAL

i 'spose i SHOULD start my gloves

working on a sweater right now

almost done

got to go to KC a few times

never stay for more than 38 minutes



life is good .. kinda busy

will have to look for patterns, yarn & needles

so i can start the gloves

inching along

I started the first rond of the pinkies today. I am a two at a time magic looper.

inching along

I started the first rond of the pinkies today. I am a two at a time magic looper.

I had a bad case of second glove syndrome and left these languishing in the to do box with just two fingers and thumb needing doing, for an entire YEAR! But I've just had a sudden flush of enthusiasm and finished them...

YAHOO!

I was back moving forward and stuck again

I am back moving forward and stuck again. I am so brain dead, I am wondering why I ever thought I could knit these. ... I was farther than this when I frogged the first time. Yet that is before dad died, I had to bury him, make decisions for my mom, then she died, now I just have to finish cleaning their house out from 100miles away, get it sold and be trustee for the next 24 years, should the good Lord tarry that long.

As I was tinking back I kept saying this is so familiar, why can't I find it in the chart. So tonight when I picked it up again I said why not check the other chart dumby. Since I had only tink about 1 3/4 rows I checked the chart there and sure enough I found where I was. Woo Hoo! So I knit up though row 8 the second time though chart A. Now it is time to start the thumbs, fine. I see the directions for one thumb. I an missing where it says to make increases for the second thumb. Since I am a two at a time magic looper, I have to know how to do both before I can start row 9. maybe sleeping on it another night I will know what I am doing again when I pick it up again. I pray that is the case. Good night! =-)

welcome annie

annie is joining the kal
she will post in a while

time again

well, it's that time again
time for gloves & mitts
well ... it's 70 degrees at 8:22 PM in Ga
but i am thinkin' about gloves & mitts

so, what have YOU been up to

Help

The jusyAny one still here? I picked my gloves back up last night and could not find where I had left off in the pattern. Well I know I am in the part of the cuff I was doing a little different. I had lost the chart I had made for it. I tried to make another chart and was sure it was not the same. Then I found the original one I had made. So I finally put these back on the top of my to do list. Pulled them out at the wrestling meet and could not fine where I was. I was about 20 sts over in a row. Yet none of my rows started that way? I do not know what to do. I am thinking I meed to tink back to the last solid color row. Yet dreading the thought of doing that. I had picked them up while watching a movie over the holidays but thought it would take too much concentration! Now what should I do?

The July 21, 2007 post shows the change was was making in the cuff. it took going back a ways to find it.

me & the headband

taken Fri Mar 12

at a pajama party

at Warm & Wild Yarns

in Adrian Mi

no sleep that nite

who knows what i am

knitting in the pic

looks like sox

out of corn yarn

GREAT NEWS!!

Sherry
i am glad your gloves finally made it home to you

WELCOME

welcome to Anita
she lives in New Jersey

SURPRISE, surprise!!!

Hi all!

You will never believe what arrived in the mail today! The "stolen" gloves that I worked so hard on last year. Yes, those beautiful gloves that I thought were gone forever came home! There was no letter of explanation except that they were mailed from the Co. Fair people.

I am speechless!! For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, take a look at the Hall of Fame--Sherry G. I exhibited those gloves in our county fair and when I went to pick them up, they were gone and no one had an explanation. Now, 6 months later, here they are!

Color me HAPPY!

Sherry G. On the Central Coast in California

Getting close to where I frogged from

I should be hitting new yarn soon. I am getting close to where I frogged from. I just hope what I just volunteered to do does not keep me from knitting. A friend is getting married in August and when she was here visiting a couple of weeks ago I offered to make her an something lace for her wedding. She was back this weekend. It looks like I will be making a tatted garter and a crochet flower girl basket. The good thing is I have made both patterns before. Yet I am having trouble finding the thread vendors tonight. Such is life.

DONE!!!

went to a friend's Pajama Party

at her yarn store over the weekend

so i go to finish & block the headband

got sox to knit

then i will work on the mitts

EVERYONE loved the headband

i wore it for about 8 hours

at the pajama party

THANK YOU Karen for the pattern

it was FUN, FUN, FUN to knit

Changing th epattern a little + what has kept me from finishing

It is hard to believe how time has flown. So I went digging back though the months of the blog to find what I was looking for. I found it. Now after taking some time [paper and pencil). I think I am going to make the diamonds like Hilla showed a picture of hers on June 8, 2007 between the snowflake cuffs and the thumb gusset snowflakes. I was not sure I cared for that part when I worked it the first time following the pattern. So that is where I am to date after frogging.

I did a pair of socks that seemed would never end, made 4 baby afghans (all different patterns), next I was asked to make a scarf that turning out barley making it's deadline, followed by 4 pairs of dull felted mittens. The first two were late, the other two had no deadline. After I finished dear youngest son asked for a pair and I said I needed a break from that pattern I would get them by next winter. So tonight watching and old Dick Van Dyke Disney movie Lt. Robin Crusoe I got up to this point for the second time. Moving forward again I hope. I did volunteer to make some things for an August wedding, if she takes me up on it I will have to put them aside to get done what I offered to do. (Tatting and crocheting)