Exquisite …

I’ve started a new afghan. It’s a baby blanket for my cousin’s soon-to-be-born baby, Lucy Michaela. I’ve got a great pattern book, Best of Terry Kimbrough Baby Afghans Leisure Arts publication #3267. The first baby ‘ghan is Exquisite. I will be making a second undecided Terry Kimbrough baby ‘ghan during the Ravelry Ravelympics. I’m making [...]

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I’m great now …

… a wonderful lady from Ravelry has helped me witih the pattern! 
My problem:  I didn’t know how to read the pattern.  It says K3, Sl 1, K1, PSSO, K1  I did each step, literally.  I didn’t know that Sl 1, K1, PSSO was the decrease.  I thought I was supposed to Sl 1 … K1 [...]

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I’m down and out …

 
… trying to get a pedicure sock knitted! I cannot get the heel turned properly. I’ve tried for days … have frogged probably 20 or more times … NO JOKE!!! I’m honestly in tears. The sock is Paton’s Pedicure Sock. I’ve never had a problem like this before.  The error starts to show at row [...]

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Aubrey’s first birthday …

I went to Aubrey Jalynn’s first birthday party on Friday night. It was the typical first birthday party: cake, sandwiches, soda, swimming pool, helium-filled balloons … and lots of wild, unruly children.
Here are a few photos of the event:

 

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Happy Independence Day!

 
 
 

Thank you to all soldiers for putting your own
life on the line so I can live in the land of the free!

 

 

 
 

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Goodwill …

I went to Goodwill yesterday.  I usually just look and never find anything I want but … I did find this for my bedroom:   I’m going to paint the frame.  It’s not wood.  I might take it apart and put my own doily in it.  The matting itself was worth the $5 I paid for [...]

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