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Friday, April 23, 2010

On to Book 3

Still doing the Mystery Book Knitting adventure here. Finally finished the Book 2 project....the Tuscany Shawl.

I'm really enjoying this process. I find myself knitting projects and using up stash that I probably would have never used.....or at least it would have been ages and ages down the road!

I did push another project in front of the Book 3 Project.....I had done the Book One project....blue baby sweater and hat....for a dear friend of mine who is expecting her first grand baby and I decided I needed to do one more little something for him! Found this pattern on Ravelry and thought it was just too cute!

It is the Pebble (Henry's Cobblestone inspired Manly Baby Vest). I had some I Love This Cotton that I got a long time ago and I think it worked great! Super fast and easy.....will be my "go to" pattern for a fast baby gift from now on!

Started the 3rd Book project too. Doing a ribbon tee-shirt pattern from a book called "Simply Beautiful Sweaters" by Beryl Hiatt and Linden Phelps. I bought this book probably 6-7 years ago....seriously....and have never done a single project from it! I had a whole bag of ribbon yarn that I bought several years ago (what was I thinking?) lol.....I don't like ribbon yarn much! Anyway it is Filati FF Beach and I needed to do something with it! That's the beauty of this little adventure I'm on....would have probably never used it otherwise!

The pic is awful but it's actually working up nicely and I can tell I will wear it....go figure!

Also did these cuties and will be doing more of them! Talk about fast....knitted a pair in one day! Getting around to felting them....and getting them to felt in my front-load machine :-( took longer than it did to knit them! They are the French Press Felted slippers! Found those on Ravelry too. Sorry I'm too lazy to link all the patterns but have lots I want to do today and don't want to take the extra time!


Aside from knitting we took a couple of motor home trips with grand kids this winter. We took Clayton and Carter one weekend and Dax the next. Even though it was cold we (and they) had a fun time. We went to an RV park with an indoor heated pool and a pen with buffalo to check out. Those activities along with walking the dogs and a few kid movies kept everyone occupied and happy!
Check out the view behind Dax and Poppy! Yep....camping during the last snow-storm of the season!
We are dying to get out and on the road in it again soon!

Only other news is that I had a part-time job literally fall into my lap. It has been an adjustment after being retired for 5 years! I work about 3 days a week. Getting used to it but sort of a disappointment really. It is not turning out to be what I thought (and was told) it would be. I was led to believe I would be doing accounting....not working out that way....I think I have typed (yes, typed....on an ancient old IBM) one or two checks since I've been there. The rest of the stuff I have been doing is stuff a high school kid could do....literally....and I'm bored out of my gord! We will see. Am going to hang in there as long as I can stand it and hopefully it will get more interesting in time!

Well, got lots to get done around here....now that I'm working I have to be more efficient with my time.....lol! Heaven only knows when I'll get around to posting again....or if anyone even still reads it if I do, but that's it for now!