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May 22, 2008

I started on the camera case today. I really like the speckled orange and I think I’ll line it with the tiger fabric. It’s very soft and will help to protect the camera. I am using leftover cut away stabilizer for interfacing. I don’t know yet if I will close it with a button and buttonhole or use Velcro. I hope I have the right orange thread. If not, I probably have some variegated that will work. I really need to get up to Dover. Walmart doesn’t have much and the thread they carry splits and breaks.

Since we have an extra week on the mystery quilt, I thought I might make some more blocks. That way, if I really like it, it would not be that much effort to make it bigger for our bed. If not, I can always put it on the spare bed. It already has orange sheets.

Tags:camera case, Orange Crush quilt
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End of an Era

May 20, 2008

I was deeply saddened last night when I poured myself some juice into my favorite cup and saw it start to leak out the bottom. Originally I had four. It’s just the right size and easy to hold and the art work is great. The Chesapeake Cat club is gone, but not forgotten.

In other news, I found the pattern that I am going to make with my Kauni yarn. I had forgotten that it was one of those little half sheet pamphlets. Now, when I start it is an entirely different question.

Tags:cat club, Kauni
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Camera Case

May 20, 2008

I got out a bunch of my glitzy fabric today. My daughter asked me to make her a case for her new camera. Jeez!! She said to use whatever I felt like using. Does she know what kind of visions come to mind? She should by this time. So, this is what I found. What do you think?

Rats! I just realized that i didn’t get everything in the picture and the colors are not as bright as they really are. The light peach is actually bright orange with silver spots. There is some black velvet with gold trim next to the fuchsia and fuzzy purple spots on the right. I’ll try and take another shot tomorrow, if I remember. I have something extra to show you anyway.

The geese and geesettes have been out in troves. Maude and Zip get so excited watching them, but they both keep their distance. That’s eleven babies. I wonder if they are all theirs? This group has been coming for several days now. I guess they like our little creek. The ones born on the island, I see almost every morning and evening.

I’ve been making progress on my Noro socks and I’m about 2/3s through my second sleeve on the sweater. I found the needles I need for the body. I want to try and knit the body in the round, but I don’t know if my hands can take it. Intarsia is much easier in the round. I’ve been trying to catch up on my blog reading, too. It was cooler today and too windy to knit outside.

Tags:fabric, geese
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Not Knitting?

May 19, 2008

Not very many came to knitting group today. There were not a whole lot there last month either. What causes this? I knit year round. Not knitting is unheard of to me. I will probably abandon my heavy wool sweater once it gets hot. But, I still have two more pairs of socks and gloves planned and a half done vest on tiny needles that I need to get back to. I will still be there twice a month unless something that I can’t reschedule comes along. I can’t get together like this for sewing. My machine alone weighs 35 lbs. Then there is all the other crap in order to sew. And there is the fact that I would have to drive so far. The poor thing should have had it’s annual physical two months ago, but that’s a 40 mile drive and I haven’t found another reason to go. Why am I such a sourpuss? I’ll have to think about that. I have got a ton of pictures to download and I haven’t even felt like doing that. I’m going to take my murder mystery and go to bed. I can’t even find any good science fiction lately. What’s this world coming to? Here’s my son with his little girl.

Tags:not knitting
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In and Out

May 18, 2008

It was one of those days when there were things that needed to be done inside, but the outside kept gently calling my name. The gentle breezes made the morning walk perfect. We decided to walk down to the pond. We could here the frogs before we see the pond. We walked along the edge and they would jump into the pond as we approached and Gus went crazy. There was one white goose in with the Canada geese that we had never seen before. On the way back, we stopped and talked to some of the neighbors. One was especially talkative. He wife recently moved out and he seemed more relaxed and happier then we have ever seen him. When we got back, I poured myself a cup of coffee, grabbed my sock knitting and went out back. After about an hour, I came back in, did some boring work, then I went back out again. That’s the way the day went. In and out and in and out and in and out.

Tags:geese, neighbors, walk
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Drunk Kitties

May 16, 2008

Well, I’ve got things to do so this will be short again. This is one of the days that I wouldn’t have posted if it weren’t for the fact that I said I would do it every day for a year.

It rained during the night and all morning so we got the cats drug which is always a lot of fun. Maude tried to get into my squares and went to sleep.

Tags:Maude, rain
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Too Hard

May 16, 2008

It’s hard to sit at the computer when it’s so nice outside. Maude didn’t show up until 10PM. It was 11PM when Doug went down to the bulkhead to pick up Zip and bring him in. Elvis, however has been in since supper.

elvis

$maude\'s new bed$

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Short

May 15, 2008

We walked down to the river this morning. A tree had fallen across the path, but I managed to get over it. We watched one of the neighbors cut his grass for four hours. I got the cuff done on my other sock.

Clue #4 is finished. That’s about it.

Tags:clue, walk
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Yeah, The Sun is Out

May 14, 2008

I finished one sock. It was fun to make. The yarn is a bit wonky, but it should soften after washing.The yarn is 30% nylon so I am assuming they will last. The yarn over have me worried. Maybe I will give them to someone and let them worry about it.

I spent a long time going through the new software and moving things around to where I liked them. I have a better understanding of what it can do and I am beginning to like it.

$Mother\'s Day$

I got this from my children. It’s really great because it is actually five potted flowers that I can plant outside and enjoy for months to come. Do they know me or what?

I have never been big on Mother’s Day and they know it, but sometimes I get something neat like this and that what makes it really special. When they were little, I didn’t really have any money for extras. We celebrated birthdays and Christmas and I made them up for Halloween. I told them that I knew they loved me as much as I loved them and gifts were not necessary. When they started school, they brought me homemade cards that I still have ‘somewhere’.

Are those walls too pink? They make me feel happy. It beats the crap out of the nothing color that was up there before.

inside

Isn’t this a great card? Socks are very important to me. I have two drawers of them. I can’t stand getting my feet dirty.

Tags:cards, flowers, socks
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Wind and Rain

May 13, 2008

Since last Tuesday, the only day that we’ve been able to walk has been Saturday. Zip and Maude are going berserk. We had some flooding. Here are some pictures that I took about two hours before high tide.

The goose nest is under water. I saw them late in the day after life returned to normal.

Tags:storm
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