Posts Tagged ‘purse’

Purse Progress

May 7, 2008

I only have a few more ends to weave in and then I can start felting.  I hope it still looks good when that’s done.  Every time I do something like this, I cringe until it’s done.  Also, I have never felted anything in this washer.  This one does weird things.  I had hoped to felt at my other house, but I didn’t have much time to work on it.  I love my son, but I love my new house, too.  Did I say that before?  Another senior moment. Also, I managed to complete Clue #3 this evening.  It really didn’t take long at all.  I wasn’t about to leave my machines out with Doug walking around with a paintbrush in his hand. 

 

Broken Battery Charger

May 1, 2008
I ordered another one, but it won’t be here in time. I’m leaving tomorrow morning. I have other batteries, but I don’t know if they are fully charged. I want to take it with to Sheep & Wool. Now I have to remember to not take so many pictures. I usually take a bunch and delete a good half of them. I also want to take pictures of the “girls” tomorrow. Poo!

I liked the band at the bottom, so I decided to separate the colors with bands. I know that I should have knitted the first band row, but it’s going to felted anyway, so just shut up. Excuse me. I’m in a mood.

Elvis sleeping in the sun.

 

Purse Update

May 1, 2008

This is how my purse looked last night.

This afternoon, I unravelled the yellow and blue. Do not worry. The blue and yellow are coming back along with red. I decided that I liked that fuzzy band at the bottom and I am going to put it between each color change.

Look what Doug did.

A faucet for the deck. Now we can water the plants there without having to lug water containers through the house. Isn’t it wonderful?

I decided to make a pineapple upside down cake. It scared me when I looked in the oven after half an hour. I was certain it was going to spill over, but it held. A couple of little pieces fell over when I flipped it over and they were really good. It slipped out of the pan easily and some topping dripped down the side.

Isn’t it pretty?

That’s enough dumb stuff for one day.

 

Baby Geese

April 30, 2008

We have four new babies born on the island this year. They had seven last year. Does that mean anything? I’ll have to look.

I haven’t been able to get close enough yet. They are very protective and my cats don’t help matters any.

I have been working on the purse. I hope that it turns out the way I want it.

I only did two rows of this navy blue. It started getting really thin so I backtracked to where it was still thick and changed yarn.

I finished cutting the pieces for clue#3, but I couldn’t sew them together. Maybe tomorrow.

 

A New Purse

April 29, 2008

I decided that I needed a new purse. Should I knit it or sew it? My sewing cabinet is closed and both machines are on the floor. Besides, I need to work on clue #3 first. Fortunately, I usually have three knitting projects going a the same time. I looked through several books, but I didn’t see what I wanted so I am knitting something I hope will look all right. I didn’t have any trouble finding yarn. Here’s what I pulled out.

The tan and grey stuff is from an Einstein jacket that I made as a sample for someone. The sweater was boring and so was the color so I dressed it up using Nicky Epstein’s embellishment book. I’ll dig it out one of these days and cut off about a foot of the bottom. I don’t like wearing anything that long. I also need to take that stupid hat at the bottom of the picture apart.

We have about two and a half walls painted. Yea. I helped. It rained all day. What else was I going to do? Elvis helped too.

Maude went out when the rain had stopped, but we had a downpour while she was gone. I don’t know where she was, but when she finally showed up four hours later, she was soaked.