While in Missoula I had the pleasure of accompanying my mother to garage sales both weekends. My mother is a marathon garage sale shopper. She goes on Friday mornings and Saturday mornings. (She’s one of those lucky few who work four day weeks.) Anyhow we stumbled upon quite a few finds. I got three crock [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Garage Sale Glory in Missoula.
Posted in dyeing, knitting, missoula on August 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Home.
Posted in missoula on August 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Why did I want to leave again? I guess I had to in order to fully appreciate this town. Steinbeck wrote “you can never come back home.” For me this is not true. I could always come back here and stay indefinitely and soon enough I will.
Above is the view from the deck of my [...]
HATS! and why I love to knit them, knit them, and knit them some more.
Posted in knitting on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1. They are usually knit in the round which means no seaming!
2. You can finish one in a weekend, or a day-especially if you have no social life like me.
3. They keep your head warm.
4. They almost always only require one skein of yarn, so they are great for that expensive yarn that you’ve been [...]
Clothespin Dolls.
Posted in knitting, work, tagged clothespin dolls on August 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For those who don’t know, I work as an Activity Aide in a Nursing Home. My responsibilities include:playing games with residents, socializing with residents, serving residents food and drink, taking residents on wheel chair rides outside, and sometimes I get to do an arts and crafts program. While it can be both physically and emotionally [...]
It’s official, this pattern blows.
Posted in knitting on August 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had no desire to re-knit the seaberry shell a.k.a the droopy sweater. It’s been sitting at the bottom of my project box. Today, since I have the day off, I thought I’d work on it and perhaps finish it before my vacay that’s only a week away! I finished the front of the sweater, [...]
