Author: Chauntel Ensey

You Are 96% A Child of the 80s

There’s hardly a moment of the 80s that you missed out on. Was there ever a better decade? As if!

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If you have not joined Ravelry, or put your name on the waiting list, you must do it now. I have gone from posting almost daily to maybe once a week. Ravelry has taken over. And yes, it is for Crocheter’s too.

I still enjoy blogs. I like all the pretty pictures, the funny anecdotes about projects gone awry. But Ravelry has so much more. Friends and their stuff! Everyone’s stash & projects right at my fingertips for perusal. Little insights into past knits, future knits (way too many people have way too many projects in their queue’s, by the way) and current knits. Okay, and crochet’s. I promise there really are crocheter’s on there too.

I whole heartedly push you to join. Even if you aren’t an out of control fanatic like me there is more than you will ever need at your disposal.

I am waiting for something from UPS to arrive then tomorrow a real post with many, many pictures including knit goodies.

Oh, there is another new shop in town! What has happened & why don’t I have one yet??

It’s name is Loop & Leaf, located at:

 536 Brinkerhoff Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93101

I got the map from the site.

I have yet to actually go in the shop. Hopefully tomorrow evening before knit group. She’s open until 7pm, that is always a plus!

More once I visit.

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I posted a new photo to FinishedprojectsPhotos.

I posted a new photo to FinishedprojectsPhotos.

I am still on the Christmas gift hat kick. I took a side road & finished some socks real quick out of Silkie Socks That Rock for both Tracy & I. 3 pair in all.

These are mine, in color Stardust.

These are Tracy’s in Fire on the Mountain. Very bright & happy socks!

I don’t remember if I posted these ones yet or not but here they are, Tracy’s in Stardust

Now for hats. I have been spicin’ it up a little bit and went for some fun yarns. Alpaca Natural Blends from Bernat was on sale so I picked some up in brown, pink, sky blue & natural. Instead of posting all of them here I thought I would do them individually with some details.

Another hat that I made yesterday was Thuy’s Zeebee. She gave me an original copy when she wanted test knitters & I never got around to trying it. She has a perfect, revised version on her blog for free & I gave it a shot. It’s now permanently on my hat roster. It took me about 4 hours to knit the first one but now that I get it I do believe that I will be able to make them in less time than that. I used SWS in Natural Russet. I did do one thing different than in the pattern just to see how I liked it; I used a 3 needle bind off instead of garter grafting. The next one I will for sure be grafting. I like how it turned out though so I will not take out the bind off.

 

 

I have been collecting vintage aprons for a few years now and decided it was time to actually do something with some of them. I have also been looking for some nifty curtains for the kitchen window that looks right at the front porch. This is what I came up with;

TOTAL CHANGE OF TOPIC!!!
I JUST TOOK SOME PICTURES MANUALLY LIKE I HAVE BEEN DOING SINCE MY CAMERA MALFUNCTIONED THE NIGHT I GOT IT, ACCIDENTALLY HIT A MENU BUTTON WITH MY NOSE AND THE MENU ACTUALLY POPPED UP.

MY CAMERA WORKS!!!!!!!

Okay, on to the aprons…

I like them, George likes them, the kids think it’s a little odd but they don’t get a say in it.
I wanted to use fabric aprons but couldn’t come up with a mix that was pleasing to me. The crochet aprons are just my style anyways. And, I have to show you my favorite feature in our kitchen;

My Dinner Choices sign. I love it. I grew up hearing it nightly, I say it nightly to my own kids. Tough love, baby!

I also wanted to show off my new mug from Anthropologie. I love it!

Other than that I have no new knitting to show. There hasn’t been much progress on anything. I had to lengthen Tyler’s sweater, again. That makes 3 times it’s been lengthened to fit him as he grows. He does love that sweater!

I posted a new photo to FinishedprojectsPhotos.