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This is a series of rain pictures~ enjoy!

Sorry for those of you that have slower modems! But I just couldn’t help myself!! I LOVE THE RAIN!!

I am about to send my secret pal her first round of presents. First are 3 hanks of the Robles yarn from handpaintedyarn.com. Then at Michaels I found a bunch of different cards with knitting motifs on the front. Then I had a brilliant idea! Let me just tell you….I found a really fun set of republican elephant stitch markers about a year and a half ago. Because i am a republican I love them. My secret pal is the exact opposite of me in many, many ways. Politics being just one area. So I have had a bit of a challenge coming up with unique really fun gifts suited to her. I didn’t want to do the totally stock sp gifts so I decided to mimic my republican stitch markers with a set of democratic donkey stitch markers for her. Unfortunately I was not going to pay the $15 for the one set of 6 I found on Ebay that weren’t that cute. So I got creative! On ebay I did a search for anything jewelry or bead that was democrat donkey. THis is what I found

Yesterday it came in the mail & I made these with the beads

Aren’t they so cute? I hope she will love them as much as I love my elephants!

Here is the box put together

The box I also found at Michaels for a buck fitty! Not bad at all!

On the knitting side of things I have been jammin’!

I finished all the pieces for the camping sweater

Once the pieces were all blocked & thought I would just try to sew the hood together on the sewing machine & OMG it is amazing! For some reason sewing knit pieces together on the sewing machine has always been taboo in my mind. I guess I thought it made it too much like a store bought sweater. Well let me just tell you something! I will now sew whatever knit pieces I can with the sewing machine. Handfinishing is now only for smaller or bulkier items!

I do think it’s my new favorite thing! Unfortunately this sweater has so many other crazy finishing bits & pieces that I won’t have it finished for another day or two. There is all the picking up of stitches & making edgings around the hood, the front pockets and the front zipper edges. Once that is done & I can start actually sewing the pieces together & putting the zipper in the sewing machine will be a hummin’!

I also am one sleeve away from having the drop stitch cardigan out of the interweave fall 2005 finished out of chocolate bulky wool from handpaintedyarn.com. Once that is ready I will add it to the sewing machine pile to do the zipper, the rest of the seaming I will do by hand. The yarn is to bulky and thick & thin to be easily fed through the machine.

I also started 2 projects last night, the spiral blanket out of some gorgeous ice blue chenille and the Trellis sweater out of some rose pink cotton yarn for my newest niece, Sydney Sedgwick.  I will be posting updates on those projects as well as the other thousand that are on needles at the moment! Hopefully there will be some completed projects here in the next couple of days. Whew! All that finishing makes me grit my teeth & get really annoyed! But it’s worth the headache when you get a gorgeous sweater out of it so I will just bare down & get it all done!

Don’t you love the thought that fall is around the corner & we get to wear all these wonderful creations? I do!

Hopefully by the time any of you read this I will have deleted & put a stop to the rash of crass comments that have been left on my blog. I won’t even give you an example they are so bad! I sat here, mouth agape, muttering “uh, what?…uh,how can they…rrrrrgh”

Unlike blogger, I do not have word verification for anonymous commentors. So if it doesn’t stop today I have to enable the members only commenting. That sucks for me because then I will receive NO comments ever! If you want to be able to leave comments you will have to sign up for a blogharbor account to do it. Sorry!

Blame the jerks leaving all the pornograhic comments!

 

I am just going to do it, beg for anyones extra scraps/balls of koigu kpppm that they have no use or desire for. Any colorway, it’s a multi color pattern that will use all scraps. When I say extras I mean anything as small as 1/4 of a hank. I am talking free, I don’t want to have to pay for shipping or anything so if you aren’t willing to give in to my begging, pleading, mooching, whatever you want to call it, then no big deal! It can’t hurt to ask (other than my pride & reputation)!

Thanks for letting me grovel!

Hold on to your pants everyone! Below are a ton of pictures!!

What’s this, the surprise box!!

Let’s open it up & see what’s inside, yeah?

oooh, Kalah has requested a needle case out of these fabrics….OMG I love them!! Nice, nice choice!

 

so what do you think it would take to bribe me into making a needle case for her?? Let me tell you Kalah, you are one smart cookie when it comes to bribes!

close up of Ty’s necklace

sorry if they are a little out of focus, lately some days no matter what settings I have the camera on I can’t get good pictures, but only on some days. Lame!

Let me preface the next group of pictures with a little background. Trevor loves trains, he has since before he turned 3. As any parent knows, when a kid loves trains they love Thomas the tank engine (theme song plays in my head, sing along Tracy). Now, the Thomas series has something like 80 (billion) different trains, engines, carriages, trucks, cars, etc.etc. So far the only engine that Trevor has needed but didn’t have was Henry (he pronounces it hengry, he used to use the word hengry for Henry and the word angry so Tracy & I always tease him by saying hengry engry, he doesn’t get us) the #3 engine. I have heard about Henry for the last year, every time he gets hurt or is sad he cries to Henry. He doesn’t want mommy or daddy, he wants Hengry! Do I have to go any further to get you to see that my child has a serious engine problem?

Now back to the pictures.

At this moment I really wish I had a background soundtrack on my blog. Trevor is sitting at the base of my chair looking through a Thomas catalog that Kalah so kindly sent with the trains & making the “ch,ch,ch,ch” ing sound. Every once in a while I hear a little yip of joy and in a falsetto voice of Henry a train whistle. sigh…if only there were something that made my heart leap like that….

oh, that’s right! There is something that makes my heart go pitter-patter!

oh, you want to see them up close?? Sweet!

Kalah, you are SO going to have your needle case!!

Thank you for the amazing surprise for all of us!

Happy, happy, joy, joy!!