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I have yet another niece (that makes 34 nieces & nephews total), Isabelle was born a few weeks ago to my sister Christi! I don’t have any photos of her to share yet but I do have the gifts I made for her to share with you all.

I finished the Lady February Sweater a few weeks ago.
I used Araucania Atacama alpaca yarn on size 8 needles.

I am pleased with how it turned out! I have actually worn it! Sometimes I am very thankful for our marine layer. If only for the opportunity to wear sweaters in the summer as soon as they are finished ;o)

Well a lot has happened in the last month since I posted. I do believe I will do individual posts for each little event.
Let’s begin, shall we?
I participated in a swap on the Ravelry Coffee Lovers Group, here’s my package I finally received after much fighting with my post office.

It’s awesome! So much good stuff; coffee- 2 pounds!!, Englich Breakfast Tea, a stick infuser, candies, coffee cup shaped glass stitch markers, handdyed tweed sock yarn from A Likely Yarn and the yummiest Magic Balm hand balm. Love it all!!
Thank you so much LizW!!

I felt the need for a quick, wearable project after the month long shawl knitting.

So here it is, the Ballet T-Shirt from Loop-D-Loop by Teva Durham.

I used Cotton Fleece doubled on size 15 needles,  color Kelp Green. I used the full 2 balls continuing down until I had just enough to bind off.
I am pleased, it was fast, fun, easy and I can wear it now in the summertime. As well as in the winter over long sleeved t’s. It needs to be washed and steam blocked to keep the edges from rolling but it’s still good straight off the needles.
Total knit time: 5 hours

The shawl is off the needles, grafted at the edging ends and ready for a soak & block.

I finished just a little after 11pm tonight & I am so very glad to be done!!! Now for the time consuming pain in my butt, blocking it out.

Pictures of it all probably on Monday.

My big sister Cori works and writes for the Kansas Eagle. She had a column in this last Tuesdays paper all about Ravelry.

Go take a read and enjoy!!!

You can find her at her own blog, Cori Thinks.

Love yah, Sis!!!

Summer time is not my favorite time of the year. Actually it’s my least favorite time of the year.

Let me just list the reasons for you:

• Flies like to multiply
• Racoons visit and like to fight with the skunks that also like to visit (although the skunks don’t spray as much in the summertime as they do in the winter/springtime)
• Ants
• Ants
• Ants
• Flies
• Maggots
• Flies
• Ants

Did I get my point across??
This morning I woke up to maggots in the trash cans on the side of the house. It happens once every few years. Then I go on a crazy garbage area cleaning frenzy, spray all kinds of pesticides (and bleach too) on the dirt and into the bricks to let it soak in in hopes of the little creatures not taking residence in the ground. Then I buy new trashcans. And more fly spray. I did just read that you can kill the maggots with boiling water. I may have to try that if I find any escapees from this mornings maggot genocide.
Now, the ants are a continual problem but for the most part I have had good success over the last 4 years keeping them out. They are coming in through the oddest places now that I have killed all the usual routes. Between the carpet and baseboard in the hallway being one place. The itty-bittyest little hole under the windowsill where the paint had bubbled and popped when painted last leaving said hole.
I hate ants and I hate flies.
The odd thing this morning was my twinge of thankfulness for ants.
I take trash out, turn around (barefoot mind you) and see a huge trail of ants. Then I saw what the ants were after (and thankfully I had not stepped on, God does love me), the maggots. House fly maggots to be precise.
They are squirmy and disgusting. I think I would truly die if I ever found them in my house trash like I have read about.
The cans are out by the street now ready to be hauled off by the trash men tomorrow. New cans will come home with my husband.  And we can start the whole wretched process over aga….wait a minute… new beginning….IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!!
Now, I will go sit and knit while I feel creepy crawly insects all over me. nice. real nice.
Next post: pretty pictures and actual good stuff

I just came across a fun little ravelry tidbit.
If you use Safari, Firefox, Seamonkey there is a Ravel it! button, that you can drag to your toolbar, on the bottom right hand side of the patterns page.
Now, once you have the button in your toolbar it can be used in the following ways (and there may be more that I just don’t know about):

1. You find a pattern on the web, click it and it will open in the ravelry site
2. You come across someones blog and want to see if they are on ravelry, click it and it will take you to their profile page.

That is frickin’ awesome! Hope you all have as much fun with it as I have!

The Gap Fire, 8:30am, July 2, 2008

If I have to be evacuated I am going to be one pissed lady.

So far the evacuations are 2 miles from my house but that fire is a good distance up the hill. And since fire likes to take it’s time coming down a hill I am going out on a limb here and saying we won’t be evacuated any time soon.

The fire in that shot is a good 10 miles from here, at least that is what I keep telling myself ;o)