Knitting Dragonflies

Living in southern Indiana is a fun experience, we are just 5 miles north of Kentucky. When we moved here it took a bit to get accustomed to the culture. The people are friendly and warm. When passing anyone in a car you usually get a nod or a wave. This area has a large population of German Catholics, it embraces its history and people with festivals, churches, schools, and lots of good food. The area was rich in farming when we moved here, but like anything else, that has changed. So many farm fields are now housing developments. I miss driving down roads that had corn like a wall on each side and plenty of birds, possums, raccoons and deer. We are in a valley surrounded by three rivers. the Ohio, the Green and the Wabash. Often referred to as River City or much less kindly, the armpit of Indiana, that is from a ENT doc. (we all have sinus problems here) Upon moving here we learned that we MUST go to Rural King , everyone shops there. You can get your horse tack, ammo, ti...

Add some spray paint and a new back ground, spaceship and a plant. Now you can see time flies, but don’t know how fast. I have been neglecting my blog reading. Things that have kept me busy: 1. Frogging my lace shawl, I have been looking at this and doing a lot of sighing. I finally decided that I would frog it and make something else with the yarn. I’m thinking toe up socks, I like this pattern from Wendy Knits . It is a simple pattern and I need to make a fast pair of socks. I switched to a hand spun yarn that a friend of mine spun, and I have had for a time, waiting to use it. Crap, now that I see the pics, I think the original looks pretty good. 2. Still slowly knitting on my purse to be felted from Bags that Rock book. 3. Had a soap cozy marathon one night while mindlessly watching TV. 4. Primarily I am in a yarn work mania, it has been three years since I have gotten into the beds and properly weeded, planted and mulched. My nails and...

Some inspiration from a glue page, thanks Paula the Quilter !! One of the nice things about knitting is that you can forget any “I need to be right crap” It can just unfold as it will, you can change the pattern, make one of your own, yes, and even frog it. There is no “wrong” way to do it. I think there will be someone out there that sweater will fit. Or maybe your felted purse will turn into a iPod cozy. There doesn’t have to be any “rules”, so let your hair down, go sit in the sun, put on some music and pick up those sticks and get some pretty yarn. I’m making another felted bag, I hope this one turns out a good size. I am using The Propeller Pattern from Bag that Rock by Kelley Deal . But I’m modifying it some, by using two colors and I am going to do the duplicate stitch propellers in the opposite colors, of the area that they land on, so each propeller will be two colors. Lost?? More photos soon. Made another wire bird house, pattern to follow…. And have b...

Thanks to everyone that gave me advice and ideas about my sadly felted purse. I now know a lot more about felting. See the comments of my felting post. Good tip from A Bag of Olives , "the piece USUALLY (but not always) shortens lengthwise about 30% more than width-wise." My husband is a drummer and plays in a percussion ensemble. They were playing that night and as were walking out he looks at my bag and says "are you making me a stick bag ?", well, you know any good spouse who needs to stall for time repeats the question "making you a stick bag"? And the light bulb went off above my head. {For anyone that doesn't know this is kind of a purse for your drum sticks and other drumming items.} Husband "and it matches my drums!" Giggles from me at this point, I love it when good karma comes back to me! My pitiful bag was to become a one of a kind accidental "stick bag", thanks to Spin, Knit and Life who gave me the advice to refelt an...

I got some yarn from Where is she now? She ran a pass it on, three prizes contest. I won some yarn! Yea!!! I decided to turn mine into fibery goodness for 3 months. I'm going to run one giveaway in the months of April, May and June. You can enter the April giveaway for sock yarn here . Luck to you! This is what I got.. May your needles fly as fast as Dragonflies... Technorati Tags: Sockotta sock yarn give away , where is She Now? , knitting

It's spring, and who doesn't need to knit a new pair of socks! Leave a comment on this post, and I will have my husband randomly draw a name on April 30th. You will win one skein of Sockotta Yarn, color 605 , Blue Harvest. Happy Spring! Happy Knitting! May your needles fly as fast as dragonflies.... Technorati Tags: Sockotta sock yarn give away , enter for sock yarn here , free sock yarn , knitting socks a

I have been working on a purse to felt. It has been hibernating a bit. I finished it, and was quite pleased. Felt is the oldest form of fabric known to humankind. It predates weaving and knitting, although there is archaeological evidence from the British Museum that the first known thread was made by winding vegetable fibers on the thigh. In Turkey, the remains of felt have been found dating back at least to 6,500 BC. Highly sophisticated felted artifacts were found preserved in permafrost in a tomb in Siberia and dated to 600AD. WHO INVENTED FELTING? THERE IS THE IDEA THAT ST. CLEMENT, THE PATRON SAINT OF FELTERS AND HAT MAKERS, PUT WOOL IN THE BOTTOM OF HIS SANDALS AS HE TREKKED OFF ON A HOLY MISSION.  THAT IS POSSIBLE, BUT ARCHEOLOGY AND SCIENCE HAVE SHOWN US THAT FELTING HAS BEEN AROUND A LOT LONGER THAN THAT DEAR OLD SAINT. MAYBE AS LONG AS ABOUT 30,000 YEARS OR MORE! Saint Clement I, was the 3rd Bishop of ...

Lynn at Colorjoy , she blogs, she knits, she spins, and sings . She has a shop and sells yarn, handmade buttons and more. Check her out, she is a constant inspiration, and as she reminded me recently. Every one needs some down time. Thanks Lynn, you have turned my sluggish feeling into a much needed rest. Giggles.... I got some spinning done. This is the cotton candy, more pics later. I think it is going to be a lace shawl. This is my first attempt at plying, I have about 8 more oz of this roving. I'm entertaining the idea of dyeing it. It is so soft and fluffy. I don't know what to make with it. I actually got the freakin Kelly bag, (great pattern, but I didn't like my yarn choice) done and ready to felt. After the ice storm I lost almost all of my fish, the only survivors were my plecos . They are so graceful to watch, I call them my underwater ballerinas. Now they have company, I bought a Betta , Mr. Fish, he is blue and looks happy...