I love to sew!!!

A long time ago, before B and I got married I used to sew a lot. I sewed quilts and loved it. I went on vacation to MV and when I got back B had converted part of his house into a sewing room for me. He painted the walls the color of the sky in MV and it was perfect. I could sew for hours, listening to my music or watching the little television he put in the room for me. It was wonderful.

I forgot how much I love to sew! I had some major sewing machine drama but here are the results! Napkins!!!!!

I'm working on reducing the family's carbon footprint, and found this great tutorial online and here they are:

And with a little mood lighting! I can't wait to sew some more.

Oh, the tutorial is on this amazing blog sewtakeahike: linen napkins {a tutorial} I love it!

Hydrangeas and the Patio

I want to thank my husband and two boys for the best day yesterday. It was so nice to all be together and no one was in a mood. No one was fighting. There wasn't any tension. It was just a nice afternoon and evening full of good conversation and a lot of laughing. I know it sounds strange to thank them, but the way it rolls with two elementary school age children is that there is a lot of time spent talking about who is looking at who funny, who gets to walk with mom or dad, who got to ride on the cart LAST time (eye roll).

So yesterday we went to the plant store and to Home Depot and got a lot of things together so we don't have to leave the house today (Memorial Day) if we don't want to. We scored the best buy on hydrangeas, so we bought six! They are small and we are going to plant them around the patio. (So when I am having a bad day I can sit outside and pretend I am on the Vineyard). We also got herbs for the garden and petunias and zinnias for pots around the house. The nice part was that they boys picked out the colors that they liked and they worked together to get everything. We also had a long talk about what we want to grow and what works best for our yard.

It seems quite clear that we all would like a big vegetable garden but with our property that is just not going to happen. So we have to be content waiting another week for our first farm share and growing herbs....maybe a tomato....or a bell pepper...just how much room does a cucumber need exactly?

Starting Over Again!

Guess what? I'm starting over again. I have missed posting and wanted to get back into it. Mostly for me and as a record of the things that I create. I've been working on a lot of new things and will begin sharing them as soon as possible. Stick with it. There will be pictures tomorrow

2008

Hello 2008. I'm hoping that this goes better in the New Year than it has in the past. I started with taking the summer off to spend more time with the boys and it worked out that I took the rest of the year off!!

I had a great end of 2007, I went to NY Sheep and Wool and did a lot of knitting and I just couldn't start blogging again. It was like when you don't call someone and then it goes on for so long that you feel odd if you just called and then it becomes this strange circle. Anyway, I'm going to at least post twice a week for 2008. I'm planning a lot of knitting this year and I'm also learning to spin. I don't think anyone can get out of Rhinebeck not wanting to own a spinning wheel and a whole stash of roving. So the first goal is some handspun and a BSJ for my cousin.

Thanks. D

June, June, June...

Where did this month go. The last time I checked it was may and I looked again and here it is the end of the month. Nothing and everything has gotten done this month. End of school (which is today!!) Swim lessons start up. Some knitting, not much. Here are pics


Those are the boys feet. I love those feet!!!





Baby socks, Gems Opal, US1 regular pattern

More knitting at the pool. I'm going to try to post every day!!!!

A whole month

A whole month has gone by and not a post from me. This is been an amazingly busy time of the year. The new baby dog is getting bigger and bigger. She is presenting us with more than her share of challenges. (Housetraining and a more determined attitude than we had expected) I'm not sure what we expected. (I'm also not sleeping too much due to the fact that the girl gets up at 5:00 a.m.

My wonderful little boy graduated from preschool this month with all the pomp and circumstance that is entailed. Cap and gown or rather cap and t-shirt. It was one of the most adorable things I had ever seen. (I know, I'm his mom.) Mom's are supposed to feel this way. I didn't even feel guilty about having the best seat with the best view of him.

Anyway, the knitting has been horrible. One pair of socks and a baby hat is the sum total of the month of May I just realized that I haven't taken a picture of the baby hat (I will include later).

The socks were hard. Harder than they had to bee. I'm really not good at the heel. I can do the regular heel, but these and the one of Fanny was really hard for me to do. The wrapping and turning made it really difficult.

Yarn: Crystal Palace Bunny Hop

Pattern: Speckled Rib Socks

Needles: US 5

Here I am complaining about socks that are knit on size 5 needles. They should have taken me a day instead of a month. I've casted on a shawl and I'm going to try some lace. I'd post pics but it just looks like nothing now.

Baby hat to come....more posts soon

The New Baby

Well after much waiting for the rescue organization. We are not a patient people. Uncle Jimmy had quite enough and helped us find our new baby:



Her name is Mayday, She is 10 weeks old and we got her yesterday. Her first night went really well and right now she is relaxing in the sun room while I post her pictures.

She is the sweetest little thing, which is why I had to pick out the very stylish pink collar and leash.


I hope she likes knitting. I'll have more posts and pics later.