A Purse for Sis

This is was a birthday present for my sis this week.  You know, my younger, cuter, skinnier sis with the better hair…. )
I could go on, but I love her anyway – mostly because she still loves me after we tortured her as a child by shutting her in our room alone and holding [...]

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Boring is Good

The other night I sat down to watch a movie, one that was going to require that I pay attention to it and not my knitting, and realized all my WIP’s had a degree of lacework.  I knew I’d just end up messing up whatever I tried to knit, so I watched, and enjoyed the [...]

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Sharing the Mystery

Mystery Stole 3 is coming along nicely.  I have a few mistakes… although what look like mistakes in this picture along the eyelet edging are really just a results of a poor, speedy blocking job on bicycle spokes so I could get a picture.
Yes, bicycle spokes…. it’s what I had handy.
I’m sure if you want, [...]

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Knitting – Independence Style

What do you do on vacation when it’s 105, with spikes to
…you laze around and knit, with a cool drink within reach, gathered around the ol’ crawdad bucket filled with icy water!  (sans crawdads and well-rinsed, of course)That’s sis on the left with her back to us, then (going clockwise) me, Lilly (reading, silly girl doesn’t [...]

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Change of Plans/Trip Cut Short

We had a wonderful trip to Independence for our yearly 4th of July family get-together… but had an unexpected and earlier than planned ending!  A summer storm over the Sierras cause some lightening strikes just outside of town, which easily caught fire in the 105+ degree weather.
To contrast, here’s the creek where we took the [...]

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My Kind of Gardening!

I participated in Lynne’s “Special Swap” and this swap’s was a garden theme.  My swap buddy, Elizabeth, spoiled me royally!So many goodies!  There is some beautiful yarn, of course – Zen Yarn Garden in Avocado Spring, and Lorna’s Laces in Purple Iris!
And then there were the other goodies!  Each was beautifuly wrapped in tissue, so [...]

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