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Vacations and fun in July

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Dawn

We’ve been back a week.  I have a lack of bloggerific thoughts– brains still on vacation I think.  Here are some pictures though…

time with the cousins.

getting so big they barely fit in a giant tractor tire.

Visited the  OC area yarn/spinning shops and cast on for a pair of “lacey Gracie” socks with lovely hand-dyed and those funky new square needles.

More soon.

Hope you are enjoying summer

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knitty calculations– now with more, more, more mantises!

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Dawn

Back to knitting news.  For the family in fact.

I am working on those lovely sproingy-patterned socks for Knitty Spring Forward . It is a really fun pattern, looks great, is easy enough to remember, but has enough going on pattern-wise to be a fun knit :)

Marigold, per usual is a experiencing crafty-schizophrenia.  The weaving is to the side now and we’re back to knitting.  She is knitting her first circular-knitting project,  A hat.  She is planning to make a LOT of hats.  She wants to jazz’em up too– viking hats, egg hats, wig hats.  It ought to be good!  We have found this site so helpful for calculations.  Many helpful tools there, including the ever daunting ” how to knit a bust dart”.  I don’t think we’ll need that for her hats– but still good to know it’s there.

Still with the mantises.  Went to grab the doorknob the other morning and almost got a handful of THIS.

I mean, WOW.  Look at the size of that thing!

And there have been more– on the kitchen window… ” Look Mama here’s one and it still has it’s head.”

And THAT folks, is good for the garden.

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