Striped Longies

I was looking for a new quick knitting project and my friend suggested a pair of baby longies. She had made tons of them over the past few years for her little boy. She made them because she cloth diapered him. She told me not only were they quick and easy she knew whenever I have kids I’ll cloth diaper so making a few pairs wouldn’t be a waste.

I used Patons Classic Wool Roving in Pacific Teal and Aran (I think). The pattern was from Pimp My Longies.

I added a cord just incase its ever needed.

About to start the gusset

I love the look of the stripes, but I must admit... they aren't even. I seem to have miscounted a few places and the stripes are varying sizes, oh well. 

Almost finished with the first leg.

I really love this pattern and they turned out so cute. (So cute I made a few more pairs, I'll post those later)

St. Augustine

5/26/15 6:10 PM

As I type, Vince is driving us home from our trip to the “beach.” I put beach in quotes because we only spent 30 minutes at the beach. We went to St. Augustine, Florida to visit friends and we ending up exploring the town more than the beach, which was fine as neither of us are beach people.

The trip started out as a nice road trip through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia then Florida. Unfortunately about halfway the “Service Engine Soon” light came on… it never comes on. Then we had trouble accelerating from a stop.  Thankfully we made it to St. Augustine safely. The next day we woke up early and took it to the Nissan place in St. Augustine and after two hours waiting they told us we needed a new radiator and transmission… with cheaper parts it would still run us over $6000. In case you wondered the car is a 2005 and only worth about $3000-4000. So we rented a car to sightsee and prayed ours would get us home. We are about 4 hours from home as I’m typing and I'm still praying we get home.

            Once we had the rental we ignored our car so as not to ruin our trip. We visited the Alligator Farm (and the Crocodile Crossing), the Florida Agricultural Museum, and downtown St. Augustine and the historic district. The Alligator Farm (and the Crocodile Crossing) and the Florida Agricultural Museum both deserve their own post (and they will get them). The rest of the town was so pretty and so old. There was so much to do and so little time! We will have to go visit again. If we go again we will have to go to the Fountain of Youth and the Pirate Ship.

            But for now we are heading home, and I am glad to be heading back. I need rest from my vacation! So far the drive hasn’t been too bad (except the rain) and Vince is driving and singing so that makes it so much better.

5/26/15 10:04 PM

            Yay, we arrived safely home. The bags are unpacked and laundry has been started… now its time to rest.

            

Allen's Quilt

I finally finished the quilt I “gave” my dad for Christmas. I am a little embarrassed by how long I took to finish it. I started it about a week before I had my tonsils removed and I finished it May 14^th… Did I mention it was a Christmas gift?

Well I finished it, that’s all that matters.

Below is the process of making the quilt.

Picking out the fabric

Quilting ... by hand... that's why it takes so long

Quilting finished. now trimming

My little helper, Godric wanted to play

sewing the binding, Isis made sure she was in the photo

Almost finished!

P.S. the delay between the finishing of the quilt and the posting of this post should give you an idea about how good I am with timeliness. 

Dogs in the Coop

So I couldn’t find Cleo the other day. Then I found her in the chicken coop…

A few days before that I had found Isis in the coop.

Isis wanted the yogurt I gave the chickens...

The chickens don’t seem to be upset or annoyed by the dogs. The dogs are protective of the chickens so they don’t hurt them, but I am concerned if they can get in other predators can as well.

Well Cleo was properly shamed and I now have to figure out and fix how she is getting in.

Make Believe Socks

I told a friend I’d make him socks for his birthday. I let him pick the yarn and coincidentally he chose the same yarn another friend got me for my birthday. I love this yarn; it is soft and easy to knit with and also comes in lovely colors. To make these socks I used Stroll Hand Painted SockYarn in “Make Believe.”

Even though the color is variegated and beautiful, I have a problem knitting socks entirely in one color. So I decided to do the heels and toes in a different color. I looked through my stash of yarn and narrowed it down to a blue (that matched a blue in the yarn) or pink. I was leaning toward the pink and then I remembered when my friend was picking the yarn his daughter wanted him to get pink, and I knew he would find the pink awesome.

Good news is he loved them and did think the pink was awesome. Bad news is now I really want to use the pink for my pair of socks, but I don’t have enough… and I don’t remember where I got the pink so I can’t get more.

I’m so glad he liked the socks and hopefully mine will look as cool as his.