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Yarn Along – Afghans and more

On Wednesday’s knitters go to Ginny’s to share all the wonderful projects being worked on, finished, frogged, cried over, and learned from. They also tell what they are reading and a little of the storyline or provoking thoughts. I think it is great. So many books, knitting ideas and hints on how to make knitting more enjoyable. (I’m a day late.)

Trisha’s baby blanket is finished.
I love the ruffle,
She has three girls, one born Monday.
I’m knitting three afghans.
I’m not sure who will get which one,
I may let the older girls pick their favorite.

Number 2 – Pinwheel afghan for one of Trisha’s girls.
This is a fun knit.
Number 3 – a favorite afghan, Cuddle wheel,
worked in short rows making 12 pinwheel sections.
I have knit many of these.

Summer Flies for Suzanne is knit with Debbie Bliss Eco Cotton,
I like this pattern and the changes in stitches.
I think I would like to knit again in a wool blend of some kind.

And finally a humble dishcloth,
I love garter stitch,
it is so regular and even and simple.

I’m listening to the first book, Hidden Empire, of the Saga of the Seven Suns by Kevin Anderson. I have the first thee books downloaded. I found out there are nine books in the series, I’m not sure I want to listen to all of them.

Join us at Ginny’s.

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July 6, Today’s thought – Tangles of Life

Sand and Surf, a round afghan for a dear little boy, was finished last night.

Good Morning

2Chronicles 20:12-13
O our God, . . . for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us;
neither know we what to do:
but our eyes are upon thee.
And all Judah stood before the LORD,
with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

A Life was lost in Israel because a pair of human hands were laid unbidden upon the ark of God. They were placed upon it with the best intent to steady it when trembling and shaking as the oxen drew it along the rough way; but they touched God’s work presumptuously, and they fell paralyzed and lifeless.
Much of the life of faith consists in letting things alone.

If we wholly trust an interest to God, we must keep our hands off it; and He will guard it for us better than we can help Him.

“Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.” Psalm 37:7

Things may seem to be going all wrong, but He knows as well as we; and He will arise in the right moment if we are really trusting Him so fully as to let Him work in His own way and time. There is nothing so masterly as inactivity in some things, and there is nothing so hurtful as restless working, for God has undertaken to work His sovereign will. ~~A. B. Simpsom.

It is such a comfort to drop the tangles of life into God’s hands and leave them there.

Drop the tangles. . . Today
With my prayers, desiring yours, Leslie

(Bold emphasis added)

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Yarn Along – Taking Turns

This past month I organized my WIPs, those presently I’m most interested in knitting, in a topless box right by my chair. I began to knit rotating from one project to another, making some progress, ripping some because stitch count was off and I couldn’t figure out where, enjoying the variety and actually finishing one (it’s a Christmas gift, don’t tell my girls they would be shocked).

The finished – Emily’s cowl – it’s not blocked so the edges are curling. I really like the way the Zauberball, blue/black shading and the Cascade Heritage silk, lime green, contrasted, yet worked together.

I’ve spent the most knitting time on Moss Garden Shawl. I’ve started the second skein of yarn and am on the 6th repeat of eight. Looking closely today before taking a picture I found this second skein is generally lighter than the first. sigh. My quandary do I rip back and re-knit using two skeins to blend in the lighter one or just leave it? I already know the answer, I can’t leave it this way. I wanted a coffee look for a coffee loving friend and the colors will be perfect if blended.

I think a round knitted afghan is one of the best baby gifts. I started this one in April and ‘little boy’ was a year old on June 28. My needles put up a hue and cry – that boy needs his afghan! What my needles don’t understand is that it has 104-109 for the past 5 days. I got busy on the afghan anyway and now have 7 of the 12 sections done. I take about one and a half to two hours per section, so it will be done this week, I hope.

Squint. . . Can’t you see the waves?

WendyKnits Summer Mystery Shawl 2013 is delightful to knit. Since I’m sharing my knitting time with others, this shawl is not as far along as I would like. Peeking at the ‘spoiler’ pictures, I’m going to love my finished shawl.

Apothecary’s Daughter by Julie Klassen is the ‘paper’ book I’m reading. I saw this book on some one’s blog (sorry don’t remember whose), now it’s my turn to read it. I’m listening to Die Trying, a Jack Reacher story by Lee Child. Jack Reacher is all the storybook heros rolled into one.

Many knitters/readers can be found here.

Links are to my Ravelry notes.

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on July 3, 2013 at 7:45 pm Comments (2)

Yarn Along – I Love Knitting

Whippoorwill is finished and around Miss Shirley’s shoulders.
This cowl is coming along well.

Mystery Minerva KAL –

I had to restart several times,
then when I finally kept a correct stitch count
and enough rows,I could finally read my knitting
and see when I goofed.
I’m on clue 1, knitting the short rows.
how I count stitches then wrap & turn

Juego Mystery KAL, knitting clue 2

Just finished reading ‘Love Anthony’ by Lisa Genova.
I highly recommend it – theme autism.
This is the third book I’ve read by Genova like them all.

You will find other neat knitting projects and books for your list to read – here.

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on May 22, 2013 at 11:24 pm Comments (2)
Tags: Fiddleknits, Juego Mystery KAL, Laura Nelkin, Minerva Mystery KAL

Yarn Along – Yarn and Garden

April’s Scrap jar,
not many yarn ends,
but a lot of crocheting and knitting was going on.
If you look close you can see
how the Farmer has been spending his time,
3 1/2 -75ft long rows of tomatoes
and assorted peppers, bells and hot.
Broccoli and cauliflower planed under the grape vines.
Raspberries, blackberries and boysenberries growing like mad
behind the grapes

Brittany’s granny square is finished
and wrapped around ‘sweet one’.

Over half of the 500+ stitches is bound off –
soon Miss Shirley’s shawl will go home.
I’m not sure when blocking pictures will post,
I’ll be out of town next Wednesday.

Shhhhhh, I know it is a quilt. . .
One step closer to being completed.
One side of the binding machine sewn on,
I’ll turn and hand sew the other side Thursday.

That is if I can get Grissabel
to give up her napping bed for a couple hours.

I finished listen to Cold Truth by Mariah Stewart,
an easy to listen to mystery.
Today I’ll start Mr. Penumbra’s 24 hour Bookstoree
by Robin Sloan, today.

Aren’t we enjoying spring!
See more Yarn Alongs Here

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Yarn Along – This and That

Our Rv is to the left of this flower bed, our good neighbor down the path.

Just two sides of this Granny Square and short enough pink to finish those rounds. Buying one more skein today. Finish the pink, 2 rounds of green and one row of green shells and it is done.

Two knitted hot pad dishcloths finished; on to the owner this afternoon.

16 more rows done on this Gratitude KAL, I like it

Whippoorwill needs just half a row left to bead and then bind off with a crocheted loop, crochet 2 together, chain 5. . .

With two projects almost done, I couldn’t resist. Another Mystery KAL, Laura Nelkin’s Juego. I have tried to do two of her mysteries. I started Kinetic, but was way beyond my abilities, then when I saw the pictures of finished shawls, I knew it wasn’t my style, so wasn’t very disappointed. The second KAL I was knitting well, but slowly – seeing the pictures knew again it wasn’t my style so didn’t finish it. I’m hoping I like this one.

Come see what you’ve been missing at Ginny’s Yarn Along and at Tami’s WIP

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Yarn Along – Hot Pads

A lot of Knitting and Crocheting is going on at Cozy Acres.
Whippoorwill is on the last two rows,
after a bump in the knitting about 15 rows back.
Granny square afghan is growing round by round.
I think I’ll do 1 or 2 more repeats of color;
then a scallop row in green to finish it.

A friend brought me some red and purple cotton yarn,
“Can you make dishcloths out of this?
I use them like hot pads”
I made hot pads.
Dishcloths, one each from the red and purple, are on the needles.

Re-reading On the Beach by Nevil Shute – 1963 catastrophic war – no life left on western hemisphere.

Radioactive winds heading south scheduled to arrive in Australia in three months. Good Read.

You’ll find neat projects and good books to add to your reading list at Ginny’s

Works In Progress at Tami’s will have you checking Ravelry for patterns, I do.

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Tags: Granny Square, hot pads, Nevil Shute, On the Beach, Whippoorwill shawl

My Name is Leslie and I Procrastinate

My sewing area

Blocks being made

With lots of help

Blocks get trimmed to the same size

I had blocks together and half the binding on and procrastinated.
Not now…
Not today….
Yes, today, but didn’t do it….
Later today, ran out of today………….
so when the load of quilt gets heavy enough ……
DO IT NOW!

So in one and half hours border on,
mitered corners stitched,
back seamed and everything pressed.
WHY …OH…WHY…do I procrastinate ?
My friend could have had her quilt a month ago.
Thank you for your patience.

Blocks and border all together

Backing fabric

The quilt is now in the hands of my favorite quilter, Emily.

Quilt’m by Sunflower Designs

This finished Object isn’t made of yarn, but it IS finished
I’ll hand sew the binding when the quilting is done.
I’m joining with Tami, just for fun!

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Tags: Puzzle quilt block, Quilt'm by Sunflower Designs

Yarn Along – A Finished Shawl and Februay’s Yarn Scraps

Kathi’s Solstice blocked
My daughter, Mary, does the blocking, good job1

and ready for gifting.

Kathi loved it and wore it to Bible study the same night.

Since I was finishing large projects, not many ends to put into a jar, even the cat was bored.

I’ve never read The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein;
I’m trying to listen to it and having a struggle getting into the story

Shawl Ravelry notes Shawl designer – Wendy Knits

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FO Friday – A Hat and a Jar

In case you didn’t know FO stands for Finished Object. Tami lets finishers brag a little on her blog, by linking to her blog their pictures of FO’s. Click – to see finished fiber objects.

Friday afternoon I finished my KAL (knit along) hat; I was knitting with a group of nice ladies and Crissy, our fearless leader.

Megan is modeling it. Aren’t those double cables something else!

kittens with mittens gave me the idea of saving yarn scraps in a jar.

My jar on January 31, 2013. Isn’t it beautiful?

I did a lot of hat knitting in January and I frogged a pair of sox to remove worn heels, so my jar filled fast. (I’ll reknit the sox with shorter legs; I’ll like them better that way.) I’m following my mother suggestion that I do a jar a month, instead of getting a larger jar and dumping all the scraps in one jar. I don’t expect February’s jar to be full. I have a baby blanket and two shawls that will be my focus this month.

Looking forward to more happy knitting in February!

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Yarn Along — Socks and a Shawl and Hats

Blocking so all the beauty of Noro could be seen

Having cold feet, I pull on my favorite wool socks……….with thread bare heels.
I stumbled across a pattern on a blog that looked easy.
I shortened the leg and in three days I had new socks.

I frogged the old socks,
cut out the bare strands
and wound into cakes,
ready to be reknit into my favorite wool socks.

A little hat knit from sock yarn that makes me seem so talented.

A KAL hat with Stitched Together, February 3 is the targeted finish date.

I’ve been listening to Marie Bostwick’s A Single Thread, A Thread of Truth, A Thread So Thin( this is where I am) and Threading the Needle series, a quilt shop, new friends and caring for one another even when they make hard to do so.

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January 24 – There is Blocking Going On

Aren’t they pretty!

I think the little girlies who will be receiving these will like them.

A Hug and Thank you to Mary, blocker extraordinaire

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Tags: Blocking Shawls, Knit Shawls

Yarn Along – After Christmas Hats

I have just a couple more of these wide ribbed beanies to knit, then I think I’m done…………but maybe three nieces’ children might like one; that’s just 6 more. 🙂

Next to cast on is this hat, Chrissy from Leicester, United Kingdom, at Stitched Together is having a KAL — I didn’t want to resist.

(picture stolen from Chrissy)

I’m using this yarn, pretty, huh?

and then I can go back to knitting WIP’s

Just finished listening to The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton. I liked it, especially the twist in the ending.

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Tags: Wide ribbed beanie, Yarn cakes

Thoughts of Grace

My thoughts as I walk this path…

Yarn Along – Afghans and more

July 6, Today’s thought – Tangles of Life

Yarn Along – Taking Turns

Yarn Along – I Love Knitting

Yarn Along – Yarn and Garden

Yarn Along – This and That

Yarn Along – Hot Pads

My Name is Leslie and I Procrastinate

Yarn Along – A Finished Shawl and Februay’s Yarn Scraps

FO Friday – A Hat and a Jar

Yarn Along — Socks and a Shawl and Hats

January 24 – There is Blocking Going On

Yarn Along – After Christmas Hats

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