Loom Knitting Project and Link

As most of you probably know, I am into loom knitting. I found a great site and a great loom knitter, Isela Phelps aka Purling Sprite. She is a great teacher and gives freely of her talent and her patterns. Here is one that I want to do: Drop Stitch Scarf, she includes a video of how to do the stitch, I am a visual learner and videos are always a plus for me. This scarf is light and airy, it would be perfect for the cool evenings and nights around here, even in the desert with the hot days, once the sun goes down, it can cool off quite a bit.


Right now I am making a eyeglasses case found in this book, Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom, with over 30 Fun Projects, the challenge for me are the buttonholes, I have a great pattern and I hope that by the time I am finished with this project, I'll be an expert at making buttonholes on the loom. It also uses a different stitch, the knit and purl, you knit one, then purl one, but as you go from row to row, you do two rows the same, then alternate the first stitch on the second two rows, it's K1P1 on rows one and two, then P1K1 on rows three and four, then repeat. That makes a double moss stitch, it's pretty. I picked this project specifically to learn how to make buttonholes, and I needed a eyeglasses case too. I'll post a picture of it when I am finished.


Go check out Isela's site, if you are in to knitting at all, you will enjoy her site!


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Podcast-03 Knitting, Cooking and Our First Night Here

I created another podcast, this one was created  a little while back, had some trouble with the podcast site, they were doing some maintenance and upgrades so the newest podcasts weren't working, but now they are working. So listen and enjoy... oh and here are some pictures of things mentioned in the podcast.

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Family Visit

I had a very nice visit with my sister and niece this week, this is their first time here, I must say that my sister and niece handled the primitive conditions, poo-bucket, cold nights and such very well.

Unfortunately the visit wasn't long enough, they arrived late in the day on Saturday and left today, Tuesday. They got a late start the day they left, it was sprinkling with some snow mixed in for good measure, but it dried up nicely by mid-morning and they were able to get away just fine.

I took some pix of them before they left, so you can see what some of my family looks like.

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My sister is 2 years younger than I am, and my niece is 14, they sure grow up fast, I was there when my niece was born, it seems like yesterday. I think they had a good time visiting, Heather (my niece) and PB climbed up the mountain while I was driving my sister around the neighborhood. We could only take one at a time in the Bug, there is no back seat.

My sister and I are pretty close, but we are pretty opposite, we like to say that I got the cooking gene and she got the jewelry gene. I am perfectly happy being out in the middle of nowhere, she gets antsy if she is that far from a WallyWorld, so for now, we will just have to be happy with visits, I'll not be talking her into coming out on a permanent basis, at least not until TSHTF, there will be no WallyWorlds then. LOL!

Oh, BTW, you can see the knit hats they are wearing, those were made by yours truly, I knitted them just a few days before they arrived as a surprise. My sister especially appreciated hers, she slept in it to keep warm. My sister's hat has a couple of rows of fancy stitching, it's hard to see in the pictures, and since the yarn I used for her hat is so soft, the fancy stitches don't show up as well. My niece's hat took some doing, I knitted the brim as usual, but took it off the knitting loom, turned it inside out, placed it back on the knitting loom, then turned it to make the brim, there is probably an easier way to create that look, but since I tend to make things up as I go, I didn't follow a pattern, I am happy with them.



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Loom Knitting Video

Here's something fun and off the cuff, I wanted to make a knitting loom video so I did, with the help of Primitive Bob, watch and enjoy.



My Newest Hobby- click here for Loom Knitting Patterns


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