I have found another person who sells the most gorgeous patterns and also yarn to go with them. I am currently working my fingers off to get her Harvest Shawlette pattern done. I got the yarn from her it is called Aria and the color is called Summer Solstice. This yarn knits up absolutely fantastic with my new lace circular needles made by ChiaoGoo - love them too, even more than my Addis. Hopefully will find the connection for my camera and will be able to post some pictures as soon as I get more than 5 rows knit. I have never in my life cast on 838 stitches until now and had to restart two times, however it is going well now.
Check out her website - she is celebrating her birthday with great discounts on patterns and yarn. www.FiddleKnits.com
I am sure you won't be dissappointed, I know I wasn't.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Pattern Update
I know it has been six months since I last posted about the problems with my patterns and I am glad to say I finally got my act together. The links for all the patterns should work now as they are all now available as free Ravelry downloads. You don't have to be a member at Ravelry to get them. Please let me know if you have any problems.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Patterns
For some reason the links to my patterns are no longer available. I will have to try and figure out how to fix this, until I do anyone who wants the patterns just has to email me pugmom@tbaytel.net and I will send the pattern in pdf format back to you as an attachment. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Friday, June 3, 2011
June 2011
Well June has finally arrived and hubby and I are still wondering if we are going to get a summer this year. The weather in Northern Ontario as in many other places has been bizarre to say the least. Hubby decided to go ahead and plant the veggie garden and we are still having to cover everything up at night as we have been getting frost *sigh*
Our family of geese are once again back in the pond and it looks like she hatched 6 goslings, wasn't able to find my camera and get a picture of this years group yet.
We are hoping that the 2nd half of 2011 will better for everyone as trips to emergency are getting hard on all of us. Hubby was admitted with pneumonia, and so far knock on wood has quit smoking - 5 months now. Between antibiotics and a medication called Nifedipine the swelling in my feet and lower legs as well as all of a sudden having to deal with high blood pressure is finally under control. Our daughter in law had her gall bladder removed this week and is home now recuperating.
All my wip's have been put on hold as our 4 1/2 year old grand daughter Loralei mentioned that her baby blanket was too small to go around her now. Her face just radiated joy when grandma said are you trying to tell grandma that you need a big girl blanket now. Thank dog I had quite a few skeins of baby coordinates in my stash as she wants the big girl blanket done in the same yarn. She picked out the colors and the order that she wanted them done in and I finally found the saved copy of the rainbow ripple afghan pattern that I had used to do her baby blanket in. Dog willing I should have it finished sometime this weekend and hopefully will get a nice sunny day to get a good picture of it. It will be big enough that if she wants to fold it in half she will be able to use it as a shawl too. She even tried to give her baby blanket to her younger sister Arja because grandma is making her a new blanket - even though Arja is only 2 1/2 she kept saying no is Loralei's, so for now she continues to take the baby blanket with her everywhere and sleeps with it every night. She even packed it in her bag to go out to camp at her aunt's this weekend.
I will have to put a few more wip's on hold because when hubby and I were babysitting the day our daughter in law had her gall bladder removed I was crocheting as much as I could while trying to keep an eye on Loralei and the twins Arja & Ty. Well both Arja & Ty asked if I would make blankets for them too when I finished Loralei's, so have the yarn and pattern to do one for Arja all set to go, now just have to find a yarn and pattern that I like for a boy to do Ty's blanket in.
I need to find that attachment for my camera so I can download and post the pictures I got the other day of Loralei and the twins.
Well time to get back to my crocheting, another overcast rainy day - so a good time to keep working on the blanket.
Our family of geese are once again back in the pond and it looks like she hatched 6 goslings, wasn't able to find my camera and get a picture of this years group yet.
We are hoping that the 2nd half of 2011 will better for everyone as trips to emergency are getting hard on all of us. Hubby was admitted with pneumonia, and so far knock on wood has quit smoking - 5 months now. Between antibiotics and a medication called Nifedipine the swelling in my feet and lower legs as well as all of a sudden having to deal with high blood pressure is finally under control. Our daughter in law had her gall bladder removed this week and is home now recuperating.
All my wip's have been put on hold as our 4 1/2 year old grand daughter Loralei mentioned that her baby blanket was too small to go around her now. Her face just radiated joy when grandma said are you trying to tell grandma that you need a big girl blanket now. Thank dog I had quite a few skeins of baby coordinates in my stash as she wants the big girl blanket done in the same yarn. She picked out the colors and the order that she wanted them done in and I finally found the saved copy of the rainbow ripple afghan pattern that I had used to do her baby blanket in. Dog willing I should have it finished sometime this weekend and hopefully will get a nice sunny day to get a good picture of it. It will be big enough that if she wants to fold it in half she will be able to use it as a shawl too. She even tried to give her baby blanket to her younger sister Arja because grandma is making her a new blanket - even though Arja is only 2 1/2 she kept saying no is Loralei's, so for now she continues to take the baby blanket with her everywhere and sleeps with it every night. She even packed it in her bag to go out to camp at her aunt's this weekend.
I will have to put a few more wip's on hold because when hubby and I were babysitting the day our daughter in law had her gall bladder removed I was crocheting as much as I could while trying to keep an eye on Loralei and the twins Arja & Ty. Well both Arja & Ty asked if I would make blankets for them too when I finished Loralei's, so have the yarn and pattern to do one for Arja all set to go, now just have to find a yarn and pattern that I like for a boy to do Ty's blanket in.
I need to find that attachment for my camera so I can download and post the pictures I got the other day of Loralei and the twins.
Well time to get back to my crocheting, another overcast rainy day - so a good time to keep working on the blanket.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
An Update Finally
Well I can't believe that almost a year has gone by since I last remembered to post something to my blog. I guess being without a computer for nearly 5 days this past week because my hard drive and dvd burner went kaput thanks to some new virus AVG did not have a fix for yet made me realize just how important it is to back things up. I got all my programs reinstalled and even though I have lost all the pattern files free and purchased, most of my pictures are on flickr so I still have those.
I just have to get a couple of updates for my programs from their web sites and I will be all set to do a back up. My computer guy explained how to do it all and there are also free sites online that you can back up on so will be checking them out as well. From now on I will be saving my patterns etc to rewriteable cd's and remembering to do back ups.
One of my grand daughter's birthday is April 15th and I am working hard on getting a couple of cloths done in the colors she picked out. I finished a KAL yesterday so just need to block it and am working on another one that has the letter M on it for Madison.
Well I guess it it time to get back to getting everything up to date on my computer.
I just have to get a couple of updates for my programs from their web sites and I will be all set to do a back up. My computer guy explained how to do it all and there are also free sites online that you can back up on so will be checking them out as well. From now on I will be saving my patterns etc to rewriteable cd's and remembering to do back ups.
One of my grand daughter's birthday is April 15th and I am working hard on getting a couple of cloths done in the colors she picked out. I finished a KAL yesterday so just need to block it and am working on another one that has the letter M on it for Madison.
Well I guess it it time to get back to getting everything up to date on my computer.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
A Bit of This and That and my new Yarn Swift & Stitch Markers
Well it has finally stopped snowing and the temps have finally gone above freezing, so now the snow that we got over the last two days is starting to melt off the roof and making it look like it is raining. LOL The weather man says the sun is going to come out tomorrow and that when Friday rolls around we will be getting rain.
On a good note our oldest son has been released from the hospital after spending 5 days there. He developed pneumonia, strep throat and was having headaches that completely incapacitated him. They were concerned that the headaches may be somehow related to the blood clot he developed after his knee surgery a few months ago so put him through the ringer with tests which thankfully all came back normal. They had him on IV with antibiotics until his fever broke on Monday and then put him on oral antibiotics. They released him home because his fever did not come back but he is on strict bed rest. Anyone who has had pneumonia knows how it just knocks you flat on your back.
Hubby is a wonderful handyman and kept saying that he was going to make me a yarn swift to go along with the ball winder that I got for Christmas, the only problem is that he never got around to it. LOL Instead he bought me one for Easter on EBay and I bought myself some gorgeous stitch markers on Etsy. I have my swift all set up to go and hope it works as great as it looks. I am slowly but surely getting my stash sorted out and into some semblance of order and now should be able to get all my hanks into wonderful centre pull balls.
The seller on Etsy makes these wonderful minatures using the fimo clay and then makes stitch markers, as soon as I save up a bit more I will be getting some more they are so cute.
When Dave & Laura came over with the kids for a walk, Trinity and Kirra just had to come inside to check out Smokey's kitten. Well Kirra named the kitten, so Smokey's kitten is now called Sprinkles. She is 4 weeks old and just a blast. She is playing with the toys and is very affectionate, even started purring the other day when I picked her up. I managed to get a couple of pictures of her and mom snoozing in the sun.
On a good note our oldest son has been released from the hospital after spending 5 days there. He developed pneumonia, strep throat and was having headaches that completely incapacitated him. They were concerned that the headaches may be somehow related to the blood clot he developed after his knee surgery a few months ago so put him through the ringer with tests which thankfully all came back normal. They had him on IV with antibiotics until his fever broke on Monday and then put him on oral antibiotics. They released him home because his fever did not come back but he is on strict bed rest. Anyone who has had pneumonia knows how it just knocks you flat on your back.
Hubby is a wonderful handyman and kept saying that he was going to make me a yarn swift to go along with the ball winder that I got for Christmas, the only problem is that he never got around to it. LOL Instead he bought me one for Easter on EBay and I bought myself some gorgeous stitch markers on Etsy. I have my swift all set up to go and hope it works as great as it looks. I am slowly but surely getting my stash sorted out and into some semblance of order and now should be able to get all my hanks into wonderful centre pull balls.
The seller on Etsy makes these wonderful minatures using the fimo clay and then makes stitch markers, as soon as I save up a bit more I will be getting some more they are so cute.
When Dave & Laura came over with the kids for a walk, Trinity and Kirra just had to come inside to check out Smokey's kitten. Well Kirra named the kitten, so Smokey's kitten is now called Sprinkles. She is 4 weeks old and just a blast. She is playing with the toys and is very affectionate, even started purring the other day when I picked her up. I managed to get a couple of pictures of her and mom snoozing in the sun.
Monday, April 20, 2009
If this is Spring I'll Pass
Here are some pictures of what hubby and I woke up to this morning. It started snowing around 7 pm last night and the weatherman is saying that mother nature is going to continue with this snow for the rest of today and part of tomorrow.
Has been a really busy week and our oldest son was admitted to the hospital with viral pneumonia, strep throat and they are waiting for the results of his spinal tap.
Madison absolutely loved her owl hat and purse that I got knit up for her birthday. Here are a couple of pics of her wearing them.
We had a great Easter weekend with the kids and they had a blast finding their eggs and stuff that Shaun had hidden around the loft. Madison's were all pastel pinks, yellows, purples and Dylan's were footballs, baseballs, soccer balls.
I finally figured out the Owl Pattern in straight knitting to make a matching scarf and as soon as I get all my scribbles written up will post the pattern and a picture. The scarf pattern is a tad wider than I expected but that is because I added a 5 stitch border on each side and 4 owls in between. The Owl pattern is done over 11 stitches and 18 rows so the possibilities are endless for incorporating it into a pattern for scarves, sweaters, headbands etc.etc. The only limit is your imagination. When I went to the bead store the beads or beans as Madison calls them are sold in hanks, so I have lots of beads for the eyes on the scarf.
I just finished test knitting a dishcloth for one of the ladies on Rachel's yahoo group. I love cables and my grand daughter Hunter decided that this one looked like a tree.
Well since the weather outside is dreadful, I am going to do my daily walk inside the house and get to work on some of my knitting and crocheting projects. Is a good day to relax.
Hope everyone is having better weather than we are.
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