Category Archives: Knitting

Gifts

I thinks it’s far enough past Christmas that I can show some of the gifts I’ve made for friends and family this year. Of course, there are a few people who’ve been away that I haven’t been able to get together with so some pictures will have to wait. In the meantime, here are two. [...]

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Excited

Liza gets home tonight and I can’t wait to see her. It’s been four months and that’s way too long. In the meantime, I’ve been baking cookies. These are lemon ricotta cookies, recipe care of my friend Cyd. I’ve also made pecan pie squares, cream cheese brownies and Heath Bar cookies. We now have a [...]

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Juliet

When you write a blog about making things, the problem that always arises in the month or so before Christmas is that you’re making some cool stuff as gifts, but you can’t post about them until after the holidays are over. It’s quite the dilemma. So here is a picture of a sweater that I [...]

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A crazy week

It’s been kind of a crazy week at our house. Last Saturday night our car was sideswiped in front of our house. We came home from dinner with friends to find this: Amazingly, the man who hit the car stopped and gave our neighbor all his information; license, registration, insurance info and phone number. We [...]

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food & crafts

Knitting is always fun and yesterday was no exception. Besides the knitting and quilting and beading and sewing, we all love to cook. You really couldn’t ask for more! Lynda baked a fabulous cake out of the Simply Organic cookbook. The cake is lemon basil and it is amazing. I wouldn’t have thought basil would [...]

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