Category Archives: Knitting

food & crafts

By lee | August 20, 2010

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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Knitting Lace

By lee | May 24, 2010

Several of the gals in my knit group are really into knitting lace. Me, I’m not one of them. I knitted my  Multnomah Shawl and was happy with the result but it takes a lot of concentration. That being said, I love to see what everyone else does because I really appreciate all the hard [...]

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Jeanne’s Birthday

By lee | May 12, 2010

In our knitting group, we always celebrate birthdays. We try to find the snarkiest cards possible for the birthday gal, and we make lots of delicious food. We celebrated Jeanne’s birthday this week and it was loads of fun.
Look at all this wonderful food.

Janet made the enchiladas and I must say they were divine. Susan [...]

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knitting in Paris

By lee | April 17, 2010

Kristy and I decided to do a special knitting project for our trip to Paris. We figured we would have all that time on the plane plus our rest and wine time every day to knit. So we both got the yarn and the needles to make the Multnomah Shawl. (It’s a free download on [...]

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More craftiness

By lee | April 2, 2010

Another wonderful crafty gift from the other day was this set of cards.

Peggy got the cards and matching envelopes from The Paper Zone. She cut out some strips of fabric, laid them down on top of the card, trimmed them to the correct length and sewed through them all on her machine. I think she [...]

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