I've been tagged by my FAB!!!
More about me (Me, Me! It's all about ME!)
What I was doing 10 years ago: WOW! 10 years ago was a looonnnggg time ago... I was living on Sarah Street in my first house - for about a year by then - with my then boyfriend who I was trying to get him see the big picture of life - especially with me in it - I had my first Cat, Flo - Alley was 4ish - I was working where I'm still working now - and had begun a major cross-stitch project for my Dad for Christmas.
Five things on my to do list that have nothing to do with work:
1. Learn to knit from my FAB
2. Make Christmas gifts for family & friends (I'm gonna do it this year!!!)
3. See Indiana Jones!!!!!!
4. Finally catch up on laundry
5. Clean up and move stuff around so that Hubby can put together my new shelving unit for my craft room we bought at Ikea over a week ago.
Three snacks I enjoy:
1. Cookies
2. Fruit Snacks
3. Apples - Pink Lady one's especially
Four things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Get out of debt!!!!!! For myself and my family
2. Build my dream house
3. Help the local SPCA stay open - fix or renovate the facility - hire more people - but all specifically for that facility
4. Whatever the heck I felt like!!!
Five places I have lived:
1. Saylorsburg, PA
2. Mazzetti Road in Stroudsburg, PA
3. Sarah Street in Stroudsburg, PA
4. Bryant Street in Stroudsburg, PA
5. Escondido, CA
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
So instead of Knitting...
So my last post was about knitting... and attempting to start. Well I tried a few more times and while I can get the casting on part - it's the making of the stitches part that I'm just lost on. I've decided that I need my FAB to physically SHOW me how - to stand over my shoulder and WATCH me do it. I'm sure that I know of other people that knit but I want my FAB to teach ME HOW.
And I believe I'm going to get my wish!!! FAB is coming for a visit!!!! While she was going to try to come this month - it just wasn't possible with her schedule... but next month... that's a different story. And actually a better one because she'll be able to stay longer than she would have been able to had she been able to come in May!
To hold me over until FAB was coming and after I finished the Counted Cross Stitch I was working on for my friend (if I could get my camera to upload pictures I'd post one of it) I tried to do another much smaller cross stitch piece but I really just lost interest in it and wanted to play with yarn... so I dug out my crochet hooks instead.
When I was little - I'd say I was about 7 or 8 my Mom showed me how to crochet a chain. And chain I did... yards and yards of it. I vaguely remember her trying to show me what to do next but I just didn't get it or didn't want to. Then about 10 years ago I made a grocery bag (who knows where it is now) that was mostly made up of chains. But I guess just like everything else I either lost interest in it or found something else to do. Actually I think that was right around the time that I bought my first house so that may have been what took my mind in another direction. But anywhoo... back to crocheting...
Just like I do with just about everything else that starts to interest me I engross myself with it. I read about it on the web - I buy books about the subject - I make tons of trips to local craft stores - I join groups online... and this time was no different. Actually I tried to do this with knitting first but like I said before... I just don't get it - I need to be shown. I found my hooks and I found some yarn and I started to make one of those grocery bags like I made all those years ago. The fascinating thing about it is I pretty much remembered the pattern - Isn't that crazy? Oh what fun it was! Not only that but it was easy to work on while I was in the car! Woo Hoo!!! I tried to cross stitch in the car and while it was doable it wasn't easy - especially if it were a design that really required a lot of color changes.
So now I'm crocheting up a storm. I taught myself a few stitches from a book and I will recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn - it was "The Idiots Guide to Crocheting" - a lot like the "Dummies" books (I have that one too for Crocheting) it made sense to me and just clicked. I started a sample swatch to learn the basic stitches and it grew and grew and is now my first scarf. I don't really have anything to match it too but that won't stop me from wearing it!
So far I've made 3 different shopping bags - a blanket for my son - I learned how to make Granny Squares - and am currently on a dish cloth kick. I bought a book at AC Moore and it has 14 different one's in it so I'm just going from one to the next. I found some really really pretty yarn that I want to make into an afghan but I haven't found a patter just yet that I want to use. I want one that is interesting enough to keep me going for the\ whole afghan but not too difficult that it requires a line by line pattern.
I've also joined a few Yahoo! groups. The main one is called Happy Hookers! What a great name! I hadn't mentioned to my Hubby that I had joined this group and when he went to use the home computer over the weekend and my email account was open - he saw the Happy Hookers and had to do a triple take! I'm sure he was muttering to himself... "what has she gotten into now???". It's a great bunch of people, and I say people because there are men members as well, there are all ranges of crocheters - beginners like myself and very advanced crocheters. They have warmly welcomed me and have all ready answered a couple of my questions. The other group I joined is just for free patterns. If I like them I can download them and if I don't then I don't. I'm a big fan of Yahoo! groups - they are a great way to get to know people that like the things that you do - that have similar life instances as you do - or family situations. I can't even remember how many yahoo! groups I've been a part of over the years.
Ahhh... anyways... that's my update for now. I think I'll upload some pictures next so you can SEE what I'm doing.
And I believe I'm going to get my wish!!! FAB is coming for a visit!!!! While she was going to try to come this month - it just wasn't possible with her schedule... but next month... that's a different story. And actually a better one because she'll be able to stay longer than she would have been able to had she been able to come in May!
To hold me over until FAB was coming and after I finished the Counted Cross Stitch I was working on for my friend (if I could get my camera to upload pictures I'd post one of it) I tried to do another much smaller cross stitch piece but I really just lost interest in it and wanted to play with yarn... so I dug out my crochet hooks instead.
When I was little - I'd say I was about 7 or 8 my Mom showed me how to crochet a chain. And chain I did... yards and yards of it. I vaguely remember her trying to show me what to do next but I just didn't get it or didn't want to. Then about 10 years ago I made a grocery bag (who knows where it is now) that was mostly made up of chains. But I guess just like everything else I either lost interest in it or found something else to do. Actually I think that was right around the time that I bought my first house so that may have been what took my mind in another direction. But anywhoo... back to crocheting...
Just like I do with just about everything else that starts to interest me I engross myself with it. I read about it on the web - I buy books about the subject - I make tons of trips to local craft stores - I join groups online... and this time was no different. Actually I tried to do this with knitting first but like I said before... I just don't get it - I need to be shown. I found my hooks and I found some yarn and I started to make one of those grocery bags like I made all those years ago. The fascinating thing about it is I pretty much remembered the pattern - Isn't that crazy? Oh what fun it was! Not only that but it was easy to work on while I was in the car! Woo Hoo!!! I tried to cross stitch in the car and while it was doable it wasn't easy - especially if it were a design that really required a lot of color changes.
So now I'm crocheting up a storm. I taught myself a few stitches from a book and I will recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn - it was "The Idiots Guide to Crocheting" - a lot like the "Dummies" books (I have that one too for Crocheting) it made sense to me and just clicked. I started a sample swatch to learn the basic stitches and it grew and grew and is now my first scarf. I don't really have anything to match it too but that won't stop me from wearing it!
So far I've made 3 different shopping bags - a blanket for my son - I learned how to make Granny Squares - and am currently on a dish cloth kick. I bought a book at AC Moore and it has 14 different one's in it so I'm just going from one to the next. I found some really really pretty yarn that I want to make into an afghan but I haven't found a patter just yet that I want to use. I want one that is interesting enough to keep me going for the\ whole afghan but not too difficult that it requires a line by line pattern.
I've also joined a few Yahoo! groups. The main one is called Happy Hookers! What a great name! I hadn't mentioned to my Hubby that I had joined this group and when he went to use the home computer over the weekend and my email account was open - he saw the Happy Hookers and had to do a triple take! I'm sure he was muttering to himself... "what has she gotten into now???". It's a great bunch of people, and I say people because there are men members as well, there are all ranges of crocheters - beginners like myself and very advanced crocheters. They have warmly welcomed me and have all ready answered a couple of my questions. The other group I joined is just for free patterns. If I like them I can download them and if I don't then I don't. I'm a big fan of Yahoo! groups - they are a great way to get to know people that like the things that you do - that have similar life instances as you do - or family situations. I can't even remember how many yahoo! groups I've been a part of over the years.
Ahhh... anyways... that's my update for now. I think I'll upload some pictures next so you can SEE what I'm doing.
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