Today is National Hat day. So go ahead and wear your favorite hat with style.
National Hat Day
Category: Knitting
Take a Chill Pill
We all have days when we need to take a few minutes and relax. But we know people who need more than just a few minutes to relax – they need to take a CHILL PILL. So in honor of National Pharmacist Day, I wanted to share this project with you.
I’m being over run by hamsters
After knitting 9 of these little guys, I feel like my house is being overrun with hamsters. Using small amounts of scrap yarn (12 yards for each body and 1.5 yards for the ears, feet and tail) they knitted up quick and easy.
The eyes were made by adding small black glass beads. The ears were knitted using a long tail cast on method. The tails from the ears were pulled through the body and tied to form the feet and tail. I must say the feet and tail made them adorable.
The pattern was created by Emily Stoneking and can be found on Ravelry here.
Happy Knitting.
2015
Here it is the first day of 2015. I have officially rung in the New Year while sleeping. I’m getting too old to stay up all night. We planned to stay up with the kids but, somewhere along the way I drifted off to sleep. 
2014 has been a long year. My needles have been very busy. I knitted over 6 miles of yarn (compared to 2013 when I knitted about 2 miles). I finished a blanket, 20 hats, 45 dishcloths, 30 toys and several other small items. With the endless clacking of needles, I am behind on sharing these projects. I hope to be able to share them all with you soon. I’m still trying to find the balance between knitting and blogging. My passion for knitting is growing. This year I really want to learn how to cable.
At the end of 2013 we bought a house in Florida. It is slowly becoming a home. To our disbelief, the home inspector missed several major problems and we have spent almost $10,000 in repairs. This has left little money for decorating so I have had to get creative. The kids / guest bath has been my major accomplishment. I am pleased with how it turned out.
I have not been successful in sharing recipes with you. You would think that all we ever eat is sweets. I promise it is not true. It seems that when I get dinner ready the vultures are circling kids are ready to eat. And I am a bit picky, I hate to eat cold food, so photographing my food to be able to post them is not happening. For the last 18 months when I have posted a recipe, I have also shared a printable recipe card. It seems that no one is actually printing them so I have decided to save myself a little work and no longer make them available.
My daughter and I are loving our American Heritage Girl troop. I am enjoying leading our Patriot girls. They are a great group of girls and I see them growing into great Godly women. My daughter is a third year Explorer and will be moving to Pioneers soon. We plan to attend the AHG 20th Anniversary National Convention in June. We are both so excited. As much as my recipes have not made it to the blog, my AHG badge helps are falling even further behind.
While 2014 has been a year where I have not accomplished as much as I hoped. It has been a great year both personally and blog related. Thank you for sharing a little slice of my life with me.
Happy New Year.
Twelve months of dishcloths
In January I began knitting a set of twelve dishcloths for Christmas presents this year. Not surprising to anyone but myself, I was up to the wire knitting. I did complete 2 sets of dishcloths and most of the third. My poor sister received an IOU for the remaining dishcloths.
