tyler eating an apple

ravelry

this is a new knitting community that i joined. you can use it to keep track of your yarn, of the projects you've started, the projects you want to do, you can such for patterns, you can see what others are working on.

he can sit by him self- 6 months

what that poor donkey did to him i'll never know.

tyler making babbling sounds with his lips.

strike a pose

tyler sitting by himself

new year projects

to do:

raising ty
leaving my job- done
building a greenhouse
build a compost bin
starting a raised bed garden
get worms to create organic fertilizer
living as frugal as possible on one income.
pay off our credit cards and run them through the shredder
plan tim and danille's baby shower

continue:

making our bread
making our own soap

the lucy bag

this is my lucy ball bag. it's a knitted bag that you then felt. i recommend not using the washing machine, i broke ours felting my bag and had to call the not so friendly repairman. that of course is a different story. anyway the bag is knitted in the round knitting every row untill you get to the straps. there is a little one and a longer strap. the long strap is threadded though the short one to create the closure. for this bag i used alpaca yarn that i spun myself it was a single ply white. i love this project because i was able to practice my spinning and it didn't matter really how the yarn came out because i felted the project. so when you felt wool or alpaca yarn in a project the yarn becomes one fabric. the loops of the knitting shrink and the individual fibers mesh together thus becoming one piece of fabric.

what have you been up to?

baby surprise jacket. it really does work.

scrubbie dish cloth

frilly round dish cloth

a hat for a fashion diva i know

scarf

more dish clothes.

socks for ty. i'm goong to put them on him with his christmas outfit.



socks to be knitted for a friend and my father-in-law.

stockings for the mantel. i'm still working on daddy's and haven't started mine.

i should be ashamed of my self

i have so much yarn mostly of the acrylic variety. i should be ashamed of my shelf. i must have 6 banana boxes full. i'm going to use this on some projects but, i'm thinking of switching completely over to organic cotton for dish clothes and other natural animal fibers. i have a good supply of alpaca yarn and roving right now. some of the people on my Christmas list are getting homemade socks.