jaunt around town

monday after going to nursing home to see if nana was ok, did some knitting for hospital.

feb 10 snow and kitchen towels

snowstorm of feb 10th, 2010

starting on 4th of july kitchen towels. had a nice heavy wet snowstorm so it's super bright out, great to work on sewing projects with natural light.

here are some towels that just need tops.

valentine cookies and crochetted towel topper

got v day cookies done today so i can mail them to the other side of the world in time for valentines day, LOL

and the 4 orders for towels got the crochetting done while listening to the super bowl.

jaunt around town

ok 3rd doc in 3 weeks time, now i get to take steriods. think i need to tell my knitting buddies that fact? LOL
got an order from some repeat customers of 2007, they want 4 more towels. so after the doc we went to the dollar store and found some pretty good ones. cut them up tonight and sewed that raw edge. now onto the crochetting part of it. should have them done in a few days time. need to find the real instructions for my marvel sweater so i know how long to make it. i need to stop just jotting down notes and going by that.
talked to several people for the oven part, they will reimburse me next week.
called to get on a waiting list to get a digitial talking book player-like a kindle and theres no waiting list. i'll have it next week. and i told them i'm allready signed up with the national library to get any of 50,000 books that i want. the state library can loan me 2 a month but NLS should have the ones i want to read. and greg says i can use his thumb drive, even the 4g one will do fine. be nice to take on our plane trips w/o the laptop.

back to towels at the dollar store. they had some out for 4th of july allready. no i'm not kidding LOL rite aid had easter thngs out allready.
everything is so commercialized now adays.

books i read jan 2010

tempest at sea by iris johansen
dylan creed family by linda lael miller
comfort and joy by fern michaels
A High-Kicking Christmas
the perfect christmas by debbie macomber
Suzanna's Stockings by cathy lamb
Family Blessings deborah j. wolf
what i did for love by susan elizabeth phillips
the gate house by nelson demille (700+)
the lion's game (700+)
the generals daughter (500+)
to the limit by pamela britton
22 indigo place by sandra brown
not even for love
full blast by janet evanvich and charlotte hughes
picture perfect by jodi picoult
unspeakable by sandra brown
adams fall
bed of roses brides book 2 by nora roberts
light in shadow by jayne krentz
all night long
lakeshore christmas book 6 by susan wiggs

glossary and sample pictures of knit stitches

jan 23 1145am

been busy the past month scanning in very important documets and all the photos i have collected over 50 years. im done with my photos and want to borrow some of moms then i'll be done with that.

but in the meantime i've been taking pics of the sample work of various stitches. not sure how to send them to 'castingoff' so will post them here and hope Nicole will grab them to post at her site.


this is ribbing, known as k1p1.


co 20 sts
row 1: k1, p1 repeat across
row 2: k1, p1, repeat across
repeat the last 2 rows til desired length




stockinette stitch



co 20 sts
row 1: k all stitches
row 2: p all stitches
repeat rows 1-2 til desired length

garter stitch

co 20 sts

row 1: k every stitch

row 2: k every stitch

repeat rows 1-2 til desired length

american moss stitch:

co 20 sts

row 1, 2: k1 p1 rep to end

row 3, 4: p1, k1 rep to end

rep rows 1-4 til desired length

twisted stitch ribbing

co 20 sts

row 1, k1 tbl, p1, rep to end

rep row 1 til desired length

cable stitch

co 21 sts

row 1: p1, k4, rep across, end with p1

row 2: k1, p4, rep across, end with k1

row 3: p1, take 2 and hold in front, k2, k2 from holder, rep to end, p1

row 4: same as row 2

rep these 4 rows til desired length

blackberry stitch

co 20 multiple of 4 st

row 1: right side: p across

row 2: p3 tog, k1p1k1 in next st, rep to end

row 3: p

row 4: k1p1k1 in next st, p3tog, rep to end

rep row 1-4 til desired length