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Feb 07
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A whole new month this week. How exciting!
I can't believe we're already into February. It usually feels like an unnaturally long month given its twenty-eight days but this year it is going pretty quickly; we're having a spell of unusually warm weather this weekend and into next week and then Rob and I are taking off at the end of the month for a bit of vacation. But first, last week:
We ran out of our French Granola and I had to make more (there really wasn't an option - I don't think I'll ever be able to go without this stuff again). Rob got me a wonderful large, high sided baking sheet especially for making granola in. It made stirring it around so much easier.
I was home by myself for lunch on Tuesday and went over my new purse design while making and eating pizza. Both turned out well: the pizza was finished with salt and pepper (wonderful if you haven't tried it) and I caught a mistake in my purse math and corrected it.
I was feeling the need for some more sock needles (more on that later) so Rob and I scooted over to the Arctic Farmer shop so I could get a set of Knit Picks needles. They're so pretty. I've decided there is no way I could possibly have too many sock needles: I break or loose them far too often and there are so many more socks I could knit if I didn't have to wait for the right needles to be free.
My first missed day of 2010. I'd intended to take a picture of machine stitching the binding onto our new quilt but Abby was being funny and needed someone to sit on the couch with her. I did some knitting for a while (that Endpaper Mitt is slowly moving along) but after a difficult day at work a puppy dozing on your lap has special powers and I was asleep before 9 PM.
Snowflakes on my mitten. To really appreciate their tiny beauty you'll have to look at the full size version over on Flickr.
Gratuitous puppy shot.
The binding was sewn onto the quilt on Friday night and I spent bits of Saturday sewing it down by hand. Almost any time I wasn't working on it (and sometimes when I was) Abby was curled up on top of it.
Some more hand sewing today. I've got 3/4 of a long side left and then there is just the label and a little bit of applique for the back.
I can't believe we're already into February. It usually feels like an unnaturally long month given its twenty-eight days but this year it is going pretty quickly; we're having a spell of unusually warm weather this weekend and into next week and then Rob and I are taking off at the end of the month for a bit of vacation. But first, last week:
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We ran out of our French Granola and I had to make more (there really wasn't an option - I don't think I'll ever be able to go without this stuff again). Rob got me a wonderful large, high sided baking sheet especially for making granola in. It made stirring it around so much easier.
I was home by myself for lunch on Tuesday and went over my new purse design while making and eating pizza. Both turned out well: the pizza was finished with salt and pepper (wonderful if you haven't tried it) and I caught a mistake in my purse math and corrected it.
I was feeling the need for some more sock needles (more on that later) so Rob and I scooted over to the Arctic Farmer shop so I could get a set of Knit Picks needles. They're so pretty. I've decided there is no way I could possibly have too many sock needles: I break or loose them far too often and there are so many more socks I could knit if I didn't have to wait for the right needles to be free.
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My first missed day of 2010. I'd intended to take a picture of machine stitching the binding onto our new quilt but Abby was being funny and needed someone to sit on the couch with her. I did some knitting for a while (that Endpaper Mitt is slowly moving along) but after a difficult day at work a puppy dozing on your lap has special powers and I was asleep before 9 PM.
Snowflakes on my mitten. To really appreciate their tiny beauty you'll have to look at the full size version over on Flickr.
Gratuitous puppy shot.
The binding was sewn onto the quilt on Friday night and I spent bits of Saturday sewing it down by hand. Almost any time I wasn't working on it (and sometimes when I was) Abby was curled up on top of it.
Some more hand sewing today. I've got 3/4 of a long side left and then there is just the label and a little bit of applique for the back.
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written by Samera, February 08, 2010
Thanks Shelley!! It is alwasy so refreshing to see/read someone else's life which is not as permanently crazed as mine. =) Your blog is the little break of sanity in my insanity (.... pleeeeease! keep writing!)
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written by PuggleTrouble, February 09, 2010
Those snowflakes are unbelievable!
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