A post from the Past: March 29, 2009

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March 29, 2009

On March 26th, 2009 Peanut wanted a haircut. My sister Susan was over and she is great at haircutting. She use to work in a salon and still keeps her license current. So I asked her if she was up to cutting the Peanuts hair and she said "Sure!"


Peanuts hair was getting long. The problem with little girls hair is that it tangles so easy. They run, play, do flips, rub food in the hair, etc. It's a big job keeping long hair on a little one neat and pretty. So the solution is the haircut. Boys have it made. So for Peanut, this length of hair is so nice. She can do it herself with a little help. She just loves it. We swim everyday in the summer and the short hair doesn't get in her eyes like the long hair. 
Peanut has super thick hair.  More than 3 kids put together.  Really.
Here are more photos. Yeah! 






 Now the choice of No Bangs or Bangs. I voted for Bangs, that way we don't have to use clips or headbands. Here she is with no bangs. 


So Susan begins cutting the bangs.



And here is her finished haircut WITH Bangs. 




She looks Beautiful. And I think she looks a lot like her mommy when Sierra was a little girl. Peanut loves her bangs. 



And here she was today with a pair of socks I just finished for her.  She loves her new socks too.
She asked for pink socks with beads. 


These are a pattern I made up.  They are knit with Blue Moon Fiber Arts, Socks That Rock, Light weight fingering.
The colorway is  Heart Throb.

A post from the Past: April 18, 2009

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April 18, 2009

Spring has sprung here. The grass is green, some flowers are blooming and I finished my FEBRUARY LADY SWEATER.

The yarn is from Blue Moon Fiber Arts. It is Socks that Rock heavy weight. The color is MY BLUE HEAVEN.
It was a really fast knit. This is my second knitted sweater in all my life. I like this pattern and will probably knit another one.

7 year old Peanut is the photographer.

FRONT



 BACK



BUTTONS. The color of the yarn is way off but the buttons color is right on.


Also here is a sneak peek at sock # one that I just finished yesterday. I am hard at work now on sock #2.

A post from the past: March 18, 2009

I am transferring my blog post from Live Journal over here to Blogger. I will start with the newest first so that the last post I post will be the oldest one from LJ.  That way you can scroll down and read it in order. 
March 18, 2009


Here is the BFL that I spun.  This is my first handspun ever. I am new to spinning. I started this fiber on a Kundert drop spindle.  But I am not a drop spindle kind of girl.  So I ordered a Lendrum DT complete.  I waited months and then in December it arrived.  My granddaughter spun on the wheel first while I was drafting for her.

Then I plied hers for her when she was at school.  And I knit her a hat.

Then it was my turn at the wheel and it took a while.  I was doing some knitting projects for Christmas 2008 so finally in Feb.09 I finished my spinning and March 09 finished plying.

The fiber is from Crown Mountain Farms.
Hand Dyed Blue Face Leicester.
8 ounces.
colorway: Mother Earth.
Yardage spun: 223.9 yards. 


 
Here is the roving. I had divided it in half, then in half, over and over till I got this.  I think the drafting a big hunk of fiber is beyond me being so new.  I found that if I divided it to a small size then I could draft and spin.  It also preserved the colors better.  When I tried to spin with a big hunk of roving it was mixing the colors and making this green and brown turn to MUD.





I love how my yarn turned out.  I have 223 yards so I either want to make mitts or a hat?  What do you think would look good with this handspun yarn?
Here are the pics of my granddaughters spinning. I love how well she did. She is 7 years old.


This is Blue Face Leicester fiber from an etsy store.


Here she is practicing with some fiber before spinning her rainbow BFL.



 

Blog from the past: April 25, 2009

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April 25, 2009


Today Peanut and I were driving home from town.  While sitting at a stop light a lady in an electric wheel chair crossed the road.  Peanut asked me how she did that. I told her how it had a big battery like my car.  She was still curious. She asked why the lady needed the chair. I told her that maybe her legs don't work.  She asked why.  I was driving and I didn't know why so I said, maybe when God was making her he took her out of the oven before her legs were finished.  
And then Peanut corrected me. She said that God doesn't put us in the oven,  But that God knits us. 

I have read her the verse in the Bible where it says that God knit us in our mothers womb before we were born. 

Psalm 139:13 (New International Version)

 ¹³ For you created my inmost being;
       you knit me together in my mother's womb.

So after she corrected me saying that God knit us.  I said, maybe God dropped a stitch and the lady's legs were not so good.  She liked that answer. She knows from experience when I have been knitting and she bumps me, then a stitch falls off and I say "don't move, I dropped a stitch".  She knows it can be a problem.

She can say things sometimes that just make me so proud of her.


Oh, and here is her new haircut, again.  I love you Sweetie!!!

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Forest Falls California. 

1st DAY of LE TOUR DE FLEECE

Well today June 30th is the first day of Le Tour De Fleece. Many spinners over at Ravelry will be spinning during the Le Tour de France.


I am on team Crown Mountain Farms.  I have very ambitious plans.
Klaus over at CMF helps all of us team members to have a gift of fiber.
He sent us the fiber of our choice. I wanted a nice blue so he sent me Copenhagen Blue. It is a semi-solid, the fiber is BFL.



The first fiber I am working on is CVM/Romeldale. I love this fiber. Soft and long. I prefer long fibers. The color is called Tramat.

Yes these are my shasta daisies growing in my yard. I love daisies.


So here is a group photo of the fibers and colors that I will be spinning.



I will list the fiber and color going clockwise starting with 11:00 the dark red fiber. That will be #1.
All fiber is from Crown Mountain Farms and is 4 oz.
 Here goes.


1. Corriedale Top- Chinon (red)
2. Cormo Top- Annunaki on Tramat (rust, dk green & lt. green)
3. Cormo Top- Secret Garden (browns & greens)
4. South African Top- Celtic Glow (green & lt. brown)
5. Heinz 57- Sumer (green)
6. Jacob Top- Season of the Witch (blacks,green,purple)
7. Debouillet Top- Eternity (purple)
8. Polworth Top- Nirvana (lavender)
9. BFL (blue face leicester)- Copenhagen Blue (blue)
  CENTER fiber LEFT TO RIGHT
10. Perendale Top- The Fifth Element (orange)
11. CVM/Romedale Top- Tramat (blue green) gift from Klaus for the TDF


Here is my fiber journal entry.



So I have 23 days to spin all this fiber. June 30 to July 22.
Wish me luck.


And always with God in my heart.

Boy Was I WRONG

I was so wrong about May being the month to blog. That is what I said in my last post. 

Problem is, I only made one post in May & June. Yes this is still June. But it's almost July.  

So summer is upon us here at Casa de Carol.  We seem to be pretty busy around here.  We are swimming and going places. I am knitting a lot too.  

So onward with the photos!!!

This is what I am working on right now.  It is a sock in the pattern "Sign of Four" by one of my favorite designers Knitspot aka Anne Hansen.

Yes I see the fly on the sock. I didn't see it till I uploaded the photos to my computer. Ewwww.

The garden was planted and we are already eating veggies from it. 

And we are eating blueberries here in So. Calif. I think this is a special blueberry bush.

Swimming with friends.

A celebration of my aunt and uncle for their 60th wedding anniversary.

Can you believe it? Sixty years.  They are the best couple. They love God and keep him in their relationship.

The Celebration was at Laguna Niguel Regional Park. It was a beautiful day.

Well I have a lot of knitting to show you. I will do that in a separate blog post.

Have a nice day and keep cool.