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Jessie — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:43:40 +0000

I spent a lot of time knitting this weekend, only a fraction of it fruitfully. That is to say, as I was starting, I couldn’t figure out the pattern and ripped several hundred stitches out when all was said and done.

And just this morning, I finished the quilt top I started at the quilting retreat I went to a couple of weekends ago. It’s for Jett, my 4 year old.

Knitting

Jessie — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:09:27 +0000

I’m totally knitting, guys!

I didn’t plan for it to happen, yet here I am.

It started with this quilting/scrapbooking retreat I went to over a week ago. It was so much fun! There were a couple of totally hip moms there who knitted in addition to making quilts. They had some pretty gorgeous knitted things.

Fast forward to a week later, we had two house showings in one day. Translation: my house was clean. All of my quilting stuff is still at my in-laws’ house, and I was worried I wouldn’t have anything to do.

So I went to JoAnn’s and bought some cheap (Vanna White) yarn, watched a couple of YouTube videos and got started.

This was the first thing I did:

Heaven help me! It’s not supposed to be curvy, just so you know. It was supposed to be a scarf. Now it’s an abortion of a scarf. I stopped the madness and restarted another scarf with a looser grip on the needles & yarn and this one is actually working out. I’ll wait until I’m done to show you a picture.

I’m excited to go shopping for some nice yarn once I have my practice project done.

Scarves for EVERYONE for Christmas this year!

Winners announced

Jessie — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:43:00 +0000

And the winners are…

1. Jillisa

2. Momma Denise

3. Lois VanDusseldorp

Congrats, ladies! Since I happen to know that Momma Denise also received the Food & Family subscription at Christmastime, I’m guessing she will want to gift this subscription to someone else.

Thank you everyone for participating!

Updates from last week

Jessie — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:18:59 +0000

Jett is doing much better after a long weekend. Not 100%, but still better. The nights are usually much worse with croup, and Jett proved that to be true. He tossed and turned each night, not finding comfort in much of anything. He’d wake up crying and not want a drink of water, not want to cover up, not want me to hold him. He battled a fever the whole weekend. The Motrin would help a lot, but towards the end of the dosage period (6 hours) he would be feverish again and uncomfortable. I hope we’re over the worst.

The other update is that I gave the red cross-stitched wall hanging to my customer last Thursday and she really liked it. She saw my blog entry about it and agreed that it looked much better in person – more detail than what I could capture on camera. I was relieved and happy that she liked it so much. She may even have another project for me to do in the near future.

Have a great week, everyone!