Jan202009
playing catchup again…
Filed under my life by sherriknits at 11:47 pm on Jan 20 2009
I know I’ve been slacking on blogging quite a bit lately. So much going on. i usually rely on my camera to remind me what I’ve been up to but that has been neglected too. What is this world coming to?
Last August our knitting group started an afghan. 17 of us finished knitting it in about 14 days. We met a few weeks later to lay it out to be put together. We worked on it for a few weeks assembling it. We were still enthusiastic when we worked on picking a border. We even got a good start on that border. But then interest kind of waned.
We really did work hard for quite awhile on it. Some of us knit on the border, some started sewing it on. Then it got folded and put in the basket. Sometimes I would get it out and look at it. Sometimes people would drop in and work on it. But progress was slow. Finally Pallas and Fran got ambitious and finished it off.
Isn’t the border pretty?
The colors don’t show true, the edge is dark green. I have no idea what that block color on the right is because we didn’t have anything that color.
Pallas took it home and finished the edge and steamed it and now it is ready to go to it’s home. I’m sure going to miss it!
Next up…I did another swap. This one was to make a magic yarn ball and hide little trinkets in the ball of yarn. The idea is that when the recipient knits, the fun things will fall out and surprise her. Well, I don’t think I know of anyone who waits! Here is what mine looked like before I mailed it off.
It was fun to do.
Yesterday, Rebecca and I got to go have our fun day in Olympia. The fog never lifted downtown so we were freezing all day. Tomorrow I will take a picture of the scarf I bought. It will be a fun memory from the day.
We ate lunch at the Bread Peddler.
The sandwiches were really good, we split them. We laughed over how hard the bread was to eat but it was really good. I think I’d really like to go there for breakfast some day. The atmosphere was interesting…we ate at little metal folding tables and every table was full and the turnover of people was constant.
We spent hours going in every shop we felt like going in. It was fun.
Downtown Oly is full of fun little surprises!
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1 Hasbuon 20 Jan 2009 at 11:57 pm
What a pretty blanket! Who is the lucky recipient?
And those sandwiches just made me HUNGRY… and I still have one more hour till lunchtime!
2 Carolon 21 Jan 2009 at 3:18 am
Oh, look at the street….NO snow…..and that sandwich looks yummy
An afgan….I started one about 4 years ago and it sits in a box…maybe I should dig it out…
3 Nancyon 21 Jan 2009 at 4:20 am
The afghan is really pretty. I was wondering who it was for also. Oly does look like a fun place to shop or just walk around. Maybe someday.
4 susanon 21 Jan 2009 at 7:44 am
Oh lovely lovely blanket.
Love the idea of giving a ball of yarn with pressies in it!
5 gailon 21 Jan 2009 at 7:37 pm
The blanket is wonderful. the edging adds such a lovely touch to the squares. My daughter attended Evergreen State College for a year, but I never got to explore Olympia.
6 gailon 22 Jan 2009 at 4:01 pm
Thank you for your supportive comments on my blog. I was so happy to learn that I’m not the only one who doesn’t use lifelines.
7 Theresaon 23 Jan 2009 at 10:57 pm
Sandwich looks scrumptious! The magic yarn ball thing sounds like fun! The afghan turned out nice. Thanks for showing us the end product.