Snow!
For those of you not living in the northeast – we got TONS of snow yesterday and through the night. The hubby and I spent 45 minutes clearing out the snow that fell yesterday morning in the afternoon, and then he spent another 1.5 hours this morning for all the snow overnight. As you can see in the pictures, everything looks beautiful in white…as long as we dont have to walk through it! Unfortunately hubby still had to go to work (surprise surprise), but Radha and I get a snow day together at home =) Now if only she would be happy playing with something for more than 2 minutes at a time!
Well here are some pix of the white wonder =)
There is a little walkway over a drain off straight ahead, with about 4 steps – none of which you can see!
This tree (above) usually stands tall, and the branches are no where near the ground. Now the snow weighs it down to the point that it is reaching the snow on the deck!
All.Things.Knitting. www.Ravelry.com
I recently discovered www.Ravelry.com.
I have yet to full discover it’s full potential, but it seems AMAZING! It has every resource you could think of for knitting and crocheting. You have “join” the site, and make a profile. Then you can search all things knitting or crocheting based on your approach: pattern, yarn, or other people’s creations!
As far as patterns go, there are thousands! You can filter your search for patterns by many different qualities – which is extremely useful. You can even see pictures of the end product that other users have completed – which is great because it gives you ideas of different colors and embellishments you can do to make the item even cooler!
The Patterns page:
This is an easy way to search patterns by keywords or tags:
You can also look up all things yarn on the “yarns” page.
I find this one particularly useful because you can look up every type of yarn and see how it should be cared for, washed, what size needles to use etc. Great for those of us who can’t tell just from looking at it. You can even make your own “notebook” which is like a collection of the projects you have done, are doing or would like to do. It is kind of like your online knitting central station! I’m looking forward to spending more time there!
Cute girl’s hat
Over Christmas I made a simple hat for two of my nephews (at the time, one was 6 years old & the other one was a few weeks old) – will post about those later. Of course, I had to follow those with a hat for my niece who lives in Miami as well! When I asked her what she wanted, she said something “pink and purple” – so that helped narrow down my ideas. Plus, I know that she LOVES frilly, heartsy, girlie stuff. So this ended up being perfect. I started with this purple yearn that has some pink mixed in. A friend of mine actually gave the skein to me after she started a baby blanket for our other friend, but decided that it was taking her too long, and thus made her something else. So, I got to benefit!
To make the hat, I cast on about 90 stitches onto size 7 circular needles. I basically worked in stockinette stitch (which on circular needles = knitting all the time) for about an inch and a half, when I realized that the hat was going to be WAY to big. SOO, to make it a little tighter, I added cable knits periodically throughout the hat n a checker board fashion. I basically cabled 8 stitches (4 for each side) about 5 times in the round. Then knitted 5-8 rounds after that as usual, and then cabled again, but this time I did them in between the first row of cables. This gave the hat some elasticity and tightness near the top. Which was great! Plus it gave it a cool pattern. At the end, I made 2 flowers using crochet needles, and here is the finished product below on my niece! I think she seems pretty happy !=)
Let's Begin!
Maybe it’s the 8 inches of snow outside (and the promise for 5-6 more inches) …or maybe it’s the fact that I spend the majority of my day and the majority of my dayS with a 2 year old (whom I DEARLY love), but I have decided to start an online collection of various things: crafts I come across and like/do, cool gift ideas, helpful resources for moms, inspiration, organizational tips…COPING tips and more. I guess it is kind of like the “adult conversation” that I miss throughout the day – or maybe I’m just in love with my Mac =)
Anyways, I went through a multitude of blog name ideas…came up with some cool ones, and ended up with this one. Hopefully it is cool too! I don’t mean it to sound “egocentric” – it is just that this is more about PARENTING than being a kid. I have a separate blog that updates friends and families about the latest and greatest discoveries and explorations of my daughter, Radha. But this one I my chance to just rant or vent or share – whatever the mood may be!
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