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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

I found a button

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Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
~Emily Brontë

View from the top

Some people knit, some people collect stamps, some people birdwatch and some people enter contests for fun.  My mom is one of those people, who enter contests that is.  Look what she won for my little guy.

He totally loves his new carrier, and so do I.  I didn’t have one with the daughter.  It is so neat to have two hands free.

But, but wait there’s more

Due to baby and other stuff in my life I have basically ignored what is new out there in the fiber world at large.  So I was perusing the knitting section at my local library and found a new domino knitting book Vivian Hoxbro.  I loved her first book on domino knitting so much I actually own it.  The second book is just as wonderful as the first, explaining the idea behind the project, giving a lot of jumping off room for one to make their own pattern, which I love to do.  I am especially enamored with the sock/slipper pattern.  I really like knitting domino knitting, because it is a bunch of little pieces of knitting connected together without seaming.

Then, as if that wasn’t fabulous enough, I found another of my favorite knitting books Mason Dixon Knitting at a garage sale.  I was so excited.  Then the next week I go to the library and there is the next Mason Dixon Knitting book. In this book I found a project that neatly solves a problem I have.  The problem of too much undesirable wool – in natural colors.  Added bonus it has an easy steek, so I can learn steeking as well.

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We had a wonderfully rainy day yesterday.

Cold Little Feet

I went to the Library yesterday so the daughter could get some summer reading.  I dressed the little guy in pants with bare feet as I thought it was warm outside, but not warm enough as his feet got cold.

Inspired by his little freezing feet I went in search of a bootie/sock knitting pattern and found Knitting for Baby by Melanie Falick and Kristin Nicholas.  Fabulous book, by the way, definitely going on my wish list.  There were two, yes two, bootie patterns, including the intregingly named pattern Stay on Baby Booties, as so many things don’t.  I started with the beginner booties.  They looked super easy with garter stitch back and forth then sewn up at the end.

I am just using some stash yarn left over from other projects.  I should be finshed soon, then my little guy will have much warmer feet.

It’s back

My creativity that is.  After the last two, can you believe two, months of craziness I thought that I had lost my desire to create.  Maybe it was being part of the creation of a new little life, having to wait thirty of the longest days of my life for that little person to come home and then remembering how to take care of that little life on zero sleep.  Whatever it was, I had no desire to do anything creative, not knitting, not spinning, not sewing, not even counted cross stitch,  nothing, zip, zilch, nada.

But I had to finish these socks.  I had promised to make these socks way back in September and I had set for myself the end of school as the finish date.  Normally it does not take me nine months to knit a pair of socks.  These were really, really hard socks to knit for a number of reasons, most of which were emotional.  So when I woke up on Monday, looked out my window and realized the trees were in full leaf and the lawn needed to mowed again that it dawned on me that it was summer,  the last day of school was only 5 days away and these socks were still unfinished in my knitting bag.  So last night I pulled out the socks, they only had an inch or so to go on the toe, and finished them.  I felt such relief.  They were done.  Today I gave them to the intended recipient.  Then I went to the library to get some knitting books.  I enjoyed looking at the books.  I even have an idea for a new project.

Here is a picture of that other little project I’ve been working on for, oh, the last 9 months or so:

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You put the lime in the coconut…

Feeling a bit Irish

I was beginning a new yarn with random colors out of a bag of bits and pieces.  I looked up and realized I had just spun the flag of Ireland.