Fun with Knitting (and Quilting)

A little tip for your Saturday

So don't you just hate it when you are working with a knitting book or some other book that is soft cover and keeps flopping shut on you and you lose your page, or worse break the binding on it?

Well here's my tip for the day...get them spiral bound! For a few bucks you can go to Kinkos, or better still (or should I say cheaper) OfficeMax or any place like that..they will do it for you! It's so nice! Makes leaving a page out and open for you while you work a short row heel or even for when I try to copy a pattern for myself(I like to write all over them but not in my books). I am slowly getting my most used knitting  books done! It's great...Now that I'm thinking of it...I should get some of my cookbooks done too!

Here's my 3 latest editions:  
Nice neat and so much easier to deal with!  
 I will say that getting these three books done cost me $14 at Office Max. I had 2 done awhile back at Kinko's and paid about that much for two so OM seems a bit more economical...I'll be going there from now on!

Enjoy!

Monkeys!

So I have nieces that range in age from 3 1/2 to 30... So naturally when you have nieces who are married, they may have a baby! And indeed this is the case...My niece Kathy and her husband Jason are having their first baby...and with a baby comes a baby quilt! They chose not to find out if they are having a boy or a girl so they are going with a "neutral" theme- Sage greens and browns, and while their set is those colors it has bunnies on it. So it didn't have to match-but I wanted to stick with the colors. So Ken and I went shopping and he picked out this adorable monkey fabric...and I went off of that fabric. I must say I'm really happy with how the quilt turned out! I think that Kathy liked it as well!

It's the Yellow Brick Road pattern. It's really a fun random but not pattern. I think I may have to make another slightly bigger one for me!

Happy 2011

Wow! where did 2010 go? It seems like it flashed by in a blink of an eye! It wasn't a bad year- DH and I are still both employed and our families are well..there was a wedding and a new great nephew...But I did lose a dear friend in a tragic accident, and it shook me in a way I had never been shaken before. It has reminded me to be more conscious of how I touch others lives. I try to remember and be a bit more like my dear friend.

So for 2011 my goals (again I don't do resolutions really) I'm not sure how good I did with last years goals...I'm sort of sticking with them again...

1. I really need to finish up some quilts (either by quilting them myself or sending them out to get them done! I have some awesome tops I want to be quilts!)

2. Need to finish or frog a few of my knitting projects.

3. I still need to clear out MORE clutter in my house.

4. Try to cook more at home/eat a bit healthier..I was doing a bit better then the holiday season came and that was that.

HMM That's a good enough list for this year!

I hope all of you have a wonderful 2011!!!!!!