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Finished Bag and More Yarn

Here’s my latest finished object:
Felted Diaper Bag
This is, of course, the lining for the inside of the diaper bag (It’s bears with honey and bees flying all around).
I made this out of Knit Picks Wool of the Andes and some “knobby” acrylic/wool fun yarn for the top of the bag, the outside pockets and handles. […]

tags: knitting, socks author: Lori comments: 6 Comments

Just For Fun…

Carrie tagged me
The rules are to go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday month and day only. Then post 3 events, 2 births and one holiday that occurred on your birthday, then tag 5 friends.
(I learned a lot of neat historical info looking all this up.)
September 9:
EVENTS
1. 1543- Mary Stuart, at […]

tags: Uncategorized author: Lori comments: 1 Comment

What I’ve Been Doing

Here’s the diaper bag as I’m trying to stretch it into a rectangle of sorts so I can sew up the sides and put on the pockets before I felt it.
This is what it’s supposed to look like when I get done.
This is the center of my crepe shawl from Sharon Miller’s […]

tags: Fair Isle, knitting author: Lori comments: 2 Comments

Felted Diaper Bag

I know I haven’t gotten the tulip socks started yet, sorry, but I just can’t yet ’cause I just have to make this super cute diaper bag from Knit It Felt It Also, I bought a bunch of wool from my LYS and what better project for 100% wool yarn than a felted one?
I have […]

tags: knitting author: Lori comments: 1 Comment

My Apologies

My apologies go out for my last post titled “Field trip”. I quite honestly didn’t know a thing about this place before we went there and I didn’t know much after we left. I thank the couple of people who commented for their information. I have since edited my post and have taken out […]

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Field Trip

Here we are at the Elephant farm in Greenbrier, AR. Our homeschool group got to pet some donkeys.
Saw some huge elephants (don’t see that everyday).

We were told that these elephants are taken in from various places like zoos, circuses, private owners, etc.. We learned a little about how they are taken care of and how […]

tags: Rambling on and on author: Lori comments: 4 Comments

Green Socks

I can’t believe how quickly I finished these socks! I love working with a bigger needle and thicker yarn! Yippee! It only took me like 6 days to finish, usually, to make a pair of men’s socks this size, it takes me 2 weeks, but that’s on size 1’s and with fingering weight yarn.
These were […]

tags: knitting author: Lori comments: 3 Comments