Have found a great site for earning gift cards InstaGC. I use it to get Amazon cash but you can earn points to cash in for many other stores like Walmart, Best Buy and can even just have then issue a check. It consist of many ways to earn points..Surveys, videos, downloads & other ways. I have earned $178.00 since Dec 28 2012 and bought me a Kindle from Amazon with the cash I earned.. I also use the Amazon cash to buy my doggies flea meds..So I get free flea meds :) TRY it out and I get some credit. Just click the Insta link above in post. Oh and will be posting some baby hats I just finished & 2 baby blankets I'm working on.

WOW! I have been very very bad. I haven't posted to my Blog in a year!! I must say I miss it but I have had a busy life this past year. I do continue my knitting & crocheting, but have been doing a lot more sewing. I have even recently started an Etsy store. It is doing OK but hope it picks up now that I have more time to make some more fun things. So far I have tea wallets, phone pocket charging stations, coin purses, and Ruffled purses. Here is one of the Ruffled purses that I sold. They are fun to make and have had a lot of compliments. They are lined in cotton fabric & have pockets on the inside & outside with a zipper closure. The back of this one has a pocket with velcro closure.

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This bottom photo is the fabric I am doing my next purse in.

Time to make some more monkey hats! I just love this pattern & so do my grand kids! The hardest part is sewing on the ears & mouth :)

This is my darling Grand-daughter at 18 months old & I haven't seen her in over a year. She lives in Germany where my son & daughter in law are stationed in the USAF.

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In her Monkey hat that Nanna made her!

Easter Table

Thought I would post a quick picture of my Easter Table this year. Place mats I quilted and some fun Easter Eggs I knit. I know it has been months since posted but life sure has been busy around here. :)

MY Love of Yarn!

Well in honor of Valentines day I thought I post some of the things I love beside my family. I also remembered I hadn't posted my pictures of the yarn I got when I was in Germany. Here is the Bravo from Germany. My son also sent me a few more skeins for my Birthday. The Scarf is one I started for my daughter while I flying home for 9 hrs. I finished a hat while I was there but she has already run off with it. LOL
The cones are my precious Peaches & Creme that will be no more as of February 25. Pisgah Yarn was bought by Spinrite which is a Canadian company that owns Sugar & Cream. I am so bummed about it and have placed my final orders this week.WAAAA!
The last picture is some Redheart Eco yarn that I won in a contest last year and also some Moon & Stars baby yarn. OH yes I have lots more but it would takes days to post it. Also have about 20 cones of Peaches & Creme coming soon. YAY!!

Year Went Fast

Well 2010 sure went fast! I hope to keep my Blog updated each month this year..LOL I think I said that last year. We had a great Christmas and I did many cloths but to many to post. I will post a couple of the ones that I do on a regular basis. I'm hoping to get my Scrubbie Crochet pattern typed up and posted to my blog. I have had a lot of request for it on Ravelry. Well here are the cloth patterns I do for family & friends. The one is from the 3 Easy dishcloths on Ravelry. The other is called Easy Dishcloth from Bernat & I think you have to sign up for free membership to get it.

Here is the Easy dishcloth

The Other is called Garter Ridges. They both are very quick to knit up and I of course always use my beloved American made Peaches & Creme! Oh and I finally figured out how to make my dishcloth bands on the printer. I am pleased how they turned out :)

Where has the time gone?

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Well I have really gotten behind, but have been really busy. Thought I would post a few pictures from my trip to Germany first and then post a few of the projects I'm working on. These are from the town of Bitburg where my son lives. It is not far from Spangdahlem Air Force Base where he is stationed. The one with the field and town behind it is taken from my son's dining room window. The cows are down the hill from his house on a farm we walked by everyday when went for walks. The one of the church is from a walk we took also. The one with the shops is where Marie and I went shopping. It is a beautiful country and I really enjoyed myself and I bought quite a bit of yarn from a couple shops.

Well lots of things going on at the moment.. Most important is the birth of my 7th Grandchild Riley Jean McGuire. My son & DIL are both in the USAF and live in Germany. She was born Sunday July 18th and I can't wait to hold her. My son & DIL have bought me a ticket to Germany and I leave Aug 2nd til Aug25th. So I have been getting together the things I have made for her. Unfortunately I haven't been able to do much knitting and not any crocheting . I have been sewing some receiving blankets and burp cloths and that has been fun to sew for a change. I have sharp pains shooting into my shoulder and up into my neck and they seem to think it is the carpal tunnel so I have started steroids for now and go back to the Dr. July 27th. Well here are few things I did get done before this flair up. I love the Ballerina booties and hope they fit the Philipino Princess! All of these were done in Peaches & Creme cotton yarn. And a Ruffled Hat to go with them. These were so fun and I loved working with pink yarn!

Earth & Sun Blanket

Some variations to a fun Blanket pattern from Lisa Gentry.. I really love this pattern and I have done several in different yarns. The first and second were in the new Moon & Stars by Redheart. It is so soft and pretty.


And the third one I did was done with the Eco Cotton Blend by Red Heart.
I plan on doing another in the Peaches & Creme
cotton or the Mercerized cabled cotton 940.

Some Easter Fun

Well I almost let April get away! Denton has gone back to work in Nashville Tennessee, so have been getting some Spring cleaning done. I wanted to post some things I did for Easter. First is my new center- piece Easter basket. This was originally a treasure basket and was a design by Lisa Gentry who is one of my favorite designers. You can check out her designs at her website by following this link. The Treasure Basket was also a contest in the Hook & Needle Group on Ravelry and I won it so I posted a photo of my winnings. It is a really fun and chatty group on Ravelry and I have made some wonderful friends there.Lisa is a wonderful designer and quite generous with her designs and winning prize packages. She has just ventured into dyeing her own line of yarn called Hummywinger (named after the Moderator of the Group). So you will find lots of my projects are Lisa Gentry designs! Here's my Easter basket.

Crocheted Hotpads

I finally got around to crocheting a really fun Hot pad I have been wanting to do. It is really fun to do with just motifs joined in a circle and the results are wonderful. It's the Starburst Hotpad and there is a video that helps explain the positioning of the motifs. I really love this and plan on doing some in spring colors.



Well this just a few of the things I have been doing an I will post some more this weekend. I have been doing some sweaters that are crocheted and finished some socks. I did some wonderful baby things and will post them soon.

Dishcloths

Wanted to post one of my favorite dishcloth patterns other than the ballband. It is the garterlac dishcloth by Dave at Criminy Jickets. I really love this with P&C variegated yarns and the results are always wonderful! Here are some of mine from my Christmas knitting. I used this great Entrelac cast on for mine and I really love that it is stretchy and wonderful for this pattern and other Entrelac patterns.

Glad It's Almost Over!

Sorry it has been a really long time since my last post. Life just seems to be rolling at a fast pace.Wow, what a winter we have been having! It has been snowy, cold and dreary. To bad it doesn't go by so fast. Well her is my only Winter photo I'm posting, because I'm just sick of the white stuff. This is behind my house and our poor pine tree.

Ok 2 pictures...This is front yard.

New Patio for Summer Fun

We decided to do a patio for the new Gazebo and make a great place for family gatherings. Of course since Denton does concrete work for a living he wanted to do it himself..(with the help of his sons)

The patio turned out great and we have had lots of fun cookouts. I love the family photo..Just me and my daughter are missing...Oh and the 6 grandkids.

Blanket from Ballband Dishcloths you say?

Last year I was in a contest in the Ravelry Peaches & Creme group to see who could do the most ballband dishcloths. Well there were many who got over a hundred done and a lot more than I did. I think I did 45 and decided to make a blanket with mine. Here is the stack of ballband cloths I did and them laid out before I decided how to join them.


I decided to join them with Ballband stitch design... then decided on the black and white so all the other colors would pop. I think I counted 17 solid colors and 20 variegated colors in the blanket.. That is counting the black and white.


This is the final blanket..It is on a queen bed yo show it spread out, but was made for a twin bed. I then entered it in the Highland County OH fair and won 2nd place in the Large Knitted Afghan category.