Day 244 of 2025

I had Fireball pose as my stand-in model 

as I tested camera settings and camera position 

before asking him to take pictures of me in my new sweater. 

It worked well but I did notice that our height difference 

made a difference in the final pictures. 

 

Day 243 of 2025

I just rediscovered another of Mom's hand knits. 

This one will be going to a new home soon.

 

Day 242 of 2025

I did my nails today. 

 

Day 241 of 2025

I participated in a baking session today

 and came home with a loaf of banana bread 

baked in my vintage Blue Cornflower Corningware bread pan. 

It was fun and delicious.

 

Day 240 of 2025

Three more tails to weave in and this project is done. 

Well, I should probably block it. 

Then it will be done.

 

Day 239 of 2025

It was our pleasure to go watch GB#3 run 

in his middle school cross country meet tonight.

 

Day 238 of 2025

 Let's do this one more time.

Day 237 of 2025

 Let's do this one more time.

Day 236 of 2025

 Let's do this one more time.

Day 235 of 2025

 Let's do this one more time.

Day 234 of 2025

 Let's do this one more time.

Day 233 of 2025

 Let's do this one more time.

Day 232 of 2025

 Let's do this one more time.

Day 231 of 2025

 Let's do this one more time.

Day 230 of 2025

Hey, I made a shirt. It has elbow patches.

 

Day 229 of 2025

Finished. 

At 500 pieces, this one was a quick and fun one. 

I will definitely do this one again.

 

Day 228 of 2025

Today seemed like the right time to start another puzzle.

 

Day 227 of 2025

I think it's been a while since I've posted

 some of my backyard critters. 

I just happened to look up from my paperwork 

and out the door 

to see this chubby little chipmunk resting on the deck.

 

Day 226 of 2025

My cozy knitting spot.

 

Day 225 of 2025

I shared some of my purchases from the weekend with Little E today

 on our weekly video call. 

This one is earmarked for a cute tank top.

(Weekend photos coming tomorrow)

 

Day 224 of 2025

It's time for me to head to the airport, 

but the Mountain had to surprise me one more time. 

It always amazes me.

Day 223 of 2025

M, The Trumpter, and I walking home from dinner. 

It's a shadow selfie.

Day 222 of 2025

Traveling back from Bainbridge Island on the ferry, 

Mount Rainier was showing off.

Day 221 of 2025

Today M and I are going to Flock Fiber Festival in Seattle. 

There will be yarn, fiber, ideas and sheep. 

Day 220 of 2025

I have arrived at my weekend location. 

Any guesses? 

Big hint- I'm in the Pacific Northwest.

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Day 219 of 2025

I know it's hard to see what's going on here so I will explain. 

I wanted to make a pair of pajama pants. 

I went to my fabric stash to look for three yards of fabric. 

Before I was even able to really look 

I found this pair of Vera Bradley pajama pants 

that I bought at Goodwill years ago to cut up 

and use as borders on a quilt. 

I had even picked out coordinating fabric 

which I found rolled together with the pants. 

It appeared that they might fit me so I took a closer look. 

The elastic in the back waist was rotten so I replaced the elastic. 

My favorite thing though is that I was able to add inseam pockets. 

I love inseam pockets and intend to add them to most anything I can. 

I can't wait to wear these.

 

Day 218 of 2025

Update on the glue search: 

I looked in a drawer in the kitchen desk 

to see if I could find the glue for my shoe repair. 

I did not see it so I started cleaning out the drawer instead. 

In the back I found an old cigar box. 

When I opened it, this is what I found. 

I don't need these so they are not going to stay here, 

but I had to take a picture as they reminded me

 of this puzzle I did back in 2020. 

When I cleared out the rest of the drawer, I did find my glue. 

I have now fixed my sandals. 

There is no need to shop for new sandals 

or buy more shoe repair glue.

 

Day 217 of 2025

When we were in San Diego Little E gifted me with a beautiful shawl she knit. 

I plan to take it with me on an upcoming trip 

so I thought I would give it a nice wool wash soak and blocking. 

Even in cool water it was bleeding color. 

I believe it was coming from the contrast color trim yarn. 

I rinsed it five or six times and it finally stopped. 

It now lies on a beach towel on a bathroom floor

 along with a cute cropped sweater 

that Little E made for me a couple years ago

 that I also plan to take with me. 

I hope they are both dry in time. 

Note: All previous Big Adventure posts (Days 204-209) 

have been updated with photos.

 

Day 216 of 2025

This is the top three shelves of the laundry closet. 

I am looking for something again. 

A while back I bought some shoe glue from the shoe repair shop

 to fix a favorite pair of boots. 

I did not repair them yet 

but did repair another pair of shoes with it. 

Now my favorite sandals are coming apart. 

I have no idea where I put this random item, 

but the logical place seems to me to be here with the shoe polish. 

I did not find it here. 

I'll look somewhere else tomorrow. 

If I can't find it by Wednesday, I see two options - 

buy more shoe glue from the shoe repair shop

 or buy a new pair of sandals. 

They should be on sale by now.

 

Day 215 of 2025

Everyone enjoys it when the neighborhood cat comes around, 

including the cat.

 

Day 214 of 2025

Fireball and I are cleaning up after finally

 getting the tree, in the background next to the ladder,

 that was damaged in a storm in June trimmed up. 

(click here to see the original post about the damaged tree)

While I was up on the ladder, I also cut out all the dead limbs I could find. 

The job took much longer than I had imagined it would.

 

Day 213 of 2025

Evidently our ginkgo tree has a dead limb somewhere. 

It is throwing parts of it down on our shade structure to let us know.

 

Day 212 of 2025

The answer to yesterday's question, what is it?, is pee pee teepees. 

I made a whole stack of them

 as they come in handy for diaper changes of newborn boys. 

Those with boys will know what I'm talking about.

Say hello to our newest, GB#6.

 

Day 211 of 2025

I made it to my sewing  machine for a little bit today. 

I made this little thing. 

I also finished the stack under the scissors. 

Do you know what they are? 

What is it? 

Answer quickly as I may give you the answer tomorrow.

 

Day 210 of 2025

While we were on our big adventure

 I was able to get all the ribbing sections done on my Geddy Tee.

  My goal is to wear it in eleven days. 

That's a lot of knitting for me but I'm going to give it my best shot.

(Big Adventure pictures will start filling in tomorrow.)

 

Day 209 of 2025

It's just a short car ride from here and we'll be home. 

It's always good to be home.

Day 208 of 2025

It's our last day at Comic-Con and we had to get our photo by the wall. 

We've had a blast.

Day 207 of 2025

Part of Comic-Con is panels. 

The panel could have celebrities, actors from tv or movies, 

authors and other such things. 

Today we sat in on a panel all about the making of a book 

celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip. 

The panel consisted of everyone associated with the process 

of getting this book made. 

It was a great panel and the book looks amazing. 

I can't wait for the book to come out in October.

Day 206 of 2025

Lots of people were dressed up like lots of different things or characters, 

but this is probably my favorite. 

Day 205 of 2025

Yesterday we landed in San Diego 

and today we joined the crowd of thousands to attend 

Comic-Con International on its first day. 

We were lucky enough to get admission

 to all four days of the convention. 

We heard from a multi-year veteran vendor couple 

that the odds are very low of that happening.

Day 204 of 2025

I am off on One Big Adventure with Fireball and Little E. 

I know this picture doesn't give you any clues as to where I am, 

but we did all have to fly here 

and our main purpose for being here starts tomorrow. 

Day 203 of 2025

When packing a bag, 

you must make sure there's room for your knitting, right?

 

Day 202 of 2025

This shirt I'm making will not get finished tonight, 

but I'll manage it first thing in the morning.

 

Day 201 of 2025

My sewing is going but, of course, 

things are going slower than I had planned. 

I hope to finish this one tomorrow.

 

Day 200 of 2025

We were invited to go to a new-to-us farmer's market this morning. 

We love a new adventure.

 

Day 199 of 2025

There is a whole lot of sewing on the docket for this weekend. 

Once again Michaels came through

 with the materials I needed for this project. 

 

Day 198 of 2025

Sometimes I feel like the buds are more beautiful than the blossoms. 

 

Day 197 of 2025

I found the book I was looking for the other night. 

It took six minutes.

When I talked to Little E today, I forgot to show it to her.

 

Day 196 of 2025

Dinner.

 

Day 195 of 2025

I've decided I need to make a new t-shirt to wear next week.

 It shouldn't be too difficult as I've made this pattern before,

 but I want a longer sleeve than I've done before 

so that piece needs to be traced. 

I'm hoping to get started tomorrow.

 

Day 194 of 2025

It  appears that Michaels has picked up all the thread

 I would have purchased at Joann for clothing and bag sewing, 

especially for topstitching when a very close color match is wanted.

Good to know, Michaels.

 

Day 193 of 2025

A birthday celebration is in progress.

 

Day 192 of 2025

The mailbox flowers are thriving this year.

 
 

Day 191 of 2025

I've finally joined the two fronts and the back together. 

It's time to knit around and around for a while.

 

Day 190 of 2025

This is where I keep most of my knitting and crochet books 

along with some of my sewing, but not quilting books. 

I am looking for one in particular 

that I was telling Little E about this morning. 

Do we want to guess how long it will take me to find it

 or if I will find it here at all?

 

Day 189 of 2025

I hit a couple speed bumps with this tee since I last showed it here. 

There has been little progress but some decisions were made

 as to how to proceed with the challenges I am facing. 

Today I began working on the plan and found that I had made a few mistakes

 in previous rows that I could not ignore. 

I slipped my stitches to a spare needle to the offending spots one at a time

 and dropped the stitches down to the place that needed fixing. 

Then using this quite helpful tool, picked them all back up to the top

 and put them back on the needle. 

I think i've done them all (4 or 5) and am ready to resume knitting.

 

Day 188 of 2025

This is something I made a long time ago. 

It has come back into my possession and attention recently. 

I'll give you more information and my thoughts on it soon.

 

Day 187 of 2025

"Limelight Hydrangea"

The first of many more to come.