Day 254 of 2025

I am back to my knitting which was going very well... 

until it wasn't. 

Somehow I have lost a stitch. 

I have looked and looked. 

At this point, I am done looking. 

I am moving on and if it doesn't appear when I come back around, 

I will just be adding a stitch. 

Let's face it, it will be down on my foot 

where no one will ever see it but me anyway. 

 

Day 253 of 2025

My intention for today's picture 

was to be a shot of the second cuff for my pair of socks. 

I worked on them all day 

but ultimately had to tear them back and start over. 

As a result, I have no picture of said cuff. 

I bought this tiny puzzle in Seattle 

and put it together a week or so ago. 

I'll be putting it away so a picture is in order. 

Maybe I should bring back Thursday puzzle updates from 2020.

 

Day 252 od 2025

My first cuff for the new pair of socks is done. 

I like to work both socks one step at a time, alternating socks. 

That means since this cuff is done, 

I am ready to work the second cuff. 

This assures me that both socks will turn out the same. 

It also means that once the first sock is done, 

the second one is very close behind. 

There will be no second sock syndrome.

 

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 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 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 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 184 of 2025

I finished the right front yesterday and the left front today. 

I'm almost ready to connect the front and back 

so I can go round and round.

 

Day 170 of 2025

Update on my purple dye splotched jean jacket:

I took the advice from the comments and did a Google search. 

While vinegar did come up so did Borax natural laundry booster. 

I happen to already own a box of Borax so I put half a cup in a large bucket 

and added the hottest water I could get from my tap. 

I submerged the jacket and let it soak. 

I can't remember how long I let it soak

 but I'm sure the water was no longer hot. 

When I poured the water out, it was purple. 

I rinsed the jacket and then put it in a regular laundry load. 

It worked fabulously. 

There is no trace of purple splotches.

 

Day 355 of 2024

I'm getting this room ready for a new rug roll out.

 

Day 293 of 2024

Update on the Spooky Hat:

I finished the pumpkins and moved on to the ghosts. 

The ghosts were finished this evening 

and I'll be moving on to moons and stars next.

 

Day 158 of 2024

The ferns I transplanted a couple weeks ago

appear to be doing well 

as there are new fronds appearing as fiddleheads this week.

 

Day 101 of 2024

I  have finally updated the incomplete posts from our latest adventure. 

The posts begin with Day 86 and end with Day 93. 

It was a great adventure

 and there is no way to cover all the fun things we did 

in just one picture a day. 

I am considering a post over on my other blog 

as a wrap up that would contain more pictures. 

I'll let you know and link it up if that happens. 

In the mean time, I hope you enjoy the newly posted pictures.

 

Day 66 of 2024

My temperature quilt blocks are coming along. 

The left is January and the right is February. 

If you go back to my other "temperature" posts, 

you can compare the January blocks  

and see that I did replace one of the fabrics. 

I am happy with this decision. 

Here is a little more information about the set up of the blocks. 

The house facades depict 30 days of the specific month. 

If the month has 31 days, that house gets a tree in the yard. 

Since my quilt will have both high and low temperature blocks, 

I have split the tree in the same manner as the house blocks. 

Since February has only 29 days, 

I have added something special in the empty spot. 

 

Day 62 of 2024

I'm much more focused tonight.

 

Day 246 of 2023

My knitting has been sporadic lately, 

but after I accidentally knit an extra inch of the ribbing, 

I have now arrived at a quick and easy part of this project. 

 

Day 212 of 2023

Yes, they are definitely a volunteer variety of sunflower.

(Picture taken 7-31-2023)

 

Day 209 of 2023

Flower update: Yellow as I had hoped

 

Day 193 of 2023

Well, this is going well. 

I really like the slipped stitch heel. 

This color is working out much better than the previous one. 

I'll show you the color when I have some good light 

and have made more progress.

Day 189 of 2023

It's daylight and I am definitely going to switch colors 

for the heels and toes of this pair of socks. 

I would love any of these in those spots

 so I asked M to narrow it down to three for me. 

She did and then I asked Fireball which he would pick from the three. 

I have started the new color and will post a  picture

 when I am further along with it. 

Feel free to take guesses.