Homemade Apricot Jams

Yay. I borrowed cannier bath pot from my good neighbor. I ate jam with homemade bread. I was totally in heaven. Derek love them, so do my kids. I wanted to make more of the jams. They are more healthy than store bought jams, my opinion. I got 2 boxes full of the apricots from Derek's friend from his work. It is free for us. It was good chance to make jams, because my parents took Wyatt with them for my mom's work site travel in Logan and Emma was napping time. I gave one box full of the apricots to my parents. So yummy! I now know how to make homemade jams. I will do it again in rest of my life. :)

Mountain

I took the pictures of my current hometown's mountain on the east side from my house. You can see the top of a mountain, there are VERY VERY green grass, trees, and etc. It was NOT normal. I love it. There are still some snow left. It was storm day. I wish we have green mountain instead brown. Beautifuuuuul!

Aquarium

Finding Nemo!

Doesn't it cute?

Shrimp. I love to eat them.

Ekk! An ugly fish. Yellow and orange fish is pretty.

Seahorse. I have never seen them in my life. They are so cool!

Mmmm, lobster. I am going to eat you.

Oputoucs (spell???) lives in a dark place. I was not supposed to take a flash picture, oopies my bad.

Jellyfish. It was so cool to see when it changes color light in the dark. But it is little scary.

Mommy and Wyatt sat on a frog.

Daddy and Emma sat on a frog.

WHOA! What a big fish!

A big and fat fish.

Ohh cutie

Penguins. It was Wyatt's little hand on a window.

A turtle

Stray Ray. It was so soft when I touched it. Kind of surprise me.

Eel..

Ohh pretty

I felt like I was in Hawaii beach.

Wyatt wants to sat in the back of stroller. Emma kept pulled off hairband off. They had fun.

We went to Aquarium with Jayden, Kelli, Taylor, and my parents. It was so nice to have fun time family to be spend together. Derek got that week off from work. It was so neat to have Derek around with us. :)

Little Posy Yoke Cardi

Yay. I finally finished this cardi for my niece Taylor Thorup. Kelli bought the yarns for me. Isn't it cute? Yarn: Sublime yarn from London, UK. It is merino, silk, and cashmere yarn. She picked the color purple. I had to used my thrower (right hand) for this project. I personally knit in picker (left hand). I held my yarn in the left hand. I used right hand for this project, because it is matched my gauge swatch 4" a square. It looks so good on Emma. Hee hee.

Swatching

I DO swatch! Honestly! When I substituting yarns, this is exactly what I need to do. I don't use exactly yarn in the pattern. Swatching is a little like sketching. It's a chance to try out ideas, to get a feel for what I am working with and to dream about the project. If the pattern involves a stitch pattern or technique I am unfamiliar with, it can be a great idea to try it out on a swatch in order to become comfortable with a small sample isolated from other considerations like shaping. Knitting a sweater is such a leap of faith, nothing at all like purchasing a garment I have tried on, but a swatch can help predict how it will turn out. A sample piece of fabric to play with can tell me a lot about how that fabric will behave in a full garment and the effect washing and wear will have. I am making my swatches at least 6" / 15 cm square. There are a few reasons for this: The edges will be a little distorted, so I will need enough room in the middle to accurately count 4" / 10 cm worth of stitches and rows in order to measure gauge.

To check my gauge/tension about which I am loose or tight knitter. To play with my swatches to know what to do with the yarn: feel, thin. bulky, split thread, and how well I hold the yarn.

Swatches are beautiful to do! I play and pet them. If I have so many of swatches, I can sew them together to make a huge afghan. :)

The swatches do have a lot information to tell me about them. I take some time to do the swatch. I am not in rush to get the project to started. I want to have a well fitted garment. I want to have enjoy knitting and wearing. Before I started learning to knitting. I was like 'Oh why swatch!" Then more time to come and I realized that it is most important in the knitting projects. I love swatching. :)

Litte Red in the City

YESSS! I got it today at my mailbox. I am so exciting to have it. I have been waiting for to come since July 4th. It is a knitting book by Ysolda Teague. She lives in Scotland. This book is about fitting. I still want to buy about 10 more books from the different designers. I am so exciting. I am so SO addict to the yarn stuffs. :) Happy day for me now.

Jell-O Mold

I made Jell-O mold. The kids, of course, love it. I used peach, cranberry, lime, grape, and apricot. I don't use whipping cream. I just want straight Jell-O without cream in it. I finally bought the pan. You can see inside of the pan. I forgot to put on the PAM. Next time I will. The jell-O is firm than weak. I only used boiling water. No cold water added. Yummy.

Yummy!

Goober! I love it with grape and peanut butter. But I found it in Wal-Mart: Chocolate with peanut butter. It is SO SO SO SO delicioussss! Love it. You guys should try it. :)

Christmas Baby Blanket

I finished it today. Finally! Because I had to seam all of the motifs together then crochet the edge. It's looks good. I am using it for my couch for Christmas season. Not for "cover" blanket because it is so small blanket. I love it. I used Red Heart Holiday yarns. It is crochet project.

Rug

I am so happy that rug is done. It's so slow project. Because of loops. I had to chain 3 every second stitches around to form the loops. I still have to make another one. I already started another rug. They are for my mom's friends' wedding gifts. It's looks good rug. I want one for myself in someday.