Not Fair, Really

To me, I don't know what about you, northeastern had a serious 2-3 feet of blizzard snow yesterday. Not here in utah at all. Just most of cloudy. Really cute of rain, not like pour rain dog and cat. Last time we had blizzard in about 2011. I loved it. One reason, oh there's million reasons why, I want to move to northeast. There is always snow than here in middle of derest. I want snow and rain. Not tornado, flood, etc. Lately, it's about 55 degree F yesterday. Too warm for January. So I have been depressing lately, due to lame weather. I'm not even ready for summer. I feel like I'm waiting for winter to arrive but it's here, and no snow. Not right. Today's weather is: cloudy, looks like it's about going to rain.

Anyway, I have been knitting due to my depression. Knitting save me. Knitting is cheaper than therapy. Not just hobby but they do helping your life. Thank god for knitting that's exist on earth. A weeks ago, I was crocheting but until a few days ago, I was so depressed and feel so sick just to see crochet projects. I'm fully knitter. That's first time ever weirder happen to me. 

So I have been knitting a tam hat. By Mary Jane Mucklestone. Yarn: jamieson's Shetland spindrift. I struggled with my gauge so I adjusted my math according to my gauge swatch. So far, it's looking good. 

When I was on way to bed, I looked up on Ravelry.com and oh my, how could I forgot this pattern because I recognized the pattern because I have that yarns I bought a few years ago for this pattern. So I'll get work on that ASAP, but I need to work on baby blanket and baby sack for Keisha. She's due on August 1st, but I bet she will have a baby in July, so I need to get on that. Baby blanket take me up to 2 months. Time is always tick tock tick tock and never stop. 

Slowly Recovering

Hi reader. I'm writing this to you from my bedroom. I have been too sick since January 1st. Colds, pink eye, and now I have bronchitis. My throat is killing me with the virus. Swallowing is hurt. I have been wearing the mask. My ears are fully of fluids. Yes, I did went to the ER yesterday. So I got the inhaler medicine. Derek had to call in from working double yesterday. He tried to take a day off but his boss denied it. I'm okay. But slowly recovering. 

Yesterday, I found out that the governor has been banning of the wood burn fireplace due to the bad air. So I glad I got gas fireplace. Our parents(both of ours) recommended us for it. I thank them. So I sat beside the fireplace last night to keep me warm from my sickness. 

From my last post, I couldn't post the photo so I am using my iPad to post the blog. So you can see the yarn earrings above. Isn't they lovely?

I finally finished knit the stuffed dinosaur for wyatt. He's happily. 

I'm currently crocheting the baby jumper dress. I'm watching doctor who. I heard that Netflix is omitting all of the BBC shows by January 31. I just started watching doctor who. Now I'm cursed. Because everyone love doctor who and I have never seen it so I was curious about it. 

Ahh, my steam inhaler Vicks. It's personal individual steam. 

That's all for today. I'm weak, cold, tired, and sorely. Good night and happy knitting. 

So Many Things To Talk About.

 Hi there. As I promised that I am back sooner. Now, I am sitting on my kitchen table and drinking green tea with lemon. psst, green tea help you to lose some weight, ahem. I am blogging from my laptop, not from my iPad. I usually blog from my iPad. Anyway, today's weather is foggy, white, dust snow on the trees. Yesterday, the weather made me really tired due to dark, gray outside. I still don't feel well. My sinus colds is gone then pink eye; now it's gone. And now I have frequently bad coughs with nasty green mucus. I took the medicines and antibiotic medicine. Yes, I went to the InstaCare last week for my pink eye medicine. I am surprised that Emma is not yet get sick from me and Wyatt. He had pink eye during Christmas breaks two weeks from school. Lucky for him that he doesn't have to miss the school. He gave me his pink eye. It's very quickly spread out. I have been cleaning the whole house with Lysol wipes. Today, I am hoping I can catch up with the laundry. It's really bad behind on laundry for weeks. I like to do the dishes because it's only one to two loads than so many loads of laundry. Oh dear.

Anyway, here about my knitting/crocheting stuffs.

I have been knitting swatch lately. I was in mood for swatch while I am still knitting the projects. So I wanted to knitting fair isle tam hat from Mary Jane Mucklestone. My new obsessed designer knitter. She lives in Portland, Maine. She is major in fair isle knitting. I have her class fair isle on my Craftsy.com. I love Craftsy. It's knitting videos with many different kind of classes that you want to learn about knitting. Of course, it's not only all about knitting. It has crochet, spinning, gardening, painting, cooking, and quilter. Once you bought the class, it will be never expired, it yours. as long as how many times you watch the class for your lifetime. Also it money back guarantee. Also it has closed captions on any computers. Unfortunately, not yet on tablets for closed captions, but at least it has on computer, right?

I find the new yarn that I fell in love with is Jamieson's Shetland wool from Shetland near to Scotland. The yarn is rough and best for fair isle knitting. I am all the wools lover. I don't care how soft or rough. If rough, wear something beneath. The wool keep you to stay warm in the winter time.

I finished knit this hat. I love it so much. I even knit this for my niece for Christmas present along with journal book. Emilee is pre teenage stage. So those are good for her. I am glad she loves it too. I made it little bigger and long length for me. Emilee is regular size. The brim is garter with short row to created this beauty over flap brim and sewed it. Why yes, it's wool yarn. I refuse to use red heart yarn. I absolutely hate acyclic yarn. 

I am crocheting the baby jumper dress for no reason. It's will be going into the long planning box saving. If my brother is going have a baby girl, I will give this to them. I crochet in 18 months old size. The pattern comes from Robyn Chachula, my favorite crocheter designer. I use sheep(ish) yarn from Bernets company. It's not yet finish. I am working on it. But currently that I am still working on Wyatt's dinosaur stuffed toy. Only 3 more legs to go then I am done. 

I told you that I was in mood for more swatches. So here another swatch with pure silk hankies direct straight from cocoon moth. I am not spinning this yarn. I just stretch the hankie into how thickness I want for yarn. I want to make the mittens. Silk is about 3 times warmer than wool's. I am swatching this to get the gauge for mittens size. 

That's all for today. Happy knitting, for me, ahem. 

Where Has The Time Gone?

Hi, it has been while since I last time blogging. The holiday season is surely busy for everyone. Now, I can't believe it's already 9 January 2014 2015. I remember the year 2012. Now it's 2015. The days are getting shorter and shorter. I must knitting faster like: So many patterns, and so little time. Our Christmas was wonderful. It's great to see the whole families together again once a year. In December weather's is lousy but we were surprised to see the snow on Christmas day that which I love it so much. I love to see the falling snow on Christmas morning. We, indeed, had a white Christmas. The kids, of course, were overload excited about the presents. Wyatt is still opening the someone's else present that wasn't even his. So I had to take him away to calm down and explained to him that the another kids want to open their own presents. Not you. Wyatt, why yes, was grumpy about it. I got the tiny fizzy yarn earrings from Etsy.com. Derek got the tools and hunter clothes. I got the most of yarn tools so far and MORE of the yarns. 

I knitted this cardigan from Ysolda. Libby loves it. Izabelle loves it too. I am glad that they love it. They are cute. 

 

I finally finished this punch rug hooker. It's fun project. I bought this old rust mustard looks frame at Hobby Lobby. I love that store. I bought this from Walmart that I saw this at my corner of eye while I was shopping. 

At my parents' house for Christmas day, they had chance to played with their cousins. Emma held her newest addition cousin named Matthew. The kids had blast time played together. I even held him too. Surprise news is that my brother Justin and his wife Keisha are expecting their first baby due in August 2015. It's time for me to knit her a baby blanket. This will be come from Anne Hansen the designer of blanket. I already have the yarns to be knitting. It's will be white. 

That's will be all for now. Hope to see you soon than await longer for me to blog. Cheer and happy knitting. 

Ninja Turtle Scarf

 

Wow, it's been long time since I last time blogged. December is crazy month for us. We are ready for Christmas. The shopping spree for the presents are done. No more stress until about next September of 2015. We got the food shopping spree for Christmas for Derek's family dinner done. We the family get something for the party than one person responsible and stressful, so we help out with them. That's what Christmas is all about, share. All I need to do is to wrapping the presents. I don't want to put the presents under the tree a week before the Christmas due to the kids to sneak around and peek the presents so they won't be too excited for Christmas. So I am pretending we are waiting for Santa Claus to come and deliver the presents.

 

Once I went out for shopping spree, I was so exciting due to a lot of the sales. I had been shopping for three days. Now, I am done because Derek is little bit of stress from my random shopping spree. I was like, oh look at this! (grab this item and put into a cart) then walk the next aisle and again said, oh look at this! And grab it again without hestiaste. Some of the items caught my eyes then I grabbed them without thinking. During the shopping spree, Wyatt was at school and Emma was with me. Yes, she saw some of the items and begged me to buy it for her. Whew, it's hard to have her around with me during the Christmas chaos around in the city. I can't wait for her to go to school next year so I can shopping spree by myself. We (Emma and I) went to bath & bed beyond, Walmart, Michael's, Knit Unique[yarn shop], Starbucks(tons, tons of coffee; yummy), Joann, Nature Grocers, Hobby Lobby, and Lowe's. What a fun!

 

At the yarn shop, I wanted a Lazy Kate for my spinning. Because Derek doesn't know what to buy for me for Christmas present so I went and get it for him. The two yarns caught my eyes so I took them with me. I am yarn addict. I can't resist them.

 

Anyway, once I saw this ninja turtle from Pinterest and wanted to make ones for Wyatt. He loves the show of it. It's great for 7 years old little guy. Yarn: Lion Brand Vanna's choice in red, orange, green, rusty brown, blue. Red heart yarn in purple. It's good yarns for the rough kid. I used Addi and soft touch hooks because I couldn't decide which to use the hook so I used them both. My mood is little fighting with me about the hooks. Tulip hook is my favorite but it was in use the another project. The pattern was easy to read and make. I looked up in my ravelry and found it to use on my finished project section. You, knitter, will understand what I am talking about.

 

I think this is cool project for boy. I made little pretty a lot for Emma so I don't want to left Wyatt out.

 

Today's weather: I am not happy that we are having green Christmas. There is no, I mean NO snow at all. Well, I lied, it did once for like an hour and snow is only about 1 inch, then melt away. I want a white Christmas so bad! One reason why I want to move to Maine. Also it's warm than usually temperature. Sighs.

 

PS, I have been using my iPad for blogging until now I am using my laptop to write it because it, my computer is totally different than my old laptop and the style are way off until now it upgrade and look better than before. I couldn't even download the pictures from this laptop. iPad was easy to upload the pictures. Now it's easy to upload the pictures now. But I love the Pic Collage app to all into one photo than upload the few of pictures. My laptop is Toshiba, new laptop. I couldn't afford the Mac laptop right now. It's ridiculous price! All I use are: craftsy with closed captions; the iPad doesn't have app with subtitles just yet, and blog. That's all.

 

Now I am off, I will blog later, Merry Christmas! xoxo

Hello December

Oh my, we are still busy since my last post blog. 

We celebrated Wyatt's birthday. We went to the cache valley mall to eat the pretzel makers. It's yummy. Wyatt's grandparents visited him and gave him the presents. He got the new clothes. Toy remote truck(I was little bit unhappy about it, because he is keeping break his toys, I rather to have all clothes instead toys. But my parents' choice to buy the truck for him. I did warned them about it.) we had a birthday cake and ice cream. We got him a big joe green camo kid sofa. Emma wanted one so I went and bought a zebra big joe kid sofa. I'm glad I'm done with two kids, I can't deal with 4+ kids. No offend to who are having 4+ kids. I played tease to wyatt that he's four, not seven but he said SEVEN! Can't believe this. I blinked from his newborn to seven. Where had all the newborn gone?! He's not baby, (whimpering). The pictures aren't in, I forgot to took some. My bad. 

Our little sweet Furball the hamster had passed away on thanksgiving day. Wyatt was heartbroke. We were shocked to found out about it. He, furball, was sleeping peace into his death. We said our goodbyes to him. He's excellent pet. We had our moment. 

I ordered a wool rug hook frame for my rug hook. It's fun project. I'm using the single ply wool for this. I drew the picture of sheep on burlap fabric. It's much easier to use it than stitch cross frame. It has carding little teeth to hold the fabric. I like this ones because it's on my lap and easy to travel. The another frames are more than $500. I ordered it for $120 from Amazon.  Derek said it's my early Christmas gift. Ha, ahem. 

I'm knitting a stuffed dinosaur for wyatt. He wanted purple/green. I'm still working on knitting hat for me. I finished knitting hat for our niece for christmas gift. So all my Christmas knittings are done. Whew. So do my Christmas shopping gifts are done too. 

We made the gingerbread cookies. Wyatt took the pictures. Good job, sweetie. We had fun time together. I have enough of sugar, I'm more happy to give kids the cookies. They need more fat than I do. The holiday season sugars are tough. But I have been keeping mange it.  

Our Christmas decorations are up. Wyatt begged me to set the tree up after thanksgiving. After this we sat down and rest by our lovely fireplace. 

I played with gunner, the black lab of my brother's. I love him to death. 

Emma wanted me to take a picture of her because she was happy to have the new clothes that which she is much needed. 

Today's weather is cloudy with lightly mist of rain. I want the snow so bad. I'll be happy to have a pour rain. I rather to have heavy rain and snow than none. Oh, I just bought the new tires so we are ready for wet season. To be safe than sorry. 

Xoxo, merry christmas. 

Whoa!

Yes, that's right, whoa! It's November 11!!! Where's November 1st? Gone! I remembered that we can't wait for halloween to come and it's already gone. I don't want January to arrive because the holidays will go faster then we will be in slow, bored month of January. 

On Halloween day, wyatt was a cowboy. Emma, of course, Anna from Frozen. Derek was a geek computer error 404: costume not found. I loved that idea for him. I was witch. Remember, I was sick on Halloween day. 

Emma beg me to buy her elsa the doll. It was supposed to be the Christmas gift but I don't want to argue with her because she saw it. Oh well. It's her fault that she saw it. I was like d'oh!

I wanted Derek to wear this shirt... I work so she can knit. It's perfect for us. 

I'm in knitting community and know the fabulous knitters. I saw this candy coffee crisp. It came from Canada. Only in Canada. Not in the USA . Bummer! So I ordered online at Amazon. It taste like crunch candy but add a favor of coffee. I also ordered matcha green tea kit kat candy from Japan. It's good. But too bad, it only in Japan, not in the USA. I'm thankful for Amazon. 

Ruffles Skirt

I am so satisfied with this project, even I hate the yarn- 100% acrylic. I love to see her shake her cute bum with shake ruffles. It is perfect fitting her. I made it in size 8 for her 6 size. She's big than size 6. I should have knit in ice blue as like Elsa from Frozen. Oh well. 

Last week, I was sick with common colds flu. Today, I start feel a lot better but still stuffed nose. 

Now, I'm knitting French Press Slippers for Christmas present. I'll have 5 pairs. One down, 4 to go. 

Hello November

Hello, pretty rust colors of November. And welcome back. 

I made my very first quilt blanket. It was little difficult sewing. It's not even perfect but good experience. Baby size blanket. I used my own sew machine to do top quilting. Just in straight line. I'm not fan of quilting. I'm dead hard knitter. 

PS I finished knitting Emma's ruffles skirt. I'll tell you about that when I am blogging next time. 

Another Day of Hike

We went to Mendon mountain to hike without the kids. It was so beautiful. Peace and quiet, away from stressful city. The leaves are falling, changing colors. The trail is covering up with the leaves. It was perfect weather. We, especially me, love to see the autumn around us. We will definitely go there again. The kids were with my parents for their uncle and aunt baby blessing. (Jayden and Kelli). We couldn't come down due to gas. Plus, Derek was forced to work. Coalville is pretty far. So my parents came and get the kids. It was so nice without the kids for a night.