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This may look like the same picture, but I am 2 rows away from completing the bind off!  My finish date was today and I will make it.  Next week, a blocked project and something new on the needles.

My knitting mojo has diminished some with all the wedding planning, but I guarantee these needles will continue to click.

Linking up with Ginny!

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Oh my friends!  A week away!  Just crazy.  There has been knitting happening and I have set a finish date of the end of July.  At that point what is done is done.  It should be fine.

109 days until the wedding and we are now in VERY busy mode.  Every day more details to attend to.  The napkins are complete and quite pretty I think.  Some special sewing is going on that again I have to keep secret, but you'll see at some point.

My best friend arrives Friday and we are going to churn out 4 little flower girl dresses.  I have the bodices sewn already, so it is the skirts and monogramed sashes that need to be finished. And the first wedding shower is Sunday and I'm so happy Betsie will be here.  We raised our 8 combined children side by side and in close and far away distances.  Thirty three years we've been the best of friends and even though distance still keeps us apart, we just pick up where we left off each time we are together.

Look for lots of pictures soon!!  Linking up with Ginny!

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It's midnight and I am sitting up trying to relieve this back pain so I can sleep.  Today was such a busy day I totally forgot to take my knitting pictures and here I am in the half-light with my iPad trying to capture something worth posting.

The extra yarn came and I am back working on the second secret knitting.  My goal is to finished by the end of this month.  That means I really have to push myself to sit in the evenings and knit.  That doesn't sound like it should be hard, but there are so many things taking me away.

This evening I completed the last of the 34 napkins.  As beautiful as they are, I am happy to be finished.  I have a baby shower next week as well and burp diapers need to be monogramed now.

The summer schedule has begun with the grandchildren.  We have been to the zoo this week, but today is Library day.  Story time is at 10:00 and then checking out books before we arrive home for naps.

I never seem to stop:(

Linking up with  Ginny!

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I think these pictures look relatively the same from last week although I may have added an inch.  It certainly is a good thing this secret knitting is not due tomorrow!  There is time to complete it.  It's just that so many other things are keeping me away from it.

But the pattern is just a 2 row repeat, so easy to pick up and down. And I always love Knit Picks Shine.  Pima Cotton is one of my favorites to knit with.

Those boxes are about to leave my house.  We send the invitations to the calligrapher Friday.  And there is just a little peek of the inside.  A very pale blue letterpress design with navy blue text.  They are just stunning.

I'm about 10 pages away from finishing Mrs. Grant.  A good story but simple.  I did learn a couple of new historical facts.  This could certainly be part of your summer reading!

I took all these photos with my iPad this morning.  We have had several rainy, gloomy days and the temp in North Texas this morning is 47!  So the pictures are not the best.  Sun is expected later today and for days to come!

Linking up with Ginny!

Yarn Along...Lost Knitting

I did.  I lost my knitting.  Bag and all. I have taken cars apart, called every place I was on Saturday, and looked in every nook an cranny in this house.  Friends, it is gone.  I'm stumped and very sad.  The bag contained the second part of the secret knitting.  I was only about 10 rows in, but my new, beautiful stitch markers were all through the stitches.

So..what did I do?  Well... I began the project again, but this time I used a different yarn ( Knit Picks Shine).  It was what I had and the color will work just as well as the previous blue.  I purchased new stitch markers as well.  I love these!!!! I have used tons of markers, but these are now my very favorite stitch markers. They open like a safety pin so you can insert them as you knit or put them into select stitches.

So if you are out and about and you come across this bag......

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Disappointedly, the picture above is the same from last week.  Such a simple pattern should not cause me to frog it 3 times!!!  But, alas, I did and I think this time I have all the markers in the right place.  This is the second part of the secret knitting and it should progress fairly quickly.

The yarn is Berocco Vintage in a navy colorway.  Perfect with the white from the first half.

Linking up with Ginny!!!

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Half of the secret knitting is finished.  I wish I could tell you what it is and the occasion, but not just yet.   It was so large I had to improvise on how the blocking.  There still wasn't enough room, but it worked. The other half is being cast on and you will be seeing that project in the next weeks.  Same yarn, Berocco Vintage, but this in navy blue.

I didn't take a picture but have hopped on the Kristin Lavransdatter group and checked it out from the library.  It's huge.  We shall see!

Wedding planning's kicked into full gear here.  Six months out and so much to do.  Bus reservations tomorrow and hopefully the list to the calligrapher finalized!

Linking up with Ginny!!!

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I usually take my photos on Tuesday mornings for the Wednesday post so I have a chance at good light.  Now that the way I spend my days has changed, I have to rethink that. It's late at night when these were taken.  Please excuse the poor quality.

Half of the secret knitting is almost complete.  I will finish the last repeat and then border and bind off.  But, there is more. Another item to be added.  I bought the yarn today ( Tuesday) and need to decide on the final pattern.  By next week you will see the beginning of the other half.

Searching now for another good fiction read.  There is some pretty intense Lenten non fiction on my table, but I must have a balance.  I'm going to be looking to all of your for suggestions.

Linking up with Ginny!!

Yarn Along....Ice and Snow

Our weather has been typical for North Texas.  We had a few weeks of unseasonably warm days and now the last two have been sheets of ice.  There has been no school.  Snow is expected this morning, but only time will tell.  Another day at home would not bother me:)

The secret knitting is growing.  I placed a towel underneath in the photo.  I wasn't sure if the yarn would adhere to the ice or not.  Better safe.......  I have no containers large enough to photograph it in, so now I will look for other unusual spaces.  I've always loved the thought other bloggers put into their knitting photos.  That is not a strength of mine, but I'm going to try.

After finishing The Pink Suit last week I still had a reading appetite for royalty. The American Heiress has been on my bookshelf for a few years.  I think one of the girls left it here.  It has been another fun read.  No language or explicit sexual references to deal with.  Good, clean, reading.

On the wedding front......invitations were ordered yesterday.  A little more drama than I thought, but it is all done.  And they will be beautiful:)

Linking up with Ginny!

Ice.....Day Two

The temps are still well below freezing today.  Some are venturing out to work.  Mr. Golfer made the trip in as well.  I'm always unsettled when he is determined to get to the office on these unpredictable days.  Most people here just don't know how to drive on these icy roads.  But when you are the business owner.....time is money:( I didn't make the trip in with him.  He won't be there very long.

On top of these two days of  ice, we are expecting 4-6 inches of snow tonight and into tomorrow morning.  It seems like in the last 3-4 years all of our cold weather has come at one time.  We are out of school for sometimes a week and then it is all over for the year.  I don't know which is better or worse.  It just is.

I never have difficulty deciding how to spend days like these.  It is always a gift to have a respite from the usual day.  Today I am going to do some deep cleaning in a couple of rooms.  I'm going to try to play around with the flower girls dresses.  Laying out the fabric and looking at the grain and so forth.  Hopefully another good Netflix movie:).  Have you seen the newest release of Jane Eyre?  Oh my it is good.  I've actually watched it several times. I'm also reading The American Heiress.  British aristocracy has long been a fascination and when you toss an American into it the complications are  intriguing.

There is also chicken thawing for my favorite Chicken Divan Soup.  Isn't it just natural to want to have soup simmering on a cold day?

I've also ventured out to take some photos of my knitting on the ice.  Just thinking that it would be a great picture for Yarn Along tomorrow.

Enough of the ramblings today.  Stay warm!





The American Heiress