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Busy Day

 

It’s been a busy day in terms of Blog activity. There have been a few changes made on the side bar of this blog. I changed the order of the links around to suit my sense of organization. I also added some links, such as Star Gazer’s. I also created a new blog devoted strictly to dish and wash cloths. It will eventually be placed on the side bar. For right now you can find it at Cloth Mania. My goal is for it to be a comprehensive resource for all dish cloth lovers.

Another addition to the links is a web site having to do with web site accessibility. This is of special interest to me because of personal reasons which may be explained later. Please take a look at the site and consider the issues it discusses.

Yarn, Links and Dishcloths

The past couple of days have been very interesting. I have been in dish and wash cloth making mode for the past few weeks. This week has been no different. I am in the process of making a Big Dotty cloth using Sugar n Cream Gumdrop and Hot Orange. There will eventually be an inverse set. This first one has Gumdrop as the front color and Hot Orange as the back color. It will be so pretty. It is only about a third of the way completed but that’s because I made a mistake on it yesterday and frogged it. I restarted it this morning. Once it is done and loose ends are woven in I will post pictures of it here. It is fun combining bright colors in ways I have never had the courage to do before.
For the present, I am making only Big Dotty dish and wash cloths. The contrast of textures: smooth on one side and a bit less smooth on the other, is appealing to me. I like way they look when using two colors in the way the pattern uses them. There are other patterns I want to try, but they can wait for now.My yarn stash is very slowly becoming smaller. It seems to be taking a while though. Making dish and wash cloths is not the quickest way to deplete it….It’s summer here in the Midwest which means heat and high humidity. It’s easier and much more pleasant to make smaller items using natural fibers in this weather, even with air conditioning.

I never knew there was so much to learn about blogging. It took a few times to find the template that has the basic style I want. After finding it, I played around wit the side bar and messed it up so badly the easiest thing to do was start all over. Now it looks the basic way I like it. It needs a few more links and buttons, but those will come in time.

Thanks to Lisa at Calming Seas , I now know how to post buttons onto a blog. It was so kind and helpful of her to teach me how to do that. It was a fun thing to learn.

Busy Day

Wow!! This has been a super busy day. The first part of the morning was spent learning to re-size and crop photographs. It was fun to play around doing this.I have spent a lot of time today reformatting this blog and have finally chosen to stay with this template after some experimentation. It is working out quite well. More links need to be added, but that might have to wait for another day. Actually it will be a work in progress ( aka WIP for those who don’t what it means ).

I have been on a dish/washcloth making spree using the Big Dotty pattern from the Mason Dixon book. Most of them need to have loose ends woven in before pictures get taken. Once that is done, I will post them here. They were originally all going to be used for dishcloths, but Big Dotty # 1 got used as a washcloth last week. It was a fantastic combination of texture on one side and softness on the other, in my opinion. I spent a little time today working on one in purple and pink. It is the second of a 2 cloth set.

First Blog

June 20, 2006

My First Experience With A Blog

This is exciting!!! I have been thinking about doing this for a long time. The impetus for doing this is all of the knitting and crocheting I have been doing.

At the first of the year, I promised DH and DS I would not buy any more yarn this year until I had used up the equivalent of one 16 gallon tote of yarn…..I blew that one a long time ago, but am still concentrating on using what is on hand. Progress has been pretty good so far. I have only bought yarn a few times this year., which is not bad for me. the first couple of times it was on sale…The yarn called my name and said it was mine. LOL!!!
This last time, I went looking for some bright colored cotton yarn to go along with what is on hand. The motivation was knitting dishcloths. Yes…That’s right. I am knitting dishcloths. The Mason-Dixon Knitting book that I had requested from the library became available. It has some great patterns in it. A couple of them have caught my fancy…Actually, they have become an obsession.