Saturday, August 30, 2014

On the Needles Friday


I have finished quite a few things but they have already been given to the recipient of those gifts....

Here are the seven scarves I have finished for Kate.......  Now to get them in the mail.............

Life has been busy with Dr appointments and such....  Perhaps this week I will get back to my list....  It is growing faster than I am marking things off.

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Turkey Bone Gumbo


Last Thanksgiving I saved my turkey carcass.........  My sister had given me a recipe for Turkey Bone Gumbo..............

At long last I found time to make the soup.......


Easy....Easy.....Easy.........

You don't even have to chop much.........  Just cut the onions in half, add carrots and celery including the tops.........Simmer for 2-3 hours while you do something else.......

Strain the whole thing, remove the turkey from the bones and mash the carrots..........

Add a few other ingredients (it did not call for okra but I added okra to mine, after all is is my soup)....

Three quarts in the freezer waiting for winter.........

Since I got the food saver I find it is so easy to cook ahead..........  I watch the sales on meats then come home and do a lot of cooking.......  Put it in food saver bags and I have excellent meals ready to eat.........



Monday, August 11, 2014

Design Wall Monday Diversion

I have been thinking about this magazine for several years.........  I try not to subscribe to magazines because they seem to collect unread till I give them away........  There are a few exceptions.........

I decided that this would be one of them..........

First issue arrived last week and of course there was a project in it that caught my eye........



Here it is............  Doesn't that look like fall?



Reading the directions I found that it was for a king sized pillow........  Too big for what I had planned...



So I made mine smaller................  It is 18 x 22 and will be a small pillow for a chair in the family room.......


Hopefully by next week I can show the finished product............  It has been a most pleasant diversion.

For more ideas on diversions for yourself check Patchwork Times to see what others have on their design wall............HERE


Friday, August 08, 2014

Off the Needles Friday

Hurray..........  A finish..........  Thank you Judy for having "On the Needles Friday"........  That was the encouragement needed to keep working on this sweater till it was finished.........  Now I have a lovely top to add to my wardrobe........



I like the detail around the neckline....


And it is repeated around the sleeves................


The next knitting project is Jean Mello's socks.........   I will try to get some knitting done on them this coming week..........

Go HERE and see what others are doing.........

Friday, August 01, 2014

On the Needles

This project has been on the needles way too long............... I was nearing the end of the body of the sweater........  I did not like the way it looked at all.......  In order to get gauge I needed to go to a larger needle and the weave was too open to look the way I wanted it to look.


Ripped it out and began again on Saturday night............ This color is closer to the true color......  The one above was taken late Saturday night under artificial light........

I also altered the instructions a bit to suit myself......  After all it is my sweater.......... 

See what others have going on at Patchwork Times...HERE

The Thread and I

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, Do it with thy might.

Ecclesiastes 9:10