>Valentine afghan done
27 Dec 2010 4 Comments
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This is the afghan that my youngest daughter started over 1 1/2 years ago. She finally completed it today after it sitting around for a while with only two rows left to do. it is the only afghan in our home that all four of us ( me and my daughters) have worked on. At different points in time we have all sat down to help her when she was getting burned out on it. She is very excited that she gets to put it on her bed tonight and sleep with it instead of it being in the plastic tote work box it has been stored in for so long. She wanted to quit so many times at first because she didn’t like her stitches later because the rounds had gotten so large it took her hours to complete one round. She persevered and now has an afghan that she can take with her when she is grow up and can say all her sisters and her mom worked together to make this. 
She learned so much in the making of this afghan from holding the hook to tension and that not all things made in life come easy or are quick to do. Sometimes having help in life is a good thing at first she didn’t want help but needed it at the end she did not need the help but liked it when given. She went from a little girl who was just learning to read and hated it to a little girl who likes to read. It is amazing how much life changed during the course of this blanket we moved switched schools, have had major life events and this blanket ties them all together and she will have it for many years to come. That may sound like a lot for one afghan but that is how it is and life continues to grow and change and have milestones and isn’t it wonderful.
>Amigurumi year
25 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
in Amigurumi, crochet, kids art, knitting
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>Afghan progress
04 Oct 2010 1 Comment
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My oldest daughter, as well as my youngest daughter and my self have been working on this as of late. There are only six more color changes till this is done it will be nice to have it finished for the youngest daughter. My oldest daughters stitches and mine almost look the same, the youngest ones are way different but she has improved tons while making this her stitches are still getting more consistent but she understands them much better these days. This has had eleven rounds added since last posted about it. All of which were added this last week.
>Boondoggle
19 Aug 2010 2 Comments
in boondoggle, kids art
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My children have been playing with boondoggling as of late. This is what they have come up with so far. I never really played with this as a kid I think I made one that was square like my youngest daughters and I don’t think I ever even finished it. They just came back from camp and the youngest two learned how to do this there. The oldest already knew how from teaching herself with scubidous, a tube cord, where boondoggling has flat cords but it is still the same thing. This is a type of weaving. I think the patterns are pretty neat on some of these. They are still working on these the only two they considered done are the black/white one and the glow in the dark one. I assume there has to be a way to make the ends look more finished but I know nothing about this type of thing so theya re on their own on this one.
names for the same thing Scoubidous, boongoggle and lanyard
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>Daughter’s tatting
06 Jul 2010 3 Comments
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My oldest daughter (12 yrs old) over the 4th of July weekend decided she wanted to pick up tatting. So I sat down to teach her. Not an easy feet since I smashed my left hand with a hammer last week making a sampler book (more about that at a later date). I tried and she succeeded at it. So this is her second piece of tatting the first one she accidentally left at grandma’s on the 3rd when we all celebrated the 4th of July. I know sounds odd the 3rd is not the 4th but the 4th was Sunday and we don’t do things like that on Sunday even our Easter egg hunts happen on Saturdays. She was not half bad for a beginner give her time and she will do great. I told her she had to make this until she runs out of this thread I always do that to them. By the time they finish with 1 or 2 balls of thread they are usually pretty good at what ever skill is involved.
>Origami
19 Apr 2010 3 Comments
in kids art, oriental art, origami, paper arts
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My oldest daughter loves origami. Over the years I have jumped over many little pieces of folded paper. In the last 1 1/2 to 2 years the other daughters have started to love origami and kirigami. Which means more little pieces of paper to jump over.
This weekend there big thing they made with little pieces of paper took lots of little pieces. These are the end results of their work.
>Clay necklaces
12 Mar 2010 3 Comments
>My children played with clay yesterday and made some beads and mini sculptures. The girls would like to know what people think of their work
The oldest daughter made some bunny beads for Easter Necklaces for herself and the next sister down.
The youngest made swirl beads for herself and for the older sister to use in the first bunny necklace with the gray bunny. Not bad for an 8 year old. I strung all the beads for the girls. I think the youngest daughters beads came out great especially with the wire stringing they received.
I have yet to do anything with the beads I made as the demo for the class last week.
The middle daughter made some playing pieces for her game that she is entering in the science fair on Tuesday at her school.
>Latch hook and kids
18 Jan 2010 1 Comment
>The kids had a four day weekend. So to keep them entertained I had them work on some craft projects.
The oldest daughter when we left our last ward was given a latch hook kit from a friend of hers. My oldest adores horses so it fits rather well. She started hers then the other two girls decided they wanted to do latch hook too.
Well I do own enough supplies to have them all do it at once the only problem is the supplies are still in storage from the move along with 80% of our possessions. So we have one hook I could find. So each is working on hers in tern. The oldest did hers first took 1 1/2 days. The second is working on hers so far one day she will finish it today.
>Red Black and Blue
29 Dec 2009 3 Comments
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Most people that know me know my favorite colors are black, red, and white in that order. So when I finished my husbands hat I had scraps in my favorite colors my brain started to tick what could I make me that wouldn’t take much yarn.
I know fingerless wool mitts. OH YEAH!!! Happy dance on my part I knew what I wanted to make I just had to figure out the gusset in crease on the thumb and I was good to go. Did that decided I wanted to leave the white out I will probably make another glove with it but maybe a little different in style. Those that may not know I was a punker, mod, ska, alternative person in high school, junior collage and at the university. Life changed and I had kids and work and my clothes in general had to change to accommodate this part of my life a little. But there are still large amounts of that wardrobe in my wardrobe and they show up in bits in pieces here and there. This would have been a set of gloves I would have loved when I was younger still love them now as a matter of fact I hope they come out like the picture in my head so far so good. I don’t have a written pattern for this making it strait out of my head. I will probably make some tall gauntlets as well. These gloves are being made out of cashmere.
If you look close at the top photo you will notice I have a wide array of cabled needles from bamboo to aluminum to the oldest steel with a steel cable. I collect needles from thrift stores a lot so you never know what you will find.
On a side note my daughter ( who is just barely 12 years old) has finished one glove out of her fingerless glove set not bad for her second project the first was a wash cloth. I never posted it, it was just seed stitch an st stitch. She modified the pattern a little bit to add ribbing by the fingers. Her gloves are being made out of dark blue wool.
>Christmas cookie train
17 Dec 2009 1 Comment
in cooking, holiday:christmas, kids art
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This holiday the children resided they wanted the gingerbread train kit instead of the house kit. They had fun making it parts of it got eaten before I got around to taking a photo of it. So this it in all of its munched on glory.
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