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I am Tricia. Momma of nine, homeschooler, artist, foodie and maker of all kinds of things. It's a pleasure to share here our family homesteading adventures, the things we make, and what inspires our days. Read more about my family and work here. Thanks for visiting!

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A cowl for whom it may fit and finished longies

By on November 9, 2011 in crochet, Yarn Along

Thank you all for your emails on my Keepin it Real, I hope more of you can link up your Keepin it Real post next Tuesday.

Yarning Along with Ginny again this week.  Thank you Ginny for having a weekly yarn along, it keeps me on my toes. So I have been working on a cowl for my upcoming trip to New York next week.  I knitted it in the round out of some butter soft wool cotton blend yarn I had in my stash.  I really loved the way it came out, but then I saw it on Ronnie and it looked like it was made for her so now I need to make a new scarf for myself  : )  This is my first completed knit project and I am falling in love with knitting.  I will always love crochet and I understand it so it is easy to create patterns but knitting, the rhythm, the needles, oh how I love it.  Now I need to learn some other stitches other than knit and purl ; )

 I have written the pattern for the cowl I made as I was working it up so that I can make a few more for my other girls but I have never written a knitting pattern and so it is written like a crochet pattern would be.  Is it just me or are knitting patterns written totally different than crochet? Anyhoo… I worked it in the round and then finished the top and bottom edge off with single crochet.  Very easy!

On the longies from last weeks yarn along post, I finished them just in time for Pioneer Day and it was wonderful.  It was a chilly day but my baby was toasty warm.  I have started a new pair in a super light blue but it will have to wait until I get through making myself a scarf and hobo bag for my NYC trip.

The next pair will definitely have more room in the bum area.  I had to rip out the legs the day before Pioneer Day because her thighs had gotten a bit chubbier and it took every free second to get them worked up again in time for her to wear them.


I hope to see you here tomorrow for my Handmade Christmas Craft Along Week 4!  Please come back and share whatever you are working on for gifts this Christmas.

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Keepin it real

By on November 8, 2011 in Keepin it real
Keepin it Real on Tuesdays. 
 Take a picture of one of your rooms (the way it really looks when no one is watching).  Blog about it or post a picture on your Flickr, then link to this post at the bottom linky link.  Lets stop pretending our lives are picture perfect, reality is more fun anyway and we can all share in the fact that we are not super heros we are women with real lives who make awesome stuff but forget to scratch off a few things on the To Do list. 


I woke up today thinking I couldn’t think of what to post for Keepin it Real (my house is pretty clean right now) and then I walk into MY bathroom.  The bathroom which is everyone’s favorite.  Why is it that my bed, my room, my closet, my bathroom is always the best in the house?  Does this happen at your house.


Anyhoo….here it is.  Again, if no further post happen on this blog, then Poppa must have killed me for posting it.  This picture is not only keepin it real but pushing me to get this sink clean again.  Refinishing this sink has been on my to do list forever.  The wall behind it has some strange hole which someone filled with caulk before we lived here and it bothers me to see it but if I fix it then I also have to repaint that wall because this paint is impossible to match.

To cover what is going on in this picture, we have of course half the toothbrushes in our home in this bathroom (my kids have two other bathrooms they could use you know) a pair of woolen socks that need to be hand washed, someone must have been playing cards and left those on my sink along with the screw driver from my installing a new no slam toilet lid. Livie’s shoes and sunglasses.  A hemp tissue, some bum balm, and other usual bathroom accoutrements.




Thank you to all the wonderful ladies who linked up last week (with no notice too : )  I can’t wait to see your reality post this week.


A few things to remember:
1. Make sure the link you post is the URL to your actual post and not to your main blog.  To do that just right click on the post heading of your Keepin it Real post then paste that into the linky link below.
2. Please include a link back to this post in your blog post.


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