A Couple More Hats, And Christmas Baking..

Here's another hat I made, at a Sit and Stitch. The pattern was from someone in the group, it was her pattern. I just added the ribbing around the bottom. 

This is Eli's Christmas Hat. Same pattern I used for Steve's.  I also finished another hat (someone had provided her own pattern at the Sit and Stitch). I haven't taken a picture of it yet, though.

                                                  They always have coffee and cookies.

This was one of the cookies the very first time I went, there were balls of yarn cookies, too. A local baker makes them. (I gave this one to Eon.)  I went to a Sit and Stitch a couple of weeks ago, but it was cancelled because we are in "Level Red". AGAIN. I am so sick of this... 

Speaking of cookies, though... I have been doing some Christmas baking. I made these yesterday. A twist on the regular Peanut Butter Blossoms. I just rolled them in green sugar and put the Peppermint Twist kisses on.  

                          Today I made "Christmas Crack". I used Paula's recipe. :D

A tin I made for my neighbors (I put another layer on top of the crack, of the cookies I made. And some Rocky Road Fudge I made yesterday, too.

The layer with cookies, I just put a piece of parchment paper in between. I had a hard time finding a tin that would fit all I wanted to put in. LoL. And I have enough tins!

This is the tin. They brought us over a pie the wife had made, when we first moved in here. So I thought it would be a nice gesture to make them a tin.  I think we all can use all the Christmas Cheer we can get right now.
 

Hats

Well, I do have something to show. I've been knitting hats. This one is from a book called "I Heart Knitting Caps and Hats", and it's the "Family Hat" pattern. It's done in elongated rib. Which I have never done before. But I watched a You Tube video. This is for Eon, he picked the yarn out. 

And this one is for Steve. It's a basic k2, p2 watch cap.  He said he doesn't need any hats but I knitted him one anyway. It's going to be a Christmas present. I've started the same pattern in black for Eli. You can find the pattern at this blog, in the sidebar.
 

A Wedding Afghan

I finished another Navajo Afghan, for my son's friend who is getting married this weekend. They weren't registered anywhere. So I asked Eli what colors their living room are. He sent me a picture, the couch is tan. And accent color is mostly burnt orange, with a southwest theme. I racked my brain and posted for help on Facebook in a crochet group... Then I finally decided to do a Navajo Afghan. In brown, tan, burnt orange and off-white.  It took me exactly 25 days.  Ha ha, the first one I did took me about three years. But I worked on it a LOT, with a goal of one diamond a day. It's almost as tall as me.

    

Close-up view of the diamonds.

                                                                       And the fringe.

                                                      To see how big it is, on my couch..

 Folded up.  I hope they like it. Eli is driving out to the wedding (400+ miles away). I sent it with him. He's in the wedding.  He invited some friends to stay with us then go to the wedding with him. I'm so nervous about him driving out there. 😳       Now that this is finished, I hardly know what to do with myself. I've been crocheting mini-stockings.   Well that's all for now.

Another Old Quilt Project..

I should say, "Old Quilt Projects"...   I was curious if I still had a good amount of flying geese squares from a baby quilt I obviously never finished. I knew I had at least 72. But, for some reason I thought I had given most of them away.  Well I dug through my old sewing bins (so unorganized), and I found them ALL!! 82 of them (not 72). I was so happy!   I had started this (I think?) for my cousins' baby. (Who is now about 30 years old.)  WHY did I start my first quilt with flying geese? Lol...  I don't know. (I obviously didn't know much about quilting then..)  I think I realized I would have to make a LOT of these, and it would take forever. And started something else.  I know I've posted about these squares a couple times. I think I did give some away. (So, I had even more than this.)

All this fabric to go with the quilt...  

I think this is the quilt I ended up making instead of the flying geese one.  I wish I had taken a picture of it!! (I didn't even have a computer back then... Maybe I didn't have a camera, either.)

Anyway. These are some more squares. I have no idea what these were for.

 A more organized pile of all the fabric cut out in squares and rectangles...   I am thinking I might do a variation of the flying geese quilt. I will have to decide on colors for the sashing. If I get a square done, I'll post it.  

The Baby Quilt Is Finished

Sigh...  Well it is finished. But. I was doing the lint roller on the back, and I noticed a safety pin I forgot to take out. So I turned it over, and there was no pin. 😳   UGGGHHHH.... It's a pin that somehow got in between the layers. So, thank God I didn't quilt it, and only tied it!! I will see if I can undo the hand binding and get it out.  

 A closer-up view. The green border has white polka dots, I don't know if you can see...  And the back is a different light green.  I am in love with this little quilt.  😍  I can't believe I did it. It boosted my confidence to try and quilt more.    It's for a baby who was born premature on Pine Ridge Reservation. Aiden.  For a group I am in.     

Now to finish the baby quilt I started when I was pregnant with Eon. 😂  (Second picture.)

Baby Quilt

I can't believe I got this far. Since it's taken me about 18 years to work on the one I started for Eon...  I had some five inch squares cut out for a tote bag (which I was going to try to sew into a diaper bag). I tried to match the two sides of the tote bag, and add squares to make a quilt top. But I don't have enough of the remaining fabric to make more squares to match. But, I did have about 20 something other squares cut out. And I watched a YouTube video about using "charm packs" (pre cut five inch squares) and chain piecing them...  (Missouri Star Quilts video.)  And I finished the quilt top in ONE day. (Four hours to be exact.) Then I sewed the two borders on.  And, it's been sitting. I am really afraid to quilt it. But I want to try today.  I've been "trying" all week, to sew.  But I am going to tell everyone I'm not going anywhere. I'm taking a sewing sabbatical.  😂       Somewhat related to this quilt (since this is why I started this quilt to begin with..), it was going to be for a baby that was born premature. The family has been going through hardships and lost their mother (not the mother of the baby)...  On Pine Ridge Reservation.  I sent two boxes of things already.  It seems like no one cares.  And, someone already sent a baby quilt for this baby. Soooo, I don't know what I will do with this quilt. 

 

Open Shoulder Granny Poncho

Is Finished. I finished it yesterday. And I am not thrilled with it. It looks NOTHING like the picture in the magazine. The shoulder holes just look stupid. I might just sew them up and it will be a granny poncho.  Look at the picture.  Nothing like that, is it? It just looks frumpy and big.  I still kind of like it. I don't know...

We had some friends over for dinner a couple weekends ago. The guy works with my husband, and we have known them for about 13 years. Our youngest boys were five when we all met (my husband knew the guy longer, he worked with him.)  ~Anyway~  The guy kept telling people about my cheesecake and how good it is, and hinting that he wanted some....   So I made one for when they came over.   

I had leftover cherry pie filling and cream cheese. I didn't want it to go to waste (only to waist- ha ha). So I made some Kolacky. I haven't made Kolacky since I don't know when. I think in high school foods class.  (Probably because it's a lot of work!)  

This one is with the cream cheese topping.  

 

We Moved

Yup, we moved... I don't have any pictures on my computer of anything except project pictures.  So I figured I would post some. This is an afghan I started (I'm currently working on it, it's in my lap). Someone posted one she did, on a group I'm in on Facebook. She posted a link to the pattern stitch she used: Sioda Purse. I think I chained 213 for this.  I'm trying to use up scraps. 

And this is a mini stocking, I have three done so far. For Wounded Warrors Project, I think? It's a group I'm in.  

And some mitered grannies I've been working on every so often.  

I also finished a pocket shawl, and I'm almost done with an open shoulder granny poncho. I don't have pictures so I guess that will have to be for another post..   I haven't felt like doing much since we moved. So I'm surprised I have anything finished.   Oh, yeah...

We got a new kitten!! This was one week after we got her.  We named her Eri. I got her from a wild cat rescue place.  Her Mom, her brother and her were all living underneath someone's stairs.  I wanted the brother, he was black (with brown undertones) and FLUFFY. And calm and cuddly. But Eon had his mind set on her. :)

She is a big sweetheart. She loves Cosmo, and Cosmo LOVES her.  (I was relieved..)  She's three months old now, and the sweetest thing ever.    Well I thought I would post an update, and will try to post more. (I need to take more pictures..)  

 

Update on Jaxson

Well, the good news is, it's extreme colitis. And NOT Pancreatitis (just went through that with Bagheera!)  :(  Or a stick or anything poisonous he might have eaten. (They did x-rays, and blood tests...) Which leads me to the bad news, how expensive it was.  But, I am SO relieved he is okay (or, will be okay--hopefully!)!!! We got two different antibiotics, and an anti-vomiting/nausea pill packet.   He had to have a muzzle on because he was growling and didn't want the tech assistant or the Vet to come near him. I actually had to put the muzzle on him, the Vet left the room. LoL. I had to hold the stethoscope to him too so the assistant could listen to his heart.  He had a fever of 102.7. I think he is starting to feel better, though. I bought him a big huge new rope today (he LOVES his rope). He is eating and drinking still and no more bloody poops or vomiting.  :D  I am so relieved!

This is a bookmark I made for one of my pen pals. She had sent me a letter with that girl on it. So I "re-purposed" it into a bookmark for her.

I went to an Estate Sale this morning. A new member in my Quilt Group I am in posted on the Facebook page that she was having an estate sale and had yarn and fabric. Her Mom was going to open a store but I don't know what happened...  It was all more like her stash that she had. And, I was hoping they had that exact color of purple on the left! And they did! Yay! I started a Hippo Pillow with that color I had almost a whole skein in my stash (the pattern says you only need one skein). And I am almost done with the first side, and I am almost out of purple yarn. Now I will have enough, I think.

And, this bag full of partial balls. I will use these for scrap afghans probably. Mitered squares or grannies.

RIP Bagheera :(

We lost our kitty Bagheera in April, on our oldest sons' birthday. He had been throwing up one day and all night and I took him straight into the vet the next morning. He said it's pancreatitis. (I didn't know anything about that...) They kept him over night and I thought he would be okay. They gave me "meds" for him: A probiotic and pain meds and I don't even know (four things I was giving him). I was supposed to call by Saturday if he wasn't eating or drinking. (He wasn't.) He died on Saturday at about 2 in the morning. Poor kitty!!! :(   I felt so bad for him! He was so young, only three years old. 

He was the coolest cat. He liked getting in the laundry basket (and his bed was right next to it, lol).

And he loved boxes. :)

The day we adopted him.  Cosmo is now on a low fat diet and he is doing all right. But now Jaxson has been having bloody poops... :(  I made him an "emergency" appointment for tomorrow morning.. I changed all their food and watch what I give them like a hawk. I don't know what is wrong with him. The only thing I can think of is he's always eating sticks and getting in the garbage eating Q-tips and things he's not supposed to.  This has not been a good year....

I managed to finish some fingerless gloves. I started them because someone in my Quilt group asked me to knit her some. I couldn't figure out the pattern AT all, with everything going on I just can't clear my head to even focus on anything. But, I had started and ripped back and re-knit the first glove so many times. I was too emotionally invested in them to just give up. LoL.  So I asked my knitting friends on Facebook for help.  This is the pattern I used, maybe it's just me..

And these what I call my "Hotel Slippers". I crocheted them when I went to Denver. I'm actually wearing them right now. They are a free pattern, too.

The actual crocheting when I started them at the hotel. (So exciting...)  

And, I don't know why, but I crocheted a face mask emoji. Another free pattern.
I've been wanting to crochet something (not like I need to start another new project!!) But I don't know what.. This was a kind of fun project. I hadn't crocheted anything since the Hotel Slippers and finishing a baby afghan. (I forgot to post that..)   Well I will try to post more (my famous last words).  We may be moving again. (Loooong story, and it's 99.8% chance we are moving, my husband got a new job with his old company..)  Sigh...