Surprised to Finish this Evening

                             While on our family vacation in August, I visited Wags and Wool, in Lubec, ME. It's a friendly little store with lots of beautiful yarn and some pet supplies for our wagging friends. I bought this yarn from Done Roving Yarns, Elegant Ewe. I finished it this evening. Isn't it great? It was an easy knit and I just love how the yarn works in the pattern. Some positive progress to having some hand knits to give this year! Yippie!

Waiting for the Train

     I wasn’t very happy to have to go into work yesterday. It was to be my weekend off but because of the vacation schedule, I had to cover. While I was headed there I had to wait for a very long train. Let me say that it’s really crazy I had to wait for it since I was planning to turn right and go parallel to the tracks in the long run. I’ve seen so many people try to pull out and almost cause an accident here. Then, there are the unmarked police that sit in this traffic waiting for you like free lunch! They must know the schedule of the train. But the second they see you pull out, they chomp you up! Yes, I’ve seen that, so I wasn’t taking a chance.




     So I sat and thought about pulling out my knitting. Instead I took some pictures of it with my phone. It’s a sweater I plan to have done soon. If it is done and fits the person I have in mind for it I will be gifting it before Christmas. It’s looking nice so far I think and it’s just so easy. You need a project like this for such times at train stops! The name of that pattern is, Plain and Simple by Veera Välimäki. It’s a free pattern on Ravelry! Check it out!

Goals for Christmas Knitting

Hi all! I couldn’t wait to get back after yesterday’s revival of the ‘dead’ blog. I wanted to show everyone this new hat I made.

     It’s a free pattern off Ravelry: Ring of Fire, by Jacquelynn Vance-Kuss. The yarn is all from my stash, Noro Kureyon and Patons Wool, which makes me very happy that no money was exchanged to acquire such a beautiful hat.


     I’ve set some knitting goals for this coming holiday season. To keep my goals they are listed on a piece of paper, taped to the kitchen cabinet. This way I can see them and be reminded to stay on task.

           My goal list reads kind of like this-

          Christmas 2013

                -2 hats, 1 pair of socks, 1 sweater, 1 Infinity Scarf.
                                                                                                                              That’s it!

     Actually, I’m more than 1/5th of the way to my goal since here is my first hat completed which I’m showing off today and I’ve started another hat and a sweater which I’ll share later.


     Hopefully taping the 2013 Knitting List to the kitchen cabinet will motivate me to finish the goal.

     What projects are you working on and how do you keep on task?

Picking Up and Coming Back

     It’s been a long time I know.


     Last night while the family was headed out for dinner, Hubster and I were discussing a personal acquaintance’s blog. We discussed the: when, what, and why, she blogs and how she enjoys it. Everything under the sun can be included in a posting.

     This sent thoughts of my old days of blogging and so I decided to dig it up today. Starting to write again would be nice, but my whole concept and theme seems to have changed over the last couple of years. Then again, maybe I should just go with it and see what happens. Maybe I could rename the blog since I think I’ve grown out of this name for sure! I’m no beginner mom now and I never run! Delicious Vietnam is no longer a monthly event, this really was something that kept me going. But I’ll always be cooking so this is just another reason to keep things simple and to see where they lead.



     Onward blogging!