Good To Go

Good To Go

The instructions said to CO 15 stitches with the largest needles using the thickest yarn I had. I think I am good to go. I am knitting as much as I can this weekend, dye it some bright color Sunday night, dry it on Monday, and get to the right people Tuesday.  There is going [...]

Garden Thyme-Hostas, Mason City, and Frank Lloyd Wright

Garden Thyme-Hostas, Mason City, and Frank Lloyd Wright

I first fell in love with Hostas in Mason City, Iowa. We were touring the Frank Lloyd Wright Stockman  House, a preserved Usonian house.. All around the property were beautiful huge Hostas with dark blue green leaves. For years after that, I would buy what ever Hostas Wal-Mart had on sale. Finally, I decided that [...]

An Old Survivor

An Old Survivor

Michael and I have been taken by this tree every time we go to Joplin.  It is on 20th Street just west of RangeLine. Today, we both finally had our cameras with us.  The Home Depot, WalMart and Academy are nearby. This tree is an Osage Orange. By the size of it's trunk, Michael thinks [...]

Spinning a Yarn-Seeing Purple (for quite a while now)

Spinning a Yarn-Seeing Purple (for quite a while now)

  What started out as a small project for my newly adopted Poodle Sophia turned into a two-year marathon for my youngest daughter?  I vaguely remember how all of this started.  In the beginning, I dyed some of my machine spun Shetland yarn to make a sweater for Sophia.  The people who spun it (some [...]