Eye Candy Friday

this was our Canada Day dessert so yummy I will post it on the cooking blog soon.

Speaking of Canada Day it was awesome!!

Spent the day down out the waterfront with the family then came home for the barbeque! I didn't get to see the fireworks, I just wasn't up to all the "yahoos" down there! lol.

I'm almost finished with Kel's FLS...one sleeve left! then I can move on to the baby sweater.

I can't wait! I have decided to make the pattern Haley sent me, I want to try that beautiful yarn out!

Happy Canada Day

█ ♥ █ Happy Canada Day! █ ♥ █

Have fun enjoy the fireworks tonight!!!

ravelry meetup in Charlottetown

photo credit D'reck Stewart

Today my Sister and I went to Charlottetown's ravelry meetup KIP day.
3 weeks late but better late then never, right? we met outside the library. It was a beautiful day but the sun was HOT!!!

minkie and Ermo "The young uns" they were both working on baby blankets

jannaknits was crocheting a lovely shawl and tricoknit made a dishcloth.

I took my FLS to knit on and my sister started a FLS in a childs size for her darling granddaughter

when the heat got too much for us we headed over to Victoria Row and sat at Fishbones one of the sidewalk cafes.

and had some cold drinks and shared some very yummy nachos and Fries with some kind of lobster dip The Diverse City 2009 Multicultural Festival started at 4pm on Victoria Row someone know how to keep cool

we had a lovely time and I look forward to doing this again soon!

sewing out of necessity

Cari has been wanting a head support for Dylan's car seat.
The hospital don't recommend using the head support that comes with the car seat. She had been using two rolled up receiving blankets tucked on either side of his little head but they would come loose and his head would flop to one side. So last night I broke out the sewing machine, and Cari and I made one. It was very simple, we just used 2,10"x 12" piece of flannel fold in half sewed the ends together and made 3" pockets stuffed it and sewed it shut.

and on the knitting front... I'm almost done of the body on Kelli's FLS, just 6 more pattern repeats and then the border, I'm loving the fact that I no longer need to have the pattern in sight to knit! which means I can work on it anywhere anytime!

Today will be filled with doctor appointments. Dylan has his first set of immunisation needles today not going to be fun!!! And Kelli has to go back for the 2 hour glucose test, she was just over 7.8 So she has to be re-tested. I hope she doesn't have gestational diabetes.

FLS the third

I wonder how the wwkip went? I went by but couldn't see any knitters :(can you believe it? I didn't knit a single stitch on Saturday! but I more than made up for it on Sunday, I spent all afternoon on Kelli's FLS. This is the third FLS in succession, I'm trying to do each one a little different than the one before, with this one I'm making a stocking stitch yoke with one button, instead of the garter stitch, and I prefer it this way!
Needle US 8 / 5.0 mm
Yarn-Lion Brand Cotton-Ease
Colourway-Cactus

Hubby had a great birthday. We took him to the olde Dublin pub it was fantastic!

Hub had the steak, and I had the fish 'n' chips, not too good for my diet but oh so yummy!

Nate was the only one I could get a picture of the rest knew it would end up on the blog... hehe

I got some great pics of the boys this is my favourite one! Nate is feeling more comfortable around Dylan, he was a little frightened of him at first, but the more he sees him the more relaxed he becomes.

I love this shot of their feet!
Dylan is growing so fast ...he started to roll over! Cari has a cute video on her flickr

Today is going to be a hot one here, so it's going to be a day full of water fights and wadding pools should be fun!

Eye candy Friday

Tomorrow Hubby will celebrate his 54th birthday!

Happy Birthday Babe!

Din-din, Dylan and Nate...

Din-din is a name Nate gave his Granddad when he was learning to talk, and he still calls him this to this very day!

Also born on this date

1986 Ashley Olsen, Mary Kate Olsen, twin actress, Michelle-Full House

1954 Jorge Santana, rocker, Malo

1953 Tim Allen, comedian,

1951 Richard Thomas,John Boy-Waltons,

1951 Stellan Skarsgard,actor, Breaking the Waves

1943 Malcolm McDowell, actor, Clockwork Orange

1926 Paul Lynde, comedian, Uncle Arthur-Bewitched

1918 Ben Johnson,actor, Dillinger

1903 Harold “Red” Grange, “Galloping Ghost” of football

1892 Basil Rathbone actor, Sherlock Holmes

Sad to say I won't be attending knitting in public this year, birthday festivities comes before knitting!

I hope it is a well attended event, and I'll try and pop by to say hi!

Finished FLS #2

February Lady Sweater by pamela wynne
Size xs
Yarn-Lion Brand Cotton-Ease

Colourway-Berry
Needle -5.0 mm

I finished Cari's FLS in no time at all, I casted on May 25th and casted off on June 7, the only thing I did different on this one was to lengthen the sleeves an additional 10 pattern repeats and shorten the body as requested by Cari it took a little over 425 g of the cotton ease to complete.

February in June- Lady sweater progress

I'm swimming right along with fls #2. I had a lot of time on my hands lately with nothing much to do except knit! (aren't you jealous?lol) but seriously, this one seems to be knitting up so much faster, I think it might be the cotton ease yarn, it seems to glide so nicely across the needles, or maybe it's because I have the pattern memorized, or both. Whatever the reason, I'm really loving knitting this one!
Jason's step mom is having a baby shower for Dylan at Cari's place this afternoon, and what a beautiful day for it! nice and sunny and not too hot!
Gull lace close up

Yes...I casted on another

Once Cari seen mine, she asked if I'd make her one. How could I resist.

I starting it yesterday.

I'm using the cotton-ease I got on sale for .99cents, and I can't believe how awesome this yarn is! I'm kicking myself for not buying more when I had the chance to!

I love this sweater... the fact that there's no seaming makes it the perfect sweater, and it is just as much fun to knit second time round.

Finished February Lady Sweater

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Project info

Pattern February Lady Sweater by pamela wynne
Made for Me!!!
Size medium
Needle US 8 / 5.0 mm
Yarn 4.5 skeins Patons Canadiana Knitting Worsted
Colour wine
Started May 3 2009
Completed May 24