After making Tess these mittens for her birthday… I decided to make me another pair as well… the ones I had made years ago were now riddled with holes and one has gone walkabout. So today… One cuff is a bit longer. One has a bit of extra wool on the fingertips. But they’ll work.
Category: Crafts
Wool Mittens
It’s been eleven years… Eleven years since I made myself a pair of wool mittens. Today, we were to celebrate Tess’ upcoming birthday, and I made her a pair. I had such fun, I think I’ll make me another pair! They are made by laying bits of wool roving down along a plastic resist cut…
Another One
I’m blaming the National Finals Rodeo. After supper, I’ve been planting myself on the couch and watching it on RFD-TV. My daytime plans about “crafting all day with no guilt” never seem to appear. Last week, I did manage to squeak out some keychains, and a snowman, and the cutest little fox… Hopefully, tomorrow, I’ll…
Willing to Trade
I tried to do this idea I’ve had for years. It involves sewing, however, and sewing is nothing for me but a pain in the you-know-what! I always think it’s going to be quick and easy, but I battle with my machine soooo much, I get frustrated. I grew up in a household where we…
Snowflakes!
My new favorite craft? Making snowflakes from small brown lunch bags! I made a white bag one last year, but found the white snowflake on the white walls of the library didn’t show up. Switching to brown made a ton of difference. The ones I made for the library can be seen in the windows….
Part Two
This is part two of our family craft night. The interior 20 sided “ball” is complete and we now will add all the points! Three half size straws will now be tied to the small quarter size triangles. As you can see, Reagan’s pink straws are being tied to the green. Parental help was very…
Family Craft
I decided I’d do a family craft over Thanksgiving. I knew it would be a challenge, but I figured they could do it with some help. The kids would have to make many triangles… easy enough… and tie knots with thread… therein lay the challenge. My prediction was sooooo right. It MAY have been a…
Birthday Gift
We worked our heifers today and I’ll share the photos from today soon, but I did want to show off for a bit. November is a month full of birthdays for this family and I made one for my sister that I liked. Anyone out there remember macrame? Well, when we adventured over to Born…
Tie Dye Double Duty
In between the rain storms the guys continue to work on projects… so strange to be a week into August and throw a light blanket on at night or sweatshirts during the day! The cool weather is supposed to stop tomorrow and the guys are anxious to get going on the second cutting of hay….
Wedding Present
I can share one of my latest alcohol ink creations now since the wedding is over… Congrats to A. and W.! This set of pitcher and salad bowl are decorated with the colors of a high plains summer… I know they’ve spent hours riding horses through the bunch grasses and yarrow I painted on these……
Poppies and Cornflowers
The idea of time lapse photography of the clouds and storms rolling in didn’t work today, as about 5 am, lightning and thunder started popping and the rain descended. All day it has rained off and on, giving us half an inch of moisture. It’s lifted and returned and come in waves and disappeared. I’m…
Braiding in the Rain
I had all five grandkids today while the crew finished up AI-ing the heifers. I did have some outdoor plans they were going to help with, but I woke to the wonderful sound of rain dripping off the roof. It continued to drizzle most of the day which kept us all inside except for a…