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By Tilly
My first sock, Adalia's first sock.
My second sock. I jsut halved the first sock. Pretty simple...but when it says to knit 6, knit 2 together does that mean you should knit 3 then knit 1 together? Well, it turned out ok anyways. It doesn't fit Apollo.
My first socks....I do think my second is maybe a little less than just half the size of the first? Even though I just cut the pattern in half....
Adalia knitting.
by Tilly
I made a sock! I actually did it.
This is my first attempt at a sock. I never actually finished it.
This is the sock I just made today.
It's prettier than it looks. My point and shoot, which I generally use, makes the colors look wacky.
Sock in progress. I got this pretty yarn in my stocking.
The heel was all weird but I fixed it.
My hat. I started it Sunday afternoon and I was almost finished with it and was already decreasing when I realized it was WAY to big, so I took it out and then started again. I was barely past the ribbing on my hat this morning, but then I finished it (It looks way better than before!) And made my sock. It was AWESOME and I am totally going to make another sock sometime! Soon. Just not with the same yarn because there's barely any left :( Oh well. I got an awesome hat and my first sock out of it. And it's so soft and pretty. Thank you mom :)
Photos by Mom Adalia, me, Kalina, Jubilee and Tucker on Christmas Eve.
Photo By Mom Jubilee, Hezzy, Tucker, Adalia, Cai, Me and Kalina.
Photos By Mom Adalia, Jubilee and Adalia, Me.
Photo By Mom Isn't he just the most Adorable baby ever? If you didn't believe it before you gotta believe it now! He's so sweet <3
By Tilly
I can't believe it's Christmas Eve already! It hasn't even snowed. I highly doubt we'll have a white Christmas. And then when we're doing something we're really looking forward to, it will snow and whatever it is will be canceled...right? At least you can't cancel New Year's Eve- us big kids (Enoch, Me, Judah and Adalia) get to watch Avatar!
These pictures are of some flowers dad got mom a while ago. We still have them but they're all dying.
Sorry, it's a sort of bad picture.
I don't know why the first and last pictures are so bad. But the third one is better, I think.
This is the puzzle we were working on last week.
Enoch got it on Saturday and we were working on it from Sunday afternoon to Wednesday morning. I finished the bottom part and the sides on Wednesday. They were really hard! I think if we do Jubilee's 550 piece puzzle again It'll seem pretty easy. It's got bigger pieces and more faces.
See, it's 1,000 pieces. I love puzzles, especially hard ones!
(These next pictures are all by mom)
Mom made this and the pictures are by her^ I was just working on the edges of the puzzle in the pictures.
Also by mom, isn't that the sweetest, cutest baby ever?
How can you not love this sweet little baby?
He can say a ton of words now. I can't even count them. His new favorite word (other than Momma, Dadda, and I-knock, which is what he calls Enoch) is Elmo. We got some diapers from some friends because they didn't fit their baby and they had 2 packages that were in Apollo's size. And the had Elmo on them. And now he loves Elmo. He sounds so cute when he says it!
(by mom)
Isn't he just so cute?
(also by mom)
This was when they were in Seattle when Apollo had his surgery. He was crying because the bracelet was stuck on his hand and he couldn't get it off. He uses the word 'stuck' a lot.
Tomorrow or Monday I'll probably blog, and when I do I'll probably use mom's pictures.
By Tilly
...And some other stuff.
Now, about the dead deer. Adalia saw it when she was taking a walk, so then me and Enoch went to see it and I took a few pictures.
Don't worry, it's not gory. No blood or wounds or anything. It's just frozen. I'm not sure what happened to it.
Doesn't it look a little bit like a kangaroo? A little... well, I think so anyways :)
See, it's not bad. No blood.
close-up;)
Pretty sky.
Poor pathetic baby :( But we're working on getting him fixed. As in, figuring out what's wrong and fixing it ;)
latest Duck Tape project.
It's a pencil holder.
When we went to Fred Myers on Saturday, I bought two new rolls of Duck tape (sorry for the lousy picture quality! I'm not a full time 'nice' photographer ;)
I'm running out of space.
The beginning of a sock. I ripped it out.
Our door :) I can't remember if it was mine or Adalia's idea, but it's brilliant! (i think ;)
And now for The Lowercase 'e' story.
Pretty, huh? I guess it was worth it :)
Notice how the edges of these are white?
And the edges of these are cardboard-brown?
Well. That's because I need both my hands to paint the top and sides of the cardboard letters white. Notice how the 'e' in 'Virtue' is capital?
That's because I was doing something stupid and cut myself.
I know they're lousy pictures, but my camera wasn't behaving for my left hand. I cut my right hand and my point and shoot wouldn't focus properly, so I used my nice camera and I had to put it in Manual because in Auto it wouldn't focus. After spending, like, 10 minutes trying to take a picture of this cut, I realized that I could have just asked someone else to take the picture- FAIL! :p Whatever!
So, I was trying to make a hole in the lowercase 'e' and was pushing really hard, and my thumb was up against the edge of the scissors, pushing really hard against the edge. No problem, right? Um, no problem....if it's the dull edge of the scissors. No, this was the blade edge. The sharp edge. Oops.
So that's the story of The Lowercase 'e'.
By Tilly
Here are some pictures of the nativity sets that we have this year.
Poor little baby Jesus. He has legs but no head :(
And then something that has nothing to do with nativity/advent/Christmas.
there are a few things that don't really make sense, like how one 'Primrose' has an 'r' on the end, or the 'cg' by Katniss and Finnick, but we did the best we could. And I just realized that 'Thresh' is spelled 'theresh' here. But they should give people more letters then! Like in the scrabble dictionary, 'zzz' is a word...but there's only one z in the game.
By Adalia
The whole blog post yesterday where I talked about how I was committed to my knitting? I take it all back. All. Yesterday I ripped out the whole sock. AGAIN. You know what is even worse than ripping out a sock that you have knit just past the heel because the heel isn't right? Turning a perfect heel, figuring out an encrypted pattern perfectly, knitting all the way to being half done with the foot, and only then realizing that something is dreadfully wrong, and ripping out the whole darn thing. In order to fit this sock, I would need to gain wayyy more than 30 pounds, and grow humongous, inhuman like feet. Yeah, that is way more than I'm willing to do, just so a horrid sock fits (and I really don't think it is humanly possible either). Want to see a photo of the sock?
That sock is wider and taller than my whole hand. I don't think it was supposed to be like that (um, can I say that was a slight understatement?). There is no way this sock is going to fit me. Or anyone I can think of. I showed it to my mom when I realized the horribleness of the situation, and she suggested I finish it, and it could be a stocking. No way. Not in a million years. This stinkin' sock that I so faithfully ripped all the way out, re-knit, ripped out some more when I couldn't figure out the pattern, and still even liked and enjoyed after all that, it totally betrayed me. All that work. All that lovely broken ribbing, just so the sock looked cool and beautiful, so it wasn't just a plain sock, all the knitting and re-knitting, all the time put into it, wasted (all right, I will admit I am being melodramatic, but seriously sock!). Take another look at it.
Here it is with my very first sock. Can you believe I though the green sock was a really big sock when I made it? Not anymore. The previous record is beaten. While you are looking at the photo though, may I point out that the heel is nicely rounded, and the whole sock looks much better than the green one (other than size, of course).
Okay, now you can see the sock isn't just big, or huge, it is gigantic. Sigh. So I sit down and silently rip the horrible sock out, fuming the whole time. Why? Why did this happen. Sadly I know exactly why. Remember yesterday, when I talked about my sock, I had the feeling something was wrong, and I admitted to using wrong sized needles, and here is what I said "What will I do about it? Probably keep knitting. I like my sock a lot, and hey, a big sock is better than no sock, right?" yeah right, well that night the optimism totally faded. I decide no sock was better than gigantic sock. After ripping the sock out, I wound my yarn back up and put in my stash. Then I looked through the stash, hoping to find some yarn that would comfort me in my time of distress. I pulled out my soft green alpaca-merino blend that I got for $3.75, because that yarn just had to make me feel better. I sat on my bed paging through my pattern book, with the soft, sweet colored yarn sitting on my lap. I found a pattern for adorable hand warmers, no fingers to knit, and they would look just perfect in the alpaca-merino. So I decide I would make them. Then I saw what size needles they called for. Size 7. Maybe the circular needles were 7's, I went to ask Tilly, and found out that we don't have size 7 needles (the circular needles were size 8), and just look what happened to the red sock when I used needles that were too big. So I huffed back into my room, tossed the needles into their proper place, and sat on my bed despairingly flipping through my pattern book. It got way to depressing though, when the patterns I liked were in a needle size I didn't have, so I tossed both the yarn and the book into my knitting bag, and turned up my radio. I didn't do anymore knitting that night, and I decided I didn't like knitting anymore.
By the next morning, I had totally changed my mind. I love knitting, I just didn't like my sock. But what was I going to knit? Then I remembered the ball of purple yarn my mom had brought home for me the last night. And I remembered my shruglet. What better thing to do after being betrayed by a sock I had lovingly knit, to work on my shruglet. It had sat in the corner for almost a week. I had put lots of time and effort into it, and I was so sad when I ran out of yarn. It had faithfully sat in the corner just waiting for me. I love that shruglet. So I picked it up, and started knitting with the purple yarn. It will be two colors now, but it doesn't look bad, really.
See how much I have done! It doesn't look like very much, but considering I am knitting over 200 stitches, it's a lot. The shruglet has been going along wonderfully, and I have high hopes for it.
Only two and a half more double rows, and I can separate the sleeves and body!!! I am so happy to have found a project that makes me happy and is going along well so far. I just hope that there are no problems to encounter along the way...
By Adalia
Earlier today I was accused by a family member of not being committed to my knitting. Here is why.
This is the first fingerless glove I was working on. I quit a few days ago. But I had a good reason, the glove is wayyy to big. Big enough that my mom suggested I either try to felt it, or gain 30 pounds. Not only that, but when I counted my stitches, there was a big difference between my number, and the pattern. I haven't ripped it out yet, but I can honestly say that I won't mind a bit. It was fun to knit with lace weight, but I will have to find a different project to use this yarn for.
Anyways, take a look at this picture
You can't see it as well in this picture, but this sock is big. And when I say big, I mean really, really big. This sock was supposed to fit me. Now from the start, I had a problem. My pattern calls for size 5 needles, and I was going to use size 9, so I did a whole bunch of confusing math, to get the gauge right for size 9 needles. Then I cast on and knit happily away until I got to the heel. Suddenly the pattern got quite a bit harder, and very confusing. But I knit and turned the heel anyway, and then started on the foot. I had done probably about two rows on the foot when I realized I had a problem. I tried the sock on. It wouldn't go on, it was too small, and there was barley any heel. I was annoyed, I mean all that math for nothing. But you see, I liked knitting this sock, and I wanted a pair of socks that were not baby socks. So I ripped it out. All the way out. Then I cast on the correct number of stitches and knit away. I knit on the way up to Baker, and I knit after the kids went to bed when I was babysitting, and this morning I was ready to do the heel! I knit up the heel flap, and started turning the heel. This is where it got confusing again. I ended up ripping rows three times before I finally figured out the pattern. And right here is where I started to have the sinking suspicion that something was wrong. I kept knitting, and got part way done with the foot (where it is right now) and now I could clearly see that I was having the Over-sized Sock Problem. What will I do about it? Probably keep knitting. I like my sock a lot, and hey, a big sock is better than no sock, right?
Now for the dress (no, I did not knit a dress, that would take far too long, and be way to see through for my comfort)
Here it is. This dress went down to maybe mid calf on me, and it was too low in the front, and I didn't particularly love it. We had a christmas party on the 8th, and I decided to redo my dress for it. I trimmed off about 5 inches, and then hemmed it up. I sewed some little bows on for decoration.
Here is the finished dress.
See, tiny bows on each sleeve.
Here I am in the finished dress, ready for the party. I like the dress wayyy better now, and am really happy with how it turned out.
By Tilly
These cookies are the result of over five and a half hours in the kitchen. Five batches of cookies.
Let's just say, my feet got REALLY sore!
You can probably tell that we're going to decorate cookies soon!
Hezekiah. Isn't he cute? Mom made that hat. She started making it for herself, but then it was too small so she gave it to Hezekiah, because it fit him.
By Tilly
First the candle pictures.
Now for my tape. I know I already said this but...yellow!
I love my yellow tape :)
The red dragon, pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue polka dots, blue, blue, blue/purple, blue/purple tie die, purple, paint splatter, silver, black, houndstooth and zebra actually have some tape on them. The other ones are out.
Red dragon wallet
It has a main compartment, then the four little black ones.
you can see the different spaces here.
Houndstooth and yellow.
This has two big pockets and two little ones.
(iPhone picture by Mom) This is on Friday, when we got yarn and tape and then went to Rocket Donuts.
(iPhone picture by Mom) Adalia with yarn.
(iPhone picture by Mom) Mom's coffee and donut.
(iPhone picture by Mom) Me with my bacon/maple donut.
