Blogging by the Dozen

My Sock is Finished!

By Tilly

My sock is officially finished. I was going to blog yesterday but I forgot.

My sock <3 It actually fits too!

This was when I'd first started it. This is I think 56 stitches, but then I ripped it out. 

This is the pattern for my sock. 

Cast one 50 stitches on size 3 needles using sock yarn. Divide evenly on three needles. Rib 16 rows (or however many you want) purl one row (because I like the way it looks better) then knit 3 inches. put 22 stitches on a holder needle (or whatever it's called) put the other 28 on a needle together. Knit 27, turn, purl 26, turn, knit 25, turn, keep doing this until you have 10 stitches between turning, ending on a right side row. Knit 10, pick up one stitch, knit into it, knit one stitch, turn. Purl 2 together, purl 10 (i think that's the right number. I wasn't writing it down as I went.) , pick up one stitch, purl into it, purl one, turn. continue until all the stitches are worked. divide all your stitches evenly on 3 needles again. Knit approximately 6 inches. you have to finish your sock however, because i did mine weird, and you probably don't want to do it the same way. 

 

Then make another one.

I'm making another one. It's not the same yarn though. It's striped, green and brown. I'm almost to the beginning of the heel. It's acrylic and nylon. It's SUPER soft! The stuff I made my finished sock out of was a cashmere/acrylic/something else I forget blend, and it was so soft, but the green and brown stuff is even softer. I got it at Apple Yarns. 

A really pretty house

I did not do anything to this picture. I just cropped it. my camera makes the colors look a little different sometimes, but it was a perfect blue sky! Yes, it's January. Yes, it's winter. But it doesn't seem like it!

I don't know why there are lines all over this picture. 

cute house

Two horses. The 2nd one is turned around so you can't see it's face. 

If you're looking for a good book to read, you should read The City Of Ember. There are 4 books in the series. The second is The People of Sparks, then there's the Diamond Of Darkhold, and The Prophet of Yonwood. The last one is not about Doon and Lina like the rest. I don't like it as much. But the City Of Ember is one of the BEST books ever! And if you read those you should watch the movie too, because it's really awesome and follows the book really well. One thing I like is that it's about the first book, and it's not all the books combined. It's really good. 

Socks, Snakes and Science

By Tilly

First, my sock. I got the best sock yarn ever at Michaels the other day. I finally started the sock.

This is my sock. I got this far and then it was looking too big so I took it apart.

I cast on 56 stitches and then ribbed until the pink was almost finished. then I purled a row, because I like how that looks, and then I started knitting. 

The more I ripped out the bigger it looked. I started over again today and cast on 50 stitches. I'm still doing the ribbing but I think it will work. 

About snakes. I'm talking about my ring. One of the gold jewels fell off.

That was really annoying. I hope the other ones don't fall out. 

Now for science. We've been making slides and looking at them under the microscope. 

A tiny bug.

a thing that was alive and swimming around but then dried up.

fly wing and leg.

fly head

Spit.

more spit.

bubbles in the spit. They looked super cool.

bubbles in the spit after they dried.

I'll post pictures of my sock later.

Duck Tape :) {and the cutest baby ever}

By Tilly

So, I went to the store again a while ago and bought more duck tape- obviously ;) 

Whenever I finally have an even number of rolls of duck tape please check to see if it's really me.

Now I have 37. 

Now, please don't say that's not 37 rolls...I know it's not. it's 24. Those are only the ones that I haven't used all up already. 

Used up ones. the purple, right beside the black, always looks weird, because my camera makes the colors look different a lot.

Two pictures of the most adorable 1 year old ever.

(photo by mom)

(photo by mom)
Is he not just the cutest baby you've ever seen? yes he is, don't deny it! 

I just read a really good book by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It's called Found. If you click over to the link you can read the book description. The next books in the series are Sent, Sabotaged, and Torn. I haven't read Torn yet but I'm getting it from the library. The first book, Found, is about Jonah, his sister Katherine, and his friend Chip. Jonah and Chip are both adopted, and they both get these weird letters. They find a list with a bunch of names and phone numbers and adresses. They call the people and find out that they're all the same age too and all got the same letters. It's a really good book and I'm not very good at describing it, but you should read it. 

socks

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.

My SOCK!!!

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

Merry Christmas Eve!

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.

The Dead Deer and The Lowercase 'e'

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'.

Nativity Sets Pictures

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. 

Cookies

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. 

 

Candles and Tape

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.