whirled peas

i saw these cool bracelets, and they were $VERY EXPENSIVE$.  google being my friend, and all, i checked for tutorials, and sure enough!  a wonderful step-by-step how to, complete with supply list, appeared.  so i did it! 

how fun is this??  and it cost about $12 at michael's for supplies.  it takes some time, as it's quite fiddly, but what's an hour worth?

there may be another of these in my future...

i AM the macguyver of knitting

these are my new stitch markers.  yes, they're plain, but they can be fancied up, can't they?  so why am i the macguyver of knitting?

if you know what those little cylinders are, you and i are in the same club.  for everyone else, those little containers hold insulin to be dispensed by an insulin pump, used by people with type 1 diabetes.  actually, you might be in the club of people who have t1d.  i am in the mom of the t1d kid club.

i was getting really aggravated with the last stitch marker of the many many stitch markers on my long-neglected clapotis, because it was just a sloppy, floppy piece of yarn.  how i thought of those little gaskets on the cylinder, i do not know, but i broke into the sharps container to grab them.

i grabbed many!  now here is my little stitch marker in place:

goodbye, old marker, you served me well, but you annoyed me once too often;  clapotis, beware -- i have finish-itis!

now my hands smell like insulin;  yes, mom, i DID wash them really well, but since i'm in colorado on vacation, i'll eat a nice, beautiful, luscious palisade peach, right from the fruit stand on the highway, just to make sure my blood sugar does not run low ;-)

wednesday night knitting...

... well, i needed a stirrer! ;-)  32" size 7 addi turbos.  highly recommended!

i AM the macgyver of knitting.

necessity is the mother of invention, or ...

...i am the macgyver of knitting.

i wanted to try this tunisian crochet 3 color technique i saw. isn't that amazing? doesn't that say noro to you? it did to me!

i made a little afghan YEARS (read 20?) ago using the afghan stitch/tunisian crochet so have a hook somewhere. well, finding it was going to involve turning more stuff upside down than i wanted to do, so here's what i did:
voila! duct tape and a cork -- instant afghan hook! i knew all that wine would do me some good ;-)