The Kangas Family

Spa Cloth

2010-04-14T15:38:00.000-07:00

Well, I wanted to send a little package to my new sister in law.
I bought a wonderful little lotion bar from Bar-Maids in Brush Prairie, Wa.

I just love mine and hope Nan will like hers too. That just did not seem like enough of a present so I made her a nice spa/facecloth.

I used size F hook and some worsted weight cotton yarn.

All rows are worked in the back loop only.

Row 1: Chain 32
Row 2: In 3rd chain from hook hdc. Hdc in each chain across. Chain 2 then turn.
Row 3: Sc in each hdc across. Chain 2 then turn.

Repeat the hdc and sc rows until cloth is the size you like. End on hdc row.

Evenly space 6 shells around each side. Shell is 5 dc in one stitch.

Done!
You now have a thick and luxurious cloth to wash your face with.

Enjoy,
Christa

NO TV!!

2010-02-22T13:22:00.001-08:00

TV has been out since January. I still miss it. Was just getting into doing my work out videos.
So, if you a 27 inch tv that needs a new home. We are it!

Crochet Rings

2010-02-22T13:21:00.003-08:00

I made these last Sunday at the crochet meeting in Longview.

Both are quick and easy. I think the red one needs to be made in one size smaller crochet hook.
The white one fits nicely on my middle finger. The red on my index finger.

Here is the free pattern.

Parrot owners flock to caregiver-Article in the Columbian

2010-02-22T13:20:00.000-08:00

This article written by Christy Lochrie came out Jan. 24th. I was certainly not expecting the front of the Life page with a cute little cockatiel on the front page of the paper.
Check out the article written about how to choose a pet sitter at the Columbian.
Click to read Flocking to Caregiver

Would you like to hire Parrots Only Pet Sitting? Visit the site at www.botherthebirds.com

Pet Peeve

2010-02-22T13:03:00.001-08:00

The comments on this post.

This was crocheted by Nathan Vincent for a specific purpose. Read his explanation HERE

Peaches Found a Home!

2009-08-29T21:53:00.001-07:00

Oh yeah!! Peaches has been adopted. She is going home Tuesday.
Please, no more phone calls or emails, Thank you!

Quick and Easy Kashi Meal for Your Parrots

2009-08-10T14:00:00.000-07:00

Need a quick healthy meal for the birds? Try this one. It will feed all 17 of my birds a nice little meal.

What you need:

Kashi Pilaf in the 8.5 oz packet- This has 7 different grains in it Including:OATS, LONG GRAIN BROWN RICE, RYE, HARD RED WINTER WHEAT, TRITICALE, BUCKWHEAT, BARLEY, SESAME SEEDS
4 oz. jar of organic baby food. I used sweet potato.
Herbs- I used 3 teaspoons from my friend Marilu Anderson the Avian Goddess.

Veggies if you have them. I try to keep organic, no salt added frozen veggies around. Peas and beans too!

In a glass bowl add the Kashi, 2 tablespoons of water and the baby food. Microwave for a minute and a half. Stir well. Add 3 teaspoons of herbs. Stir well and refrigerate.After 30 minutes or so the liquid will be absorbed and the meal ready to serve.

I gave this to the kids cold and got a tails up from everyone. Everyone gets a heaping teaspoon. More for the bigger birds depending on what is left over the first time around.

Serve as your birds like it!

Yard Work

2009-06-15T15:19:00.000-07:00

Well I set my timer for 15 minutes. I started with the area around the front door. Looks better now. I saw a black fuzzy spider with a yellow dot on his bum. I went to get the camera to take a picture and he is gone. Scary!

The potted peony from John's grandma is blooming. Looks great and smells good too. The peony tree looks good and is still growing but there are not any blooms yet.

We have half the strawberry plants as last year but are getting plenty for us and the birds. We have been eating them daily.
Yum!

Now I am going to work on the area around the mail box. It is looking pretty shabby. I hope I don't see that spider again!

OHS Visit

2009-06-05T15:22:00.000-07:00

Well I went to OHS. Have not been for over a week.

Last weekend John got in a bike accident so I have been taking him and picking him up from work. Don't worry, he is ok!

I am also still sad that a little bird I hoped to adopt went back to his home.
Today there were four little budgies. I gave them two toys each. One just of beads and one with chewable wood. (Thank you Ellen!) I played with the rats too! It was fun. One was very curious about the toys that I was giving the birds. They were nice and did not bite.

Now I am back, checking email, drinking coffee and enjoying a muffin.

Next on the agenda today is to visit the First Friday Uptown Fair/ Craft Uprising. Still not sure what exactly they are calling it.

Then I will be off to visit the First Friday Art Walk a little further down town. I am taking my umbrella and hopping on the bus and walking. I might take a camera if I can find one...

Click here to read an article from the Vancouver Voice about the first Uptown Fair

Click here to visit Ellen's Payroll and Bookkeeping Service. She is the one who donates toys for me to take to OHS.

I plan to give lots of linky love to all the local businesses that I use and love.

Christa

Friday Funnies

2009-06-05T10:12:00.000-07:00

moar funny pictures

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Lost parrot may be too scared to squawk, couple say

2009-05-03T08:46:00.000-07:00

This is the bird I have been try to help them find. We have posted flyer's all over.
Here is the article in today's newspaper:

Paul and Diana Carter love their macaw so much that they had her DNA analyzed to see if she was male or female so she’d get an appropriate name.

The green yellow-collared mini-macaw, hatched in Georgia, ended up being called Savannah.

The Vancouver residents paid about $1,500 for her more than two years ago, and lavished her with affection as if she were a child.

“She was hatched on my wife’s birthday,” said Paul Carter, a truck driver. “So that makes her more special.”

“She’s a sweet bird,” said Diana Carter, a schoolteacher. “She’s our baby. She loves to wrestle and play. She plays peekaboo with me. When you say, ‘Who wants a peanut?’ she squawks because she wants the peanut.”

The Carters’ haven’t heard those squawks for a while.

On April 19, a Sunday, Diana Carter stepped out her front door in the Burnt Bridge Creek neighborhood with Savannah on a little leash.

Something startled the parrot and she slipped the leash and flew into a nearby tree.

“We tried to coax her down,” the husband said.

“She was calling to us from the tree,” Diana Carter said. “She said, ‘Ma’ and ‘Step up.’ She doesn’t know how to fly down from really tall heights. She’s never been flying outside before.”

Savannah is trained to say “Step up” when she wants to perch on her owners’ fingers.

As the Carters watched over the next few days, the bird stayed in trees nearby.

“She was staying around our home and trying to get to us,” the wife said. “She’d call and try to get down. We called to her and tried to get her home with peanuts and gourmet popcorn.”

But on Wednesday, the wind picked up and Savannah was gone with it.

Fearing that Savannah is exhausted, dehydrated and sick, or might be found and sold who knows where, the couple swung into action. They notified the local Humane Society, veterinarians and pet stores.

The Carters and Christopher Driggins with N.W. Bird Rescue posted fliers in the Hearthwood area and others nearby, but some were quickly taken down by unknown persons, they said.

Finders keepers?

Thursday, Paul Carter took a flier into a pet store in Cascade Park. He said clerks looked at Savannah’s photo on the flier and said a woman had stopped by about an hour earlier, saying her son had found such a bird.

Paul Carter said he was told the woman bought a magazine about caring for parrots and left, saying the bird had landed in her yard, that her son found it and that he was attached to it.

On Sunday, April 26, after the Carters contacted Vancouver police, an officer obtained the woman’s name and address from the store and went to her home in the Countryside Woods neighborhood, according to public records.

The officer later reported that the woman told him her daughter in Florida had found such a macaw, and was trying to care for it, so the mother bought a magazine to help her daughter.

The woman allowed the officer to look inside her home, but no bird was found.

The Carters said they suspect the woman knows where Savannah is. They said Savannah might be too scared to speak or squawk, especially if the woman has dogs.

Friday evening, Driggins went to the woman’s home with three volunteers: Tracy Nichols, owner of the Love Your Pet store in Orchards; Dorothy Krout, 90, a volunteer and supporter of N.W. Bird Rescue; and Christa Kangas, a local representative with www.911parrotalert.com, a Web site featuring lost birds.

“While they were gone I prayed and read verses and sang praises and kept praying and waiting,” Diana Carter said.

After Driggins knocked and rang the doorbell a few times, the woman came to the door and said she didn’t have the parrot.

Driggins said he left his business cards with the woman and told her he’s offering a large cash reward and a more valuable bird to anyone who finds Savannah alive and returns her to the Carters. The couple have several ways of identifying their bird.

Anyone who finds Savannah, or knows where she is, is asked to call Driggins at 360-BIRDMAN or 503-BIRDMAN.

John Branton: 360-735-4513 or john.branton@columbian.com

http://columbian.com/article/20090503/NEWS02/705039959/-1/NEWS

Chicks flying out the coops as Portlanders flock to suppliers

2009-04-15T10:01:00.000-07:00

The chirping of 70 of the cutest, fluffiest chicks you ever saw filled Pistils Nursery last Tuesday. Customers in the store on Northeast Mississippi Avenue took turns cooing over the newborn birds.

Two days later, the store was quiet again. All of the chicks had been sold.

The slow economy has egged on Portlanders' already strong do-it-yourself mentality and created an unprecedented demand for chickens, as more urbanites discover the benefits of companion animals that produce free breakfast.

More about chickens

Before you rush out and set up that coop, check with your city on what regulations it has about keeping chickens. Here are some.

Portland: You can keep up to three hens without a permit as long as they live in sanitary conditions and don't cause obnoxious smells. Permits for more hens are $30; adequate facilities are required.

Vancouver: You can keep as many hens as you like as long as they are healthy and safe and don't cause odor. No eggs can be sold without a permit.

Beaverton: Chickens are prohibited except as pets inside the house.

Hillsboro: Chickens are prohibited with this exception: You may apply for a permit if you live on a single-family one-acre lot along the floodplain or at the city's outer edges. The city is reviewing this policy; changes are not expected before 2010.

Information about raising chickens: TheCityChicken.com

Information about chicken breeds: The ICYouSee Handy-Dandy Chicken Charts

Pistils sold about 600 chicks last year, said manager Mandie Rose. This year, they're selling about twice as fast.

Read the rest

Full of Beans

2009-04-12T10:26:00.001-07:00

Full of Beans, originally uploaded by John Martz.

I just love this picture!

10 Things to Enrich Your Parrot's Life

2009-04-11T11:07:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of things that you can do to help enrich your parrot's life. Just pick one! I would love to hear what other ideas are out there.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Christa

Click HERE to read

Not Another V Stitch Scarf

2009-02-03T13:16:00.000-08:00

Mom's birthday party was on Saturday. I needed something great to make her besides the two dishcloths already done.

I decided that a nice lacey scarf would do the trick. In a wonderful red color. I am sure that many others have done scarves just like this so it is not technically original. Don't want to step on anyones toes!

I used two hanks of Sport Weight Baby Alpaca from Blue Sky color number 511 and a J or 6MM crochet hook.
V stitch is so easy: 2 dc, chain 1, 2dc in same stitch

I chained 16 and got two borders and 3 v's in the middle.
When turning do not chain, just turn and start your v stitch pattern all over. This creates a nice scalloped edge on both sides.

When I was done I soaked it in luke warm tap water with Eucalan for 15 min, rolled it out with a towel and blocked.

Finished size after blocking was 6 inches wide and 72 inches long.

This would also look great as a set of three v's or four.
For three you need to chain only 10. That would make the ultimate quick, skinny, and lacey scarf.
For 4 chain 13.

Links that Inspired

http://www.woolcrafting.com/v-stitch-crochet-pattern.html
http://www.monkeysee.com/play/10399-crochet-v-stitches
http://crochet.about.com/b/2005/06/28/v-stitch-how-to-and-beginner-crochet-pattern.htm
http://suzies-yarnie-stuff.blogspot.com/2008/06/v-stitch-cell-phone-pouch-c.html

Smokey's News Story

2009-01-20T22:52:00.001-08:00

This is the story that ran Wednesday after Smokey went home.
Christa

OHS Macaws need homes!

2009-01-18T15:42:00.000-08:00

Please take a look at Lou and Bonnie.
They are in need of forever homes.

Click here to read about Bonnie:
http://www.oregonhumane.org/adopt/detail.asp?animalID=69433

Click here to read about Lou:
http://www.oregonhumane.org/adopt/detail.asp?animalID=66109

Have a great day!
Christa

Crochet Flower Class at StitchCraft!

2009-01-06T17:00:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple of the leaves we will be making in the Crochet Flower class coming up on the 17th. Check out the StitchCraft site.

These are made from Lambs Pride. The first one is a lacy leaf and the second a fern.
I am now making up some shop samples. Check back for more pictures of leaves and the flowers!
Christa

And the rose leaf. This can be done like the fern with multiple leaves.

John and I in Hawaii

2009-01-06T15:02:00.001-08:00

John and I in Hawaii, originally uploaded by ashbirdlady.

Our cruise photo

Making a little $

2008-12-20T10:20:00.000-08:00

I am still keeping these blogs but trying a new one that will make me a little money.
Please take a look.
http://exoticbirds.today.com/

Thank you !
Christa

Cute!

2008-12-15T11:47:00.001-08:00

funny-dog-pictures-knit-baby-brother
Originally uploaded by ashbirdlady

Love this pic!

Sammi

2008-11-09T08:07:00.001-08:00

Sammi
Originally uploaded by ashbirdlady

This is Sam my new foster bird. He came a week or so after Stanley went home. Great timing!
He is such a precious thing. I love him.
We cuddle almost everynight and he gives kisses.
He now has feathers on his tummy and a clean bill of health from the Dr.

Stanley

2008-09-14T15:54:00.001-07:00

Stanley
Originally uploaded by ashbirdlady

Well, Stanley went home today. I sure am going to miss him. I got a little teary eyed when his momma came and took him home.

Last of The Weekend

2008-09-14T15:49:00.000-07:00

After Stanley left at 1pm I went back to the Knit and Crochet Show. I saw Lily Chin again in a gorgeous yellow knit/crochet outfit. She is a smashing dresser! I forgot to mention I saw her Friday night at dinner too.

I spent $100 and got some good items.

Alpaca Yarn for a shawl of course.

Hand made crochet hook.

Yarn for two more shawls.

This one is for over my little black dress that I will take on the cruise.

I subscribe to the Sampler and got these really great earrings this time!

I love them!

I am currently watching the first season of Charmed and reading The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen.

Knit and Crochet Show

2008-09-13T10:52:00.000-07:00

I went to the Knit and Crochet Show in Portland yesterday.
What a lot of fun!
On the way back home I ended up right next to Drew E and Doris Chan on the max.
I was going to say Hi but was a little star struck and they seemed deep in conversation.
I am going to try and go back tomorrow.

I forgot to tell you that I won two skeins of sock yarn.

I love my Kermit

2008-08-06T15:00:00.000-07:00

And our old time favorite below:

ECT Camp Out

2008-07-16T11:13:00.001-07:00

ECT-july4-campout22
Originally uploaded by Bike-junkie

On the weekend of the 4th John went on a really long bike ride. Here are some pictures.

He went with the Exchange Cycle Tours bike camping trip to the Mt. Hood National Forest. They traveled 78 miles each way to get a spot with no cars or people nearby.
Click HERE for the rest of the pictures.

Brenda's Bike Move -July 26th

2008-07-11T13:14:00.001-07:00

VANCOUVER BIKE MOVE!
July 26th at 14th and Evergreen, Vancouver, Wa
11:00am

My car free friend Brenda in downtown Vancouver is moving this month! She'd love to see a bike move come across the Columbia and move stuff without running it around in someone else's car. It's about a mile and a half at most, as the bike move rides, from about 14th and Evergreen to around 29th and Main. As Brenda is a Red Hatter, an obvious theme would be gaudy hats, perhaps even garish. We'll work on rounding up some goodies from Vancouver Pizza, Vancouver's finest pizza according to the Columbian. If you're unsure about the I-5 bridge, let's meet at the Paul Bunyan on Interstate at 10-ish.

John Kangas, jikangas@gmail.com

Multnomah County Bike Fair

2008-06-30T09:04:00.002-07:00

John rode over on his bike Saturday to enjoy the Multnomah County Bike Fair.
He said I would have enjoyed it. I stayed home with the fan, ac and the birds.

There was unicycle jousting!

Unicycle Joust - Pedalpalooza 2008

Bus Bytes

2008-06-30T09:04:00.000-07:00

This morning the poor old bus could hardly make it up the Mill Plain hill.
I thought we were going to have to get out and push.

Then this guy got on and was talking to no one in particular. He was discussing bombs, bloody people, murder etc.
After say, 10 minutes the bus driver asked him where he was going. Luckily for us all it was not far. He did have a nice big back pack that had us all wondering what exactly he was carrying in there.

Bus Bytes

2008-06-20T11:02:00.000-07:00

I am now regularly taking the bus. Most days it is completely uneventful. On those days that it is not I will post here.
Recent Happenings

worm murder
michael jackson wannabe
Jesus Loves You Man

Lots of fun!
Christa

Golum AKA Precious

2008-05-29T12:24:00.001-07:00

My new bird. I love him. He has grown back quite a few feathers since I first met him. He was rescued from a bad breeding situation. This is his first exposure to other sennies and humans up close on a daily basis. Precious came to live with us on 5/10/08

Duh...

2008-05-16T14:36:00.000-07:00

I listen to this really fun podcast called Yarn Thing.

I have been listening for awhile and all of a sudden I could only hear Marly and none of her interview.

I posted a comment on her site.

Since I listen at work I only put in one ear phone, the one that has Marly's voice,

not the other persons!

Ha! Well all is good and I am listening to the interview with the Crochet Dude.

Thanks Marly!

Christa

Crafty Stuff

2008-05-15T14:02:00.000-07:00

This is the sweater I am working on. I have crocheted about 6 rounds after closing the arm holes. Time for lace next!

You can find the pattern here.

Here is a necklace I just made.

Tara and I are going to the new Vancouver Wa Yarn store.
It is called StitchCraft. They are having a Knitting Soiree tonight.
I am starting on the Juliet sweater from Zephyr.

Crochet Liberation Front.

2008-02-21T14:23:00.000-08:00

Love it!
I heard about it on the Crochet Side podcast.

CLF

Durango Herald clipping

2008-02-12T17:07:00.001-08:00

Durango Herald clipping
Originally uploaded by ashbirdlady

This clipping shows Robert Johnson at work with the ambulance service in Durango CO.
He worked with Karl Graham.

Robert Ladd Johnson

2008-02-12T17:06:00.001-08:00

Robert Ladd Johnson
Originally uploaded by ashbirdlady

Have you seen this man? Do you know him?

Halloween_Contest_2007

2007-10-26T12:33:00.001-07:00

Halloween_Contest_2007
Originally uploaded by ashbirdlady

If you are free I would love to see you there!

This Weekend

2007-06-12T16:45:00.000-07:00

I went to Portland on Saturday looking for the Etsy PDX craft fair. Unfortunately, their advertisement was incorrect when they said that the fair was open until 5. It closed at 2.
That was disappointing. Hopefully they will get it together!

The good things that happened:

I got to spend the day with my friend Tina.
I walked through the Portland Park Blocks. (Never been there before)
We walked at least a mile and a half!
We got to Portland Saturday Market about 15 minutes before closing. Just enough time to buy one thing but not enough time to get in too much trouble.

Tina and I parked at the Expo Center and rode the Max into town. It was Rose Festival weekend and there was more than the usual amount of traffic.

Sunday was a crochet meeting up in Longview. It was a lot of fun. It is not often that the meeting falls on a day that is totally open for me to go.

I found a new stitch. Joanna was/is making a book cover from it. It is called the lattice stitch.

I also started on my Cool Chicken for the amigurumi exchange I am doing on Swap bot. Craft Warehouse now has a line of nice acrylic yarn by Vanna White. Colonial Blue and Mustard are the colors that I am using. There were some cute star buttons, so I got those for the eyes.

Peep This

2007-06-04T16:07:00.001-07:00

This amuses me.

What a Weekend

2007-06-04T15:19:00.000-07:00

Saturday we had a great Crochet_Friends meeting. Kathleen, Kay, Pat and I met in the apartment common area and had steak! We also had potatos and veggies and dip. Yum! I baked some cookies and Kathleen brought angel food cake and strawberries. We were all so full that we did not get to eat any.
I got some Homespun Yarn for a blanket for my sister. Thank you! Pat also got some yarn to make baby sweater sets too.
(yarn pic here)
After that I went to see Tara play at the Indoor Soccer Arena right across from my apartments.
She kicked butt!

Sunday I was a bad girl and skipped Vancouver Fit. Instead I went to this great little craft fair put on by Lov Li at a place called RonTom's in Portland. I purchased some bird related items from a vendor called Karma's Kreations. I bought a necklace and a switch plate. I found some cute bird pins too.

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There were about 30 different vendors. It was different and a lot of fun. I grabbed business cards from all sorts of vendors.

I picked her up at the vet's in Lake O on Friday. She does have invasive cancer and will live another 6 months to a year.
Minnie went back home to Tina's Sunday afternoon. I miss her. She is doing fine!

Must Remember

2007-05-31T07:56:00.000-07:00

I find myself forgetting many things that I really want to remember. So here are some things that I found and did yesterday.

I listen to a podcast called Craft Sanity. This last episode was all about something called Craft in America. This is a three hour show that was on OPB last night. Here are the links.
http://www.craftinamerica.org/
Local Listings:
http://opb.org/

I found this great little movie with cockatiels and the Star Wars theme.
Very cute!
Take a look and turn the volume up.

On Thursday, May 17th I went to my friend's house for dinner. Her budgie Minnie had a issue with her preen gland. It was huge! I "confiscated" her bird and took her to the avian vet in Lake Oswego on Monday the 21st. Dr. L put her on antibiotics for 10 days and scheduled her for surgery today at 9:30 am. I drove her over yesterday morning. It has been really hot here so I wanted to take her early to avoid any heat issues.
Here are some cute bird pictures. Minnie was not too happy about the camera.

I will find out more later today.

Crochet Blogs

2007-02-22T17:53:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple of crochet blogs I like.

Coffee Crochet
And her new blog Do Your Worsted

Another crochet blog
That Girl Crochet

Christa

PS. Kind of hard to start posting again after Grandma died.
Gotta start some where I guess

Grandma

2006-04-05T06:45:00.000-07:00

My Grandma passed away this morning.
The red blanket is the one I made her for her birthday last year.
Please let me know if you would like any of these pictures or email me others to put up.
Thanks
Christa

Happenings

2006-03-28T20:57:00.000-08:00

Some of you may already know that Georgie my budgie had to have surgery to have an egg removed in February. Well, she now has another egg. The vet is out of town until next week. So far she is doing fine.

I re-homed Petey and Polly with a nice lady out in Scapoose. She was recommended by someone at the bird club. I think they will do very well. Georgie sure does miss them. Hopefully now that the boy budgie is gone Georgie will not be so eager to create eggs. I do have a couple of pictures from their last night with me.

On a positive note, I joined Vancouver Fit. It is a marathon training club. No, I am not planning on doing a marathon. I just needed something different.
On Sunday I walked 3 miles. Next week is 4!!

Junior's Christmas Exchange Adventure

2006-01-28T15:53:00.000-08:00

Poor little Junior was so overwhelmed. I finally had to open the rest of his presents for him.
Thank you !!!!

My Christmas Goodies/Aunt Joan's Blanket

2006-01-11T20:19:00.000-08:00

Aunt Joan made me this wall hanging and quilt for Christmas. The quilt features Ash and Junior.

The blanket is done. All I have to do is sew in ends and give it to her. I did three panels on the purple knifty knitter. I used two strands of Caron Simply Soft in Bone and Off White. I crocheted around the edges. Here is an up close picture.
I kept nice and toasty while crocheting the panels together.

Dog Sweater

2006-01-11T16:15:00.000-08:00

My friend Tara has knitted her first dog sweater for her dog Milo.
She got the idea from the pattern on LionBrand. Tara used Cascade Wool and modified the pattern to fit Milo. No fun fur here!

Take a look....

Seattle Trip - New Year's Eve - Christa

2006-01-02T10:19:00.000-08:00

My sister and I went to a yarn store called Nancy's Knits. Then we went to the Ram for lunch. Yum! We got cow chips for desert. (chocolate chip cookies)

Here is the trouble I got into. I actually did not find anything to spend money on. Joanna, however, got three skeins of yarns to have me make scarves for her.

This gorgeous yarn is so soft. It is made of 75% baby alpaca, 18% silk, and 7% nylon. I will be making this scarf on the blue Knifty Knitter. It will be a double stand and a keyhole scarf. It should work up light and lacey.

The next skein is Red Heart Light and Lofty. It is color 9617 Pheasant. I think I will do another keyhole scarf. This yarn works up really thick and cozy.

I will post pictures as I start on those projects. I need to finish Aunt Joan's lapghan today and then start on John's Dr. Who scarf.
I guess I better go knit!

Seattle Trip - New Year's Eve - John

2006-01-01T22:32:00.000-08:00

John and I headed up to Seattle at 7:30am. He met some new unicycle friends and I visited my sister.

Here are some pictures of the trouble John got into. This unicycle is called a Giraffe and is 5ft tall.