Day 78

I decided to give knitting another try today.  Because it has been so long I had to revisit the DVD "The Complete Beginner's Guide to Knitting".  This time I changed the yarn I was using to a beautiful but frizzy blue yarn.  I love the yarn, but because it's frizzy while doing the knitting I kept catching the little fly a ways and had to keep starting over.  After an hour of trial and error, I got through the first part of the DVD, up until the end of the knit stitch and she tells me that I'm now ready to do a Garter Stitch Scarf!  I agree and pull out my practice knitting and start on the scarf.

I had to cast on 26 stitches for the large scarf and then just do knit stitches until I have 24".  After that I have no idea!  Okay, well I know I'm supposed to bind off and weave the ends.  Well I haven't got to those parts of the DVD so once I have a 24" long scarf, I"ll watch those two chapters and hope I can figure out what needs to be done.  I worked on this knitting for a few hours, stopping for breaks and to get ready for work tomorrow, so I didn't get too much done, just about 7".  But I really enjoyed working on it, and I would still be working on it if I didn't need to post this and then finish getting ready for tomorrow.  Knitting is really fun, who knew!  I'm really proud of myself though, I can't wait until I can make something bigger.  I have directions for a prayer shawl so I think once I"m more comfortable I'll make that!

Here is what I have done so far:

Here is a close up of the work:

And here is Karma trying to walk off with the "working" string:

Day 45

When I got home from work tonight one of the first things Stan said was "I have a craft you can do tonight!".  And my first thought was "YAY!!!" because I wasn't too sure what I was going to do!  

His computer came with a bunch of craft software and he was checking it out today.  There was a template for a photo cube, you just add your pictures, print it out, cut it, score the folding lines, fold and glue!  That's it!  It was easy and fun and now I have an adorable photo cube of the 6 loves of my life to adorn my desk at work!!!

Printed on card stock:

All cut out and ready to be scored, folded and glued:

Folded, a little flimsy looking but it's holding up well:

Top view:

Another side view: