This is a plastic piggy bank from my childhood. I don’t remember ever not having him! The hat he is wearing was my mother’s. Every summer we would spend two weeks at the Jersey shore in Cape May. The Jersey beaches require beach tags and she collected them on her hat. My mom was a [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Posted in dogs,, family,, pigs, on July 31, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Posted in crochet,, pigs, on July 30, 2007 | 17 Comments »
section 7 is along the right side from top to bottom Today Boar and I will be on an all day charity outing. We will be going on a wine tasting tour of vineyards on Long Island’s North Fork. Over the weekend, I finished and seamed section 7 of Babette and I also cast on [...]
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Posted in crochet,, family,, pigs, on July 27, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Section six is there running from top to bottom on the right hand side. Section seven started of with a 12 round square, which takes awhile, but I’ve got that one done and a few of the others as well. The pattern for Lotus Blossom shawl arrived the other day and I want to get [...]
crochet seams
Posted in pigs, on July 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A few people have asked how I am seaming Babette. I checked around on the internet, but couldn’t find any sites that showed exactly what I was doing. I suppose this is my own little ‘un-vention’. It results in a very flat, almost invisible seam. It is not the sturdiest seam out there, but strong [...]
Posted in crochet,, family,, pigs, on July 25, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Both D1 & D2 are away this week. Yes my dears, Boar and I have the house completely to ourselves. Things are hot and steamy around here. We still got the romance, I tell you what! If you were a fly on the wall at Chez Swine, this is what you would have heard …. [...]
Posted in pigs, on July 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »
this blanket is going to my head! I don’t know why I keep forgetting the pig pictures! thanks to Andrea for noticing the lack of piggies … either the rest of you are wretched skimmers like myself, or she is the only one who cares about the pigs So here are three cutting boards that [...]
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Posted in crochet, on July 24, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Check me out – two posts in two days ….. I’m on a roll! I am beginning to suspect that my recent blog slump can be attributed to DBK. Dead Boring Knitting. Section Five has been added! Does it appear I am flying through this project? Last night I was thinking the same thing myself [...]
a post of many colors
Posted in crochet,, pigs, on July 23, 2007 | 10 Comments »
front Here is a look at my Babette blanket progress. The picture shows sections 1-4, complete with seaming! My idea to work the squares in the order they are put together and to seam them as I go along is working out well. I can’t imagine dealing with all of these squares at the end. [...]
Posted in crochet, on July 20, 2007 | 8 Comments »
The large center square and the two smaller six-round squares are seamed together. The panel on the right with the four, four-round squares needs two two-rounders and then that will be ready for seaming too. I just re-read that last sentence. whew! I don’t know how else I could have written it though. Anyway, I [...]
Posted in crochet,, spinning, on July 19, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Here is a finished 12 round square. It is the center block of Babette. The pattern calls for a few of these bigger squares. I finished this one at the Spinning Guild meeting last night. Our meeting was a covered dish dinner along with an auction. Everyone brought in items for donation (I took the [...]
