Pour myself

A cup of ambition…….. in honor of Dolly

Off the needles

 

Like I said I just love pastels a cotton and bamboo blend called Illusion from Lang Yarns. The pattern is After the Rain that I have knit several times. And it goes in the washer and the dryer!!  Our days are cooling a little here. —Ann—

I just love pastels

 

I was searching the boxes for activities for five year olds since we were spending a few weeks with the twins one week at a time and I found a doll bed that my cousin had given to me when her daughter outgrew it for my daughter. I had forgotten all about it, my cousin has a granddaughter the right age for it…..so sew make a new doll quilt and send it back to her along with the mattress and sheet. Most of the parts were cut and waiting  I just love pastels especially pinks and yellows together. —Ann—

Licking the bowl

 

 

 

 

Grandma duty this week yippee!! We made freezer jam with fresh raspberries from the local you pick.  The berries were few and far between but I persevered and picked enough for one recipe of jam. (The berries were thick on the canes just not ripe another week or two…..)  They helped wash the berries and crushed the berries and measured the sugar the added the sugar and stirred and stirred.  Wait 10 minutes for the sugar to dissolve add the pectin and lemon juice and stir for 3 minutes then into the container and lick the bowl. Just that slick.  I have been using the recipe in the pectin box forever and I do mean forever.  It was my first 4-H demonstration when I was 9 but back then it was powdered pectin and had to be cooked for a minute or two but still super easy.  —Ann—

New fur baby

“Hey!  How come we are all bunched in here again?!?  It’s not Christmas.”    “ The girl came with the furry thing like us but it moves on its own”

“ Yeah I remember it from a couple weeks ago, it had sharp teeth  my leg still hurts!” “ You’re still in one piece.”  “At least we are all together and got to bask in the sun room for the weekend.”   “I miss sitting on the shelf where I can see the dust bunnies playing under her chair where she knits—are they ever going to turn into real bunnies?”       “ He had his own toys too, I thought he was going to take the head off poor Lambchop.”  “The mom did surgery on Lambchop when they arrived.”  “He sat on command and laid down too but he still had to do time out a couple times, he he.  And no sock was safe until it was securely hidden in a shoe.”

Darling daughter and her new best friend a standard poodle.  He’s learning and she’s a very patient trainer.

And one for Dolly

 I finished those baby quilts and then thought big sister needs a dolly quilt. Dig through the bundles of scraps I find the scraps from a quilt that was given to the big sister’s mommy. Perfect. Just like mommy.  Time well spend on another hot day  —Ann—

Two-da-da-da-done

 

Finally I finished these quilts the baby girls are 3 months and one month, my niece’s two newest grandkids.  It has been hot here a good day to go downstairs and finish something!! —Ann—