Lion's Brand library

I spent some time this afternoon looking the the Lion's Brand yarn site. Usually I just dash in, pick out a pattern that I want to try and dash out again. However today I went in and looked at their "learn to knit" section and was very impressed. I am in the process of building a web site about knitting and think I will use their site for knitting basics.

This is my second HTML class and I am really enjoying it. The first class was such a revelation because I have had no experience in html or any type of programming. I'm still very new at it but think it is fascinating. Also I am beginning to understand the "behind the scenes" process.

I sold five more of my lambs. I am looking for some more yarn, it has to be wool so it will felt and, since they are sheep, I want something that is not too "refined" but will give a nice woolly look to them.

Catchup time

We had a great time at Daffodil Days. It was really cold inside the grange as every time they turned the heat on the air conditioner came on. We never did get any heat, but fortunately it was warmer outside so we took turns standing outside!!! We sold tatted crosses, dishcloths and one of my lambs. We felt that people were not interested in anything large or heavy. Maybe because it was a Festival and they didn't want to carry them around or maybe because it was supposed to be spring and they weren't interested in afghans. We're going to try again but have not yet signed up for a bazaar.

I was reading about a 3-day workshop/bazaar in Canby, Oregon. It may not be possible this year but hopefully sometime in the near future.

Daffodil Days

We are going to show our knitted and crocheted articles in our first bazaar this weekend. There is going to be a spring festival--Daffodil Days-- in a small town near us. We are all excited about this opportunity to "get our feet wet". I am going to be selling my felted lambs and the Debbie Bliss bootees.

Class

I took a class on building a webpage and really liked it. It teaches you to use the HTML language and how to post pages on the internet. It is amazing how much is on the internet that we don't know about. There is a free program that will check your webpage for errors and another program, also free, that will scramble your e-mail address so that a robot can't read it.

I took a second class on writing for the web. I am now trying to tighten up my sentence structure which isn't easy. Both classes were through Virtual University. I hope that I will soon be able to link my blog with the webpage. However there is still a lot of work to be done on it. At this time, it just has my class assignments on it but someday...

Yarn

I spent quite a bit of time last night winding a skein of yarn. Usually this is a chore I enjoy but this time the yarn was in short lengths so it took forever. I'm not sure why this happened, I have two skeins of this yarn and the first skein was fine and wound into a ball.

We are getting ready for a spring bazaar in Grants Pass. This will be our first bazaar so hope we are ready for it. I am making felted lambs and baby bootees.

I have been reading the Gresham series by Lawana Blackwell, there are three books and all three have been totally enjoyable. I think I like the first one best, it was more about the family and the last two romances but all three of them are really good.

 

Books

I have been reading The courtship of the Vicar's Daughter the continuing saga of the Gresham Chronicles by Lawana Blackwell. I read the first in the series: The Widow of Larkspur Inn and just loved it. I think I'm going to really enjoy this book too.

I finished the sweater for my daughter's birthday. It is chocolate brown so did not photograph that well, however here is the one I made in raspberry. This is an excellent pattern.