Skeins Her Way — one crafty mom knits, quilts, crochets, sews, designs, and tries to find time to cook...

Is This What a Stay-cation Is Supposed To Look Like?

July 12, 2010 Uncategorized

I have fond memories of camping a lot while growing up. My memories may actually be a bit too fond. I’m pretty sure my camping memories are more the stuff dreams are made of than the stuff of reality. My mom seems to remember that is was a lot of work. I remember it as [...]

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Wordless Wednesday- Small Town Fireworks

July 7, 2010 Uncategorized

Linked to 5 Minutes for Mom’s Wordless Wednesday. Share and Enjoy:

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Asthma Gets In the Way

June 19, 2010 Uncategorized

Last week, it was play rehearsals every day that kept me too busy to do much- although I did manage to add a few inches to a sleeve of my sweater in between snapping pictures This week, it’s asthma. The sounds that come out of our Gracie when she’s having a flare-up are not fun [...]

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Look Mom, New Skirts!

June 7, 2010 sewing

I saw Click Cluck Sew’s The Draw String Jersy Skirt post on Friday night, got excited, and cut out 3 skirts for Oldest Daughter before nodding off to dreamland. Super simple. No pattern required. Anybody could sew these. I’m serious. (It helps that I have what some might describe as “too much” fabric laying around, including various [...]

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Those Proverbial Brick Walls…

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

I think I hit one this past week, a wall, that is. It was like the perfect storm, except that there is really nothing perfect about it. Busy-ness, and tiredness, and busy-ness, and crazy muggy heat (and maybe some cute distractions) combined to create conditions in which I just could not keep knitting on the [...]

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A Wee Little Onesie

May 17, 2010 Uncategorized

It was one of those link-hopping things, when I clicked and scrolled through posts and pics, and clicked a link and oohed and aahed at some crafty cuteness, and the next thing I knew I had cut papers and pulled out the markers. There assignment was to draw a little doodle that a baby boy [...]

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A New Week, A New List

May 16, 2010 Uncategorized

put up new Oriole feeder spend time reading to my children fill Hummingbird feeder spend time exploring with my children get more thistle for the finch feeder do some nature journaling with my children sew some kerchiefs play at the park with my children sew some bloomers go on a picnic with my children cut [...]

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Made By Me Monday

May 10, 2010 Uncategorized

I’ve adored Skip to my Lou for crafty inspiration for quite some time, and since “they” always say “there’s no time like the present”, today seemed like a good day for jumping on the Made By You bandwagon, ’cause, you know, I make things from time to time. Take a look at the collection of [...]

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Yes, It’s a February Lady Sweater

May 5, 2010 Uncategorized

I may have to call mine an “I Started It In April But Didn’t Finish It Until May Lady Sweater”, but I don’t mind. If a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, then a February Lady Sweater by any other name ought to wear as well, don’t you think? The body is [...]

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