I mean come on, it's a dog blanket right?

She is such a good poser!  

Anyways, I made a quilt for the dog.  It's relatively small but an exciting project to have.  HOWEVER,  Last weekend I googled searched quilt blogs and found some amazing blogs to follow for inspiration.  P.S. I quilt and Lazy Gal Quilting are a delight to read and I love them for completely different reasons. P.S. I Quilt has wonderful inspiration.  She happens to be a big fan of Moda.  I am sad that I haven't figured out how to order online, but there are several shops I may have to venture to and buy some (and I hear my husband grumbling).  I love Lazy Gal quilting because her quilts are not perfect.  Each blanket has it quirks and her personality all over it.  As a person who feels that measuring and measuring before cutting is a serious waste of time, its refreshing to find to see her quilts and just do what you want!  But in any case, her quilts look awesome and I love the pics of her cats and her reviews of her favorite shows!  

So after looking through my new blogs, I was pretty inspired to say the least.  So I cut and hand pieced the quilt, partially because my sewing machine is on the fritz and I just don't want to try to mess with it and partially because I just wanted to see if I could hand piece something.  Then I hand pieced the whole quilt together.  And then I started the hand quilting process.  I think I was rather ambitious.

I drew small swirls and then hand quilted with two different color thread.  I haven't even finished the first square on the front (Wait for the pic, its coming!) and I am dreading finishing it.  But I think that if I get up the courage to do it, it will be a durable quilt to last for Kina.  SO here is the photo's I promised!

The Front

The Back.

They are very pink and kind of off but I like it all the same!

So help my brain not become extremely frustrated, I had offered to make an item that I had shown on here before.  It was really exciting to make this for her so here is a sneak peak, or the whole thing!

Yea for Headbands!  I saw these two colors at Walmart and just had to get both!  The colors are a little darker than they show in the pic but I love them!

Speaking of Walmart guess what I found!

A Jellyroll that looks absolutely fabulous.  I've been wanting to buy a jellyroll just to see what I could come up with.  I think I may make another bible cover for another bible that I read from time to time.

Brainstorming Corner   

I love to knit and I am loving working with fabric.  I should combine these two crafts right?  YES!  I should.  I have thought about knitting some squares and making a blanket.  I have also thought about making two sided placemats.  One side is knitted, the other side is fabric.  I am excited about the brainstorming that coming out and I am kind of excited to see how it all turns it out.  Maybe if I feel like they are awesome I may toy with the idea of an etsy shop.  Maybe . . . . . .

So to say the least I have a lot of projects in process or in brainstorming process.  Stay tuned to see what turns up here.

Random last statement

I looked up what Kina's name means . . . . .  One place says it is Hawaiian for China, while another is hebrew or Hawaiian for Judged.  I think I would prefer it to be China, but that seems like a weird name for a dog.  But it's better than the one we had settled on before we got her.  Zimmer.  :)  Yep, David was totally in for naming our second animal after the Movie music composer, Hans Zimmer. (cue the laughs from people who know my obsession with Hans.)

Flowers and knitting and hiking oh my

Well hello again to all!  What a week it has been here at our house so where to even begin???


Well the first thing that I immediately wanted to post as soon as it happened of course!


Friday, my hubby had the day off so we were starting a three day weekend.  We had a conversation the night before and he brought up the fact that he hasn't been camping in a while . . . .  The only reason this existed is because I am a worry wort.  His idea of camping is going out for a week.  No cell service, no bathroom, just him and the wilderness.  Which is great for him but not so good for a worry wort.  But any ways, friday morning I woke up and said, "You should go camping."  He at first was a little apprehensive.  But I was like yea you should go.  I got up and went to starbucks across the street (don't ever, ever do this!!  Lot's of money gets wasted just because it is so close . . .)  when I came back his box of camping gear was all over the living room floor and he turned to me and said, "Can I go?  Really can I go?" (Imagine in a 5 year old voice).  Well how was I supposed to say no to that?  So he went but came back the next day and had in hand two bottles of wine and flowers.  What can I say, I married good.  :)

The wine, he said, he bought from a couple that just makes wine from the grapes that they grow in their front yard.  How cool.  :)

On the knitting front I have been quite busy.  I have mostly finished my mother's shawl.  I just need to make the collar and fit it and then we are pretty much done but here is a preview of this awesomely frustrating project.

Pretty cool huh?  Well after I finished this for now I also started and finished a hat that I had started, pulled out, redid, etc.  It was stressful but I started it yesterday about 4ish and finished it just before bed. I will have to admit that is pretty awesome.  :)  Now sorry the pic isn't of me.  I am having a lazy hair day . . . . . 

But for now the most exciting thing that I am looking forward to right now is that tomorrow it is supposed to rain.  I love rain and have always wanted to just sit and enjoy the rain.  Guess what, I can!  Maybe some more knitting projects are coming.  

So to end today's post is a cheer for the Texas Rangers!  It's too bad that we had to move for them to win, but hey it's all good.  The game should be starting soon!  So I guess I will end todays post.  See y'all next time.

Cause you Have to Start Somewhere

Greetings to all who have found my new blog.  I have done one or two before but have never really kept up with the posts.  But now I find myself spending lots of time at home, in a new place, without all of my awesome friends who happen to live somewhere else (ahem, mainly Texas).  So I figure why not share a little of what I am doing with all of my free time.  I named the blog twitters and the knitter because I am a knitter and twitters is my cat, Whitacre (Twitters is one of the many nick-names, but doesn't everyone give their pets "pet names"?).  Him and I spend most of the day together.  I watch tv, knit, play computer games and he occasionally cuddles, has random spurts of energy, but mostly stares at me and naps.  There have been many days that entertaining things have occurred and felt the need to share.  So I think I will start with today.

Whit and I have spent most of the day watching tv. I have Netflix and have had a marathon of psych running for several days.  If you have not seen this show then it is a must.  (By the way as my posts continue (I hope) you will notice I tend to watch a TON and I mean a TON of Tv.  So really many shows are a must.)   He has taken several naps and has found a rubber band most entertaining.

Knitting wise I have found myself being extremely ADD.  I have been trying to find projects that would keep me entertained enough but still somewhat easy so that I can watch tv at the same time.  This has been a major challenge.  I have tried to make up my own in-the-round dishcloth (very unsuccessful but kind of entertaining to my brain), a hat that I found a pattern for on ravelry but didn't have the proper needle size and had yarn but probably not the correct size so the hat came out small.  I have since actually tweaked the pattern for the hat to make it bigger but is still too small.  So I will have to make another one but I don't really feel like tearing out all that I had accomplished and restarting.  (I started, pulled out, and restarted so many time I find myself really aggravated with the idea in general)  I have also started a pair of socks.  I found this awesome fall colored sock yarn at a yarn shop in Texas and have made one sock with one pattern and have started another pattern with the same color. (I'm telling you I am really ADD)  But for now I am working on a lace wrap from the Vogue knitting early fall 2010 edition.  This wrap has a story all of it's own.

I found the wrap and made it for myself.  I used yarn I found at hobby lobby.  I am not a fan of making a gauge (which you can probably tell) so I had to go back and forth to hobby lobby several time and found two different stores in my new home (which was an adventure).  I showed my mother what I was making and liked it.  She asked me if I could make it for her and I of course said yes.  WELL I used different yarn, more expensive yarn (debbie bliss) for my mothers and found myself short of yarn.  Since most of my yarn purchases either happen at large chain stores I was not accustom to the dye lot idea and well had to order yarn from online and the new yarn had a different dye lot.  BOO . . . . so I had to rip out all the work that I had done and restart.  Now I am a fast knitter.  I restarted yesterday and have already finished two skeins of the project, many more to go though.  But it's a project that fits all of my qualifications, especially since I have done this particular project more than once.  So yea for that! (by the way, I had to tweak the pattern for my mom and have contemplated ripping out the one that I sort of finished and remaking mine with her tweaks. hmmmmmmmmmm)  

But in any case the day is nice and cool like fall.  Whit has been using my fleece jacket as a pillow, a warm pillow and my hands are aching to knit so I must go.  Maybe I will be back tomorrow .  . . . but till the next time.