Happy Birthday, Heather! (and numerous dishcloths)

Yet another birthday and more kitchen goodies (I swear there is a trend going on here). This time I decided to do a sage green.












I also got a bunch of dishcloths done for Christmas presents.

This has now caught me up on the projects that I have completed and photographed. There is still a lot more to photograph and put together.

Happy 65th Anniversary, Sam and Stella

Andrew's sister, Lisa's in-laws celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in August. If you think about it, 65 years is quite a feat! There is not that many of us these days that will end up being married 65 years. I decided to make them things for their kitchen (anyone noticing a trend here...)

I made them an angel dishcloth...Stella loves her angels!!

I made them some plain dishcloths

...and since their kitchen has sunflowers, I made them sunflower potholders and towels.

A few birthday gifts for Maureen (and a few other projects)

So this year for my neighbor, Maureen's birthday, I decided to make her some dishcloths, and potholders for her kitchen in her favorite color, dark green. She has a big collection of teapots and I decided to make her a teapot dishcloth.

Here is a close-up of the teapot design. I thought it came out cute!

She is also into angels. I made her an angel dishcloth that can be hung on the faucet to dry.

Here is a close up of the hanger on the dishcloth.

I also made her a praying hands dishcloth.

Here is a close up of the stitches that make the hands stand out.

I also made her some plain dishcloths because I knew that she wouldn't use the fancy ones!

I also made her some potholders. One can never have too many potholders.

Here is a closeup of one of the potholders.

Here is a patriotic dishcloth that I made and a support the troops dishcloth. I am not sure who these are for yet.

I also made some potholders that I am going to donate to the United Methodist Women at my church. I still want to make more of these for them.

...and I also made a plain crocheted dishcloth.

All of these were either knitted or crocheted with worsted weight cotton yarn.

About time I finally posted something...

I was trying to do this in the order that I completed everything, but then I forgot what I finished first. So here goes the first installment of the completed projects.

I made my first pair of socks.

Not too bad for a first timer! It was such an amazing feeling to actually make socks, I had to make another pair.

...and here they are together.

The orange, pink and yellow socks were made with Sockatta yarn. The blue and green socks were made with Lana Grossa Cotton Fantasy. They were knitted on double pointed needles with the Basic Sock pattern from Yankee Knitter.

Wow...I haven't been here in a while

Just thought I should update all of you that are still readng this. Mugger has recovered just fine. His hair is almost completely grown back.

As for me, I have finished a pile of projects...some I have photographed and given away already, some that need to be photographed, and an even bigger pile that need to have all of the finishing work done to them. Just as a warning...I have become addicted to making dishcloths.

Also, I have 2 pairs of socks to photograph and get up here too!! So much stuff to get done and so little time.

Mugger had his surgery

Just thought that I would update everyone. He had his surgery Tuesday. I have some before and after photos. I will warn you, the saved head and stitches are a little shocking.

This is Mugger's bump on the head before...

and this is what he looks like now...

This is what the bump on his tongue looked like...

Close up...

I haven't been able to get an after photo of the tongue yet. He hasn't been panting long enough for me to get out the camera and get a photo of it. I will tell you that the spot where the bump on the tongue used to be is pink.

He is doing pretty good. He sleeps a lot (like he always did). He got up and greeted a customer yesterday for the first time at about 3-4pm. He can't have crunchy food yet (which means no cookies), and he can't eat grass for a while (he loves grass - especially the broad leaf kind - it is sweeter). He gets his stitches out on June 18. He has only worn the cone head collar once and that was when we brought him home. He will probably have to wear it again when the hair starts to grow back and he will be itchy.