Saturday, May 24, 2014

Crafting book reviews!

ABOUT THE BOOK -
These sweet and sassy baby hats will bring a smile to your face! 25 adorable patterns for every celebration of the year: Birthday Cupcake Cap, Halloween Hat, Holly Holiday Hat, Baby Chick Cap, Crystal Party Hat, Firecracker Topper, Leaf Peeper Cap, and more.

MY REVIEW -
Adorable! These hats are so stinkin cute!
The directions seem real good and clear, easy to follow. I can't wait to try some of these. Nice of nice pictures too!
I will have to warn the daughter and son-in-law that their future babies will have tons of insanely cute hats to wear! :-)


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ABOUT THE BOOK -
From the sweet, simple primer on techniques (working with wool fabrics, hand-stitching, machine sewing, and quilting) to each individual project’s detailed instructions (with tips on cutting, pressing, top-stitching, hand-tying, and more) Susan’s passion for sewing shines through. Each project is rated from 1 sheep to 3 sheep, according to difficulty, and there are helpful box-feature guides throughout—helpful advice for everything from substituting fabrics to matching plaids to fabric care. On every page, readers will discover just how gratifying sewing can be.

MY REVIEW -
This is a real nice book with some great ideas - All using Pendleton wool. The directions seem simple and easy to follow even if you are a biginner, with lots of  nice full color pictures! I haven't dragged my sewing machine out in a long time. This book just might be enough to make me do it!
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ABOUT THE BOOK -
Sticky Fingers is a vibrant, easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to creating amazing projects with the hottest crafting material on the market today duct tape! The book includes tons of photographs alongside directions designed to make creating a wallet and making a bag even easier, while also providing a steady stream of ideas for personalizing and embellishing your duct tape creations. Each project includes icons showing difficulty level and project time, as well as helpful hints, such as how to keep your scissors clean and what to do with end pieces. So grab a roll of duct tape, pick a project, and get started!

MY REVIEW -
Just what I was looking for! Seriously! I was givin a real cute roll of Hello Kitty tape and didn't know what to do with it. I knew there were books like this out there but had never actually looked at one.
This one is excellent! Lots of real great and even practical ideas with great directions! Lots of full color pictures used with step-by-step instructions.
This book is enough to get me to buy up a bunch of Duct tape and Tape my world!

Monday, May 19, 2014

Moving and knitting

Well I don't have hardly any followers or viewers and I think most of you probably know by now that my husband and I are moving.
If you are a silent blog viewer and do not know this - My husband and I are moving! LOL

We have lived in this house in upstate NY for just over 18 yrs.
There is now a "for sale" sign in our yard!

Why? you might ask... The hubby has been working in PA for a large transportation company for about 4 yrs. He was "on the road" most of the time, on location, staying in motels. So it didn't really matter where we lived, he was never home anyway.
Recently he got a promotion and now has an office job (kind of a middle mang. position) so this means he is home every night in his apt in PA and I am home every night here in NY. It just doesn't make sense. So we decided it was time to finally make the move.
Hopefully by the end of summer we will be moving into our new home in central PA.

I have already started sorting and packing.
And believe it or not I have packed my yarn! Gasp! I know!

I did keep out enough for a few summer projects.
I am still working on my tank, which alone should take me the rest of the summer.



And I am once again working on this "sockie blankie" that I started forever ago! It is made out of all scrap sock yarn! Here is the link for the pattern - HERE




And I kept out needles and yarn for a pair of socks.

That should be enough to keep me busy before we move.
I will keep you updated.
And please - pray that we get an offer on our house soon!