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Up a river with many paddles!

Posted on July 30, 2006 by kokomeau

Last Friday found us on the beautiful Jordan River where a dozen hearty souls enjoyed kayaking and canoeing on one of the hottest days of the year. It may have been in the 90’s, but we were cool and comfortable making our way down the very cold river. Some of the guys went ahead (the boys had to reconnoiter their ambush spots — poor Meg) while we women took our time enjoying the peace and quiet of a wonderful day.

Thanks, Sarah, for arranging such a great afternoon!

Here’s a few “action shots” from our adventure: Album.

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CALLING ALL BABY CINDERELLAS!

Posted on July 23, 2006 by kokomeau

I’m totally enjoying this pattern and am so glad I bought it. I’m having a blast trying different yarns and seeing how they felt. I’m trying to figure out a way to make them look more MALE. And I’ve added little snaps to the straps instead of the buttons suggested because there’s no way I could sew on tiny buttons AND an elastic to go around it. No, unh-unh!Now I have to find some baby feet to fill them! Luckily, in my very large family, there’s always a baby! WooHoooo!!!!

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I’ve found a rut, and I’m staying in it!

Posted on July 22, 2006 by kokomeau

Things are quiet in the ol’ town right now. We just finished with Alpenfest, our town’s annual week-long festival. It was hotter ‘n blazes — well into the 90’s and sunny, sunny, sunny. Who’d figure back in the throes of winter we’d all be complaining about the heat a few months down the road. There’s just no pleasing Michiganders.

OS*1 and bride are settling into life as Okie’s. He’s started his new job, she’s busy getting her bidness off the ground, and we’re looking forward to our first visit there come fall. OS2 will start her second job in about a week and then fall classes will begin shortly. We’ll see her next weekend when she comes to march in a parade in support of a friend running for re-election. OS3 is busy busy busy doing — what, I’m not sure. Well, he works, he plays, and he listens to his scanner to keep current on the pulse of this fine ~~metropolis~~ town. The SU* is off flying the unfriendly skies over the Middle East making sure our boys in blue and brown and camo get all the mail we can send. Me — I’m holding down the fort, as it were, cleaning up after bloody cat fights, tripping over a doting dog, and making sure there’s something and someone for everyone to come home to. And I’m NOT leaving my rut.

*OS=Offspring
*SU=Spousal Unit

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FAVORITE HAT PATTERN

Posted on July 20, 2006 by kokomeau

I think this Blanche hat is my favorite hat pattern to make. It’s only slightly brainless knitting, which makes it a great project to take places where you only have to minimally think about what you’re doing. It seems to work great with whatever yarn you choose to use, and it comes out looking like you really did something creative! It’s a wonderful pattern! Thanks, Janelle!(And it SO works on this little bear, dudn’t?)

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LOVE IT — HATE IT

Posted on July 17, 2006 by kokomeau

unfinished sock

Love this toe-up sock from Knitty.

And I REALLY like the little picot edging. Don’t know how I did it ‘cept followedthe directions,but it sure did come out cutsie and all.

But I majorly screwed up the gusset area. Not sure exactly what I did wrong, but its mate will be done differently, nodoubtaboutit.

Click to see kayaking album!

Image• Posted on July 9, 2006 by kokomeau

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AREN’T THESE GREAT?!?

Posted on June 24, 2006 by kokomeau

Well, these have to be the cutest little bootie-shoes I ever did see! I found them on someone else’s blog along with the pattern, and now I can’t find that blog! DOH! Anyway, I wanted to see how they’d knit up with this RED HEART KIDS YARN. I put little red heart buttons on because that’s all I could find, but with a blue or green button, they could be for both boy babies AND girl babies. And they were fun to make in an evening. Well, they were fun after I made the first one and figured out how to read the pattern correctly. But I’ll definitely do these again! Thanks to whoever that was that had them on their blog!

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SATURDAY MORNING SnB

Posted on June 17, 2006 by kokomeau

Here are some of the gals who keep me knittin’ pretty. We meet every Saturday morning at the local coffee house from about 9:00 to noon (or however long we can convince ourselves to stay). We’re all at different levels of knitting, with Caryn being our ‘local expert’ (though she’d beg to differ). I’m on the left, then Caryn, Anita (we like to call her “Aknita”), my sister Molly (who, though a school teacher, refuses to learn to read a pattern), and Brooke (who told us today she PREGGERS!). The only one missing is Kay. I’ll catch her next time, though.