Dyeing Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool!

Oh My Gosh! I had a BLAST doing all this! 4 weeks ago I took a whole day and half to wrap the whole skein of Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool on my ironing board legs upside down in a figure 8 and then tied it off with some acrylic yarns. Between Life and other things I didn't get around to getting them dyed until yesterday. Enjoy the Photos! I know I'll make something scrumptious with the yarn when I get around to it!

Now the Particulars:

14 Lemonade Packets

7 Orange Packets

7 Lemon Lime Packets

2 Watermelon Kiwi with 4 Cherry Packets

Made up the Koolaid Packets in the 2qt jars 2 hours ahead of time

Soaked the Yarn for 1.5 hours.

Put Yarns into Jars and covered with Saran Wrap to keep the yarn from drying out.

Poured water between jars in waterbath canner

Turned on stove and kept at Medium 1 hour, then down to Low for another 2.5 hours. Total hours cooked 3.5 hours.

Turned off stove and left in jars to cool overnight putting a square pyrex glass lid on top of saran wrap to keep moisture in.

Carefully took out this morning, put in plastic tub and then transferred to kitchen sink and rinsed out carefully. No colors leached out other than the milky white residue left from the yellow lemonade. Put in towel and carefully pressed all water out as much as possible with hands, then took to bathroom stepped on it carefully to get more water out and hung to dry on shower head.

Judith's Shawl

Its finished! Started June 17th, Finished July 5th. I love it, nice and soft, drapes well and will keep her warm this winter.

My Best friend Judith is turning 65 later this month and I felt she deserved something spectacular to celebrate that milestone. So I made her a shawl in Vanna's Choice Denium Mist and Seaspray Mist.

Enjoy!

Happy 4th of July!

May Your day be full of Fun and Blessings!!

I am heading to church in a while and we are having icecream sandwiches after church then I'll come home, have a wee bit of lunch and bike over with some snacks to the park where I hope to see my daughter, son in law and grandson Jamie. They are having some fun stuff going on at the park. Then later tonight I'll be at my folks house watching the fireworks from their back porch.

Changing Colors & Drawing in Yarn Tails As You Go

This is a Fabulous YouTube of how to do it and less messy. I'm definitely gonna adopt this!

Changing Colors & Drawing in Yarn Tails as you Go

Golden "50th" Anniversary to my Parents

This photo is of my children and grandchildren. My youngest is Layna and her husband Mike with grandson Jamie. My oldest is Bekah with her husband Jon and their 4 Abby, Ben, Sam and Judah (by age). I am in there as well behind Abby and Ben :D

The Cake

Cutting the cake

Dad eating his bite

Mom eating her bite

Happy 50th Anniversary Mom & Dad!

It was a WONDERFUL Celebration! We had unexpected family come and even friends we hadn't seen in over 18 years (for my folks) and 14 years for me. It was Wonderful! We even had plenty of food left over. My sister and her girls plus me and even both parents pitched in a wee bit...got everything ready for when people started showing up for the open house. My Oldest daughter Rebekah and her family came and she went and got her little sister and her family so my girls and their families were there as well as my 5 grandchildren. They were the only great grandchildren of Dad and Mom's 8 greats that were there to celebrate! I hope my parents get another 30 years with us at least Lord Willing!

Happy Father's Day!!!

To my Dad first of all: You are the MAN in my life other than my Lord Jesus!

To my Sons in Law: Jon and Mike...Thank you for your love for my daughters and your wonderful job in raising my grandchildren! May the Lord bless you both!

To my grandsons: Ben, Sam, Judah and JJ...May you all grow in the Grace of Jesus and learn good lessons from your dads!

Breakfast Baked Oatmeal

Well I couldn't get the pictures to post so I'm giving you a link to my Picasa Album :)

I'm so sorry I haven't been around lately...its been a BUSY week! Anyhow, I thought you'd like this recipe. Its one of my favorites but I haven't made it up for a few years. So I made me a batch yesterday for my breakfast...Man was it ever SOOOOO Goooood!

Breakfast Baked Oatmeal
1/2 c. melted butter (or margarine)
1 c. milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 c. brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon ( I used 1 tsp)
3 c. Oatmeal (I used quick cooking oats)

Mix together and cook at 350 deg. for 45 minutes.

You can also add: apple bits, raisins, dried fruits (any), coconut, chopped nuts, chocolate chips etc. This serves 10. It can also be frozen in single serving sizes if you wish.

For me: I added 1 cup coconut, 1 cup choc chips, 2 cups dried cranberries and 1 cup walnuts chopped. Yummies!