Camp Gilgal

Its been a busy month. Lots of preparations to get BG ready for camp. But first, we needed to celebrate her birthday a little early. She will celebrate her 9th birthday at camp, too.



Camp Gilgal is sponsered by Jews for Jesus, so BG was very excited to go and see some of her friends from the Ingathering there. This is her first "away from home/ away from me" camp. The leaders are so sweet and take lots of pictures to add to their flickr account so we can see our children enjoying themselves. One of the first activities is for each cabin to make a tribal flag. Here BG is cutting out elements for the flag:



And here is the finished flag:



And here... well... I am not sure exactly what they were doing that required a little war paint... lol.

3rd UFO Finished

Finished another scarf that has been in the works for a few months. This is my version of the TNT scarf. Pardon the picture. It's hard to take a pic of something around your own neck...lol.



Done in Serenity sock yarn with about 1700 or so beads. I thought I might have a problem with binding off, but I cut the yarn with enough beads for the last row and bound off the first 5 stitches, passed the end of the yarn thru as if it were the last stitch, slipped the beads in place, and then continued binding off the next section. Was a lot easier than I was thinking it would be...once I figured it out.

Few bragging rights here. DH's Army Med unit trained this weekend and the local news caught a little of the action.

Starts and Finishes

First let me brag about a (finally) finished. I finished my Queen Anne's Lace shawl that I made with #10 crochet cotton as a tablecloth for my antique oak pedestal table.


MMario's design is beautiful and an easy knit, although with 4 extra repeats of the last several rows, it took quite a while. I started it August 08 and finished May 30, 09. I will say to MMario's defense that I wasn't just working on this project. Babysitting, other knits and general life did not let me put in the time I should have.

Now for a start. A group of us at Ravelry have decided to read the Little House books over the summer with our children and do crafts along those themes. Hopefully I will blog more often with finished crafts that BG and I have done together.

In other knitting news: SOTN: Arch-shaped socks 75% done, MMario's Offler stole 10% done, Ankh socks 20%, 3 scraves at various stages and YarnYenta's Shabbat scarf about 10% along. Hmmm...may need to add a new project?

Nature Center

BG's Brownie troop went to a local nature center last week. Lots of new things for them to see and learn. They got to pet real animal pelts of animals that had died naturally (or hit on the road). Then they drew their own animals with 2 criteria: Where they lived and what they ate. BG drew sort of a cross between a giraffe and a bear. It lives in the woods and eats pine cones...lol.
I snapped a few pics.

Knitting Night

Last night our knitting group met at the Franklin Park Conservatory for a nice stroll and knitting. While the Butterfly exhibit is showing now, most of them were in the windows, too far from my phone camera, looking out at the wide world wondering why they were trapped inside. Instead, I got a few pics of the foliage and a 'surprise' in the desert room. Also pics of the permanent Chihully art. Enjoy!






YES! This really is a chair covered in cacti!

Lightbulb

So, over at the Mended Drum (Ankh=Morpork Knitters Guild - Ravelry), the subject came up and the jokes are being posted. How many (insert noun here) does it take to change a light bulb?
Here's one of my favorites: How many mice does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Only 2.. it's getting them IN the bulb that's the problem.
What's your favorite?