Pillow Talk

I recently took a little break from knitting to tackle pillow making. We needed some accent pillows for the black couch we have and while perusing Joann's, we found some nice, canvas material on sale. The last time I sewed anything was in high school Home-Ec class, but I rememebered most of the basics of the sewing machine (that was gifted to me by Ron's Mom). So after a little online video help (Expert Village), I was ready to go. I'll ultimately end up making a pair of these, but here is the first of the finished pillows...

This past weekend we went to see Cloverfield. We had been meaning to go before this because I didn't want anyone to spoil the plot! All I really knew was that it was filmed on hand-held cameras and that people were getting motion sick! I ended up really liking it. It had a good number of scares and there was one point where I almost jumped out of my seat!

LISTENING TO: KELLY - "Shoes"

I was JUST introduced to Kelly by watching some videos on uTube (linked from Wool Gatherer's blog, thank you!). They were funny enough that shortly thereafter, I ended up heading over to iTunes and downloading the album. It's totally silly, has a good beat and it's a lot of fun! Go get it!

Robbie

Here is a quick post to show Robbie the Robot. I finished him up a few weeks ago for Ron, who collects robots. The pattern for him is from Jess Hutchinson's book "Unusual Toys for you to Knit and Enjoy." He was a lot of fun to knit and didn't take long to do, at all.

Out of the past...

I was lying in bed this morning and it hit me that I used to blog. And not only did I used to blog, but I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed sharing what I was up to with my knitting, what movies I was watching, what music I was listening to and about life in general. I also enjoyed reading about and getting to know and learn from my fellow knitters. So why did I stop? That's a story to come, I guess.
So I'm starting over. It's been close to a year since I've even looked at my pages and I doubt if anyone that used to read this is still linked. But if you are, let me know. And if you've just stumbled across this page for the first time, welcome! Here's to new beginnings!