a week at gramma & grandpa's

and our favorite time

No knitting has been done this week. It has been all play time!

But I did manage to get the mate done for this pair on our way to pick up the grandkids.

I wasn't sure that I liked the green in these socks but now that they are done, I do like them!

Busy Weekend part 1

Thursday...

 

 Friday...

Entrelac Hat Trick

In January, I blogged a few knitting plans. I am happy to report I have now accomplished one! (The others I am still working on)

Entrelac was the new technique I had chosen to learn this year. I bought the book,  Entree to Entrelac: the Definitive Guide From a Biased Knitter by Gwen Bortner. Having previously taken a class by Gwen, I knew I could teach myself entrelac using her book. She is a great instructor and her book has lots of wonderful pictures and lots of details.

But...after receiving the newsletter from the Tinsmith's Wife, and seeing they were offering an entrelac class  taught by  Gwen Bortner, I had to sign up!  What better way to learn a new technique than to have the queen of entrelac teach you?!!

It was a great two day class filled with knitting and learning about Entrelac (French word for interlaced). We learned  the basic components of entrelac, shaping in entrelac, using different stitch patterns in entrelac, and using different colors in an entrelac unit.

Gwen is a great teacher and after a full day of cramming new information into our tiny brains, she said ...

I am happy to say most of us finished our hats by the end of class... (another picture on Gwen's blog) ...

... I had to finish the braided ties and weave in all the ends... but here is a finished hat! in entrelac!!

AND Wait!!! there's more...
...not only did I have a wonderful weekend knitting and meeting new friends, but my best friend and soul mate went with me. While I was knitting away, he went exploring. After class on Friday, he took me to beautiful park he found.

We ate dinner Guenther's Biergarten Grill. I had the best sweet potato fries I have ever!!

You couldn't ask for a better weekend!

The Sun?!

After two weeks of rain, everything is green again. Our grass is in need of cutting and it hasn't even been a week since the last cut!! The parks are beautiful and the trees have enjoyed the rain.

Today the sun is out and the temperatures are once again climbing into the 90s. All this rain is a bit unusual for us for this time of year. Usually it is HOT with temperatures in the 100s (I hear the east coast is getting hit the hot and steamy weather).

I enjoyed the past two weeks of 80 degree temperatures BUT I seem to have caught a cold. I thought it was allergies but with the rain, there is no pollen. So it must be a cold. It's hard to knit with watery eyes and sniffling all the time. So no new finished projects to show today... maybe next week.

Fun with the grandkids

The grandkids came for a visit and of course we took them to the park for some fun.


When they wanted to ride the teeter toter, mommy and gramma helped!


Even grandpa got into the swing of it...


He was having fun making faces while I was trying to get a nice picture...


and
She was wore out ...


We had a nice visit and we'll get to see them again next weekend!