Today's Looming

Today was the start of the Christmas Ornament's class in the yahoo group "Loom Class". Here is a picture of the ornaments I've completed today. The bell was from a previous class but I didn't have the flower loom until this past Friday so I couldn't do the bell.

I hope you enjoy seeing what I made and if you're interested in doing these you can either join the Loom Class here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LoomClass/ or you can go to Brenda Myer's blog and find them for free as well at: http://loomlady.blogspot.com/.

Loom Knit Baby Bunting / Cocoon!

This is a sample of the baby bunting / baby cocoon I created today in between knitting Brenda Myer's Christmas decorations for Loom Class at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LoomClass/. You can find the pattern on the right.

The one above was created for a 4 inch doll on the blue kk round loom.

I hope someone will enjoy it and find it useful.

hugs,
Cindy

Yeah!!!

I talked my hubby into taking me to Michigan yesterday! I went to the Joann's on Eureka Road and came home with the KK Flower Loom, the KK Spool Knitter, KK loom clips and some RR Symphony yarn (I wasn't going to get more yarn but who can turn down $1.00 each for 100 gram ball).

Now I can make Brenda Myer's Christmas decorations. I can hardly wait. I want to make some for all our family members.

Today I bought the yarn for them at my local Walmart as well as all kinds of little things to dress them up.

I just finished another shawl on my yellow KK round loom, but as it is a Christmas gift I can not post a picture.

Just wanted to share my excitement. I am off to create something on my new looms!

Blessings,
Cindy

Looming Madness

The looming bug has a really good hold on me. I've been working on the looms for several months now and I just seem to keep pumping stuff out. I'm really going to have to put my camera to work soon so I can get pics of everything I've created so far.

I recently created a ski mask for my son, but there were a few issues with it so I think once my Christmas knitting is done I will work those issues out and make a pattern for it for others to use. I'm pretty sure I am not the only one who gets requests for these cold weather items.

Since it seems Michaels in Canada doesn't like to bring in too many knitting looms, I created my own flower loom using the basic idea from Pam's blog: http://pamscraftsprojects.blogspot.com/ , she has some really creative ideas on how to make your own small looms. My version of the flower loom only cost around $3.00. I bought a roll of packing tape at the dollar store and I got 12 large cotter pins. Since my cotter pins were so big I couldn't hammer them into my packing tape like Pam did so I marked out where I wanted my pins to go then I used some masking tape to tape them to the packing tape. I'll be able to recycle this one day after I go to the USA and get myself a real flower loom but for now it is working pretty good as long as I am careful not to wrap too tight.

I am also working on making myself a small guage adjustable knitting board, hopefully I will have all my materials together soon. I got some wood yesterday, but I seem to be having issues find cotter pins in any great supply so when I go past a hardware store I've been stopping in and buying the ones that I can, so far I've gone to 4 different ones so I am starting to run out of options - there are still 2 more to try locally. If I can't get them there I will have to try Windsor.

**Update on Medical Condition: The anti-inflamatories didn't do one darn thing so I get to go see Dr. Gruneir now. My family doctor believes this mass is pulling down on my internal organs and that is what is causing me so much pain.

All I can say is this is rediculous - I have been having severe pain for the past 6 weeks, all I want is to get this fixed. I refuse to live like this much longer. My next dr's appointment is next Tuesday with the new doctor, hopefully this will get things moving along to get this fixed.

Not a Kidney problem!

Well I guess I am not having a kidney problem, my doctor thinks I may have had a kidney stone that caused some swelling, but my ultrasound results say that there isn't one now. So I am now on some anti-inflammatory.

So far I've been on these new med since last Tuesday and I am still experiencing back pain, not as bad as before but still bad enough. The ultrasound did show a fibrous mass that may be causing this issue. I go back to see the doctor in November and if things have not improved he will be sending me to see someone else so we can figure out what to do about the mass they discovered and decide if it is the root of all this evil. (lol)

On another note I am continuing working on my loom knit Christmas gifts. I'd take a pic but I don't want to ruin the surprise for anyone so I will wait to post pics until after the gifts have been given.

Getting Older

No one told me that getting older would be such a pain. Sometimes I wish I could go back to being 30 again.

For some reason since I turned 40 my body had decided to turn against me. First I started pulling muscles in my shoulder and my neck causing migraine headaches to appear for days at a time and now I am having severe troubles with my left kidney, been on medications for 3 weeks now with no ease of the pain in my back.

On the up side my kids are growing up and I am able to go with my husband more often. He's a truck driver and travels from Ontario here to various East Coast locations in the U.S.A., mostly New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and sometimes Massachusetts.

I have 3 great kids, Cassie who is 19 years old, Tiffany who is 15 years old and Dustin who will be 14 in January. Of course they have their days when I don't think they are so great, but then one of them will say something that lets me know they are.

For instance my daughter Tiffany came home from school on Wednesday and said, "Mom if you need a new kidney you can have one of mine. I've thought about it all day and if you need it, it's yours." I was almost in tears.

Okay so now that I have my own blog I just need to try to figure out how to upload pictures and try to remember to post, lol. If anyone has any suggestions on how to find the time to post regularly feel free to send them over!