Archive for February, 2012

• Would you give up food for 30 hours so someone else could eat?

  Date: 2012.02.22 | Category: Charity, Kids, Life With Faith | Response: 2

  This weekend my husband and two oldest kids are going to to just that! For 30 hours they will not eat, and will be learning about the plight of the hungry around the world.

  They are looking for sponsors for this 30 Hour Famine..

  Here’s what they said about what they are doing:

  We are really excited for this event! Last year we did the same thing, and it was such a touching event, most of the videos and the facts made us mad at the world! Like one, “To satisfy the world’s sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.”

  That is just horrible! TO think we could stand a year without perfume, but nobody does, they don’t usually think that the food they just threw out was something that someone in Africa could easily benefit from.

  Our youth group is trying to raise enough this year so that three children can eat for a year, all that from us going without food for only thirty hours. Please help if you can!

  To sponsor Azia please  click here
  

  To sponsor Jaxom  please click here

  To sponsor Brian Click Here!! *he really needs sponsors to catch up with the kids!!

  If you want to learn a little more about the 30 Hour Famine first, please click here.

  And thanks to Isela I can sweeten the pot!! If you sponsor either one of my kiddos she is willing to throw in a free pattern from her pattern shop, or you could pick one from mine as well.(just click on the pattern gallery link above!) This offer good now till Sunday!!

  Please leave a comment on this post letting me know you donated, I will verify, and then send you the details on how to get your free pattern!

• Finished Friday: Not a Katniss Hat

  Date: 2012.02.17 | Category: Finished Object Friday, Knitting With Needles, Knitting Without Needles, Patterns | Response: 1

  I have been reading The Hunger Games series along with my two oldest children. The books are quite good, I am through them all. We are all looking forward to going to the movie as well.

  Last week Azia and I went to the book store to get the 2nd and 3rd books for her for her birthday. While we were there we looked through the illustrated movie guide book. While thumbing through it I saw a photo of the actress who plays the main character, Katniss, in a really nice knitted blue cloche. I thought COOL! I am going to knit a Katniss hat so I can wear it to the premier of the movie and be the coolest mom ever..

  So I looked at the photo, made a quick analysis of the hat design, pretty simple looks like it’s made with Lion Brand Homespun, yeah I can to it! Our next stop was JoAnn’ Fabrics of course (hey don’t look at me that way we WERE going there anyway! Azia wanted some zebra stripe fabric!) So I picked up two skeins of the proper color (it was on sale AND I had a coupon!) and took it home.

  I sat down and figured out an initial pattern plan, and started knitting.

  I wanted to verify a detail on the photo of the hat so I went online to see if I could find it.

  I did.

  

   

  My excitement deflated like a popped balloon when I realized the photo was not a picture of the actress as Katniss.. NOPE! It was her in her role in the movie Winter’s Bone (also an excellent film, though a little dark)

  Well DRATS!

  I dropped that hat like a hot potato and didn’t pick it up for days, nearly a week in fact. But then I decided to pick it up again and finish it.

  Here is is:

  

  Waddya think?

   

  I am going to finalize the pattern for needles next week, and also work on a loom knit version.

  Once the pattern is up for sale I will be using $1 from each sale to go to Art Feeds. This is an organization based in Joplin, Misouri that helps kids through art. They were there both before and after the tornado and even after when they lost everything as well. there picked up, carried on and helped in the way they knew best by using art for the kids to work through what happened to them.

  Having seen the destruction first hand, I have been looking for a way to help out.

  The rest of the sale will go toward me attending a training session for Brethren Children’s Disaster Services.

  I think this is fitting because both Winter’s Bone,(which took place in Missouri) and The Hunger Games are stories about kids who by their circumstances have lost much but persevered, and made their lives better, but in real life no kid should have to do that on their own. So I’d like to help.

  So please look for the patterns next week. I hope to have details about the charity when I find it, and help me make a difference!

• Wordless Wednesday: My New Book, Coming to a JoAnn’s Near You!

  Date: 2012.02.15 | Category: Loom Knitting books, Wednesday Without Words | Response: 1

  

• Blog? What Blog?

  Date: 2012.02.06 | Category: Knitting Without Needles | Response: 1

  After being SICK for two weeks, getting through the holidays, and then completely revamping my computer, I think I might just make it back to blogging!

  I have some projects going on, and some stuff I have finished, so I have things to talk about!

  Stay tuned!!