Knitting Dishclothes

Earlier in my youth I taught myself the basics of knitting but then got married, had kids and the knitting was left in the basket.

A few years ago, I started knitting again when I came across some hand knit dishclothes. I love the idea of using something I make in basic ways such as in doing dishes with these clothes. The dishclothes themselves are small enough that they knit up in a small amount of time. This menopausal brain sometimes has a hard time concentrating on any one thing for long periods of time right now unfortunately.

I like to try and learn new stitches also and this is a great way to practice them. To get ideas for stitches I have enjoyed using Barbara G. Walker's, Treasury of Knitting books. She has four of them in print but the two I seem to keep going back to are the first Treasury of Knitting Patterns and also her Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns.

Here you can see just a few of the dishclothes I have knitted.

Someone once shared a great tip for which I will be forever grateful. As small as they are, I rarely get the time to sit down and knit a complete cloth in one sitting. I work on each one just a bit at a time. The tip was to use a post it note to keep your line place in the knitting pattern you are using. This works wonderfully for me.

The dishcloth in the pictures is the one I am currently working on and is made using the stitch Banded Crescent Pattern on page 110 of Walker's Treasury of Knitting Patterns.

Change in career path

There has been evidence around the house lately that Josh's choice of careers may be changing... again.

When he was young he wanted to be a marine biologist.

Then he decided he wanted to be an historian or college history professor or both.

Next he thought he might like to try his hand at being an architect.

Back to the historian/history college professor.... and now he has left a path of these books around....

I'm thinking he may be on the path of the architect again!

A visitor

Josh spied this little lady (a female black-chinned hummingbird) in our front yard tree this afternoon.

A first post... again

A time for new beginnings.

I have been absent from my old blog because of so much of life happening...sometimes good, sometimes not so good.... unfortunately, lately, more of the not so good. I was also having a hard time trying to arrange and rearrange my old blog as I wanted to. The set up was just a bit too complicated for this non-savy computer gal and when the kids, who are the savy ones, aren't around, which hey that happens a lot nowadays .... well, just suffice to say that it is not a pretty sight.... the computer and me that is.

Hence, a new start back here in a new blog. They have added a few new things and have made it easier to have a little fun too since I was last here.

Hopefully I can get on here fairly regularly and share just a bit of the goin' ons of the chaos that is daily life here in our house "on the avenue". When I was setting up the blog, I had a heck of a time coming up with a blog title. I really am not good at the clever and quirky title/username/password thing. I knew that I wanted it to reflect what goes on here in our lives. In every house I have ever lived in, those houses resided on avenues, not streets or boulevards or even roads, just good ole' avenue. The dictionary defines avenue as .... "any roadway of approach, passageway or means of access." Aha! Yes, exactly! That's what I envisioned for this blog. It would be a means of access into our lives for friends, family, and hopefully for an occassional visitor or two. Our lives include homeschooling, public schooling, college, work, and living and loving as a family.

The door is always open....