Ooooooh! I’m in love with these Evelyn Clark “Bathtime Blossoms” patterns. I’m not sure that I would want anyone to wash their hiney with them, as they are a little more work and a LOT more concentration than lots of OTHER patterns that could be used for such purposes, but who am I to judge if someone wants to pamper their hiney!?! I used Paton’s Bumblebee Baby Sport yarn and size 3 needles, and they are just SO pretty! There is a third one in the set, and also 3 soap sacks, but I haven’t gotten around to those just yet!
My new trick for knitting cloths with baby sport cotton on size 3 needles is to pull out the ole double points, put some point protectors on the ends (ummmmm, only put a point protector on ONE end of each needle :oP)…and knit away to your hearts’ content with nice short needles…a LOT less strain!!!! Now, of course this won’t work if you have a LOT of stitches – but these cloths are worked in short rows and have only 25-30 stitches or so at any one given time on the needles :o)
There are a lot of things about moving that really SUCK! But, we’re military – so we are “used” to it- and as a matter of fact almost embrace this way of life. Like…now, we’ll be leaving sunny southern California – for a nice little island in Japan called Okinawa. It's beautiful there, and LOTS of cool things to do - and they even have really cool yarn stores!!! And besides - I bet Clover knitting supplies are cheaper over there - without all those cute little taxes they put on all imported goods!
But, I digress! Besides doing the normal “decluttering” that every military spouse must do before that BIG MOVE – I’ve been 
thinking a LOT about what colors I want in which rooms! (A lot of thinking that has only turned into ONE good solid decision, but I have plenty of time - we'll be leaving sometime in the summer!)I’ve decided that OUR bathroom MUST be the colors of Sugar N Cream “Landscape” yarn. Not sure why exactly – I just know I have fallen in love with these colors! So, over the past few days, I’ve knitted a BUNCH of cloths for our new bathroom :o) TEN to be exact – well, I KNITTED 11, but the one in ecru doesn’t match, so I didn’t count it, poor thing!
Do any of you ever see colors in a ball of yarn, and absolutely fall in love with them, even if they weren’t colors you ever even thought TWICE about before?!? Something about the light green, white, and tan just seems so CALMING to me – and nope, I never even KNEW I liked those colors together ha! So anyway – here are the cloths…..some of them are from copyrighted books so I can’t share the patterns, but I’ll be more than happy to tell you WHERE they came from! :o) PLUS, some of them are from online sources..so those I CAN pass the URL along to you in case you don't already have it!
I was having serious troubles with this cloth – I know how to pick up stitches, but I couldn't figure out WHICH sides I was supposed to pick the stitches UP from, and therefore my diagonal lines were forming an "X:" where the designer had them all going in the correct direction! It turned out that I was just over-analyzing the situation, and with the helpful hints and “you can do it”s from my online friends – I finally got it done! I’ll post the specifics later on, but for now – you can see what mine looks like and here's the URL for you so you can make your own! I think this will be a really cool way to use up those bits and pieces of cotton yarn that I've always made scrunchies or "ugly" cloths from!!http://www.keyway.net/crafts/shesser.html
Hmmmmm…..Happy New Year everyone! I have so much to say – and NO clue where to start. SO – I’ll start in “order” – with little snippets of things that have happened in my life recently – thank heavens they’re mostly FUNNY or SILLY – nothing painful or expensive! (yet – having said that out loud, I’m sure SOME new bill or illness will strike me!)I went to Wal*Mart in the middle of December, mainly to purchase some fabrics to make some Christmas-y stuff. I still have the fabric…the Christmas-y stuff never happened – maybe THIS Christmas! Well! I had such a pleasant experience back in the fabric department – the gal and I joked, laughed, talked about kids, hubbies, knitting…and had a GOOD ole time! I was happy to see that FINALLY our local Wal*Mart had hired someone in the fabric department who knew what she was both DOING and TALKING ABOUT! WOOHOO!After standing in the checkout line for 15 minutes, while watching CSMs chat merrily about their antics with their men the night before (don’t be shocked – normal fare here at my Wal*Mart!), and listening to the cashiers on duty whining about not having had their breaks yet …I get to the register. Plop down all my Christmas-y fabrics (and the HUGE wad of pink and olive green sweatpants material that I just HAD to buy because it was only $1.00 a yard!)…..and man my stations. That means I run to the other end of the register so I can read the display as things are scanned – I can’t TELL you how many times I’ve saved a few cents by doing this! (“Nuuuuu-uuuuuuuuunh!!! It’s priced $8.94 NOT $8.97!!!” HA! Gotcha! Sticking it to the man!!!)But, this time I saw a price go by, that didn’t look quite right to me – it looked like five hundred something – but I just knew that wasn’t right! Neither hubby NOR the checkbook would allow THAT sort of purchase – and besides – I don’t think there is anything in 
Wal*Mart that I would WANT to buy 500 bucks’ worth!But – the cashier rang it all up, turned to me and chirped – yes, CHIRPED!: “$648.66 please!”……the cents’ part may not be totally correct – my ears stopped at the “648” part! I look at her incredulously (translation: like she was an IDIOT!) and said "648.66". Statement. NOT question. Total disbelief. She looked at her display again and said – “mmmmmmmhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm!?!” I said – “there is NO way – this is Wal*Mart, and I have two bags of fabric – there is NO way!” She just looked at me. “Do you want me to call a CSM over?” she asked finally when she sensed she was losing the stare down.WELL DUH and KISS MY GRITS – hell YEAH I wanna CSM – I want ole Sam himself to come over here and tell me how to fit 650 bucks worth of crap into 2 Wal*Mart bags!!!So, the CSM came over, and I explained to her, that one of the fabric tickets rang up at 500 and something – and now I had TWO of them looking at me with blank stares…O M G…..I swear my IQ drops 53 points every time I walk into that door! (I must add a disclaimer: I like Wal*Mart, and I know that people make mistakes. I am not in any way picking on Wal*Mart (the corporation) nor it’s employees (most of them are pretty decent folks, and most of them can understand what I am saying to them!) But this gal didn’t understand what I was saying, she called over a CSM who then started speaking in rapid Spanish – and I’m not fluent in Spanish, but the gist of the conversation was this: “She bought a lot of stuff and she likes cream corn in her handsome beer”.OK – I didn’t have a clue what they were saying – but I know that a THIRD person came over, and HE, yes HE – fixed it for me – they voided the whole transaction, and then rang solely from the fabric tickets they had in the drawer. Which made me a lot RICHER in fabric that day – for only about $20…..because they missed SOME stuff! (I may not be a genius – but $648.66 minus $510.24 still equals $138 and some change – and this isn’t with the erroneous ticket corrected) When I told them they were WAY undercharging me, they just smiled and said “It’s ok, Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!” . I think they were getting a little tired of me by that time LMAO! I wasn’t mean by ANY means, but it sure irks me when there is a problem, I can see the problem, THEY can see the problem, and instead of correcting the problem – they have to call 6 OTHER people to TELL them about the problem – stop TELLING people about the danged problem – FIX IT!!! :oPBut I survived, my checkbook survived, and I’m sure the employees involved in the little fiasco all got promotions and a raise and maybe even a Mexican cruise!!! (that’s how we do things in southern Cali)
