Happy Easter!

Hi!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!  Mine was very relaxing!

Okay, I know this is a knitting blog, but I have to share with you what I did last week....my first attempt at a homemade apple pie.....okay, maybe not 100% homemade because I bought the pillsbury pie crust....but I cut, peeled, cored, and sliced all the apples and added ingredients.....I was pretty worried because I have not made one before....but Darlene gave me some tips (I keep telling you guys how awesome she is....she does it all!).

She warned me to put foil at the bottom of my oven!

Here is the pie with the top crust on:

Now to add the slits and baste with some butter:

Its cooking

and done!

I do not think I let it cool enough.....when I cut into it....it was still a little 'watery'/'runny', but after it cooled completely, it was not watery at all!

It was pretty good....Jaime really liked it (and all the girls that knit with me at lunch), so I will make it again!

Okay....on to the knitting....I am going to start with some stash enhancements......Darlene had a shop update and I just could not help myself....I had to snag one....or five!

Yes, I love ALL her bags!  I also got a little CoBaSi yarn.....I wanted some yarn to make socks that kinda match my new HUGE purse (it does not match 100%, but works for me)....and I needed to get some green to make socks for Paige.

 Oh.....and I ordered some more DyakCraft needles....I have a full set in purple coming (I ordered that a while back) and I just recently ordered two sets in the nickle....one in 5" and one in 3.5".....so, that means I needed a couple more needle cases for some of my needles...the Big Graces Cases that Darlene got me for my Birthday is going to hold ALL my dyakcraft....but I wanted something for some of my ChiaoGoo and Hiya Hiya....so I ordered a couple more of the small and medium needle holders from Graces Cases (pictures of needles are from www.dyakcraft.com):

I also got some yarn.......I placed an order at www.eatsleepknit.com/ because I wanted to get some of that new madelinetosh twist light.......so I got a few colors....

This is Madelinetosh in Dandelion base:

And to keep from paying shipping......I ordered some of the new Handmaid lotion and an orange tape measure.

And last stash enhancement.....are some of the cutest elephant stitch markers ever.  I got one of these for the Sri Lanka Destination with the Miss Babs Knitting tour....and people liked them so much, they made sets of them.....

Okay.....now....On to the KNITTING!

Remember last week I told you about my friend who asked me to knit her son a Dr. Who Scarf?  I was only 37.95 % done on it....well, I knit like a wild banshee and I did it!  I had to order one more skein of yarn (I ordered Tuesday or Wednesday...and it made it to me Saturday)....and I finished it.  I am about 22 days shy of taking a whole year to knit this......I started last year on April 27th and finished yesterday, April 5th.

Here it is while I am waiting on the mailman to deliver the last skein of charcoal (I only needed 3 more grams):

Here it is blocking:

These area all the ends I had to weave in.....

And here it is finished!  Yahoo!

I am mailing it to her today....along with her left over yarn:

I hope her son really likes it!  While I was waiting on that last bit of Charcoal.....I started a pot holder/trivet thingy....this will be felted for Loopy Academy:

And the only other thing I knitted on is that secret shawl....it is a test knit for a friend, so I cannot share it yet.....sorry!

Well, I did not get to see any of my grand kids yesterday....but my DIL sent me some pics of Alexxis (that is Little Mario in the background with the Texas Hat....I know, he is not so little!), and she also sent me a picture of baby Mario....they are getting so big!

I also got some pictures of Celeste and Cataleya with their cousins..... (Celeste and Cataleya are to the left)

I did not get any pics of Antonio because he was with his Father's family the whole weekend...but I have a picture or two I can still share......

Of course, all of the kiddos got Easter baskets from me!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

It's almost April?

Can you believe that in 2 days it will already be April?  WOW!

I am gonna just jump right into the knitting!

I think I should kinda call last week Sock Week....I worked on socks!

I finished one of my HiyaHiya KAL socks

I worked on my Loopy Academy Socks

And, when Jaime and I went to Hot Rod Night on Saturday....I took my rainbow socks to knit on....these socks have both heels in already (yippee)!

I am really loving my Dyakcraft Heavy Metal needles....so much so that I ordered a second set....they do not put holes in my fingers (that is always a plus)!

I also got some extra stops for them

and some extra stops for my Darn Pretties (and Northern Lights):

I have been cruising the Miss Babs forum on Ravelry and have seen so many awesome pictures of our Destination One shawl (called Ves)...our destination is Sri Lanka!  So.....I had to jump in and get started (you all know I have startitis!).

I also worked a little on my secret project (pretty soon I will not be able to show picture of this one).

I guess from many of the above pictures, you can see I spent a big chunk of the weekend in my Pajamas.....I was tagged on Instagram for #widn (What I'm Doing Now) and that is how the above picture was taken.....I also posted the picture of the rainbow sock being knit at Hot Rod Night on Instagram and Facebook......then I got a message from my friend that I am making the Dr Who Scarf for....I do not blame her for asking about the scarf....and I was embarassed to tell her it was barely 1/2 way done.....see, this is why I should just tell people, "No, I will not knit for you."  But I did not say that (almost a year ago)......and her son's bday is coming up April 18th.....So, I pulled it out of hibernation....and it was only 37.95% done (Yikes).  So I knitted and knitted and knitted on it and I got it to 43.12%......so I did like 5% (and it felt like so much more).

Now I need to update the spreadsheet to see if I can finish it in like 16 -17 days.....wish me luck!

Let me jump into some stash enhancements....Darlene went to the DC/VA area last week for a conference.  She went by Fiber Space in Alexandria and got me some yarn from Neighborhood Fiber Company in the Del Ray color!  I LOVE IT!

I placed an order with Eat, Sleep, Knit for some Cascade....I want to make a sweater for Antonio, and a couple of felted things for the kitchen (in my far future) and then wanted to get some chunky madeline tosh for a Gaptastic Cowl....it will probably be years before I start these....

 One of the ladies that just joined our knitting group at work used to sell scentsy...and she had these cute little scentsy packs in her project bags.....so I had to get some.  I love the way they smell....so fresh!

Well, I think that is all I have for the week.....so I will leave you with some Aunty Acid....and related pictures.

Thankfully I was not on that last list!  LOL!  Happy Happy Happy Knitting!