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Mark your Calendar – Kimberly and Janie Jewelery Boutique – Dec 6.

Posted in Christmas, Events, Friendship, Holiday, Jewelry, Shopping, Treasures, tagged Christmas, Event, Gifts, Holiday, Janie Rose, Jewelry Boutique, Kimberly's Craftini on October 18, 2014| 1 Comment »

untitled (4) Announcing the lovely (now annual) event- Jewelry Boutique featuring Kimberly Ligocki and Janie Rose – at Skein Lane Studio -Saturday, December 6th from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

This is a great chance to stay out of the crowds and shop this event for your jewelry gifts. Kimberly and Janie will be featuring new jewelry. You can visit their Etsy stores – Kimberly’s Craftini and Janie Rose Jewelry to get a sense of the beauty they create. I am a huge fan of their jewelry and several pieces are now in my collection! ♥♥♥

Join us…..it will be fun and you can shop! Need the address? 208 Carmel Ave, El Cerrito, CA …. Phone 510.525.9276

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Ear Muffs

Posted in Christmas, Crafting, knitting, tagged Christmas, Ear Muffs, Gifts, Headbands, Thank you video on January 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »

You might recall that I mentioned that I had four belated Christmas gifts (headband earmuffs) in the making for Idaho nieces and nephew. I cracked the whip one Saturday in early January and I was able to finish and send the gifts. Check out my nephew’s video thank you! I have a couple tips for you in making gifts for those who live long distance. For the two ear muff/headbands on the left I pinned the adornment on so that the girls could remove/change at a moment’s notice. For the one on the right I left a long thread so that my sister or her mother could crochet the correct length for the loop (so that it would fit around the head perfectly).

It was Susanne and Terry who inspired me to knit these muffs. We saw Terry’s version a couple posts back.

Terry wanted warm ears

Model Diane

Mohair over the ears!

Now here is Susanne’s. She says, “Abbi loves having a grandma that can knit!!! We saw one of these in the store, asked grandma to make it & viola!”

Grandma Susanne

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Memories of the Season – Day 12

Posted in Christmas, Family, knitting, tagged Christmas, family, Memories, Santa on December 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Memory: ’twas the night before Christmas. My nieces and nephews were young….14, 12, 5, and 2….something like that. We came home from midnight mass at St Leonard’s in Fremont to my sister’s home. I think my sister and her husband were busy playing Santa behind the scenes. The girls and I were with oldest nephew Michael. He was always full of energy and wasn’t having anything to do with going to bed until I said, “Wait Michael, I hear Santa’s reindeers on the roof. You must go to bed or they won’t stop.” If only I had a camera for that moment. That young boy’s eyes grew bright with delight and fright! He quickly ran off to bed. There is another Christmas memory to share along with this one….a few years later when my youngest nephew was about five I gave him an in-progress knitted vest. That young boy opened the package and said, “I think there has been a mistake Auntie….this looks like your present.” haha

: Santa’s coming!

: Knitting vest for Christmas!

Today’s memory: Oh, this is short and sweet! Have been on the fly today….have more personal creations to share from our knitting circle….but guess what? I am out of time. ’twas the night before Christmas tune just came on! Today’s current memory photo is that of annual family Christmas ice skating gathering….we gather to share and celebrate. Other photos of creativity that are in the line-up will be appearing later this Christmas week.

Some of our family!….ps check out my knitted scarf!!

Merry Christmas and season’s greetings to all.

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Memories of the Season – Day 11

Posted in Ceramics, Christmas, Crafting, knitting, tagged Ceramics, Christmas, family, friendship, Gifts, knitting on December 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Memory: There were two Christmas seasons way back when I was once again “possessed” to knit, knit, knit to meet the Christmas gift deadline. I am sure that many of you can remember/place the timeframe of the afghan. Yes, it was the early 70’s when I decided on Thanksgiving to my knit my grandma Elizabeth an afghan. I calculated how many rows I could knit in an hour, how many days until Christmas, and how many hours I needed to knit a day. I recall that it was at least 2 hours a day and I got it completed two days before Christmas – squeezed in some more late hours on some of those days…thus the early completion. I believe it was the next year I decided to knit matching cable ponchos for my sister, her two girls and myself. I started in July and was finished by Christmas. Alas, I don’t have a photo of those, but I did google and came up with a sample of photo of the style. It was a Vogue knitting pattern…..I am sure it is somewhere in my very large knitting collection, but oh where is that somewhere? Okay for now….visualize….two rectangle pieces knit with cables and bobbles, joined together to create poncho effect, and the resulted opening is filled with a 1 x 1 rib neckline. These ponchos were a fun knit.

Click, click memory of today: Last week I mentioned that Susanne visited us from Chico and she inspired some of to knit ear warmers as presents. (The pattern comes form Ashlee on Ravelry….Susanne used a Nicky Epstein pattern to knit the flowers.) How much fun to see this past Saturday three ear muffs in the works. Nina is knitting one with a thick and thin wool for her granddaughter. Terry finished a different version that looked great on many….well not me…with my “wild” hair I looked like was Phyllis Diller’s look alike! True to form for me I changed the pattern that Susanne used to incorporate some bling and I am half-way done with my version of Terry’s. Note: Terry added mohair in the ear area to create more warmth….quite clever.

Yes….I won’t make the Christmas deadline….but darn close! It will be a special “delivery” for those gifts. This collection of photos includes some of my treasured craft pieces.

p.s. time to start clicking those needles again….so “to press” we go!

Grandma Susanne

Susanne – ear muffs

My grandma made this tree

Nina’s version

Model Diane

Terry wanted warm ears

Mohair over the ears!

Ready for bling and fleece

Half-way there

Gift from Grandma

My ceramic ornaments

Some treasures

One of my ceramic pieces

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Season of Memories – Celebration 2

Posted in Christmas, knitting, tagged celebrations, Christmas, friendships, Kniitting, tis the season on December 15, 2013| 4 Comments »

Memory – the seed was planted early! So many of you have heard me say over the years that my grandma Alta’s love of her quilting communities was a driving force for me. I knew that I wanted our knitting communities to have the same vitality. It’s near the end of another year and time to shout out how blessed I feel that “our” knitting communities have the same character that I remember from my grandmother. Our crafts are wonderful and the binder for such wonderful friendships! Knitting brought us all together! What great friendships!

Celebration Memory for December 14, 2013

Our Saturday morning knitting workshop group (SMKW) celebrated with a potluck brunch. I whipped out Grandma’s party plates for our meal which consisted of egg casserole, baked oatmeal, fruits and cheese, pumpkin pie, ginger bread, chocolates, salt and pepper chips with clam dip, crackers and cheese, and MARGARITAS! What a great way to start the day. The morning was made even better because Susanne, recently moved to Chico, was able to attend. A reunion and a celebration indeed. We missed PJ, Shari and Carole C. Looks like we will need another celebration!

Margarita Toasts

Grandma’s party plates

Margarita Toasts

Diane and Susanne

More food!!

Nina, Katie, Susanne, Terry

Laurel – her first sweater

Susanne -Oregon Vest

Grandma Susanne

Nina, Katie, Susanne, Carolyn

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Memories of the Season – Celebrations

Posted in Christmas, Events, Friendship, knitting, tagged celebrations, Christmas, Cousins, Family Gatherings, friendship, friendships, Holidays, knitting, The Season on December 14, 2013| 2 Comments »

Family Gathering at Grandma and Grandpa’s

Memories: My love of gatherings started when I was young. We cousins would be seated at our card table / dining tables. In this photo, taken in the living room of Grandma and Grandpa’s basement house, there were seven of us cousins and two of our aunts. The age range in Dad’s family is interesting to say the least! One of our aunts was born a couple years before the arrival of the first two grandchildren and our youngest aunt was born in the midst of the next three grandchildren and a couple years before cousin Diane and me .

Memories just created from Friday, December 13, annual celebration. We, the Friday morning knitting workshop (FMKW) group , have celebrated for years and this year our group numbered 17 sans 1 who had dental emergency…we missed Karen K. We dress up, we toast, we eat, we enjoy the years of friendship, we gift special gifts and we “white elephant” gift. Our “white elephant”version allows one to bump once during a round….everyone wanted Jan’s gift choice but it was so beautiful no one wanted to be “mean”…although I really thought about it. The gift that Connie received – a capricorn lobster stuffed with a skein of sock yarn caused much laughter.

We met at a new venue for us this year, Solano Bar and Grill on Solano Ave. There were many things that worked well for our size group….we preordered a few days from a banquet menu, we had a semi-private room which really accommodated the wonderful noise that we create, the service was great….. we all had a great time. Cheers to this wonderful season!

p.s. tried to present photos in order of happenings!

Karen – Handknit sweater jacket

We knit

Wetoast

Party Shoes…on our way to lunch

Ellen – Beautiful scarf

Ellen and Jean

Christmas/Holiday 2013

Janie

Debra’s gift

“Let me enterain you”

Cameron’s gift

Connie’s gift = much glee

Enjoying Connie’s gift

Connie

Ellen

Patricia and Rachell

Patricia

Sheri and Sarah

Sarah, Karen H, Ellen

Karen H

Sheri

Bonnie

Merle and Jan

Cameron and Kimberly

Purple Mohair

Jean

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Memories of the Season – Day 7

Posted in Ceramics, Christmas, Crafting, knitting, tagged Christmas, crafts, friendship, Gifts, Glass Fusion, Memories on December 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Carolyn painted and glazed – a gift that came back to me years later!

Memory: It’s the early 1970’s…..it was a family affair. My mom, grandmother, sister and I spent many sessions at the ceramic shop. We painted Christmas decorations, trees, flower pots, canisters…you name it and we probably painted it.

Last week I took my first Glass Fusion Class.

My glass fusion design

The plate after firing

Some earlier glass postings in 2013:

Jan – Glass Jewelry

Jan’s early work!

Rachell showing her works!

Beautiful infused glass

The bracelet

The details of the bracelet

The lastest from Rachell!

Kimberly’s glass hair clasp

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Memories of the Season – Day 5

Posted in Christmas, Family, Friendship, knitting, tagged Childhood, Christmas, friendship, Glass Fusion, jewelry, knitting, Steeking on December 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Carolyn’s 2nd Christmas

Memories: While I don’t remember my 2nd Christmas I do remember this photo which was in the family photo albums…and is now in my photo collection. I have to smile….my mom loved to decorate the tree but often it was a unique look!

Memories of the Season – Day 4

Posted in Christmas, Family, Friendship, knitting, tagged Christmas, Creativity, friendship, Honolulu, knitting, Navy, Pearl Harbor on December 7, 2013| 3 Comments »

Dad – Navy 1941
(1923-2002)

A memory about Dad: This is one of the times I wish I had asked Dad (who turned 18 in September of 1941) how he spent his 1st Christmas away from home and in war-torn Honolulu. I do remember that he told us he arrived in Honolulu one week after Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was part of the Navy team that helped to rebuild. When we, the family of four, returned from Australia in 1957, we had a layover in Honolulu. Dad showed us a hotel where he helped to rebuild the front plaza area. I think this photo was taken when Dad graduated from Boot Camp in San Diego.

More glimpses into 2013:

Betsy – Gauntlet

Iron chain sheep in Sonara

Debbie – MaggiKnits

Carolyn – Steeking

Nina

Marsha

Kimberly

“Silly” Kimberly!

Debbie prolific afghan knitter

Niece Jade wearing cowl knit by Carolyn

Rosa learned to knit!

Debbie – O’Doyle Wrap

Margot – It’s done!!

Rosa – my office mate

Maurie and PJ

Prayer Shawl Edging

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Memories of the Season – Day 3

Posted in Christmas, Friendship, knitting, tagged Christmas, Creativity, fond memories, friendship, knitting on December 6, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Santa and Carolyn

A Santa Memory: My sister Betty and I have fond memories of visiting Santa in the Capwell’s Window on Telepgraph and 20th Avenues in Oakland. I think Betty was too small for this photo and I kind of remember that she didn’t want to sit on his lap this particular year.

Betty and I like tradition – we took her girls there in their early years (1970’s). Capwell’s closed in 1996.

Today’s 2013 memories: