Jo Knits!

07.18

I love sales! Yesterday my mom and I bought 252.59$ worth of clothes for the kids. Pants, pj's, a few outfits and a fall/winter coat for Lucas!!! :) We left the store with 21 new pieces/sets of clothes and a very big grin on our faces. LOL! We paid only 16,5% of the total of what the clothes are worth! :)

Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to find kool aid for me! Your generosity in time and money really means alot. I finally tried kool aid dyeing for the first time this after using 8 packets of cherry flavor for 8 onces of Fisherman's wool. Let's say it was a good first time! ;) The color isn't all even and I'm sure next time by wetting the wool before plunging it in the dye would help. I have a mottled finish, some places are pale and others dark cherry. If I had used more kool aid it would have helped but this will be for a felted project after all, the color variations won't show that much by the end. Today we shall try handpainting enough yarn to knit Lucas a wool soaker. :) Oh, I forget... I will not use the Ice Blue flavor in my Daypack project (yes I know, what's up with me and my color changes. Hey, I'm a Gemini!) LOL! The accent color for my stripes will be plain ol'undyed wool. I think the red and beige color will look nice! :) I did have a blast "coloring" my yarn and will have to find an undyed wool source because I want to do tons more dyeing! Zoe had so much fun helping mommy with the yarn in red soup experiment! LOL! ;)

It's friday already, this week has flown by so quickly! I didn't even see it go by. I love beeing busy and have the days move on quickly. For the last two days, we've been playing alot outside, also that afternoon escapade with Zoe on wednesday was alot of fun. :) Here's a pic of the kids showing in their new clothes:

Hope this weekend is a sunny one, I feel like having a BBQ in the backyard! :)

Have a great weekend, I'll be back on monday!

P/S: My computer is not behaving, I have a registry system problem and making my life not so pleasant right now. If I'm not back monday, I'll try to update from somewhere else.