There’s a new crochet swap starting up!!!  “Formal” signups aren’t until February 1, but there is already 17 hookers signed up!  Come on over and take a look and join in!!  Chickens are not required

It’ll be a blast!  At least come on by and see what all the hoop-la is about!

Yet another finished afghan!  The name of this pattern is called Lumberjack Flannelghan and the pattern can be found here.  I used Hobby Lobby’s store brand yarn “I Love This Yarn”. It’s super soft…almost feels like chenille.

It’s a gift for Christmas for *someone*. I hope they like it.

She went and did it!  Katie turned 21 on October 30.  I just can’t believe it.  Here’s a photo of her a few weeks before her birthday.

Here’s the afghan I made for Katie’s birthday gift.  I also purchased a couple of things for her, but this I made myself so she’d have something special for her 21st.

She loves camoflage and her favorite color is pink.  She really loves it!

I just had to share this!

http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/10/29/mummy-treat-containers/

 I will definitely keep this idea in mind for next year.  Too late for this year.

Completed:

Regular Ripple Afghan for Mike. Started in January, finally finished last week.  Made from yarn from my stash, plus had to add 2 colors (woo hoo, reason to buy yarn lol).  It is kind of narrow, but has TONS of stretch!  I want to make another one, but will use a larger hook to make a bigger afghan.

Here’s my purse I have been working on. 

Now, on to finish my Snowflake Afghan!

This was shared by a fellow forum member over at www.homesteadingtoday.com ! 

Household Cyclopedia, published in 1881. The file is LARGE, 15mb.  Over 800 pages with illustrations!

This is a rare find!  It is LEGALLY downloadable!

Here’s the Table of Contents so you can see how extensive the information is: (download link is below the TOC).

Contents
1 AGRICULTURE 11
11 The Modern Theory Of Agriculture 11
12 Wheat 35
13 Drainage 65
14 Sugar 69
15 Cotton And Tobacco 70
16 Directions For The Rearing Of Silk Worms 71
2 HORTICULTURE 81
21 Budding And Grafting 84
22 Keeping Fruit 117
23 Flower Gardening 120
24 Insects 123
25 Illustrations 124
3 RURAL AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY 131
31 To Manage A Dairy 132
32 Bees And Their Management 141
33 Insects 151
34 Illustrations 155
4 FARRIERY 157
41 Dogs 174
42 Cattle 175
43 Hogs 178
44 Sheep 178
45 Illustrations 184
5 MEDICINE 189
51 Diseases 189
52 Accidents 219
53 Wounds 219
9
10 CONTENTS
54 Fractures 223
55 Dislocations 226
56 Amputation 228
57 Poisons 230
58 Miscellaneous Articles 234
59 Medicines For Indigestion 243
510 Cholera 247
511 Diseases Peculiar To Females 250
512 Management And Diseases Of Children 256
513 Useful Domestic Medicines 262
514 Hygiene - Salutary Cautions 270
515 Preservation From Drowning And Shipwreck 272
516 General Rules For Preserving Life And Health 277
517 The Teeth 282
518 Illustrations 284
6 CULINARY ARTS 311
61 Plain Cookery 311
62 Cookery 334
63 Confectionery 374
64 Pickling 383
65 Carving 387
66 Qualities of Food 398
7 BREWING 403
71 Fermentation 403
72 To Make Cider 420
73 Wines 422
8 DISTILLATION 441
81 Essential Oils 459
82 Waters 463
83 Vinegar And Acid Liquors 469
84 Artificial Waters 473
85 Fixed Oils 476
86 Animal Oils And Fats 477
9 PERFUMERY 481
10 BLEACHING AND SCOURING 491
CONTENTS 11
11 DYING 501
111 Staining 515
12 PAINTS AND COLORS 521
13 VARNISHES 539
14 INKS 567
15 METALLURGY 575
151 Assaying Of Metallic Ores 575
152 Parting 582
153 Alloys, Or Compound Metals 583
154 Foils 590
155 Electro-Metallurgy 592
156 Gilding, Silvering, And Tinning 595
157 Iron And Steel 602
158 Illustrations 606
16 PYROTECHNY 609
161 Matches for Instantaneous Light 612
17 TANNING 615
18 ENAMELLING 621
19 POTTERY 627
20 GLASS 637
21 PHOTOGRAPHY 651
211 Photolithography 664
22 ENGRAVING 667
221 Lithography 673
23 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 679
231 Specific Gravity 685
232 Gas Meters 686
233 Value Of Coins 689
24 CHEMICAL RECEIPTS 693
241 Preventing And Removing Boiler Incrustations 695
242 Artificial Cold 696
243 Antiseptics And Disinfectants 697
12 CONTENTS
25 WEATHER PROGNOSTICS 705
26 ANGLING 711
261 The Culture Of Fish 714
262 Illustrations 716
27 MISCELLANEOUS 719
271 To Tie Knots 719
272 Knitting 721
273 Management Of Canary Birds 722
274 Dogs 722
275 To Destroy Insects 723
276 Petroleum 725
277 Electro-Magnetic Telegraph 726
278 Book-Keeping 727
279 On Preparing Copy And Marking Proof 727
2710The Art Of Rowing 729
2711Macadamized Roads 730
2712Miscellaneous Medical Receipts 738
2713Dialysis 743
2714Riding 744
2715Decalcomania 745
2716The Cattle Plague, Or Rinderpest 748
2717Miscellaneous Illustrations 753
2718Illustrations of Ellectrical Machines 762
2719Illustrations of Military Weapons 765
28 IMPLEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE 769

Household Cyclopedia 1881

 ENJOY!

I used to do several online quilt block swaps a year.  It all ended shortly after Felicity was born.  I so enjoyed those swaps, but the few websites I knew of that had the swaps started fading with the huge growth of the internet. People moved on and found new websites, etc.

Today I joined a new swap! Crocheting!

I’m really looking forward to this! I’ll post pictures once it’s done and I have my swapped Granny Squares.

I have been an avid quilter for many, many years.

However, about 5 years ago when I started my first online business, quilting fell by the way side.

I’ve now made my break back into quilting and started a quilt today.

I’m calling it the Funky Chicken Quilt.

I cut and pieced the blocks today.

I had a terrible time with the photo getting the colors right, but you get the idea!

I hope to be able to get the top completely together this weekend and will post more photos when the top is done.

It felt really good to be sewing for fun instead of sewing for business for a change!

Progress. I tell you, progress.

That’s what I’ve made today in my destashing event!

I’ve got my goodies for sale here:

http://hyenacart.com/Spots_corner/index.php?u=2016

I’ve sold about 1/3 to 1/2 of my wool yarn stash.  I just don’t use the wool yarn much anymore. I do ADORE wool, but it’s not practical at this point.  Felicity and I do crochet, but most of our projects use acrylic yarn…and I do have some of it on hand and it’s not going anywhere! It’s so nice to see the cash coming back in from all of my unnecessary purchases(aka “bad spending habit”), and all the “stuff” going out the door of our house

Next week, I’ll conquer the boxes and boxes of fabrics(mostly quilt fabrics). I don’t plan to totally destash my fabrics as I did with the wool yarn because I will be teaching Felicity to sew soon, so fabric is needed still.  I will just “thin out” in that department.

That’s all for tonight.

Have a great Thursday!

I was just visiting the Mother Earth News website.  I found that they currently have an unbelievable special on their magazine subscription!  $10/6 issues (1 yr). 

Mother Earth News magazine is worth WAY more than $10/yr!  It is one of our favorite magazines to read cover to cover. You will find so much wonderful information in the pages! Mike even reads this one!

Mother Earth News has been in publication since the ’70’s and still growing strong!

Here’s the link to subscribe to this fantastic magazine!

https://www.motherearthnews.com/subscribe/subscribe.aspx

Enjoy!