Gettin’ It Pegged…Loom Knitter’s Clique

Yippee!  It’s over!!!! 

I know…April is a very nice month in it’s own right, and I normally think so, too.  After all, this is when my first daughter came into the world 16 years ago.  But this year’s April was a killer!  WAAAAY too much stress and struggle!  Whew that it’s the last day.  :P 

We are all done in the other house.  We spent all day Sunday and Monday doing the last packing & loading & scrubbing.  Let me tell you, I think I almost asfixiated myself with cleaning fumes!  I was using bleach and Windex in the bathroom, and then in the kitchen, and added oven cleaner on top of it.  I didn’t even know I wasn’t feeling well until we broke for a late lunch and I felt dizzy, and my “lung pipes” were a bit raw.  I kept laughing hysterically at everything everyone said, even if it was “please pass the napkins”, lol!  My advice to anyone doing major cleaning…follow the instructions on the warning labels of the cleaning cans…they mean what they say!  ;) 

Things I’m looking forward to in May…

• getting settled in our new home
• going to my nephew’s wedding shower  (he’s the first of 10 nephews/nieces to be married)
• my hubby’s birthday
• Mother’s Day is always a shining light on the horizon!
• planting flowers in our new backyard
• Narnia movie #2 comes out!  (I think there are other’s I’d like to see opening this month, too, but I can’t remember…all the stress has knocked them clean outta my noggin’)
• getting a new loom along going in the Loom Knitter’s Chat Clique!  Most likely the Arm Chair Caddy!

By the way…the Peggin’ Pages Moving Sale is still going on all day today!  Hurry…sale ends tomorrow…as tomorrow brings a new day, month, and new happiness right along with it! 

Bethany~

Well, in the spirit of my family’s recent move to a new (and bigger!) house…I thought it would be fun to hold a moving sale! 

All the patterns located on Peggin’ Pages will be 50% off from now till the end of the month!  Just pick the patterns you’d like, and the correct price will show up at the checkout…no code needed!

Movin’, movin’, movin’…let’s get those patterns movin’! 

PS:  For those of you in the Loom Knitter’s Clique interested in the next loom along, you might want to stock up on the Arm Chair Caddy pattern…hint, hint! 

Bethany~

If there are any kinks in the process, just let me know at:  Bethany@GettinItPegged.com  

Hey, All!  :D  Just wanted to give you an update on our moving status…if you were interested, lol!  We’ve been in our new place since Sunday night, and it already feels comfortable.  We had the great plan of not bringing in our boxes until we were ready for them…we only brought in the furniture, and beds/dressers, etc…and a tub of essential “get-ready” items…and of course our cat, Gus. (We had much appreciated help from my sister, nephew, brother-in-law, and his 2 sons!)  We left all the boxes in the garage, in their ordered places by room (this idea was given to me by a friend at my work, and it is going swimmingly!).  We just grab a box when we’re ready for it, and unpack a little at a time.  That way we’re not shuffling through tons of boxes, like our several moves in the past. 

We still are working on bringing over some last items…everyday after picking up my daughter from school, we go over and pick up a load in my little PT, and take it over to the new house.  This Sunday, we will be going over to completely empty out the metal shed in the back yard.  This we have saved till last, as we want to thoroughly inspect every nook and cranny for spiders.  We don’t want to take any of those nasties with us to the new place! 

I really had a hard time without an internet connection.  I missed all my loomy friends online!  With all my frantic packing, moving, cleaning, more packing & moving….I didn’t have a lot of extra time to be very chatty…and then to be without a hook up even if I wanted to chat…that was difficult, to say the least!  We ended up having to have a technician come out to fix the wires at the box to the house.  In the meantime, I had the phone company forwarding all incoming calls to my cell…but it turned out, they had input the forwarding number incorrectly by one digit, and I was receiving all of someone else’s phone calls on my cell!  I’ll tell you, that person wasn’t very happy with the whole situation…as was I, to tell you the truth!  :P  But it all worked out, and now I have my computer all set up, with the wires neatly wrapped, and unsnarled, and the monitor all dusted, and shiny…I’m a happy blogger! 

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Bethany~

I’ve heard through the grapevine that people who missed out on the booties class are feeling a tad left out of the bootilicious fun…

So I’ve added the pattern for sale now, rather than in a set as I originally planned, so that you can get your looms busy right away with these sweet little darlings. 

So, just pop on over to Peggin’ Pages to  snatch up your very own copy of Bethany’s Booties!

Enjoy! 

AAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

Hello, All! 

Just thought I’d pop in and say “Hi!”  I’m typing on a strange computer in a hotel lobby right now, waiting for my daugter to finish with her WASL testing…a Mandatory Washington state achievement test.  We’ve travelled to Olympia, WA to do this, and will be doing the same for the rest of the week.  This is about a half hour drive one way, so it takes up the entire first half of the day…then the rest of the day will be off to work for me, then back home…packing!

Yesterday was the same morning schedule, except it was my daughter’s 16th birthday…I wanted to be able to have a memorable party for her in the midst of all the chaos of our house situation right now, so we decided to have a family party at our new house.  We only got the keys yesterday, so the house was empty!  So to remedy this, we rented a U-haul (just my daughter and I) and after our trip and Olympia all morning, and after party goods/food shopping, we packed up our couches, kitchen table and chairs, coffee table, and all available boxes we could shove in that truck to make the trip worthwhile, and drove to the new house to unload and set up for the party…all before 6 o’clock!  YIKES!  :P  By this time, my younger daughter was home from school, and gave us some much needed help.

Well, I can tell you, WE MADE IT!   :)  Everything went off without a hitch, and people enjoyed looking around our new (mostly empty) digs, and Emily said it was the most fun she had had in a long while.  :)  I’ll post pics later, as I don’t think my camera would appreciate being plugged into a strange computer, lol!  ;)  Have a wonderful day!

Bethany~

PS…I did manage to get another wedge and a half done on my Pinwheel Blanket yesterday while waiting for Emily’s testing to be done.  :)   The loom along is still going on, if anyone wants to take part.

Well…I think I’m a VERY big glutton for punishment…as well as most of the other online loomers out there, lol!  We just can’t get over the fun we have getting together and loom knitting something as a group.  It’s so enjoyable meeting new friends who have the same loom love as you and talking about great projects, yarn, and daily happenings. 

Here’s a little run down of what’s going on out there, so you too can join in on the fun!…if you haven’t already. 

At the Loom knitter’s Clique…we’re having a little impromptu Loom Along using Denise Layman’s Pinwheel Blanket Pattern!  All you need to join is to click on the button, join, enroll on the database, purchase your pattern here, gather your yarn…and get set to knit Sunday (yes, this is tomorrow…did I say impromptu?) 

 Here are my yarn choices for the blanket…

I love blues and browns together.

And over at the Loom Class Group…Jenny and Robin are teaching blocks #2 and 3 beginning tomorrow and lasting until April 26! 

I’ve completed my block #1 and these are the colors I’ve decided on for my afghan…I just LOVE them, don’t you?

Well, since I’m moving, begin instructing a new group of college classes, and celebrating my daughter’s 16th birthday…I figured this is all I could possibly get away with signing my name to…

but there is still one more loom along that I know about, that you might enjoy joining, and it’s going on right now!

Over at Ravelry, in the Loom Along group, Isela is teaching her adorable bag pattern…the Felted Baguette!  If you haven’t enrolled in Ravelry yet,  GO NOW AND DO SO!!!  I can’t stress enough how fabulous this online fiber community is!  There’s a little waiting list, but they push you through pretty quickly, so you’ll be rollin’ with the yarnies in no time, lol! 

Well, I hope you can join us for one or the other…or several…projects…it’ll be a blast! 

Bethany~

If you had 5 years, and a giant stash of pink yarn the size of a house…what would you do with it?

Well, a GIANT pink rabbit on an Italian hillside that is, as you can see, definitely bigger than a house, probably wouldn’t be my first idea…but this is exactly what these people did!  Click on the pic to discover what motivated this interesting creation. 

We loom knitters would need an awfully big loom to create this baby…then just consider the waiting time on that order!  Yikes! 

Bethany~

Today is the last day for the online class on how to create the little baby booties.

I’ve had a lot of fun…this group has been so wonderful to spend a week with!  :)  And everyone has created (& are creating) absolutely adorable booties!  I’d like to be able to post some on the Clique Pics soon…

Now…I’m off packing!  Yep, it’s time again to move my little family…our house is just way too dinky.  Our last move was not planned, as the house we were renting ended up being sold, so we had to hurry and scramble around to find someplace to park, if only for a temporary solution…and one that would except pets (our cat & bunny) was even harder to find.  So this temporary solution has lasted for a year and a half, lol…and we’ve finally found a suitable replacement, again that would accept pets.  Now my husband doesn’t have to worry about being chased out of our only bathroom by us 3 girls, lol!!!

So…off I go…busy, busy, busy!  I will keep my eye on the computer, though, as I know that there still may be postings in the bootie class today.  Thanks again for an awesome online experience!  It was a lot of fun…we’ll have to do it again soon…maybe this little item?…

Bethany~

My eldest daughter has an ability that I don’t have…or choose not to employ, lol!  She uses eensy weensy crochet hooks, embroidery thread, and her own imagination…and creates magic.  She can just think of something and create it right out of her head.  Like modelling with clay, but with thread.   :) 

For my younger daugher’s birthday this year, she decided (promised) to make a little doll, along the same lines of a doll that she had already created for herself a few years back.  A little monkey out of braided hemp, with magnetic hands and feet, and little crocheted 18th century clothes.  He’s quite a little gentleman, and has even appeared in his own major motion picture!  (a science project for school that Emily created…a stop motion animation starring her very own…Cedric!)

For her sister, she decided to create a cat…almost an Anime creation.  This is what she came up with…

Click on the pics to see a tad bigger…these little guys are awesome!  And that’s not just because I’m a proud mama…     Even Noreen Crone Findlay would approve, I’m sure!

Bethany~

PS: Sometime soon I’m going to see if I can show you Cedric’s movie…it’s very well done, and quite entertaining!