Karen's Craft Odyssey

Every Saturday night we have “Family Games Night”. One of the four of us chooses a game and everyone plays. The variety is fun, and everyone knows they’ll get a turn to choose the game. Tonight was my night and I chose something different — bowling. We went up to AMF [...]

[thumb:475:l]Blocked two more doilies today. I use dry laundry starch (cornstarch would work) mixed with water (about 3 heaping tablespoons of dry starch mixed with enough cold water to make a paste, then about a cup of boiling water and stirred until translucent, then cold water to make about a liter). Soak the [...]

But I thought I’d better post something anyway.
I’m still knitting lace. I have two completed doilies ready for blocking — hope to get to that over the weekend. Wednesday night I started a small tablecloth (OK, so the pattern calls it a Coffee Cloth — it’s about 24″ in diameter). The idea [...]

Here are the three doilies I blocked at Night Owls last week:[newline] [thumb:472:l][thumb:474:l][thumb:473:l][newline]
I have one more ready to block and another on the needles.
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Bummer. Well, I suppose we all have to do something with our time.
I’ve been having a wonderful holiday, forgetting about all the mundane things I probably should have been doing. Today I needed to start thinking about the real world again. But, it wouldn’t do to jump too quickly. Alan and [...]