Carmel Apple Pudding

Another comfort food recipe from those darling, Mennonite Girls Can Cook blog. We topped it off with a small scoop of ice cream. It was so delicious as are all of their recipes I have tried.

Find the recipe here

Chocolate Cobbler

I found this wonderful recipe for Chocolate Cobbler over at Scotty's Place. It was so quick to mix up for a rushed-supper's desert. Served up with sugar-free ice cream........ This is one of those comfort foods, that can't be made with Splenda.

You'll find the recipe here, and while you're there say Hi to Pammy Sue.......

Banana Cake

If you haven't visited, the Mennonite Girls Can Cook Blog, you are missing out on some terrific recipes. I
tried the Banana Cake just last week. My only changes to their recipe were, I only had 2 bananas instead
of 3 and I poured the Carmel sauce over the top of the cake as soon as it came out of the oven.
The cake just got better and moister the next day and the day after that.... I'm afraid it was all gone by then.........

Here is the recipe

Baby's T is for Turtle Washcloth

Well I am once again packing. This time they say for 7 weeks, but it always seem to run over. I have to pack an entire suitcase of yarns, patterns, hooks along with hard hats, steel toed boots and band-aids. Since we will be at the site for at least 12 hours a day, most of my crocheting and knitting are on the drive out and back. I don't even know how many miles it is to California..............


Baby's T is for Turtle Washcloth


This is my design for a small washcloth for baby, it blocked to a 7 inch square. It has the letter T on it but you can easily leave that part off. I gave it a tickle eye, just double knot a piece of worsted cotton (I used Dark Brown) leave a tail. Thread a tapestry needle and pull the knot through the washcloth where you want the eye. Make sure you go through the yarn and not a hole. Once through, tie another not as close to the fabric as you can, repeat. Now cut both sides to just barely above the knot ( aka the tickle part).

Peaches & Creme 1 Skein Baby Green

Size 7 knitting needles

Rnd 1-4: knit

Rnd 5: K3, P24, K3

Rnd 6: knit

Rnd 7: K3, P24, K3

Rnd 8: K11, P2, K8, P2, K7

Rnd 9: K3, P3, K3, P7, K3, P8, K3

Rnd 10: K11, P3, K7, P3, K6

Rnd 11: K3, P3, K3, P7, K3, P8, K3

Rnd 12: K12, P2, K7, P3, K6

Rnd 13: K3, P4, K2, P2, K4, P1, K2, P9, K3

Rnd 14: K12, P8, K1, P2, K7

Rnd 15: K3, P4, K12, P8, K3

Rnd 16: K5, P1, K2, P15, K7

Rnd 17: K3, P3, K20, P1, K3

Rnd 18: K4, P22, K4

Rnd 19: K3, P1, K22, P1, K3

Rnd 20: K4, P1, K1, P2, K1, P16, K5

Rnd 21: K3, P3, K14, P2, K2, P1, K1, P1, K3

Rnd 22: K5, P3, K3, P12, K7

Rnd 23: K3, P4, K12, P4, K1, P3, K3

Rnd 24: K12, P10, K8

Rnd 25: K3, P5, K10, P9, K3

Rnd 26: K12, P10, K8

Rnd 27: K3, P5, K10, P9, K3

Rnd 28: K12, P10, K8

Rnd 29: K3, P6, K8, P5, K1, P4, K3

Rnd 30: K7, P1, K5, P8, K9

Rnd 31: K3, P6, K7, P6, K1, P4, K3

Rnd 32: K7, P1, K7, P5, K10

Rnd 33: K3, P19, K1, P4, K3

Rnd 34: K5, P5, K20

Rnd 35: K3, P17, K5, P2, K3

Rnd 36: knit

Rnd 37-40: knit

Bind Off, Weave in Ends.
Block if a gift.

Let me know if you find any errors, thank you
You can find other versions of this chart here. Border less, more detail, no T etc.

Oklahoma Ice Storm of 2009

We have been hit with a major, destructive ice storm, I have never seen anything like it, so much ice,
covering literally everything. They say we got 2 inches of ice, but I seriously thing it was more. We have one
of the largest Sycamore Trees in Oklahoma, in our garden. I was so scared it was going to come crashing
down onto our house. Its limbs did some damage to our roof, and filled the children's garden with limbs,
but other then the limb damage it seems fine.

We were Listening to the trees explode around the neighborhood, watching out the back, when the
neighbors tree let out a shutter, throwing ice everywhere, then falling right on their car, sending a second
spray of glass from the car windows exploding.
My son & his family had to drive in from Arkansas, to stay with us. After 2 days without power, broken
waterlines and not an empty hotel room for over 100 miles, they made the slow journey to our house. It was
really a nice visit, in our busy lives it's usually only a short visit.

Most of our neighbors are still without power, mainly up on the mountains, and the rural areas, even the
schools are still closed with no electricity. Now though the neighborhood is filled with strangers, knocking
on doors, asking if we want to hire them for the clean-up. I hate strangers, I hate knocks on the door, Now I
even set the alarms during the day. I wonder if this is what happens to everyone after a disaster?
Today we have to run out and check all the damage to our rentals, . More pics are here

Yarn Calculator

Need to Know how Much Yarn It Will Take For A Project, try this site:

http://www.thecrochetside.com/content/tips/project_yardage_calc.html

Posting Your Original Patterns on Forums

This is for patterns, or for those of you that just want to post pictures of your completed items.

I use www.photobucket.com for all my forum pictures.
I use www.flickr.com for posting patterns, yarns, finished projects to Raverly

Both are free.

Re-size your picture to 300 x 300-400 that is what the ville likes. Upload your picture to Photobucket.

Hold your cursor over the picture you want to put on the forum. A small menu will appear. At the very bottom of that menu, click on ' link options' .
That opens a pop-up window ( if it doesn't open then check the yellow strip on your browser. Click on that and allow pop-ups from photobucket).

Now on that pop-up you have all the options. Go to boards and forums. The second box gives you a small picture that is click-able. I love that one.

Click in that box and you will see it has already copied to your computer. I open notepad and paste into that. Do that to all the pictures you will want to use.

Now open your new topic on the Ville, I paste my pattern in first and the where you want your pictures just copy and paste from your notepad.

I save this notepad in case I want to add the pattern to other crochet sites

Now at the Ville, you contact an administrator and tell them you have added an original pattern. They will check it out, then they will pm you back that they have given you a contributors icon, it will say PAT.

Hope this helps

Any other questions just ask

Barbara