Christi’s Corner

I have entered the world of podcasting…

Yep it’s true!  I took the plunge and the first episode is up and running.  Check it out!

Fiber Crafting with Christi

I thought I’d take a few moments to pop in and wish those who celebrate a very Merry Christmas!

My extended family all celebrates it so we will be visiting both sides over today and tomorrow.  We have small gifts for the nieces and nephews and I made fudge and cookies for everyone to enjoy.  The last batch of cookies still needs to be baked this morning, but the dough is chilled and ready for rolling.  The only other gift I have is a pair of mittens for my mother-in-law that I knit myself (and just finished last night).

May you and yours be blessed today and always.

I have just opened up a new web forum site!  It is for all forms of home arts, cooking, baking, fiber arts, sewing, even cleaning!  Basically anything you can do with your hands around the house!

http://homearts.dailyforum.net

We’ll see you there!

After 24+ years as a devout crocheter, I guess you can say I’ve expanded my horizons. I never thought I would be a knitter. Past attempts had proved disasterous and so I stayed with my faithful crochet hooks.

This summer I received The Yarn Ball… a 255 yard ball of pink eyelash yarn. I still haven’t figured out what I’m going to do with that much eyelash yarn. With it, however, was a dvd with knitting instructions. I decided to give knitting another shot. The dvd gave instructions for both English and Continental style knitting. After a cursory glance at both styles I decided to use the English style as it seemed the most comfortable for me. I know many who prefer continental, but English made more sense to me. So I got down knitting and purling and have been doing alright.

Now, a week ago, I happened to find a cabling needle on the ground while getting out of my car. I picked it up and took it home with me. Today I decided to play with it and made this swatch…

I know there’s a lot of glare, but this was without the flash. I tried with flash and all I got was a pure white square.

Anyways, not bad for a first cable.

And no I have not abandoned crochet.  Not by a long shot.

I was browsing patterns in Ravelry and discovered one of my very own patterns was already listed! How cool is that! I then contacted admin so now I am connected to it as the designer so I can edit and do whatever with the listing. The pattern is an afghan square I called Jesse’s Square. I was putting together a comfort afghan for a man my husband worked with who suffered an awful head injury at work. (He fell 10 feet off a ladder onto his head onto concrete.) I decided to try my hand at designing my own pattern for my square and that is what I came up with. It is one of two patterns that I have had officially published. It is in the 2007 Crochet Pattern-a-Day Calendar from Accord Publishing (January 26th). My other published pattern is in the same Calendar, also a square pattern called Six Pointed Star (April 19-22).

I just got my Ravelry invite! If you’re already in, I’m there as Christi, look me up!

I thought I would share a song I recorded of myself a while back. It is an Italian aria called O Del Mio Dolce Ardor.  Enjoy!

In response to mom4x’s blog entry, I am responding with my answers to the following. Here are the rules. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the questions. Your answers must be real places, things, names… nothing made up. If you can’t think of anything, skip the question. You can’t use your name for the boy’s/girl’s name question. If your name happens to start with the same letter as mine, sorry, you can’t use my answers.

FAMOUS SINGER:
Christina Aguilera

FOUR LETTER WORD:
Crud

STREET:
Constitution Avenue

COLOR:
Cyan

GIFTS/PRESENTS:
Crystal

THINGS IN A SOUVENIR SHOP:
Candy

BOY’S NAME:
Cory

GIRL’S NAME:
Celia

MOVIE TITLE:
Carousel

DRINK:
Cappuccino

OCCUPATION:
Choreographer

CELEBRITY:
Chevy Chase

MAGAZINE:
Crochet!

U.S. CITY:
Cincinnati

PRO SPORTS:
Cubs

FRUIT:
Cherry

REASONS FOR BEING LATE FOR WORK:
Car Crash

SOMETHING YOU THROW AWAY:
Corn husks

THINGS YOU SHOUT:
Come!

CARTOON CHARACTER:
Cindy Bear

If you are reading this, consider yourself tagged, unless you’ve done this yourself recently.
Let me know by leaving a comment so I can check out your answers

I thought I’d share the past couple comfortghans I have assembled for Heartmade Blessings.

Regina Shipp in memory of Darrell W. Shipp

Darrell W. Shipp was a soldier killed in Baghdad by an IED on January 25, 2007. I left his rank off, not out of disrespect, but because there is a discepancy. Some sites list him as a PFC where others list him as SPC. Anyways, here is a photo of the comfortghan that was sent to his mother.

Nancy Chrest

Nancy is my cousin and she was diagnosed with brain stem cancer. Here is the comfortghan I sent to her.

There just isn’t anything more wonderful than fresh homemade bread. I love to make bread, but I don’t make it often enough. Yes, I do make a batch of bread about once a week, but we still tend to buy much of our bread at the store. Today I made bread. Most of the time the kind of bread I make uses a flat stone to bake it on, today I needed bread pans. I took a picture of one of my loaves I made. I tend to use it to make sandwiches and such. I like the recipe I used as the loaf remained soft and doesn’t have a hard crust like many homemade breads tend to have. I think I will keep this recipe.

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Yesterday I finished a hat I started on Saturday evening for my youngest daughter. I saw the pattern for the rolled brim hat and thought it was great! I used a dark brown (coffee) as the main color and used a dark pink (light raspberry) for the hat band color. It turned out very cute, and my daughter loves it and has hardly left her head since it was finished.

Ain’t she cute?