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My tremendously supportive husband & I have 3 wonderful children, 1 dog, 12 laying hens, 2 dairy goats, 3 bee hives, and a 2000 sq foot vegetable garden on a small 1/4 acre lot in the city. In the center of it all is our small 1,000 sq foot house purchased in 2008 as a foreclosure that we fully renovated to host our growing family, home school adventures, and small home business (CozyLeaf.com). We have a desire to learn a path to self sufficiency finding ways to be good stewards of the resources God has given us. We want to learn to live with less as we laydown roots to our little homestead.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

My Newest Hobby ... Knitting!!

Just a few weeks ago I entered the wonderful world of knitting!! Since then I have met SO many extremely friendly and helpful people! It seems like every knitter I have met is so excited for me, very encouraging and always willing to offer advice.
I love learning new things and feeling the challenge of a new art as well as the satisfaction it brings to succeed at a project. So, after watching a few YouTube videos I was ready to take on knitting!
I made a little scarf for Addie and had such fun doing it that I was ready for project #2. I could not decide what to make next, but I had heard a lot of people talk about the "purl stitch" so I thought I better practice that! So I started by casting on 30 stitches and then knit stitch 2 rows and purl stitch 2 rows. It has been fabulous practice and I am loving the pattern it makes so I plan on makin this into some type of neck warmer with a fun button...which means I will get to learn to knit a button whole! I'm definitely not the fastest knitter, but I just hope I finish this before the cold snap gets here!
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5 comments:

  1. Nicole @ she-laughsSeptember 27, 2011 at 8:36 PM

    Ooooh!! I love it!

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  2. Homestead RootsSeptember 29, 2011 at 10:58 AM

    Thanks Nicole :) It SOOO fun!!

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  3. JenOctober 15, 2011 at 3:56 PM

    I don't know if you've discovered ravelry.com yet, but I have an account, and I love it!!! (Knitter for 5 years).
    -Jen

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  4. Homestead RootsOctober 15, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    I do have a ravelry account and I LOVE it!! The folks at my local yarn shop told me that I HAD to get an account :) I have several patterns saved, but so far havent successfully finished anything :)

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  5. HerrypontingOctober 28, 2011 at 12:42 AM

    I punched to this blog..nice stuff
    http://www.herbscity.com/brand/all-terrain.html

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