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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88538434119283296662017-04-29T11:04:47.905-05:00knitnmoreKnitting and more...spinning, beading, crochet, tatting, bobbin lace, tambour, watercolor....Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-46905066108682586152017-04-29T11:04:00.001-05:002017-04-29T11:04:47.912-05:00Old becomes newSeveral years ago I started teaching myself Tambour embroidery/beading. I did a few projects and started on a more elaborate design that was going to be a purse. I didn't make much progress on it so I put it away.

Forward to the present and I've gotten re-energized on Tambour work and what did I find in my sewing stuff but this project. The material I was using was completely inappropriate to my skill level but I still had the paper pattern so I decided to use a material that was more my speed.

You can sort of see the pattern laid out here as well as the working side of the seed and bugle beads I'm using for part of it.

And a close up of the front side of the beads. In this style, the work is done from the back side of the material, which is why having a sheer fabric makes life so much easier for the beginner!

You can see the pattern a little better from the paper master. Some of it will be worked with beads and sequins and some with thread. Might take a while, though!

The pattern was taken, I believe from this standard book, now sadly out of print.

Unfortunately with these more obscure techniques, there aren't a lot of printed materials. We treasure the little we can get.
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-42108879639967799742017-04-19T12:17:00.001-05:002017-04-19T12:17:48.423-05:00WeavingNow that I finally feel more confident about warping, I can't get enough of weaving.

I finished my warping class project made from linen.

It's washed and and put away now. I have a plan for it but I'm not ready to start.

Then I did a project with tencil and some hand spun.

Again, finished, washed and put away.

Now I've just finished warping for a scarf, which if I can get the hang of the beat, will be beautiful. Merino wool and silk yarn. Soooo soft.

The warp will be the dark blue shown here as dividers between the color strips. God willing and the creek don't rise, it will be this.

From the book Next Steps in Weaving by Pattie Graver.

I managed to warp the loom with 3 colors and very few tears. Good start!

I've also started playing again with Tambour Embroidery again. I first saw it practiced at Lincoln's New Salem but I've put it away for quite a few years. Now I've come across a YouTube Channel by Robert Haven that has me excited about it again.

First steps:

It's on a sheer piece of material so I can see what my hands are doing.

This site gives a little history and some photos. You actually work from the back and it can include beads and sequins but it can also be just thread. It's a beautiful technique most often used in haute couture design. It's kind of like me - a bit different but nice!!
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-51012147083257092852017-04-11T22:11:00.001-05:002017-04-11T22:11:16.107-05:00An Error and a Home RunAs I continue the section called, Decorations in Half Stitch, I've hit a sample that I just couldn't figure out and could not find any additional information on.

It's referred to as Gravenmoersche appears to be a half stitch ground that has a little different orientation than a regular half stitch ground. Honestly the variation seemed almost indistinguishable but I gave it a go. And then took it out and gave it another go. And so on. I finally admitted defeat and finished the piece with the old standard.

Even if I couldn't do the proper stitch, that would have looked like this

It's still a lovely pattern.

Fortunately, that miss was followed by a lesson on something I've long wanted to learn - how to start and end a piece with a border that runs all the way round. There's a fan I'm going to do one day that needs to start like this.

On this technique the diagrams were very clear indeed and I'm so happy to have this reference point for the day I begin The Fan.

This lesson had a whole array of variations for the ground sections that could so easily be substituted for basic rose ground and add a little bit of fancy to any pattern. Trails, border, grounds. This one had a bit of everything!

And what does tomorrow hold? Perhaps the warping of a loom? Perhaps the start of a new lace? Time, as they say, will tell.

For now I'm happy with whatever comes.
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-37433378900367309622017-03-18T20:06:00.001-05:002017-03-18T20:06:59.365-05:00Sample, sample, sampleI know people are probably getting sick of me talking about it but I'm still loving the patterns in the Torchon Workbook. I'm on the 9th chapter, Decorations in half stitch.

I've just finished a group she has labeled Escalator. The name comes from a section made up of a row of half stitches that are worked uphill.

In this example, you work the section above the line all the way to the end and then use the pair at the base of the line to work half stitch to the point at the top of the line. Now you're ready to work the section below the line. And you get this one in the middle.

Each of these samples uses this escalator technique, although in different ways.

My absolute favorite of this trio is the edging at the right. It has some of my favorite techniques like the spider ground and the Scotch broom trails. I would have carried on with it but I'm anxious to get moving on.
Dianna firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-7151963811142219272017-03-16T13:42:00.001-05:002017-03-16T13:42:50.206-05:00Two experimentsMy sample warp is finally finished, off the loom, and washed. My main objective was to get a feel for the materials (the tencel yarn) but it ended up becoming a wider learning experience.

I learned how to beat the weft to give the balanced look I'm going to want when I make my tartan-patterned scarf. I tested how an ultra light beat made it look messy. Maybe if I had fewer ends per inch (I warped at 24 epi) the lighter beat would have seemed more airy but not so much with this. I knew I didn't want a weft-faced fabric (which would have happened with a heavy beat. So a light squished of the beater seemed to produce the best way forward.

I learned that I may want a slightly less dense fabric so I'll warp to 20 epi instead of 24. I think that will make a nicer scarf fabric.

I am working on a table loom which means you don't have to go far until you have to advance the warp. The mistake I was making was advancing it too far so that I got weird wiggly bits in my fabric. Once I figured that out and started leaving a couple of inches in front of the front beam, hey, presto, I got a much more even fabric.

I learned that it all feels different after a good wash. I guess that's why teachers are always talking about washing your samples. Good call, teach!

I learned that using a spare variegated skein of hand spun works fabulously with the base color of the warp.

I'm going to use some of this strip to make a coin purse and part of it is going to be used to make phone holders. Here's the type I mean.

I was given a similar holder that has microfiber on the bottom to clean the screen. In trying to work it out, I tried all sorts of gyrations. That is until I realized that a simple tube of fabric seamed on one end and the closed at the other end in the opposite direction would do the same thing.

Now I'm experimenting with filler so that it has enough weight to be steady without going nuts. I'm thinking that it could double as a pin cushion depending on the filler used.

Again with the pin cushions?!?

 Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-57378074289114907462017-03-11T12:37:00.001-06:002017-03-11T12:37:52.445-06:00Appearances can be deceivingI started a new sample this week. There was a section that even the text said was tricky so I worked to that point and left it that night. I decided I needed to wait until I was rested to attempt it. I had already worked the whole left side and then the right side. Then I completely undid the right side because I'd made a mistake at the beginning then I'd worked the whole right side again.

The "complicated" section involved working a pair half-stitch through six other pair. Not so bad except that it had to go backwards through the pairs before heading into the 8-leg spider.

When I sat for a minute to look at it the next morning, the light bulb went on and I worked it with no problems at all.

You can never tell.

Last night I got involved in watching a couple of fascinating shows on YouTube and actually finished the whole dang thing.

I never realized working in whole stitch was so fiddly to keep the tension right.

Everyone should see these films. I couldn't stop watching.

Edwardians in Colour (First of 4 episodes)

How the Edwardians Spoke

Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-22415156669305151592017-03-07T09:26:00.001-06:002017-03-07T09:31:18.852-06:00Weaving on
I have been working on a little side weaving project. Since take #HopewellWeaving's warping class, I've been inspired to tackle a project I've had in the back of my mind for a while now.

Several years ago, I bought these cones of tencel yarn but I hadn't done anything with them yet because I wanted to make sure I could handle them properly.

Lovely, shiny, softee yarn. Thread. Whatever.

I've decided on a simple Bruce tartan pattern from the book, Tartans - Their Art and History. It uses two main colors with the third color making the occasional thin stripe. I'm going to use the purple and tan as the main colors with the green as the accent.

Before I dove in head first with it, I wanted to make sure I understood how to handle the materials and be clear on the sett. So I wound a small warp with the green (since I knew I wouldn't need as much of that for the final piece) and I've been playing.

I'm using a 2/2 twill, since that's what you use for the tartan (over 2 threads/under 2 threads). Here I've done a 2/2 twill and then a reverse 2/2 twill to give the herringbone sort of pattern.

I'm so glad I did this for a couple of reasons. First of all, I understand better now how to handle the warp with this thread. Second of all, I've got all sorts of ideas about what I want to make from this 5 inch or so strip. Coin purse, glasses case, etc.

I'm also playing with how the colors play. Here it is with the green warp and tan weft.

You don't see it here but in person it has more of a pinkish hue. (Is there a pinkish hue? - George Constanza)
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-65098082484741868352017-03-07T09:23:00.001-06:002017-03-07T09:30:40.793-06:00Scotch Brooming
Sometimes you like something okay but you just don't LOVE it. It's all very nice and you wouldn't mind having a coffee every once in a while but it's never going to be a grand romance.

That's what this edging does for me. It was kind of fun to work and went along very easily but I'm done with it. I still have thread on the bobbins so I may work until I start to run out of thread but it's not one I'm going to make yards of.

The thing it did do is make much more sense out of the Scotch Broom stitch. There's a definite rhythm to it and once you get that logic, it's no trouble at all.

A few more inches and then, I think, it will be time to move along.
Dianna firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-85525569557497917292017-03-04T11:58:00.003-06:002017-03-04T11:58:41.752-06:00Too much of a good thingI've been trying my whole life to learn that details matter and that if a little is good, it doesn't necessarily mean that more is better.

The lastest project from the Ulrike Torchon Workbook is a case in point.

 I really love it and think it's pretty. I also think I almost have a handle on the Scotch Broom stitch (the part that forms the diamonds). But you'll notice that it's quite a long piece for a sample. The reason?

Instead of pinning up the 2 pieces of the pattern like this…

Like it was supposed to be, I pinned it up like this…

It make a minor difference not only to the length but to how long it takes to work it.

I kept peeking under my cover cloth thinking, "Is this some sort of magically growing pattern?" Come to find out, no. It's me being a silly beggar and not paying attention to what I was doing.

So, while I ended up with a lovely piece, I shall be paying much more attention from now on. Really, I will. Really.
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-67732801793266610932017-03-04T11:58:00.001-06:002017-03-04T11:58:26.236-06:00Too much of a good thingI've been trying my whole life to learn that details matter and that if a little is good, it doesn't necessarily mean that more is better.

The lastest project from the Ulrike Torchon Workbook is a case in point.

 I really love it and think it's pretty. I also think I almost have a handle on the Scotch Broom stitch (the part that forms the diamonds). But you'll notice that it's quite a long piece for a sample. The reason?

Instead of pinning up the 2 pieces of the pattern like this…

Like it was supposed to be, I pinned it up like this…

It make a minor difference not only to the length but to how long it takes to work it.

I kept peeking under my cover cloth thinking, "Is this some sort of magically growing pattern?" Come to find out, no. It's me being a silly beggar and not paying attention to what I was doing.

So, while I ended up with a lovely piece, I shall be paying much more attention from now on. Really, I will. Really.
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-37550378200819128892017-02-26T21:08:00.001-06:002017-02-26T21:08:59.518-06:00Sweet experimentI never thought I would become a pin cushion whore but I was wrong. Now that I've had some time to think about the cute pin cushion my friend Jennie gave me, I thought I'd try my hand.

At the craft store I found this little box. Now when I travel with my bobbin lace stuff, one of the things I have issues with is the pin cushion and keeping it from getting caught on things. What about if I could close it up?

A few weeks ago I found some pin cushion filler made from crushed walnuts with lavender. So I did this.

Now I have a pin cushion that can be attached to my pillow but then be closed up when traveling. I need to finish the box itself but I'm happy.

Since I still had walnut shells, I decided to do another type of pin cushion - just a plain old square. It smells like heaven (if heaven smelt like lavender - and I'm pretty sure it does).

It's a good thing I have enough pins for all these cushions.
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-31154648516929720212017-02-23T09:28:00.001-06:002017-02-23T09:28:29.761-06:00Peaceful breezesSome patterns are sent to try us and some are sent to soothe us. It's not that the trying ones are bad. They challenge us and teach us and victory is oh so sweet.

But the ones that soothe us bring a whole different level of sweetness and accomplishment as they take us by the hand to wander through fields of lavender, on to beaches with just the right amount of heat and a cool breeze, then to the mountain's clean, crisp air and clear view across the horizon.

The thing is, when you start a pattern, you never know which it's going to be. My current project from the Voelker Torchon Workbook says that the Scotch broom stitch is challenging so I was ready to have to do and undo and redo and repeat.

It hasn't been that at all, in the end. I felt the cool ocean breeze starting up this morning as I worked a couple of little sections to this…

Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-73330859651298820002017-02-22T08:51:00.001-06:002017-02-22T08:51:22.160-06:00New thingsI love starting new projects. Going from the general of looking at patterns, finding one that moves you, preparing materials all lead you to that moment when you Start.

There's something engaging about Starting. That's probably why so many of us are so accomplished at Starting things and not so much about finishing. The promise of something beautiful that comes out of the effort of Starting.

Maybe the fact that we've had unseasonably spring-y weather adds to my excitement about Starting.

I'm back to Ulrike's Torchon Workbook, working on chapter 9 focusing on Scotch Broom, which is an element of ground. I'm just Starting so when I get to that part of the pattern. I don't know much about it yet except it's pretty.

Dianna firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-87593091907866680262017-02-20T16:41:00.001-06:002017-02-20T16:41:57.145-06:00Watching overThis post is going to be a bit of a mishmash of things going on right now. Works completed and those in progress.

First of all, a project completed.

Not perfect but I'm quite happy with this little angel. I definitely need to work on the braided/plaited diamond filling.

I actually did a practice piece to work out where to start, how many pairs to use and how to space the pairs at different points. The pattern didn't come with any instructions and had only a few hints on the pattern.

I think if I did it another time, I would use the same number of bobbins and spacing but I would focus more on the diamond filling and be a bit more careful on the picots.

The practice piece was done in silk and the finished piece was cotton so I think I would do the next piece with silk. It's such a joy to work with.

Speaking of bobbin lace, I've taken advantage of the warmer weather to work more on the bobbins I've been making. The project is moving along.

Here are 5 pairs in process. I've got 10 pair in process right now (with 2 pair completed and in rotation) finishing up now with sanding before I finish them with oil. I think I've got another 8 pair marked out but not started yet.

The other recent project I was involved in was not mine but came as an ask from the Choi&Shine design team. They did a beautiful lace installation as part of the Amsterdam Light Festival and were working on an upcoming Light Festival in Singapore project. They asked for help in making crocheted motifs. The twist was that the working thread was actually marine rope. Here's a finished motif.

Using a 5.5(I) crochet hook, it took me almost 10 hours per motif. I made 6 motifs in about 2.5 weeks. It was all down to the wire but hopefully they got it all put together and shipped on time. I can't show you the new project but here's a link to the Amsterdam project. Pretty amazing, right?
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-16149100945018255202017-02-10T09:59:00.001-06:002017-02-10T09:59:24.529-06:00Next?!I can't believe how much this workshop changed my attitude to warping for the loom. It just seems so doable now.

As to the current warping, I tried a few different variations of the houndstooth pattern I wanted to use and decided to do four patterns of one (green/purple/green/purple) houndstooth pattern and then four of another, slightly longer pattern.

I'm now about 2/3 of the way into the warp and will hopefully be able to finish it this weekend (during rest times for my poor hand that is about to fall off from helping a crochet project that has me crocheting with rope - long story for another day).

I just can't wait to do the next warp!!
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-49204873743320575192017-01-30T22:36:00.001-06:002017-01-30T22:36:57.682-06:00Ready to rollWe had an absolutely lovely day at Hopewell Weaving yesterday. I love Jennie's common sense approach to weaving and how she can do easily move between teaching absolute beginners (there were some of those) and experienced weavers (there were a couple of those), including those inbetween (the rest of us).

This was one of those classes where you don't come away with one big revelation but loads of little gems about the warping process.

A few of my new gems:

You can wind small sections of warp. You don't have to wind and manage the whole of the warp at one time. I know this is going to sound silly to experienced weavers but I didn't know this. I've wound large warps where the strands were popping off the warping pegs because it was too much. Just wind smaller sections. BAM! Problem solved. Need to warp with different colors or yarns? BAM! Problem solved.

 My purple and green linen warp fully wound on.

How do you hold the warp and keep it organized? Use the loopers from the little potholder looms, of course. And super important to wrap one all the around the cross.

 Loopers and slip knots work just fine.

Before tying the final knot on the front beam, lift the shafts to make sure there are no crossed threads.

No one really knows why plain weave is also called tabby and the terms are interchangeable. There are theories but no one really knows.

There's more but the main lesson is that when you get 9 people in one room who are open to learning new things for a day, it makes for a darned enjoyable day!

Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-63746326442973087712017-01-27T23:37:00.001-06:002017-01-27T23:37:33.350-06:00So much to learn so little timeSo excited! On Sunday I get to go with one of my favorite people to a weaving class taught by another of my favorite people and spend the whole day better learning how to warp my loom.

Jennie Hawkey of Hopewell Weaving teaches a wide variety of classes through the year at her studio near Peoria. Fabulous teacher and all around good egg, that's her.

I have warped a loom before in my life but if I were ever to be filmed doing it, the video would go majorly viral and cause injury to many people (from laughing). I want to do good in the world, not injury, so I will be at Jennie's house on Sunday to learn and doing a little laughing myself (and at myself, in sure).

If you're in this area of the country and want a reasonably priced weaving class, keep an eye on Jennie's website (http://hopewellweaving.com/) or follow her on Facebook. You can sign up for her mailing list and keep up on what classes she had going on.
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-31674204131403336492017-01-23T10:54:00.001-06:002017-01-23T10:56:33.897-06:00All in how you look at itIf I were in a "life is like…" sort of moods, I would say this hot mess is a reality for all of us. None of us gets through life with everything all put together and beautiful all the time. Life is beautiful as we embrace the messiness it takes to eventually get where we're going.

But I'm not in that mood today. This hot mess is waiting for one more tiny section and then I'll be able to get it off the pillow and cleaned up. But it's been a fun one. I think I'm going to use it as a doily under my candy dish at work.
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-59879170534562638932017-01-17T21:06:00.000-06:002017-01-17T21:06:00.679-06:00A Heart ChallengeI've moved onto the second pattern from the Brigitte Bellon book. I won't tell you how I know this but when you work this pattern, don't do it at one in the morning on a long weekend. It'll catch you out sure as sure. Not hard but tricky.

Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-67119245723928861802017-01-15T14:40:00.003-06:002017-01-15T14:40:58.840-06:00Coming HomeFor quite a few months, I've been posting project photos on social media instead of here on the blog but I've decided it's time to come home. To be perfectly honest, I was doing that because it was easier and seemed more immediate and I was being lazy) but, in the process, I've lost the recorded thread of the creative life.

So I've come home and look forward to being able to say more about what's going on along my creative path.

I have a long post about my progress and study through the Ulrike Voelker workbook on Torchon Bobbin Lace, having gone almost all the way through the first volume, but I've taken a little side road looking at Russian Tape lace. This type of lace, typical of the lace made throughout Russian and the Eastern European countries, features tapes that undulate and move through often very complex designs as well as leaf tallies, braids, picots and discs that are used as fillers in between the loops of lace.

Here is a very simple, very beginner piece that I've just completed, taken from Brigitte Bellon's book, Gekloppelte Fruhlingsmotive. It has many of the basic characteristics of the style. As you can see, it's a very sweet little motif but it's definitely a beginner's effort.

Actually, it's a better effort than my first attempt, which shall remain quietly in the background. <grin> I have a few more pieces from this book to try and then I will go back to attempting some patterns from one of the vintage books on Russian Tape lace I downloaded from the University of Arizona website. Although some of the books are in Russian, the photos/woodcuts are distinct enough for me to learn from. </grin>

I've also been discovering a couple of Russian lacemakers who have posted teaching videos on YouTube, such as this and this. Even though I'm sure I'm missing out some of the details because I don't speak Russian, the videos are clear enough to be hugely helpful. Thanks, ladies, for your generosity in sharing your art! It's simplicity made into high art.

Dianna firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-65638967729270470602016-04-06T17:12:00.001-05:002016-04-06T17:12:47.529-05:00The PuzzleSo what do you do when you have a skein of multicolor chunky single-ply yarn that's pretty but doesn't have enough yardage to really do anything with?

What if you have another ball that's a lace-weight solid color yarn that you don't yet have a project for?

What if you try to combine them? What size needle would you use? What would you make with them?

It's kind of a fun project to figure out.

For me, I decided to do a cowl. The chunky would be nice and warm and the lace-weight would allow me to add some nice details.

I started off with a sort of in-between needle size but quickly realized that it was going to be way too small for the chunky. Since I was going to be doing a lacy insert into plain stockinette, I realized I could use different size needles for each of the yarns with very little effort and bridge the gap that way.

So I did stockinette for the chunky using size 8-9 needles and then I transitioned to size 4 needles for the lace.

For the lace I did a really simple, super lacy old lace pattern called "faggoting" which is simply doing 1 round of yarnover/knit 2 together and 1 round of knit. These 2 rounds are repeated as often as needed to make it the length you want.

I did a few short sections in the bottom before knitting a long center section, basically to use up the whole skein.

I was going to do a long lace section before doing the edging but I got bored so it was shorter. This was one occasion I was glad of my sometimes short attention span because it came out much better.

I used a little 8-stitch VanDyke edging from the 1846 Cornelia Mee book to edge it (which took forever!) so it ended up like this.

It turned from being a snood to a lacy neck warmer and I love it.

So go explore your stash and try your hand at combining 2 different yarns that you might not have thought to put together. See what you come up with!
Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-78556558717202327172016-03-05T18:05:00.001-06:002016-03-05T18:05:14.933-06:00Another one downI wrote a beautiful long post this morning and with a swipe of the finger, I managed to delete it before publishing. Hmmmm… So I'll try to recreate it knowing it's never as good the second time around.

I finished a skein of milk chocolate brown silk that I started a couple of years ago.

In the process of the plying, I learned something new.

While looking for a video to help a friend of mine with her new spinning wheel, I found one by Tim from New Voyager Trading who distributes Kromski spinning wheels. In the video, he makes the point that when you spin with a Z twist, you use the brake band strung from right to left. That's how they come.

However, his point was that when you have spun your singles with Z twist, you ply using an S twist. For this, reversing the direction of the break band, stringing it from left to right makes the scotch tension much more efficient.

You can see that I've strung the cord over the mother of all, then through the left hook and over the bobbin to the right-side hook. I'd never thought about it befor but it makes sense. It uses the action of the spring and improves the draw in while plying.

It was like a Festivus miracle! It made a real difference. I do have a project in mind for this yarn, which I'll share more about later.

Dianna firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-40996320662612075022016-03-02T21:20:00.001-06:002016-03-02T21:20:36.738-06:00Beading Your PurseThe other night I was looking for something in my home office and found this little beaded coin purse that I'd made about 10 years ago.

After posting it on Facebook, I had a request for the pattern. It's a really basic beaded purse pattern that you can adapt to fit whatever size purse frame you have. These purse frames can usually be found at chain craft stores, although you can also find them online.

You can also find kits to made this type of coin purse at some craft and/or knitting stores or online but it's just as easy to buy a spool of perle cotton and some strands of pre-strung seed beads.

So here's how I made mine. This is a "down and dirty" pattern, written out from looking at my purse. Make, do, change to your heart's content and to fit your own purse frame. And, most of all, enjoy!

Beaded Coin Purse

Size 8 perlé cotton (with beads loaded – load as many beads as you can manage since you'll have to cut the thread to load another set of beads and then make a join.)

Size 10 or 11 seed beads (pre-strung strands of bead make it easy to transfer the beads onto the perlé cotton. You'll use approximately 3,000 beads. The easiest way to transfer the seed beads to the perlé cotton is to make a loop at the end of the sewing thread holding the beads and rest the end of the perlé cotton through the loop. This will allow you to slide the beads from the sewing thread onto the perlé cotton.)

Size 0 or 1 knitting needles

Lining material

Purse frame

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Piece is worked flat and then stitched together when attached to the purse frame. This may not be the best project for working on the move.

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For the smaller coin purse frame, I cast on 28 stitches. Knit 2 rows without beads. This will give you an edge to attach to the purse frame.<o:p></o:p>

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Using the lining material, cut a piece a little larger than the purse. Shape the ends to match the curve of the purse frame. Sew the lining, making sure to leave enough of the side open to accommodate the purse frame. <o:p></o:p>

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Dianna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-82811782846649668222016-03-01T21:23:00.000-06:002016-03-01T21:23:06.310-06:00Antique Spinning WheelsI get asked by new spinners or those who would like to learn to spin and are looking for a wheel that is affordable whether they should buy a used or antique spinning wheel. To be honest, my answer 99.9% of the time is no. Even for more experienced spinners, my answer would be a very reluctant maybe (with a lot of grimacing and shrugging of shoulders). The vast majority of the used/antique wheels are not functional. I came across this video by the always wonderful Abby Franquemont where she discusses what specifically to look for when considering a wheel you might find on the internet or in an antique shop.

I particularly like her comment near the end that if you're shopping for your first wheel or your only wheel, you should go for one that is a "newer" used wheel, i.e. one that is still being manufactured so you can easily get any missing parts, and that you should buy it from a spinner who can assure you that it is in working order.

So, thanks Abby for making your video so I don't have to and providing a practical guide for this important question.

I can't tell you how many people I've talked to who have dreamed of learning to spin only to waste their money on a wheel that isn't functional. This is to keep you from being such a person. I know you don't have money to waste because you need to buy fiber to spin!Dianna firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853843411928329666.post-43265049173335255792016-02-26T16:00:00.001-06:002016-02-26T16:00:42.976-06:00Experiment TimeI love, love, love experimenting. To just get a bunch of stuff and start putting it together in different ways to see what happens is heaven to me. Whether it's cooking or knitting or spinning or anything else, that's what I love. But I don't get as much time for it as I used to or as much as I would like to.

My new spinning project, though, is just that. I've had an idea in my head for a while now to do a riff on tartan patterning with spun yarn. I did a few samples several years ago when this first came to mind and loved how they came out but I just never got back to it.

Now it's my Year of Completion so it's time to get stuck in and experiment. I have a lot of fiber I've been collecting that are appropriate colors for tartan patterning but I also had some fun tropical colors I found the other day in a local shop so I thought I'd use that for my first experiment.

I don't know if you can see the purple at the bottom, that's serving as my deep color. They are fun and cheery colors, perfect for this past stormy, cold week, and I know I'll make at least one person happy (Michelle) with it no matter how it turns out!

It's going to end up being about a DK weight, I think, and should make a fun scarf or shawlette. Not sure yet what the yardage will be but it should be enough for at least that.

Most of the fiber I'm using is what I found at Mary Lynn's Yarn Garden in downtown Bloomington and it is spinning like a dream. They sell it by the ounce so you can get as much or as little as you want.
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In 2016 we're having the C'ville Veggie Fest at IX Art Park. Hosting the festival at IX Art Park will allow us to have all of our programming in a single location.
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| Blaine H chapter 1 . 5/23/2015
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| owly chapter 1 . 5/8/2012
Owls generally deficate scat consisting of a ball of hair and bones from the rodents they eat. Owl poop does not look like seagull poop (as the bb gun fired camera gunk was described). Owl poop looks like a big hair pellet. It is actually very interesting (if slightly gross) to disect and intact rodent skulls are common "gems". Truely educational and fun, especially with children!
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An exciting tale of shadowrunners with unexpected problems during a run. The different characters are well described leading up to a believable intra-party conflict during the run. Captain Beaky is a prime example of a Robin Hood type of runner with a concience. A nice touch to have the lying Johnson get his commupance. I do like the touches of black humour in the story. A good fun read; I look forward to any further adventures of Captain Beaky that you write.


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What an incredible year we've had. If we can just brag for a moment... we grew this blog exponentially in under 12 months and managed to launch a YouTube channel this year as well that's now reached over 53,000 subscribers. Holy vegan cannoli! We can't believe it! We're so excited to ring in 2016 because we can't wait to see what kind of magic it holds for us and hot for food.
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** makes 4 cocktails
1 really ripe pear, peeled & diced
1 thyme sprig
4 oz st. germain (or you cab sub elderflower syrup)
1 cup crushed ice
2 tbsp pomegranate seeds
1 bottle champagne (approx. 4 oz per glass)
To a cocktail shaker add the diced pear, thyme, and st. germain, and muddle really well until pulpy.
Add crushed ice and place the lid on the cocktail shaker. Shake well.
Strain into glasses with a few pomegranate seeds at the bottom of each.
Just before serving add champagne to the glass.
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1. Characterize FHB resistance and mycotoxin accumulation in lipoxygenases silenced and overexpressing transgenic wheat lines. 2. Target non-host resistance mechanism for enhancing FHB resistance. 3. Target expression of a Ca2+-binding protein-encoding gene associated with diterpenoid signaling for promoting FHB resistance in wheat.
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The principal role of the Asia regional director is to lead the development and expansion of Free the Slaves' slavery eradication program in Asia. This is a new position at Free the Slaves. FTS currently has programs in India and Nepal, which are overseen by the South Asia regional programs manager, who is based in Washington, D.C. The Free the Slaves ten-year vision calls for scaling up the South Asia program and expanding into new countries in South and Southeast Asia. The likely location is Bangkok, though alternative Asian locations will be considered.
Free the Slaves' approach to slavery eradication is articulated in its Community-Based Abolition Model. The Asia regional director will lead efforts to dramatically scale up use of the model, with adaptation to context, and contribute to the continuing refinement of the model based on experience and evidence from Asia. This includes strengthening the work of FTS with civil society and government partners, who are preventing slavery and bringing people out of slavery, and improving national and local policy frameworks related to slavery and human trafficking.
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Fear Itself
Chapter 1
Notes: I was not going to start this one! Seriously! But it wouldn't get out of my head and was preventing me from writing on my other stuff. Including Still Breathing. SO, it seems I shall be working a double fic for awhile. Hopefully this one won't be too long.
Being sick in the winter sucked.
Being sick on a snow day was the worst.
For the seven year old it was torture. Her head pounded, everything floated weirdly in her gaze. Currently her mother was cooking in the kitchen. She could smell soup and cocoa and all it did was make her stomach churn.
So she sat at the huge picture windows and stared into the untouched snow of the front yard. The big pine tree looking like a Christmas decoration with all its needles covered in frost and bits of powdered snow clung to the end of branches. A shiny black raven decided it was too good a chance to miss some fun of his own and was bouncing from branch to branch shaking off the snow and making great holes in the coverage on the ground.
The raven haired little girl grinned and giggled her nose pressed up against the glass and her breath making it fog.
Then suddenly it burst into frosty patterns. Blinking her fuzzy eyes at this she burst into tired giggles. For a moment forgetting how ill she felt, how her head spun or how the edges of her vision darkened oddly.
She took a breath, fighting the urge to cough, and breathed on the glass in another spot.
It fogged then suddenly broke into beautiful frosty patterns, lines of ice forming and spanning out like little patterns of fern leaves.
Clapping her hands in delight she reached up and drew a line along the foggy frost. Just a little smiley face.
Then blinked as there was the outline of a raven next to it.
She rubbed her brown eyes and then looking slightly beyond the outline of the bird and after a moment she grinned.
There was a blue boy there. His skin pale and his hair as well. His eyes an icy blue. His hair windblown and dressed with a hooded shirt and one hand in the front pocket a long staff hooked in his arm. She grinned and drew a little snowflake above his bird. And the smile that broke out on his face made her feel like for the moment… she had a new friend.
And for the lonely girl it made her happy.
She didn't know how long she drew pictures through the glass with the blue boy, her fogging the glass, him freezing it and the two of them filling it with fanciful outlines and silly childish drawings but eventually a sound caught his attention and he turned. A bunch of the neighborhood kids running down the half plowed roadway, hauling sleds and tossing bits of ice and pinecones at each other.
The blue boy laughed and then half danced over the top of the snow, leaving only swirls in his wake.
"hey.. come back!" the little girl said feeling upset that the boy would leave and not even say goodbye. It was like, he didn't realize she could see him.
She got up from the couch and rushed to the front door. Dressed in footed pajamas she pulled her mother's shawl over her shoulders and coughing she held a hedgehog toy in one arm and pulled the door open with her other.
A rush of cold air hit her in the face, shocking her lungs and making her cough so that she couldn't yell after the blue boy and the other children now tossing snow balls after each other as they rushed off for the hill the neighborhood kids all called 'dead man's drop'.
"Come.. back.." her words where broken by more coughing and she knelt huddled under the shawl.
Everything spun and felt so, weird. She glanced up and for a moment thought she saw a tall man, standing under the pine tree. The raven that had been playing there took off in startled flight cawing at the intruder.
And he only smiled at her as she collapsed.
The draft of cold air from the open doorway caught her mother's attention and she came over to see what was going on. Seeing her daughter in the opened doorway she rushed over.
"Ashley Tompson, what do you think you are…oh god." Picking up the tiny seven year old and feeling her forehead the woman bundled her up, shoving her feet into heavy snow boots she rushed out the doorway to the old station wagon and loading the little girl into the passenger's side seat she rushed to the doctors.
Ashley had woken in the hospital when her fever broke. When asked why she had been in the open doorway she had replied that she had only wanted to say good bye to the blue boy. The doctors wrote it off as being because of the fever. Hallucinations most likely. They said she had something called pneumonia and her fever had spiked dangerously.
They were able to break her fever in the hospital and she was on the mend. With the blizzard that came in overnight, school was likely to be out until winter break. So she had lots of time to get better before she had to go back.
Tuning out the adults she stood by the window looking out over the court yard below, all covered in white snow. Then fogging the glass with her breath she drew the outline of a raven with snowflakes around it.
Nine year old Ashley Tompson came awake with a snort and blinked. Reaching up she rubbed tired eyes, pushing her round rimmed glasses half up her head as she glanced down at her study desk in her room. She made a face as she righted her oversized plastic frames and held up her book. She'd fallen asleep reading and drooled all over the page. With a sigh she set it aside to dry and blinked.
Did she hear, bells? Leaning over her desk she looked through the small attic window of her bedroom and stared outside. It was a perfectly clear Christmas night. The moon looked so big! She grinned and half giggled as the effect it had upon the snow covered ground meant that suddenly it was a winter wonderland. Over the porch roof snow glistened and the white birch her mother planted next to the house the year she was born had snow weighing its branches and the few oblong leaves clinging vainly to its ends shimmered with ice coating them. The pines looked like silver Christmas trees, the ice cycles glinting back moon and starlight like little twinkle lights. A few colors glinting from the Christmas lights from neighbor's lawn displays.
She smiled huge in wonder at the sight and then heard again the sound that had woken her. Bells, and.. laughter? Looking up she saw the outline of something. It was not a plane, it looked like…
Santa's Sleigh!
"Oh wow!" she laughed. This was a real treat! She wondered what presents the kids would be talking about when school started again!
Her family didn't celebrate, but that was ok. Her mom and dad told her that presents were not just one time of year, they were all year and she didn't want for toys or other things.
Besides, Ashley's interests were pretty cheap. She loved books, and little ceramic boxes that she would hunt for at garage sales with her mom. She usually asked for paper and pencils. The sloped ceiling of her room was papered in her drawings. Some decent, some not so much. Of super heros and landscapes and against the opposite wall near the stairwell that went through her sister's room, she had an oil painting that she and her mom did together. A waterfall with ice clinging to the rocks and the moss glistening under the lights from above.
So many happy little trees. She giggled and getting up she spun about her room for just the pure joy before dropping into her bed and holding her head briefly as she misjudged and bonked her head on the low ceiling.
But she curled up pulling close her favorite toy, a stuffed puppet hedgehog her mom gave her when she was five. Her sister had a white seal in a sailor's outfit, she closed her eyes with a sigh. Falling into peaceful slumber.
Under the shadows of the spare bed a set of eyes watched her and a wide sharp smile. Her dreams, didn't seem to be as peaceful as the little girl frowned and then curled tighter under her blankets.
"You are a little old to be complaining about monsters under your bed dear." Her mother brushed back the eleven year old's hair and began braiding it.
"But mom! I did see a face under the spare bed! It was smiling at me, and… I hear a voice. Sometimes." She hugged her arms closer around herself.
"Hold still, and what does this voice say?"
"Lots of things, sometimes bad things, other things don't make sense. Sometimes he says things that make weird sense. But, I just don't like it!" she could stop the shudder. A feeling like cold fingers walking up her spine. It felt so, dark, slimy, as if something horrible was going to happen.
"It's just bad dreams, they will go away." Her mother said. "You just got to be strong and tell them that you aren't afraid of them!" and her mom kissed her cheek. "If you aren't scared of shadows they lose their power and go away."
"… I hope so."
Twelve years old and she dreaded going to her room. But despite her sister having no trouble with it, her parents insisted she sleep in her own room. As if they thought her fear was childish nonsense.
Maybe it was, but Ashley couldn't help it.
She didn't just see glowing eyes and a sharp smile anymore.
"Welcome back Ashley, how was school today?"
The young preteen stopped at the opening of her room looking behind her she could see the wide eye fearful stare of her sister. Biting her lip she gave the other girl a smile.
She knew her little sister could see him too. Could hear him.
The Boogey Man.
"It was, fine." She said softly edging around his form. He was seated on the spare bed, smiling pleasantly at her.
She didn't trust him. After a year of his constant scaring her she knew he could go from pleasant to dangerous in a short time. The wrong word could set him off.
And no amount of being brave could make him go away until he felt like it. And if she tried being too brave.
Well he showed her how little her bravery mattered to him.
She sat down at her desk and pulled out her homework.
And felt his shadow fall over her shoulder. She restrained a shudder. "What do we have today? Math? My my, hope your grades have improved over last semester."
"Um. Yeah." She said softly "you were right about that faster way to solve the problems." Talking kept her a little more focused and a little less likely to piss her pants.
He patted her shoulder "Well it's just because I'm a bit older than you and been doing this longer." And leaning over he looked over her pages. Pointing out some errors in her homework.
Even if she spent the next couple hours terrified, her homework got done.
And Ashley was not going to be forgetting this tutelage anytime soon.
Eighteen and collage. She packed her bag and sighed, staring at her empty room. The last couple years had been a strain on her and her family. Her father had fallen at a construction site and between the breaks and burns he had gotten, he wasn't going back anytime soon.
So he had been forced into an early retirement. Ashley was going to be going to college, but her family would be moving to the southern states were it was cheaper to live on their dad's much smaller income.
She sighed, for a moment she thought she felt ice cold fingers up her spine, but looking around there was nothing. Just a few shadows in the corner.
The girl shuddered and pulled up her knees hiding behind her bangs and limbs. A silvery bracelet hanging between her fingers. She sighed standing up and leaving the bracelet on the bare spare matrice that was to be left behind.
It was almost over, he couldn't follow her if she no longer lived here, right?
Ashley stared at the fish bowl. She had hoped the weekend feeder would be enough for the short time she had been gone, but, it did not appear so. The little goldfish floated on the scummy part of the water at the top. When she tapped the glass the little thing sunk to the bottom. Once a living creature, now, fishbait.
The girl sighed and pushed back her hair. She'd cut it when she went to college. It was shorter lengths now. Her mother hated it, but Ashley was horrible at taking care of long hair without someone else to do the braiding. With as compact as her college days had been and working part time with various jobs to pay for her school books.
She just needed one thing in her life to be easy.
As she got her fish net and gave her little friend a burial down the toilet drain, she leaned back against the bathroom door and slowly sank down to the floor. Everything just felt so, wrong. Like this was not how her life was meant to be.
She'd gone to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her family. Everyone had been so cheerful. Her sister was married with lots of happy fat babies (triplets. They were still trying to figure out where they came from) Her father resided over the turkey and ham with his electric carving knife and bad puns. Guaranteed to bring groans to the table every year. (Do fathers go to school for that? How to tell bad jokes and embarrass their children even among family?) Her mom cooked in the kitchen and made everyone else clean up after. While she sat with her feet up drinking eggnog.
But Ashley felt, well disconnected from it all. She smiled and laughed and chased the triplets around with the cats, she brought along her early Christmas presents and received a few for herself in return. (Mostly gift cards as she been flying)
But it just felt all so very far away from her. Her latest boyfriend dumped her right before she left. (With the old adage 'it's not you it's me!' How could she believe that when they where twitching at shadows and practically flying out of her front door?) So that had not improved her mood. Her family had expected to see him but she had to inform them he was not coming and why.
So she got the lines about plenty of fish in the sea, maybe he was gay? All those words of comfort she'd heard a million times. (Well her sister said she didn't like his nose anyway. Too small.)
And she comes home to the only living thing dependent upon her, well… no longer dependant.
Worse though was when she and her sister started talking about their childhood and the old house.
And she had to pretend that she was 'over' what happened. Her sister, had forgotten most of the details. Just thought it was nothing but a mild hysteria or her just playing along with her sister's fear.
Ashley wrapped her arms around herself in the bathroom and tucked her head between her knees. She tried not to think about that time. She hadn't seen the boogeyman in a long time, but she was still scared.
Still knew he was real.
Very very real.
Just like Santa and the Toothfairy. All of them. She'd seen most of them in the distance. Had a few minor interactions with a couple.
She still remembered the look on Cupid's face when she told him to save his arrow he had been aiming at a guy. Sure enough, the girl had opened her arms to another man who came around the corner.
She'd seen them meet for lunch many a time. He thanked her for saving a bit of heartbreak and went on with shooting someone else. Surprised her that the next arrow had gone to a child, who then saw a little puppy in a box, hidden in shadow.
When she turned to ask, the blond man had been gone. She'd put her hands in her pockets and went on her own way.
She'd shortly after met one of her boyfriends, that had been a real rush, so she had a feeling she'd been the target of one of those arrows too.
That one had lasted the longest, more than three months at least. But then he too had left.
Quaking in such fear. He at least had been completely honest.
He couldn't handle the nightmares. Whenever they where apart the dreams stopped, but whenever they were together too long…
Ashley sniffed and hugged herself closer. Curling her toes around each other. Was she so horribly marked by having the personal attentions of the boogeyman? She had been away for years and never even gone back to that old house she grew up in. Not even to drive through the town. She drove around it.
And of recent she'd transferred for her masters clear on the other side of the country! One couldn't get further from Washington State than New York.
Well she might have tried for Maine, but they didn't have any schools with her courses in them. Or at least, not with the degrees that the other schools offered. Might not have been one of the Ivy Leagues, but it was still one of the better. She'd been hoping to get into Boston, but unfortunately her application hadn't been accepted at MIT.
But New York had felt far enough away and at least she had snow, and her own apartment instead of dorming with a bunch of strangers.
It wasn't much. It had been called a 'one bedroom'. Though the bedroom was basically only divided by the fact that the bathroom was right between that space and the rest of the apartment, giving a sort of divider and no door. But the price was right and for a generally single girl, it was good enough.
The light above the old cast iron tub flickered and she found herself looking up startled, feeling her heart in her throat.
For a brief moment she thought she saw an outline of a man in the corner. Tall, foreboding. With a wide white smile and glowing eyes.
The flickering stopped and the light evened out again. There was nothing there but the shower curtain and a rack she kept her towel and shampoo on.
Shaky she got up and went back out to her living room. Cleaning out the fish bowl and putting a little Chinese meal in a box in the microwave for her dinner.
She spent the evening watching cheesy old holiday specials that started after Thanksgiving and would go on into Christmas. Munching her dinner with chopsticks. Next to her rested an old stuffed hand puppet hedgehog as she huddled under a blanket in her PJs with domo slippers on her feet.
Doing her best to forget the past and keep her fear of the darkness at bay.


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India's 19 test unbeaten record by broken by Australia at Pune in the first test of the Border- Gavaskar Trophy. Indian team had not looked this vulnerable in test s since the 2011 Australian series. With scores of 105 & 107 in both innings, this was India's lowest aggregate in tests. Steve O'Keefe turned out to be the protagonist for the Kangaroos picking up career-best 12 wickets in a match, with figures of 6/35 and 6/35 in both innings. India dropped as many as 4 catches of Steve Smith in the second innings who went on to score a match winning hundred. Ahead of the second test match, here are some things India should look to improve to bounce back:
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What hurt the Indian most was Mitchell Starc's 60 odd runs in the first innings. Indian bowlers had the Aussies reeling at 205-9 but Starc put up a show at the end and scored run a ball fifty, to get the score to 260, which proved out to be much at the end. The spinners as well as the fast bowlers could not go through the tail and ended up adding as much pressure on the team.
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I'll never forget watching your show in 1998 when I was only 18 years old. That inspired me to start going to the gym, although I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. A year later I fell deep into an already existing eating disorder and became extremely underweight. Not putting blame on anyone but a lot of people would tell me when I started to put muscle on who "unfeminine" it was. Even though you were already a household name and a fitness icon, it seemed like (at least in my geographical area) it was not acceptable for women to be strong, muscular, and athletic. I tend to put muscle on very easily and in the early 2000's wafer thin seemed to be "the look"
Then I met the love of my life, my husband. He was a huge fan of yours and said he was immediately attracted to me due to my resemblance of you. (I'm Fillipina/Hawaiian, and Caucasian) It wasn't just the physical attraction however and a few years later we were married and had our son.
After my son was born I was in despair. Being 5'2 and weighing 165lbs upon delivery was to me, devastating. The worst part was trying to lose the weight which a newborn and living in a strange city with no family around to support us.
We moved a lot the first few years of my son's life due to my husband's job. Then we ended up in Pittsburgh. I started watching youtube videos of your show and my husband kept encouraging me to start lifting and working hard.
I printed pictures of you and hung them up on my refrigerator as inspiration. (my husband had no problems with that! LOL!)
In 2010 I competed in my first string of figure shows and did very well. I even landed a spot in a Magazine. Last year I decided to compete in the NPC and qualified for a bunch of national level shows.
Now although in nursing school, I am preparing to compete in the NPC Team Universe show in NJ this summer. Regardless if I never turn IFBB pro, it's been an amazing journey and you have always been my inspiration.
I am also a fitness instructor and try to be a good example and encourage others to reach their goals as you do. You are an amazing woman and if there was ever one person in this whole world I would like to meet, it would be you.
Thank you for being an inspiration and being you!! I'm so glad I can follow you on facebook and have you remain my number one inspiration!!!
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Acini Di Pepe Ambrosia Salad
READY IN: 45mins
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A family favorite and a fond memory from my childhood.
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This is one of several dishes I took to a neighborhood get-together, & it was definitely a big hit! We love pasta salads & fruit salads, so a combo of the two was an intriguing & enjoyable adventure for me! Absolutely loved putting this one together, & will certainly be doing it again & again! A keeper, for sure! [Made & reviewed in Bargain Basement recipe tag]
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- 1 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon oil
- 1 lb acini di pepe pasta
- 3 (11 ounce) cans mandarin oranges (drained)
- 2 (20 ounce) cans pineapple chunks (drain and reserve)
- 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple tidbits (drain and reserve)
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
- 1 cup shredded coconut
Directions See How It's Made
- Combine sugar flour and salt in a saucepan.
- Gradually stir in 1 3/4 cup of pineapple juice and eggs and cook until thick.
- Add lemon juice and stir well.
- In a separate pan boil 3 quarts of water, 1 teaspoon of oil and the dry pasta. Cook until soft.
- Drain and rinse with cold water. Let cool to room temperature.
- Combine with egg mixture and refrigerate overnight in an air tight container.
- Mix lightly and add the mandarin oranges, pineapple, marshmallows and coconut.
- Serve immediately.


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Thread: Daily Gratitudes for 4/5/2008
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Daily Gratitudes for 4/5/2008
~fun chatting last night in the FV Chat room
~DD18 made it home safely last night, then told me all about the fun she had
~DD18 brought me a long-stemmed pink rose
~DD17 called from her friends to talk to me this morning
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Another beautiful day above 60!!
My son & his family still here from NC.
My family & friends.
My youngest son making more progress even though the 7 year mark is upon us.04-05-2008, 05:06 PM #3
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~~ Warm Weather
~~ Family & Friends
~~ Strength & Courage
~~ My Children
~~ Private Messages & Emails
~~ The Gift of Love & Friendship~TRACY~*
Trying to live the Simple Life.
I LOVE flea markets, yard sales, couponing,
crafting, making all natural body products and homesteading.
* I make handmade salves, balms, scrubs, room sprays and candles!
* Want to Travel the US, live my dream and simplify my life!
Savings: $500 - Opened 3/20/17 - I CAN DO THIS!
Visit my blog at simpletimeliving.blogspot.com
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* Warm eather - 65 today!
* The earth is coming back to life !!!!!
* Got to hang freshly washed bedclothes outside today
* Taking a nap with DH
* Fresh air in the house
* family and friends04-05-2008, 06:56 PM #5
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~DS#2 jumping a 'new' personal best in the triple jump at the track meet today!
~DS#3 mowing the lawn
~wonderful weather
~crockpot~*Michelle*~~Wife to Rick since Dec. 19, 1986~~Mother to Richard, 27, Chris, 24, and Dakota, 21~~Special Education Teacher~04-05-2008, 09:08 PM #6
warm sunshine
babies ok
clean up day
coffee & fresh airPine trees, with their needles pointing up to heaven, represent everlasting light and life.
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