Mommy's Little Girl by Diane Fanning

This is a True Crime story about the Casey Anthony case. I watch the Nancy Grace show almost every night, so I am very familiar with this case and was not sure that I would learn anything new reading this book.
But I did. It is a very interesting book. Read it.

Baking with Kairi

My sister RoxAnn brought my great niece Kairi out to visit today.
She is just the sweetest little girl.
We baked cookies.

Rooster Hand dyed, Handspun Yarn

The Rooster is King of the chicken coop. A rooster is often more colorful then a hen. As in this case with this Beautiful Rooster yarn. I hand dyed this soft Merino wool, to capture the red, black, gold, and brown color of the rooster.
This is a 2 ply yarn that is 10 WPI, making it a worsted weight wool yarn. At 124 yards, I can see this knit into a lovely scarf, hat, or a pair of fingerless mitts.

Star-Shaped Baby Afghan

My nephew and his girlfriend are going to have a baby. A great reason to buy yarn, and to crochet a baby afghan. I choose the Star-Shaped baby afghan pattern to knit for them. I think that it turned out so very cute. I used Bernat Softee Baby yarn for this afghan. I used a pink, a blue, and a green. Perfect baby colors. This yarn is sooo soooo very soft. Perfect for a baby.

Mortal Danger by Ann Rule

I love True Crime stories. And Ann Rule told the terrifying tale of Kate Jewell, and how she survived living with John Branden. But another women was not so lucky and lost her life at his hands. A Good read.

Brownie Pan

I bought this yesterday https://www.perfectbrownie.com/
and tried it out today.
I sprayed the heck out of it with cooking spray to make sure that my brownies would come out of the pan nicely.
I have to say that it was difficult getting my brownies out of this pan. I even put them in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to make sure that they were very cool.
I think that you need to flour and spray this divider thing.
But I did get nice square shaped brownies.
Be sure to use a cookie sheet when you bake with this brownie pan, because some of the batter did leak out of the bottom of the pan.

Handspun Yarn Giveaway Winner

I want to Thank everyone for entering my Handspun Yarn Giveaway. The winner of the Handspun Giveaway is momof2grls. She has a Knitting and Family blog at http://knittingmomof2grls.blogspot.com/

Autumn Vineyard hand dyed, handspun yarn

I was inspired by this Autumn Vineyard picture to color this wool. I hand dyed Merino wool purple, blue, green, gold, and orange. The picture is so very Beautiful, and so is the wool yarn, and so very soft. At 11 WPI it is 128 yards of worsted weight wool.

Easy Lace Socks

In South Dakota we are very fortunate to have an amazing knitter, spinner, designer, and author living in our state. Kathleen Taylor has written a new sock Book. The Big Book of Socks. I happen to have a signed copy of this book! I choose as my first project from this book, the Easy Lace Socks. They are knit from the top down, short row heel, star toe on size 2 needles! Kathleen makes sock knitting easy with her new book. She gives step by step, row, by row instructions. A Great Sock Knitting Book.

Mountain View Hand dyed, Handspun Yarn

This is what my mountain view looks like. I can see the mountain, the trees, the leaves, the sun, and the sky. This is Merino wool that I dyed turquoise, green, gold, and brown, to make up my Mountain view colors. It is worsted weight yarn at 11 WPI, and 108 yards of soft, beautiful yarn.