Posted on March 13, 2013
Aqua Caliente Creek PCT hike
We hit the trail for a mid-week day hike, the PCT near Warner Springs. The trail begins at highway 79 and meanders north through meadows and a dry creek or wash area until reaching the Cleveland National Forest. There it descends the hills to a beautiful little creek.
Posted on March 4, 2013
Hosp Grove hike
This year started off with a bang as we moved down south to Oceanside. We said goodbye to Marina del Rey and all the trails near LA, and have said hello to all that San Diego County has to offer. So it’s been a hard month of settling in and we were finally able to consider going for a hike this weekend.
Posted on January 9, 2013
A Warm hat for Mama
It was time for me to make myself a hat! The first project of 2013 and It turned out pretty nice but very very large. Guess there is something to knitting gauge afterall… Well good thing I have big hair so it all fits in!
Posted on November 11, 2012
Warm Socks for Jess
Well it took me what felt like ages to makes these socks! But they are done now and they are AMAZING!
Posted on October 20, 2012
A Warm Hat for Gabriel
The sky is the limit! Or so I thought. It is good to feel that way once in awhile and I was on a massive high from making Simon’s socks when I began this project. I embarked on this hat-making journey as a naive, hopeful character setting off into the world just like in a fairy tale…
Posted on October 9, 2012
Prison pants
I have been hiking in jeans. They’re really heavy, and while they are very comfortable, if they were to get wet they wouldn’t dry very quickly. I chose Supplex nylon to make some replacement hiking pants from, in a bright orange color for increased visibility in hunting season as well as ease of spotting ticks and other insects on the trail. Jess pointed out that the color is ‘prison orange’ which made me instantly hate the color. The end result was far from perfect and almost unwearable, but a good experience.
Posted on October 8, 2012
Warm Socks for Simon
The time had come! I don’t know how many years it had been but I had wanted to knit a pair of socks for as long as I can remember. And now the time had finally come! I was excited and scared.
Posted on October 7, 2012
Stripy Thermals for G
After the success of my stripy thermals, I had to make some for Jess and Gabriel. Here is Gabriel modeling his, Jess to follow.
Posted on October 2, 2012
A Warm Hat for Simon
Having been recently reacquainted with knitting, it was first my intention to knit a hat for Simon. At the craft store Simon picked out a beautiful multi-colored woolen yarn and I grabbed a set of circular knitting needles- something I had never used before. When I got home and attempted my cast on, I had problems. How the heck do you use these things? Well a word to the wise, I now know that you always use a length that will be shorter than the circumference of what you will be knitting. So since I surely wasn’t going to make a hat as wide as 29″ (the length I bought), I decided to stow those away for another project and I whipped out my trusty crochet hook.
Posted on September 28, 2012
I’m on a Boat
We were planning on another cruise but we were still tired after last week, so instead Gabriel and I went and played on the boat at the dock and left mummy to her business. Check out the blue tether attached to his life jacket- I use that to tie him to something while I am elsewhere on the boat. It’s not a proper tether and not certified but at the dock it works great!
Posted on September 27, 2012
New Shoes for Gabriel
The first pair of shoes I made for Gabriel were a raging success both functionally and aesthetically: He walked and hiked in them a lot without any disrepair and he also received many compliments on them! I am encouraged. Now his feet have grown slightly and the inside seam appears to be rubbing against his big toe. So I busted out the leather and set to work.
Posted on September 26, 2012
New Threads
After our experience at Cooper Falls where we got a bit chilly I decided it was time to bust out ol’ Faithful (Jess’s family sewing machine which we’ve been lucky enough to borrow on an extended basis from her mom) and create some fine-ass thermals.