tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53722390566468661792024-03-08T00:30:10.010-08:00They Are All of Medesfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-17117144478646800252019-07-22T13:30:00.001-07:002019-07-22T13:30:11.821-07:00Toddler JacketMaterials Required:<br />
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Cable needle<br />
Small crochet hook<br />
Stitch markers<br />
Yarn – finger weight yarn, 1,770 yards if self-striping
(the sweater pictured used Mandala Wood Nymph self-striping yarn, 3 skeins)<br />
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Fabric for lining – 1 yard<br />
Thread<br />
Zipper – 24” All purpose
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Download and print the following files:<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WvUn9WqjVqVAqpNGRvMPAGgkyIKu-IPv" target="_blank">Knitting Pattern & Lining Tutorial</a><br />
<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Gs1l5WDmdPc6nzsix0RbCL86QYrvfFhP" target="_blank">Row Counter & Pattern Chart</a><br />
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desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-62138468488829216412017-12-14T13:39:00.002-08:002017-12-14T13:40:12.563-08:00Celtic Cable Fingerless Gloves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Supplies<br />
</b>Circular needles or DPNs, size 4<br />
Worsted weight yarn, any color or brand<br />
2 stitch markers</div>
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Cable needle<br />
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<b>Abbreviations</b></div>
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CB4 (cable 4 back) place 2 stitches on cable needle, hold in back, knit 2, knit
the two from the needle.<br />
CF4 (cable 4 forward) place 2 stitches on cable needle, hold in front, knit 2,
knit the two from the needle.<br />
CR3R (Cable 3 Right) place one stitch on cable needle, hold to the back, knit
two, purl the stitch from the needle.<br />
CR3L (Cable 3 Left) place 2 stitches on cable needle, hold to the front, purl
1, knit the 2 from the needle.<br />
CR4R (Cable 4 Right) place 2 stitches on cable needle, hold to the back, knit
two, purl 2 from the needle.<br />
CR4L (Cable 4 Left) place 2 stitches on cable needle, hold to the front, purl
2, knit 2 from needle.<br />
K1M1 (knit one, make one) knit one stitch and before slipping it off the left needle, insert the right needle into the back of the stitch to draw through second loop.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Cast On 48 stitches on circular needles.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Rib stitch x2 for six rows.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Begin cable pattern; repeat the
following panel twice per row:<br />
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<b>Celtic Cable Panel</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R1<o:p></o:p></div>
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R2<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R3<o:p></o:p></div>
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R4<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R5<o:p></o:p></div>
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R6<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R7<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R8<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R9<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R10<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R11<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R12<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R13<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R14<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R15<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
R16<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 346.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 472.5pt;" valign="top" width="630"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
(P2, C4B, P2) x3<o:p></o:p></div>
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P<o:p></o:p></div>
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P<o:p></o:p></div>
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K<o:p></o:p></div>
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K<o:p></o:p></div>
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K<o:p></o:p></div>
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K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
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K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
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P<o:p></o:p></div>
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P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
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P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
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K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
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K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P1, CR3R, (CR4L, CR4R) x2, CR3L, P1<o:p></o:p></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
CR3R, P1 (P2, C4F, P2) x2, P1, CR3L<o:p></o:p></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K2, P2, (CR4R, CR4L) x2, P2,
K2<o:p></o:p></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
(K2, P2) x2, P2, C4B, P2, (P2, K2) x2<o:p></o:p></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K2, P2, (CR4L, CR4R) x2, P2, K2<o:p></o:p></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
CR3L, P1 (P2, C4F, P2) x2, P1, CR3R<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P1, CR3L, (CR4R, CR4L) x2, CR3R, P1<o:p></o:p></div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.45pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
K<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
P<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Complete the panel once, then repeat rows 1 through 10.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
On row 11, K1M1 x2 after the first 24 stitches to begin
thumb gusset for the left glove. For the right glove, insert gusset increases
after the 48<sup>th</sup> stitch. Place stitch markers here so you know where they are.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
From this point, only do the panel pattern on the back half
of the glove, with a standard knit stitch for the palm.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Continue the panel as before up to row 16, increasing at gusset by K1M1 x
2 every 4th row until you complete the panel for the second time. Repeat rows 1
through 8 again, increasing your gusset each 4th row.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Gusset increases will occur on rows 11, 15, 3, and 7. There
will be 12 gusset stitches total.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Place the gusset stitches on reserve yarn.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Finish the panel pattern from rows 9 through 16, with the
standard knit on the palm and cable pattern on the back. You will have
completed the cable pattern three full times.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Rib x 2 six more rows and bind off.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Place gusset stitches back on the needles and pick up four
more from the index finger side. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Rib x 2 for six rows and bind off.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
Weave in ends.<o:p></o:p></div>
desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-44401265234802013002017-08-23T13:05:00.005-07:002017-08-23T13:25:47.881-07:00Baby Trapper Hat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This hat was designed to go with <a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2017/08/knitted-boots-for-baby.html" target="_blank">these knitted, fur lined baby boots</a>.<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Materials:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;">Worsted weight yarn - I used Simply Soft acrylic yarn by Caron</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Size 5 knitting needles </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Large eye blunt needle, for sewing with yarn<br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Sewing needle</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">All purpose sewing thread in yarn color</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">4" faux fur fabric (off the bolt)</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">12" super soft fleece (off the bolt)</span></span><br />
This pattern is knitted flat and sewing together with yarn and needle. Machine sewing is used for the lining.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Top dome (Make 2)</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">R1 - k all the way across</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">R2 - sl1, k2, p to the third last stitch, k3</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">R3 - sl1, k1m1, k to the second last stitch, k1m1, k</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Repeat rows 2 & 3 for 25 more rows, or until work measures about 8 inches at the bottom. Garter stitch for three more rows.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Top Center</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">R1 - k all the way across</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">R2 - sl1, k2, p to the third last stitch, k3</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">R3 - sl1, k all the way across</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Repeat rows 2 & 3 until work measures about 10 inches long. Garter stitch the last three rows. Match up the knots on the side of the strip and the dome pieces and knit to length.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sew the dome pieces to the center strip, one on each side, with right sides facing one another. The side which has the garter stitch in the center strip is the back of the dome.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">On the front of the brim of the hat, count 13 stitches from the center strip on both sides. Pick up stitches along the brim, and around the back between these two points. Here, you will begin knitting your flap.</span></div>
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Knit back and forth on both sides for 3 rows, creating a garter stitch.</div>
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For 15 rows, knit on the outside and purl on the inside, with a garter stitch edging on the last three stitches. </div>
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On row 16, place a stitch marker after the 18th stitch and before the 18th from the last stitch. </div>
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On row 17, knit the first three stitches, purl the next 15, knit across to the stitch marker, k3, purl to the last three stitches, knit the final three.</div>
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On row 18, knit all the way across.</div>
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On row 19, repeat as you did on row 17.</div>
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On row 20, knit to the stitch marker. Just past the stitch marker, begin binding off up to the second marker, knit across. </div>
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<b>Ear flaps</b></div>
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You should have two sections of knitting on your needle for your ear flaps. Work one at a time, knitting on one side and purling on the other for three rows, then begin decreasing <i>every</i> row by knitting the second and third, and the second to last and third to last stitches together. Once you have gotten your ear flap down to two stitches, knit them in the round for ten rows to get a small rope. When you bind them off, leave a four inch tail to tie on the tassel.</div>
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Lay your hat out on a sheet of paper and trace along the seams. Add a half an inch for stretch and another quarter of an inch for seam allowance. Also, and this is important, have your inner lining pattern come down an inch and a half further in the front than the knitted hat. Refer the the photo on the right.</div>
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You will only cut two pieces for your pattern. The dome, and the center strip. </div>
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Once cut, sew them together with right side facing, noting which end is the front and which is the back. </div>
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You will need to also cut a strip of fleece and a strip of fur that is about 12 inches wide and four inches tall for the front bill of the hat. The last piece you will need is the fur for the back flap. Only cut this approximately, leaving plenty of excess. You are going to cut it and sew it to fit during the assembly.</div>
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Machine stitch the 12" x 4" strip of fleece and fur fabric together on three sides with a 1/4 inch seam, leaving the bottom open. </div>
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As you do this, keep a 1/4 inch of extra fleece lining at the bottom. This allows for even fabric after turning.</div>
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Pin the strip of fur for the back flap to the lining of the hat with right sides together. Use the knitted hat as a guide for where the flap piece should go - however, leave a good inch or more of fur fabric excess on both sides of the hat. </div>
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Sew the front flap to the lining with the fur side of the flap facing the right side of the fleece lining. </div>
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The photos on the right show the lining assembly both right side out and inside out.</div>
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Place the lining over a rounded surface (I used my knee) and fit the knitted hat over it snuggly. Make sure there is an inch of lining protruding below the brim of the front of the hat, and that the back fur flap extends past the knitted hat.</div>
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Using a standard needle and matching thread, stitch the knitted hat to the lining as shown in the picture. Hide the stitches in the weave of the knitting. The stitches will be concealed within the pile of the lining.</div>
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Continue tucking and pinning from sides and around the back, up to the front of the hat.</div>
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To make the tassels, wind some yard around your palm twenty times.<br />
Use the 4 inch length of yarn at the end of each rope to tie the bundles of yarn to the rope at the knot.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Worsted weight yarn in 2 colors - I used Simply Soft acrylic yarn by Caron</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Size 3 circular needles (or dpn)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Size 1 circular needles (or dpn)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">1 cable needle (or dpn)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">3.5 mm crochet hook</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stitch markers (at least 4)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Upholstery thread (color of sole)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">All purpose sewing thread in both yarn colors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">3" faux fur fabric (off the bolt)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">12" super soft fleece (off the bolt)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">8" x 8" leather</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">8" Craft Felt, color of upper boot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hammer & Nail</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Spray Adhesive</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Flat sorbent pad (or similar material)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Absorbent shammy (or similar material)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Notes: Knit the shells at least one size bigger than you think you want. Once you get the lining and the felt inside, Baby's foot will have much less room. These boots are made to fit a size 3 1/2 infant foot. To knit the boots smaller or larger, begin by adjusting the size of the knitted sole, and then adjust the remainder of the pattern accordingly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the color you chose for the bottom of the boot, using a size 3 needle set, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">knit a sole using seed stitch that is 15 stitches wide at it's widest and 7 stitches wide at the narrowest, as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">CO 7<br />R1: sl1, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* K1, p1; rep from * to end of row. </span></span><br />
R2: sl1, <span style="background-color: white;">K1m1, * p1; rep from * to last stitch, p1m1.</span><br />
R3: sl1, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* P1, k1; rep from * to end of row.</span></span><br />
R4: sl1, <span style="background-color: white;">K1m1,*k1, p1; rep from * to last stitch, k1m1.</span><br />
R5: sl1, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* K1, p1; rep from * to end of row.</span></span><br />
R6: sl1, <span style="background-color: white;">K1m1, * p1, k1; rep from * to last stitch, p1m1.</span><br />
R7: sl1, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* P1, k1; rep from * to end of row.</span></span><br />
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R9: sl1, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* K1, p1; rep from * to end of row.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">You should now have 15 stitches on your needle. Continue knitting back and forth in seed stitch, slipping the first stitch of every row, until you have 28 rows. You will then decrease on row 29, by knitting the second and third, and the second to last and last stitches together. You will have 11 stitches.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Continue knitting the heel of the foot until you get to row 60. Decrease on row 61 to 9 stitches, and on row 63 to 7 stitches. Bind off so that you have 63 rows.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Using a crochet hook, pull the yarn through the edges of the sole, and put them on the size 3 circular needles, picking up a total of 64 stitches. Seed stitch in the round for four rows.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">On row five, you will switch to your second yarn color, and as you knit, </span><span style="background-color: white;">place stitch markers after stitches 16, 24, 40, and 48. You are going to decrease </span><u>every</u><span style="background-color: white;"> row starting on row six, by knitting 2 together - just AFTER the first two markers, and just BEFORE the third and fourth. So that you will decrease 16 total stitches on four rows (6, 7, 8 & 9). You will have 48 stitches total.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Place the first 12 stitches on reserve on one piece of yarn or stitch holder. Place the next 8 on a second reserve. Leave 8 stitches on the needle, and place another 8 on reserve. Place the last 12 stitches on reserve, following the diagram below.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Pick up your yarn and knit across the 8 stitches at the very top of the boot. Turn, and purl across the eight, and pick up another stitch from one on reserve from the left side. Turn and knit across, pick up a stitch from one on reserve from the right side. You should now have 10 on your working needle and 7 on each of the top reserves.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Turn, purl across the row, pick up a stitch from reserve. Turn the work again and knit the first two stitches together. Knit across, pick up a stitch from reserve, turn. Purl 2 together.<br />Continue knitting and purling the stitches, picking up one from reserve as you come to it, and then knitting or purling it into the work so that you keep 10 stitches working. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Once all of the stitches have been used on the first sets of reserves, work back and forth as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">k2, p6, k2, turn.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Make 25 rows past the reserve stitches. On row 26, knit on both sides to create the garter stitch, for 3 more rows. Bind off on row 30.</span><br />
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Pick up all 24 of the remaining reserve stitches. Slip the knitting needles beneath 8 of the tongue stitches (4 on each side) and pick up new ones, for a total of 32 stitches.<br />
R1- K5, p3, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p3, k5<br />
R2- K3, p2, k3, p4, k8, p4, k3, p2, k3<br />
R3- K5, p3, <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sl 2 sts to cn, hold in </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">front</em><span style="background-color: white;">, k2, k2 from cn</span></span>, p2, k4, p2, k4, p3, k5<br />
R4- K3, p2, k3, p4, k8, p4, k3, p2, k3<br />
R5- K3, p2, k3, p4, k8, p4, k3, p2, k3<br />
R6- K3, p2, k3, p4, k8, p4, k3, p2, k3<br />
R7- K3, p2, k3, p4, k8, p4, k3, p2, k3<br />
R8- K3, p2, k3, p4, k8, p4, k3, p2, k3<br />
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R9- K5, p3, <span style="background-color: white;">Sl 2 sts to cn, hold in </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">front</em><span style="background-color: white;">, k2, k2 from cn</span>, p2, k4, p2, k4, p3, k5</div>
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R10- K3, p2, k3, p4, k8, p4, k3, p2, k3</div>
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Repeat rows 1 through 10 five more times, or until the boot is as tall as you want. Knit back and front of fabric for three more rows, bind off the on the fourth.</div>
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Once the boots are knitted, weave in all of the loose ends.</div>
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Cut the following pieces from crafting felt:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZo8MDexCaHVyzloG1oSBkx7pfEL2TzS1YuxNdIksjg2DOJe1-8RpXXldjacM-nNsHFhi5diEJ6lEIO-5HpIlSo7FAOiuI28rBsBTKXq6SzDr1E7h-8-w3nh_HOdFMTh-py8XQzBV10Bg/s1600/boots7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="961" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZo8MDexCaHVyzloG1oSBkx7pfEL2TzS1YuxNdIksjg2DOJe1-8RpXXldjacM-nNsHFhi5diEJ6lEIO-5HpIlSo7FAOiuI28rBsBTKXq6SzDr1E7h-8-w3nh_HOdFMTh-py8XQzBV10Bg/s320/boots7.jpg" width="192" /></a>Tongue: 4.5 x 1.25 inches (2)<br />
Heal: arc 5.5 x 2 inches (2)<br />
Toe: 8 x 1.25 inches (2)<br />
Top: arc 2 x 3 inches (2)<br />
Back: square 7 x 6 inches (2)<br />
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Again, use the spray adhesive to glue the heel pieces to the back of the boots, then glue the large back square. The knitted fabric will need to be worked and stretched as the adhesive dries.<br />
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Glue the toe strip in place, the snip vertically twice at the toe to fold down the fabric for a rounded toe piece (refer to photo on the right). Glue the top arc on top of this with more spray adhesive.<br />
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Once the felt pieces are glued in place, allow the shoes to dry overnight.<br />
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Make a pattern for your leather sole by following the dimensions of the original knitted sole you made. Cut the leather using sturdy scissors, then take a nail and hammer to punch holes around the edges for stitches. You want the holes to be 1/8 of an inch apart.<br />
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Glue the soles to the bottom of the shoes with spray adhesive, then stitch in place with upholstery thread.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trim and Lining</span><br />
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Cut two pieces of fur to make<br />
trim; 16 inches by 2 inches. Fold this long piece over, width-wise, and pin into place around the edges of the upper boot.<br />
Hand stitch the fir trim in place, taking care to keep the stitches on the insides of the knitted fabric bars so the thread will not be noticeable.<br />
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Cut one wide piece for the tongue, roughly six inches by six inches. Pin in place and sew to the knit fabric just as you did the trim.<br />
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Knit a rope using the yarn you used to knit the soles.<br />
CO 2 stitches on size 1 needles. k2, slide the stitches over and k2 again (you are knitting in the round). Do this until your rope is 6 inches long. You are going to make 4 of these.<br />
Sew one end of each rope into the inside of the shoes right up next to your fir trim. Refer to the photo on the left. Make loops in the rope by tack stitching three more times, evenly, along the rope.<br />
Use your felt pattern pieces to make the pattern for the soft fleece lining. You will want to make the fleece pattern pieces a little larger to accommodate for seam allowance.<br />
Once the fleece lining is sewn together, turn it inside out and tuck it down into the boot. Use the thread that is the same color as the sole to sew the lining to the bottom of the shoe. It is easiest to sew along the sides from the outside of the shoe, hiding the threads in the knit.<br />
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At the top of the boot, fold the soft fleece edges under and pin them in place. Use the thread that is the color of the upper boot to sew it in place, again, hiding the stitches in the weave of the knitted fabric.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Insole</span><br />
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The insole is made using the same pattern used for the outer sole and cutting slightly to the inside.<br />
I used a piece of flat sheet sorbant (PIG brand), which is essentially stiff cotton. You can use any stiff padded flat substance.<br />
The blue is a shammy, bought in the automobile section of your local big box store.<br />
Glue the shammy to the padding with spray adhesive.<br />
Turn the boot inside out and glue the insole to the bottom, with the shammy fabric on the top.<br />
Once dry, you can turn the boots right side out again. The last thing you need to do is make the laces.<br />
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Make rope just as you did in the trim and lining section. I chose white to have a contrasting color. Knit the rope to approximately 20 inches.<br />
Once the rope is finished, you will have a small length of yarn left on each side. Leave them here. Lace your boots before tying on the poms.<br />
Make small poms by taking the two colors of your boot and winding them around the palm of your hand six to eight times. Lay this on your rope ends, right at the knot and use the attached excess yarn to tie it in place. Wrap the upper section in the two colors and tie in place. Cut the bottoms of the poms so that they are about an inch long.<br />
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<br />desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-1408693814336824062014-11-28T07:35:00.000-08:002014-11-28T07:35:33.261-08:00Stick Figure Family Tree Ornaments<br />
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Yesterday, my little girl told me that she wanted to make some ornaments for the Christmas tree. We didn't have a lot on hand to work with, but I knew I had a nice little stash of glitter she could have fun with, and I knew I could make salt dough. Considering what other crafting supplies I had squirreled away, these are what came to my mind. Consider them a medium difficulty level, as my six year old daughter made them with (a lot of) help from me.<br />
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<u>Supplies:</u><br />
Salt dough:<br />
1 cup flour<br />
1/2 cup salt<br />
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Water to consistancy<br />
Food Coloring<br />
Size 2 jewelry wire<br />
White craft paint<br />
Pink Paint (I used pink glitter nail polish)<br />
Fine point Sharpie or gel pen<br />
White glue<br />
Paint brushes<br />
Assorted glitter<br />
Clear Acrylic Spray<br />
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<u>Step 1: </u><br />
Mix the dough and separate out enough egg-yolk sized balls to make the bodies. We have six family members, so we made six bodies. Make sure you have a good consistency. You may need to add more flour or more water, to keep the dough from being too sticky or too grainy.<br />
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Fold in food coloring and knead until the color is uniform. I didn't use gloves, as you can see, and my fingers are now pink.<br />
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<u>Step 2:</u><br />
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Form the bodies into pear shapes. These do not need to be completely perfect, but try to get them symmetrical. They will puff out a little during baking.<br />
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Take plain white dough, the size of a hominy kernel, and form the head.<br />
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Take a one inch piece of jewelry wire, form a coil on one end and push it up into the head, to form a neck. Then push the other end into the body.<br />
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A small round tube, the size of a lolly pop stem is the perfect diameter to wrap the jewelry wire for all purposes of this project.<br />
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For the ladies, since we have curly hair, I wrapped two inch pieces of wire to form ringlets. I then pressed four of them into the top of the head.<br />
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On all ornaments, make a coil on one end of a one inch piece of jewelry wire, and press it down into the top of the head. This is for the hanger.<br />
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Cut two 4 inch pieces of jewelry wire to make the legs and arms.<br />
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Press these all the way through the body, near the head and at the bottom.<br />
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With each ornament complete with legs, arms, hair for those who have it, and hanger hooks, they are ready to bake.<br />
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Although the heads of the ornaments were white before and after baking, I felt that giving them a couple of coats of white acrylic craft paint gave them a more even surface. However, it is not completely necessary.<br />
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Curl the ends of the arms and legs into circles for the hands and feet. I used a gel pen to draw on the eyes, noses and mouths, in a Charlie Brown inspired style.<br />
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Paint a small dot of pink glitter nail polish on each cheek, to give it an antiquated blush. Plain pink paint will also work.<br />
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<u>Step 7:</u><br />
When making the bodies, I made sure that I created colors that corresponded to the glitter I had put away. Because it was likely that there would be holes in the glitter, I wanted to mask it as much as possible.<br />
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Water down the white glue to make it easier to paint onto the bodies, and be sure to use a glue that will dry clearly. You want to be careful not to saturate the salt dough, get a good coverage.<br />
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Place a cord through the hanger hooks, clean away any stray glitter from the faces, arms and legs, and your little stick figure ornaments are ready to hang on your tree!desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-52808896634859762702014-09-22T07:28:00.000-07:002014-09-22T15:14:20.503-07:00Little French Kitty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gosh, has it been a while! I have been preoccupied with work and school and art business, not to mention the most important piece of me, my husband and kids.<br />
The cooler whether has me itching for some good old making, and I found the time to squeeze in a new knitting project! And since I haven't forgotten this dusty old blog with it's crafty following, I went the extra mile and wrote up the pattern. I hope you like it!<br />
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This base of this plushy toy can be made into any sort of animal you like. My daughter wanted a cat, so a cat she gets. It is a rather tricky pattern, but I hope I made it easier by adding some charts and some pictures.<br />
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4 colors of worsted weight yarn: 1 for body, 1 for accent, 1 for eyes, and black for whiskers.<br />
Size 2 knitting needles; either circular or DPN to work in the round.<br />
Small crochet hook<br />
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Size of plush is approximately 8 inches tall and six inches wide.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He looks French, doesn't he?</td></tr>
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k1m1 x 4 (8)<br />
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Begin increasing the body by adding 4 stitches on every other row. My method for doing this is to add one stitch to the ends of each needle in a sequence spanning 2 rows. I did it this way to make the additions virtually invisible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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TWO ROWS: k1m1, k17, k1m1, k16, k1m1, k18, k1m1, k20 (40)</div>
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TWO ROWS: k1m1, k25, k1m1, k24, k1m1, k26, k1m1, k28 (56)</div>
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You should now have 56 stitches.<br />
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Locate the section that will be the front of the animal.
Take two stitches off of each side of the front and place them on the back
needle. This way, you will have 24 stitches in the front and 32 stitches in the
back. Place the front 24 stitches on reserve. You will now begin shaping the
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Turn the work and purl all 32 stitches.<br />
K1m1, k12, k2tog, k4, k2tog, k12, k1m1 (32)<br />
Purl 1 row. <br />
k1m1, k11, k2tog, k6, k2tog, k11, k1m1 (32)<br />
Purl 1 row.<br />
k1m1, k10, k2tog, k8, k2tog, k10, k1m1 (32)<br />
Purl 1 row. <br />
k9, k2tog, k10, k2tog, k9 (30)<br />
Purl 1 row.<br />
k8, k2tog, k12, k2tog, k8 (28)<br />
Purl 1 row.<br />
k7, k2tog, k14, k2tog, k7 (26)<br />
P2tog, p22, p2tog (24)<br />
k2tog, k4, k2tog, k6, k2tog, k4, k2tog (18)<br />
P2tog, p14, p2tog (16)<br />
k2tog, k2, k2tog, k6, k2tog, k2, k2tog (14)<br />
P2tog, 10, p2tog (12)<br />
k2tog, k2tog, k4, k2tog, k2tog (6)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Divide your front stitches in half and mark the center. You
want to place the middle six stitches on your needle, intermittently with your
remaining six back stitches. The other stitches will be placed on reserve and
later worked into the legs. <br />
Please refer to the photograph. To do this, take the nine stitches from the far
right side of the front and place them on reserve. Next, take the nine
stitches from the far left side of the front and place them on
reserve. This leaves you six working stitches in the center of the front of
your animal. Now, one by one, slip these in between the six working stitches from
the back of your animal so that you have twelve working stitches on your needle
and the gap and your front and back pieces are now joined between the legs.<br />
K2tog, K2tog, Slip the back loop over the front loop to bind off.<br />
Repeat this process for the remaining ten stitches until you have joined and
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Legs and arms:<br />
Pick up 22 stitches from around the hole of the arm or leg.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Knit in the round for 12 rows. <br />
Bind off.<br />
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Repeat this on the other leg and arm holes.<br />
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Stuff the animal with filler of your choice before closing the arm and leg
holes.<br />
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To close the arms and legs:<br />
On the bottom of the leg or arm, pick up 8 stitches and knit them across.<br />
Turn. Slip the first stitch, Purl 5, p2tog; insert a crochet hook into another
loop on the side of the arm and pull another stitch through to make the stitch
count back to 8. <br />
Turn. Slip the first stitch, knit 5, k2tog, insert a crochet hook into another
loop on the side of the arm and pull another stitch through to make the stitch
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Instead of slipping the first stitch, P2tog, p4, p2tog. (6)<br />
Pick up a stitch from the leg or arm, knit it together with a stitch from your needle.<br />
Pick up a second stitch from the leg or arm, knit it together with a stitch from your needle, and then pull the first stitch over the second stitch in order to bind off. Repeat this across the top of the arm or leg hole until completely closed.<br />
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Once the arms and legs are closed you can now determine whether you are going
to be making a bear, a cat, a bunny or something else! I chose to make a cat
(or rather, my daughter chose), but you can easily modify the length and shape
of the nose, ears and tail to make a different kind of animal.<br />
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For the cat’s nose:<br />
Pick up 16 stitches from the front of the face, in an oval shape to knit in the
round. <br />
Knit 4 rows.<br />
K2tog 8 times, to make 8 stitches.<br />
Knit 1 row.<br />
K2tog 4 times to make 4 stitches.<br />
Stuff with filler before knitting 2tog for the remaining stitches until you are
down to one. Secure your final stitch with a slip knot and pull the loose tail
of yarn through the inside of the head and out through the back of the neck,
using a crochet hook. Pull all loose threads through the and out through the
back of the neck. <br />
Use a tapestry needle to pull a piece of yarn taught down the middle of the nose,
forming the cheeks. This resembles a butt shape. Next use the tapestry needle
and yarn color of your choice to sew the nose and eyes, using a satin
embroidery stitch. Use black yarn to make the whiskers.<br />
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To make the cats ears:<br />
from the right, pick up 10 stitches on the top of the head, where you want your
right ear to be placed. Use your alternate color and make sure your knit
stitches are facing the front. Knit and purl to make 5 rows. <br />
P2tog, p6, p2tog<br />
K2tog, k4, k2tog<br />
P2tog, p2, p2tog<br />
K2tog, k2tog<br />
P2tog, pull through and secure tail end.<br />
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Turn the cat around and this process behind the cat's ear, using your main body color and keeping your knit
stitches facing the back of your cat. You will tie off the tail ends on the
inside of the two ear flaps, and use a tapestry needle to sew them together.
This will make the cats ears stand up. <br />
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Pick up 12 stitches <br />
Join and knit in the round for 20 rows, or until your tail is as long as you’d
like.<br />
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Knit a collar:<br />
Whether you’re making a bear or a cat, a bunny or a puppy, you’re going to need
to hide the tail ends that you weaved into the back of the neck. I knitted a
collar, but you can use a ribbon or strip of fabric.<br />
CO six stitches.<br />
S1, K5 (Slip the first stitch, knit 5)<br />
S1, P5 (slip the first stitch, purl 5)<br />
repeat for approximately 30 rows. <br />
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desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-50405118060866290832014-04-13T23:52:00.000-07:002014-04-13T23:52:15.564-07:00Multi-Purpose Counter Top Pads<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbgXGuGqXcti8BMxrs0v4LkkCp0Yblqb7vfyAGdBBVeMxVJQy9dPw4CkLJK7WvSMb2zO7wLPG1hUaspA3L3xawdS-KUruVeYh0Oj-fyRftR3DSY2lLIVOcFodMg-P0HUeyBEUDdm5vaU/s1600/SAM_0836.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbgXGuGqXcti8BMxrs0v4LkkCp0Yblqb7vfyAGdBBVeMxVJQy9dPw4CkLJK7WvSMb2zO7wLPG1hUaspA3L3xawdS-KUruVeYh0Oj-fyRftR3DSY2lLIVOcFodMg-P0HUeyBEUDdm5vaU/s320/SAM_0836.JPG" /></a> I made a set of these a while back and I have to tell you that I highly recommend having a set of them in every household!<br />
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These awesome counter top pads pull triple duty, as was my intent when I made them. They are potholders, but with the cotton woven front and terry-cloth backing, they are handy to wipe up those little kitchen spills or quickly wipe a rinsed dish. They are also decorative, and can be kept out on the countertop without looking out of place. <br />
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I will warn you, the lotus flower knitting stitch is not for the faint of heart or the beginner knitter. But you can substitute a different stitch if needed, just make sure that it's bulky enough to create a thickly woven cover for your pads. <br />
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To make this project (set of four), you will need:<br />
4 thick terrycloth wash clothes<br />
4 skeins of cotton yarn (I prefer Peaches & Cream)<br />
5.5 yards of cotton trim fabric - 2" wide<br />
Size 5 knitting needles<br />
Needle and Thread<br />
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To see how the Lotus Flower stitch is made, there is a great tutorial and video about it on this webpage: <a href="http://newstitchaday.com/lotus-flower-stitch/" target="_blank">How to Knit the Lotus Flower Stitch.</a><br />
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To make the top cover for your pad:<br />
CO 77 stitches. <br />
*Remember that your first two stitches on each row will be knitted, so that you will get a stockinet border on either side.<br />
Row 1: Knit 2, Purl 73, Knit 2<br />Row 2: Knit 2, P1, *p5togm5, p1; rep from * to the last two stitches, Knit 2.<br />Row 3: Knit 2, Purl 73, Knit 2 .<br />Row 4: Knit 2, P3togm3, p1, *p5togm5, p1; rep from * to last 5 sts, p3togm3, Knit 2.<br />
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Repeat these four rows until your pad is approximately 12 inches in length - or a square.<br />
Fold your cotton trim in half lengthwise and press it. Fold in the edges of your terrycloth washcloth and lay pin your woven cover to it with your trim sandwiched in between. Sew it down and that's all there is to it! Make them for yourself or as a lovely gift!desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-53079243195444674442014-01-01T06:37:00.000-08:002014-01-01T06:37:12.262-08:00A New Year, A New Project!I decided that 2014 is going to be a relaxing year. I'm going to make that happen. Because I'm in complete control of my universe and when I say I'm taking it easy this year, it's set in stone. SO. I'm lining up a soothing, easy project that may well carry me all the way to December... are you laughing? If you know me, probably! 'Cause you know, the taking it easy thing really isn't me.<br />
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Ok, no more fooling, let me tell you what I'm really up to! In 1999, I made a set of four stockings and a count-down-to-Christmas calendar for my family. Each stocking is navy blue cotton with faux applique scenes depicted out of scraps of fabric that I used some sort of iron on adhesive to affix, and then I used silver glitter fabric paint to go around the edges. When the subsequent children were born in '06 and '07, I made them new ones to match. <br />
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To be perfectly honest, I hated these stockings almost immediately after I made them. They're garish and ugly and at this point, I can do WAY better! I'm almost embarrassed year after year to pull these out of storage and hang them up. Of course, my husband who has a very strange idea of sentiment and gets attached to all of the wrong things fights each year to keep them. Right now, a week after Christmas, he could give two shits about them or the calendar or anything related to holidays. I'm starting new stockings and a calendar now, so when the Thanksgiving turkey is slowly churning in our bellies in November, I will a have a stronger argument than his for retiring these atrocious things to the attic forever. I mean, babe, I've worked ALL year on these new stockings! We'll see how well that goes...</div>
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Here's my plan for the new calendar. I'm really big into celebrating the origins of Christmas (aka Yule), particularly focusing on the pagan aspect, in December. Odin was only one of the forbearers to modern Santa. There's also St. Nick (he was a real saint), Sinter Klaus... Ok Google that shit because I don't really feel up to explaining it all. <br /><br />Odin, who in MY portrayal is modeled after Gandalf (because Gandalf is f'ing awesome and needs to be hung in every home for Christmas!), is set among a moon lit sky on a tree lined mountain slope. The moonlit sky is very important as it is indicative of the winter hunt. It's all relevant in pagan/Yule lore. </div>
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So I photoshopped Gandalf from a scene in the movie "Lord of the Rings" into two separate images I found that had the sky and ground backgrounds I wanted. When I had everything jiving just the right way, I opened the image in Window's paint and saved it as 256 bitmap. That degrades the colors to give me an easy to follow map.</div>
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At this point, it was pretty simple to trace this out onto paper and then onto a piece of white cotton muslin. I put the fabric into an embroidery hoop, took the image to the sewing shop to buy the appropriate colors of embroidery floss, and am filling in the entire image with tiny stitches as if I'm doing a paint by number. This technique works extremely well for making heirloom products (such as family portraits onto pillows), or making custom patches or badges, as I show you <a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2013/10/custom-badges-and-patches.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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I have been wanting to do a large tapestry in this medium for a very long time, and now I have a great reason! So, here is the start:</div>
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The finished tapestry will be 11" x 14" and will be sewn as a panel onto a new count-down-to-Christmas calendar. If you're wondering what I mean by that, picture a piece of fabric with pockets numbered 1 to 25 and an object that is moved from one pocket to the next, each day in December. The numbered pockets will also be embroidered and I'm planning to use high-end fabrics for this project as I'm expecting these to last my family for another 15 years, if not longer. They may last until I'm an old lady. My family may fight over my dead body for them... or maybe not! It's going to be a fun project though and it will give me a reason to sit on my ass and watch trashy television, which I'm expecting to do a whole lot of this year. <br /><br />Oh! And I'll keep you posted on progress. If you have any questions, shoot 'em in the comments. </div>
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This week, I downloaded this free ebook, to help me recover from my poor eating over the holidays. I have no excuse, really, and I surely know better than to let bad eating habits get the better of me. The holidays are peak season at my job, and they are my peak season for my painting business as well. So, I have been quite busy. Still, that's little consolation where I'm sitting now, with my back hurting and my head stuffed with cold, nor was it comforting on Christmas Eve and Christmas day - which I slept through in my flu induced fever. I'm sick and sore and desperately needing to take a healing approach to food. I found Dr. Axe's book to be a wonderful refresher, and I love that it includes some very easy meal plans to follow while I'm still quite busy dealing with the holiday aftermath.</div>
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Introduction: Dr. Axe begins the
introduction with statistics on America's health crisis, outlining
the most common ailments and diseases. He then shares a personal
story of his mother's fight with breast cancer and lung cancer, and
how changing her diet to include superfoods and natural eating helped
her fight/beat cancer the second time.</div>
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The format of the ebook is in PDF. With
a clear and easy font, bold and colorful subtitles and illustrations
and photos on every page, it makes the reading easy to follow.</div>
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In Chapter 1, Dr. Axe shares the
benefits of superfoods, and includes a list of 20 top superfoods,
which include berries and almonds, among others. He also lists four
plans that he created, to help tailor your diet to which health
problem you are most affected by:
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While I read all of the chapters for
review purposes, I chose to focus on 2, 3, and 4. My goals are
specific to creating a healing diet to help my body recover from
injury and illness; after poor eating during the holiday season; help
my muscle and cardiovascular system remain youthful so that I can
avoid further strain, injury and illness that are likely to affect me
now that I'm over 35; and building muscle to help support my skeletal
system and again, to avoid trauma to my joints and spine.</div>
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In Chapter 2, Dr. Axe discusses the
benefit of weight loss and the decreased risk of heart disease. He
then lists the foods that specifically aid in weight loss, and not
only outlines the foods origins but describes how it works in the
body to help lose weight. By specifically naming the compounds that
affect metabolism, fat stores, digestion and other contributors, it's
easy to see how utilizing them can help meet weight loss goals.</div>
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At the end of Chapter 2, the doctor has
compiled an easy to follow meal plan and super simple exercise
regimen.</div>
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In the following three chapters, Dr.
Axe continues in the same refrain, specifying foods that meet the
needs of those agendas: Detox, Anti-Aging and Muscle Building,
where he outlines certain foods to meet those needs, and follows up
with a meal plan and exercise regimen.</div>
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Beyond telling us what foods are most
beneficial, afterwards is a section discussing which foods are most
damaging, including conventional meats and dairy and hydrogenated
oils, among others. There is a short section on Beyond Organic, which
talks about the importance of avoiding chemicals in our food, and
shares the story of Jordan Ruben, who was riddled with disease until
he began eating foods that are much more natural, and who went on to
write a best selling book, start a vitamin chain, and started a
company to create the healthiest superfoods in the world.</div>
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There are many religious (Christian)
references in the book, and mentions of eating the way God intended
or eating in a biblical way. Many may likely find this an enjoyable
touch. I personally love that Dr. Axe writes from his heart and is
obviously passionate about sharing his information and the stories of
how good, natural, Earth based foods have helped his loved ones
become healthy and even brought them from the brink of death. Very
nicely written and advice and information to live by.</div>
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If I have one criticism, it's that Dr. Axe did not include beans in his book, which, by many experts assertion should be write at the top of the list of the top 20. Nonetheless, if you follow this book and throw in some beans, you should be pretty well set!</div>
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These tree ribbons came out even cuter than I expected, and much better than my husband guessed when he saw the denim strips. He asked me skeptically if I really thought they would turn out to look good. Do you not know me? Silly!<br />
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I made two dozen of them and they give my tree the country-cozy feeling that I like in the fall. There is just something about denim on a Christmas tree that feels right to me. Add in the contrast of textures with the burlap and cotton muslin, the splash of red and natural grape vine and I just adore my little bows! Also, like many of my crafts, these were done for free using materials I had on hand or found outside. You can come up with some creative combinations if you look around your own home to see what's available!<br />
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Red Paint</div>
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To start with, cut the pant legs off of your old jeans. It's best to use jeans that have good denim. Trim off the inside and outside seams as well as the cuffs, so that you have four wide strips of denim to use. Lengthwise, rip the jeans into two or three strips. Don't use scissors for this, the ripping helps with the fray.<br />Take a needle or your fingernail and pull out ten or so outside strands of thread, to make a 1/4 inch fray.</div>
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Tear the cotton muslin into strips, 12" long and 1 1/2" wide. It's good if it looks a little rough, but trim the excess strings. You want it to look tattered but tidy.<br />
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Shape the muslin into a bow as you did with the denim and tuck the burlap behind it. Use a foot long piece of hemp cord and wrap tightly around the two bows and the burlap. Leave four to five inches of cord at the top of the bow to become the hanger.<br />
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Salt dough beads are super easy to make, and I found a recipe that I was able to make and then paint within minutes! Really! I was skeptical too, but I tried it and it worked.<br /><br />That recipe is here: <a href="http://rainydaymum.co.uk/the-quickest-ever-salt-dough-recipe">Quickest Ever Salt Dough Recipe at Rainy Day Mum</a><br />
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I rolled the salt dough into tiny balls, about the size of blueberries. I did poke holes into them with a needle, thinking I would sew them to the bows which would have worked. But I realized I had new glue sticks so I didn't go that way.<br />
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I used enamel paint (and some gloves) to paint the "berries" bright red and dried them on craft paper.<br />
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I know that not everyone has a boat-load of grape vine growing in their backyard, you can probably find these dried woody tendrils at your local craft store (look in the silk or dry flower section). Otherwise, you might be able to buy them online. If you can't find them anywhere, a good substitute would be dark metal wire, twisted and wrapped into curly-Q's.<br />
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I pushed the ends of the grape vine tendrils underneath the cord and used a daub of hot glue to simultaneously secure the tendrils into place and glue the red berries to the front of the bow.<br />
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Had I not had glue sticks, I would have used a carpet needle and upholstery thread to sew the beads on and secure the tendrils.<br />
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I strongly resisted the urge to add a glittery element, a touch of gold would have made these even better. But I wanted to keep them as organic and natural as possible.<br />
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<br />desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-77263834049553824102013-12-01T14:51:00.001-08:002013-12-01T14:51:26.225-08:00Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Dough:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1 cup hot (not scalding water)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1/4 c granulated sugar</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />1 packet active dry yeast<br />1/2 cup shortening<br />1 tsp salt<br />3 to 5 cups flour<br /><br />Mix the water, sugar and yeast in a large mixing bowl and allow it to sit for 20 minutes until foamy. Add shortening and salt, beat for one minute. Fold in 3 cups of flour and begin to knead. Add flour one half cup at a time, when the dough becomes sticky. Use as little flour as you can. Too much flour makes bead heavy.<br />Knead for ten minutes. Too little kneading will result in coarse bread.<br /><br />Allow to rise for 45 minutes in a warm place until double.<br /><br />Filling:<br />4 apples, peeled and cubed<br />Water<br />1 tsp. Lemon juice<br />2 tbs. Butter<br />1 tsp. Salt<br />1 cup sugar<br />2 tbs. Cinnamon<br /><br />Boil the apples with lemon juice and salt. Strain and mash with a fork, leaving it a little chunky. Stir in butter.<br />Punch down bread dough and roll out to 1/2 inch thick rectangle.<br />Spread evenly with apple sauce and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Roll up and cut into eight slices.<br />Grease a cookie sheet and place the cinnamon rolls with sides touching. Let rise for 30 minutes in a warm place.<br /><br />Preheat your oven to 375F and bake rolls for 20 to 22 minutes.<br /><br />Topping:<br />Two cups of brown sugar<br />1 cup whole milk or half and half.<br />1/2 tsp. Salt<br />2 cups walnuts<br /><br />Bring brown sugar, milk and salt to a boil I'm a medium saucepan stirring occasionally. Cook for 5 minutes. Spoon quickly over cinnamon rolls and top with walnuts before the caramel sets.</span>desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-26661550800503192072013-11-18T04:40:00.002-08:002013-11-18T07:58:05.501-08:00Homemade Peppermint Chocolate Syrup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey. It's peppermint and chocolate. I could tell you why I love it but I don't think I need to. It's that season, past putting pumpkin in everything and now we're moving on to eating and drinking ridiculous amounts of peppermint spiked concoctions!<br>
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Bottle to store the syrup<br>
3 tsp pure peppermint extract (1 tbs or 1/2 fluid oz)<br>
3 cups white sugar<br>
1 1/2 cup water<br>
1 1/2 cup powdered baking cocoa<br>
1 tsp salt<br>
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In a large saucepan (the syrup will rise when boiling and boil over if you're not careful so make sure you use a pan with plenty of extra room), combine the sugar and water. Heat to steaming and whisk in the cocoa, salt and peppermint extract. Don't add too much peppermint, pure extract is really potent! Boil for 1 to two minutes, stirring constantly. Be careful of boiling over. Boiling hot sugar syrup can cause some nasty burns! Once it has cooled down enough to not melt the bottle (or shatter it if you're using glass), use a funnel to pour the syrup into your container and put it in the fridge.<br>
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Make sure you shake it well before using it, in case the peppermint extract rises to the top. That doesn't taste nice!<br>
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What do you do with it besides resisting the urge to drink it out of the bottle? You can:<br>
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Add it to coffee with some half and half or cream, or milk, or just drink it in plain coffee.<br>
Drizzle it on your cheesecake.<br>
Drizzle it on any cake.<br>
Drizzle it on pancakes.<br>
Use it as a dip for apples or other kind of fruit.<br>
Use it in cocktails.<br>
Use it in many baking recipes.<br>
Stir it in milk, microwave, and you have peppermint hot chocolate - or drink it cold, even.<br>
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Really, you can add it to just about anything!<br>
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<br>desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-24163192537415112562013-11-09T20:54:00.001-08:002013-11-09T20:54:29.832-08:00Hand Embroidered Candles and Holly - Holiday Ornaments 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last year, I made and shared tutorials for 7 different holiday ornament designs:<br />
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<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/12/small-knitted-cat.html" target="_blank">Knitted Cat</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/12/small-knitted-dog.html" target="_blank">Knitted Dog</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/12/small-knitted-bear.html" target="_blank">Knitted Bear</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/12/small-knitted-mouse.html" target="_blank">Knitted Mouse</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/12/glitter-kitty-ornament-or-embellishment.html" target="_blank">Glitter Kitty</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/12/tree-ornaments-2-denim-metal-stars.html" target="_blank">Denim Stars</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/12/tree-ornaments-1-wooden-snowmen.html" target="_blank">Wooden Snowmen</a><br />
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And the year before, I shared:<br />
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<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2011/11/faux-antique-metal-stars.html" target="_blank">Cereal Box Painted Faux Metal Stars</a><br />
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This year, I have already begun my tree ornaments and I will surely have another design or two to share. :)<br />
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Before continuing with this tutorial,<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2013/10/custom-badges-and-patches.html" target="_blank"> take a look at this one</a>, which explains the technique for this embroidery technique. I used the Long and Short Stitch to fill in the blocks of color of the design below.<br />
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<li>Blocks of fabric with embroidered design on the front</li>
<li>Scissors, needle and thread</li>
<li>Crushed velvet fabric</li>
<li>Lace trim</li>
<li>Poster board or sturdy card stock</li>
<li>Strips of brown paper bag</li>
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Print the pattern to the left, so that the printed version is approximately 2" tall. Place a 4" x 4" swatch of white cotton fabric on top of the pattern and trace it. If necessary, use a window or a light box to see through the fabric.<br />
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Using the <a href="http://www.needlenthread.com/2009/08/long-short-stitch-shading-lesson-2.html" target="_blank">Long and Short stitch</a>, fill in the blocks of color with embroidery floss. I filled in the holly with 3 shades of green; the candle with 3 shades of tan/cream; the flame with both yellow and orange and the ribbon with two shades of red.<br />
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Using a round object, approximately 3 inches wide (like a pasta sauce lid), trace a circle onto the card stock.
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Cut a piece of velvet (or your chosen backing material) to a 4" inch wide circle. Use a needle and thread to loosely sew a basting stitch around the edge of your velvet.
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Place your round cardstock on top of the wrong side of your velvet swatch and pull the thread to cinch it up around the cardboard and tie it off.
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You could use twine, yard or any tie material of your choice, I decided to use a strip of brown paper sack and twisted it tightly to make a small rope. I sewed the flat ends into the ornament.
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I sewed the lace trim around the edge of the ornament.
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I pinned the embroidered block of fabric to the front of the ornament, and sewed it in place using small, even stitches.<br />
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<br />desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-77125080694781750622013-10-28T07:52:00.000-07:002013-11-09T20:30:30.226-08:00Custom Badges and PatchesAs my regular readers know, I'm not one for throwing something away if I can mend it. When Little Miss got a dime sized hole in her otherwise new and unblemished coat, it didn't occur to me to toss it. I wanted to make a nice patch for it to cover it up!<br />
You can buy patches and badges at most craft stores and even big box stores like Target and Walmart, but they can be pricey. They can be generic. They can be... mundane. And perhaps you want something unique, or something you can't find at a store? Badges, decals, patches, whatever you want to call them, are extremely simple to make, actually!<br />
Please consider my heartfelt apology for these awful photos. My camera is missing and I'm not sure if a child made off with it or if I'm just too scatter-brained these days to remember where I left it... so my phone camera made due.<br />
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<li>First things first, get some supplies and make your design. A plain cotton muslin makes a fine base. You want something that won't be too thick to trace an image through or too rigid to easily sew into. </li>
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<li>Small sharps (needles) with small eyes, better to use those specific for needlepoint.</li>
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If you can't freehand your image, you're perfectly fine to trace it. You can look for an image to use on any search engine or even a childs coloring book. My girl wanted Cinderella for her patch and it was easy enough to find a suitable image to draw from. <br />
Next, you simply fill in the lines with your thread. Separate the floss and use two strands of it at a time. Beginning at the top of the section you're filling in, begin making vertical stitches, about half a centimeter apart. You'll want to stagger the length and do one short and one long. Keep all of your stitches parallel to each other. You will get an evenly filled section by keeping your stitches going in the same direction. Once you have finished the top row, leaving small gaps between stitches, go back and fill those ones in. Again, be sure to stagger the length of your stitches.<br />
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This technique is called <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=long+and+short+stitch+embroidery&oq=long+and+short+stitch&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.7575j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8">long and short stitch</a> and <a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=satin%20stitch%20embroidery&pc=conduit&ptag=A487E65AD3B3841799FF&form=CONBNT&conlogo=CT3210127&ShowAppsUI=0" target="_blank">Satin Stitch </a>embroidery and it has so many uses!<br />
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<a href="http://www.needlenthread.com/2009/08/long-short-stitch-shading-lesson-2.html" target="_blank">Here is an excellent tutorial to show you how to do the Long and Short stitch.</a><br />
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Once you've completed one row, you go into that row ever so slightly to begin your next row. You'll not only be staggering the length of your stitches now, you'll be going into that upper row at varying heights so as to keep the entire section free from ridges.<br />
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<li>You want to keep your stitches taught, but don't pull them so tightly that they pull and pucker the fabric. Don't use too much force.</li>
<li>Pack your stitches in to fill in any holes, but be careful not to bulk them up too much that they are laying on top of one another.</li>
<li>Try not to rub the stitches to fray them. </li>
<li>Don't use damp or wet thread. If your thread gets wet, replace it.</li>
<li>Don't use bulky knots. When starting a new thread, pull the thread most of the way through the fabric and sew a couple of little sideways stitches, one on top of the other to secure it and then cut off the tail. These two little stitches will be covered over by your fill-in stitches.</li>
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After the badge was complete, I cut around the edges and tucked them under. I then loosely hand sewed the badge to the front of the coat. Using the color I selected for my edging (pink) I used a button hole stitch going from inside to outside, to cover the entire edge of the patch and secure it to the coat.<br />
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Here are some other badges and embroidered items I have made recently. They're good not only for covering up a blemish on an otherwise fine article of clothing, but you can make them in any genre or theme. You see I like the Kansas City Chiefs! And I've also made one for the New Orleans Saints, though I haven't finished the sweatband I'm knitting to put it on. I am also making some Christmas Tree Ornaments for some friends which use a satin stitch design on the front. <br />
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Here are some older examples of what I've done with satin stitch embroidery. I sewed my daughter a dress and embroidered a beautiful butterfly motif on it. <br />
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I've even embroidered my grandparents portraits into a pillow as a gift for my father.<br />
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There you have it! It looks time consuming, but it goes more quickly than you'd think. It's not difficult, but it takes a bit of practice getting those stitches to look uniform. You can do some beautiful work though! I've had it in my head for a while to do a large long and short and satin stitch design for a wall hanging, but I just don't seem to have the time these days. I'll set that on the idea shelf and one of these days I hope I get to it!desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-28935239597775607272013-10-06T11:19:00.001-07:002013-10-06T23:00:21.034-07:00Oatmeal Nut Popovers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhsuhxZR-sRA1AmjuazeKPesyPYF2ajaah6YEBu6S7NEFIshjWngRxrGwDlqjnM5WzhOKKbBbxZBo3U7m5J0lqS6UfLohy-mPpYA828l-efkr-dxLkoNd6kasAf3hzFDKuRKE0KmAhaPM/s1600/IMG_20131006_123629.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhsuhxZR-sRA1AmjuazeKPesyPYF2ajaah6YEBu6S7NEFIshjWngRxrGwDlqjnM5WzhOKKbBbxZBo3U7m5J0lqS6UfLohy-mPpYA828l-efkr-dxLkoNd6kasAf3hzFDKuRKE0KmAhaPM/s320/IMG_20131006_123629.jpg" width="320" /></a>Pie Crust (flaky!)<br />
Hazelnut Spread<br />
Sliced almonds<br />
Oatmeal Streusel:<br />
1/2 c butter<br />
1/2 c sugar<br />
1/2 c brown sugar<br />
1 c rolled oats<br />
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Wrap, burrito style and poke the top with a fork. Bake at 375, on middle rack, for 35 to 40 minutes.<br />
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It's Fall! It's finally here!<br />
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I first noticed Fall one day last week when I saw a small yellow leaf on the floor of the dining room. Since then, I've been checking for more signs every day. Sure enough, the very next day, there was a sprinkling of leaves when the wind kicked up while we were playing in the backyard with our friends. Three days ago I saw the first spots of red on the slope of trees opposite my house. And today - officially, is Fall!<br />
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To celebrate, I have compiled all of my favorite Fall Posts from the last two years. My favorite Fall recipes, crafts and activities.<br />
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Fall Recipes:<br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/01/whole-wheat-cheese-raviolis-with.html" target="_blank">Whole Wheat Cheese Raviolis with Apricot Squash Sauce</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/09/apricot-squash-soup-and-grilled.html" target="_blank">Apricot Squash Soup with Grilled Provolone Sandwiches</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/09/vegetarian-chili-with-meat-alternative.html" target="_blank">Vegetarian Chili With Meat Alternative</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/10/no-fat-pumpkin-chocolate-chip-cookies.html" target="_blank">Nonfat Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2013/01/nofat-crab-and-butternut-squash-and.html" target="_blank">Nonfat Crab and Squash Chowder</a><br />
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Fall Festivities:<br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2013/09/growing-yard-for-harvest.html" target="_blank">A Yard For Harvest</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/12/seed-saving-how-and-why.html" target="_blank">Seed Saving How and Why</a><br />
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Fall Crafts:<br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvest-wreath.html" target="_blank">Harvest Wreath</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/11/sweater-legs.html" target="_blank">Sweater Legs</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/11/deluxe-cable-and-ribbed-glove-pattern.html" target="_blank">Cable and Ribbed Glove Pattern</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-thankful-bouquet.html" target="_blank">Table Centerpieces From Found Natural Materials</a><br />
<a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/01/heirloom-pillows.html" target="_blank">Embroidered Heirloom Pillows</a><br />
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<br />desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-83765378671459656212013-09-04T16:27:00.001-07:002013-09-04T16:27:19.057-07:00Harvest Wreath<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Fall is absolutely my favorite time of year. The outdoor temperatures become more comfortable, the insects diminish, and the colors of the landscape here in Missouri are exquisite as the fog rolling in on a cool autumn morning.</div>
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I feel peaceful and relaxed at the idea of hunkering down for the winter. Harvest season is less than a month away! <br />
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As I shared in <span id="goog_985307964"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/">this post</a> <span id="goog_985307965"></span>last year, one of my favorite fall activities is seed collecting. Visiting parks, the woods, even walking around my neighborhood usually culminates in a rather large collection of seeds to stash away.<br />
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As I wrote in <a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2013/09/growing-yard-for-harvest.html" target="_blank">this post</a>, another of my of my favorite things to do in the fall is to harvest my yard. Not only the edible parts, but the grasses and twigs for my fireplace, weeds and wild flowers to make centerpieces and arrangements, and my unruly, out of control wild grape vines to make wreathes and other decorations.<br />
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This prolific vine gets cut back every fall and regrows in the spring. I think it's rather pretty, even though it's a messy thing. It's worth it to me to keep it because I can make pretty wreathes out of it.<br />
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This year, I have not been enjoying the outdoors quite so much. I decided to make a new wreath, but rather than collect my decorations before hand, I have decided to hang the wreath bare with only a simple cotton print and denim bow.<br />
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This autumn, as the landscape changes, we will look for our decorations for it and collect them on our walks while we are gathering our seeds. Anytime we see something pretty or interesting, we will collect it and bring it home. I am hoping this will motivate me to get out more and enjoy the lovely temperate weather. I'll update pictures of it on my facebook page, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheyAreAllOfMe">http://www.facebook.com/TheyAreAllOfMe</a>, as it begins to fill up!desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-64640063515514031082013-09-03T01:31:00.002-07:002013-09-03T01:31:52.233-07:00Growing A Yard For Harvest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love to have a manicured yard. I want my yard to look good so that when I come home, I am arriving at a beautiful and uplifting place.<br />
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Growing native flowers is one way to achieve this with minimal fuss and no watering or chemicals. It's also important that I find my plants for free, and amassing my collection of native plants is something that I am always working towards. With many of my local parks growing native flowers, and no shortage of interesting flowers growing along the roadside, <a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/12/seed-saving-how-and-why.html" target="_blank">collecting seeds</a> for my yard is both simple and exciting!<br />
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One thing that is just as important to me as having a nice looking yard is to have a yard that is useful. Again, growing native flowers is a useful way to garden because it benefits the local eco system and attracts beneficial insects and feeds the birds, squirrels and wild life. But native flowers are not only nice to look at and good for the environment, they make nice dried arrangements in the fall and can be used in many ways. Some wild flowers are edible like<a href="http://thecrunchydelinquent.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/foraging-series-part-2-queen-annes-lace/" target="_blank"> Queen Annes Lace (wild carrot)</a> or have medicinal uses, like Echinacea.<br />
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Growing a yard for harvest naturally means growing a yard that is abundant in food. I would love some day to have a yard in which I can walk out into and pick a wide variety food to eat. I have my vegetable patch, my herb garden and my strawberry bed. I also have a hazelnut tree that I will find a mate for soon so that in a few years I will have loads of hazelnuts to snack on and cook with. <br />
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Nature offered me a blackberry bush earlier this year, that just sprouted in my yard and 75% of my vegetable garden volunteered itself, from the compost that I created from my kitchen scraps. I planted the cucumber and the bed of lettuce, but Nature decided to give me 3 squash plants, 2 pumpkin vines, 7 garlic plants and over twenty tomato plants. Yes, Nature is very, very good to me and I know how to use my bit of Earth. <br />
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One day I plan to have a small orchard, of four to six fruit trees, and I have a large currently unused area designated to grow others types of berries, apart from the blackberries I already have. But it's important to me to have a yard that is useful in many ways - not just pleasing to look at or delicious to eat, even more than a space for the children to play. <br />
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There are plants in my yard which are only grown for some sort of functional purpose. <br />
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I have an ash tree that was cut down to the stump a year ago because it was badly placed and would soon grow into the chain link fence. The sugars built up in the roots allowed it to sprout several upright branches, turning the tree into a bush. I noticed this when the shoots were small and could be snipped easily, but I quickly realized the potential in them. I allowed to shoots to grow tall, for they are straight and pliable. We have used them to roast marshmallows and hotdogs over the fire pit, and they are also useful for building natural trellises for vining plants. Cutting them down every fall will allow new shoots each spring to be used for many things throughout the next growing season. Because they are very bendy, they can be easily shaped and I am currently considering what types of things might be created from them.<br />
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I have a slope in my back yard that is a great place to allow the grass to grow in the late fall and get nice and tall. We purposely stop mowing it in early September. There are some weeds that grow in it, that once dried make nice floral arrangement along with the native wild flowers, but what I'm really after is the grass. In the late afternoon when there is no moisture on it, I will reap the grass and form it into little bundles. These are for my fire place during the winter. We also trim the trees back when the summer begins to get hot and the rapid growth of spring dies down. The limbs will then be cut into 8 inch long sections and dried out for fall, to become kindling. In the winter when I want to start my fireplace, which I tend to do daily, I grab a nifty little bundle of dried grass from the stack, and handful of the dried twigs. Getting the fireplace going is pretty easy with them, no need for fancy store-bought starter logs or supplies. <br />
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I don't grow them for the fruit, I don't even like grapes. I want the vines. These are invasive and unruly, however, I cut them down to their trunks in the fall, pull off all of the leaves and use the vines to make natural decorations, like wreathes to be decorated with fall leaves or Christmas baubles.<br />
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There is also my water garden, where I grow bulrushes and cattails. The long slender leaves of the cattail plants are great for decorating, lashing and I keep meaning to get around to weaving them into baskets or placemats. It's on my to-do list. <br />
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I do not consider myself an urban homesteader, and I have no desire to live on a farm at this point in my life. But utilizing my space in the most useful way possible just makes sense to me. Nature is very giving when you let it do it's thing. <br />
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It's extremely physical. Squatting, lunging, lifting, reaching and placing heavy packages at a rapid (aerobic) pace for approximately three hours solid per shift, is quite an enviable workout and had a lot to do with why I chose to apply for this job. <br />
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My first night on the dock, I wore a tank top and a pair of jeans. I quickly wished I hadn't! The denim is too hot, too constricting and every time I squatted or lunged, I mooned everyone behind me. My second night on the dock, I wore a pair of running capris and was so thankful that I did. I decided to get a whole wardrobe of workout capris and T-shirts. <br />
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The thrift store had a few workout/yoga pants that were in my size, but I had to modify the length. Otherwise, I realized I could make new running capris out of large T-shirts!<br />
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Elastic (you can recycle from old clothing)<br />
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To begin with, choose the appropriate sized shirt. The size of the shirt you'll need is determined by the size of your hips and backside. Consider the length. Consider what you want to do about a waste band.<br />
My median size is a 10, and a mens size large is enough to make a basic pant for me. The red shirt pictured was a 2XL and there was enough leftover fabric on each side too make a waste band if I wanted. I'll describe that later.<br />
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Fold your T-shirt in half down the middle, with the sleeves together.<br />
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Take a fair amount of care to smooth it out with your hand as much as possible. Working with knit can be a little tricky, as it stretches and pulls out of shape easily. When we're talking about pre-worn T-shirts, it should be expected that there will be some wonkiness right off the bat. Just go with it and gently hand press it, moving the bulky places out of the way.<br />
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You can take your measurements and draw up a pattern if you like, but I just grabbed a pair of knit work out pants that fit me the way I like.<br />
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Lay your workout pants (or similar pattern) on top of the T-shirt as this picture shows. It is really important that the portion that is the outside of the legs lines up with the folded side of the T-shirt. That is because you are going to have only one inner seam on the leg of your pants. No need to waste time and thread by adding unnecessary seams! Besides, if you have a logo or design on the front of your shirt, this will simply be placed on the side of your pant and not look too weird. You may notice also as this picture shows, that the bottom of the pant lines up with the bottom of the T-shirt. This means your pants are pre-hemmed! Cool, right? I know!<br />
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When you cut, you want to account for your seam allowance. I only wanted a quarter inch seam, so I made sure I cut that far from the outside edge of my (pattern) pants.<br />
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You're cutting through four layers of T-shirt, and therefore you are cutting both pieces you need to make your pants. Sewing goes pretty quickly.<br />
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Each piece that you have is a pant leg. Fold each one in half vertically, with right sides together. Make sure you match the sides evenly. They should be symmetrical.<br />
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Pin up the leg, stopping right when you get to the point that is the crotch.<br />
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These pants are meant to fit snuggly, and your seams will take a lot of pulling - especially if you're using them for working out. <br />
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The last thing you want is your seam to rip open while you're jogging down the street, in the middle of a yoga session or working the leg press at the gym. I know I don't want to have my co-workers laughing at me endlessly because my pants split open in front of everyone!<br />
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Each and every seam is doubled and tripled. Two straight seams, about a millimeter apart, and a zig-zag stitch that is evenly straddling the outside straight stitch. I then very carefully trimmed away the excess fabric, to within two millimeters of the seam.<br />
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Once you have your pant legs sewn and threads trimmed, you'll want to turn them right side out. This photo is an error, I started pinning with the pant legs inside out and realized that If I had sewn them that way, the seam that joins them would have been on the outside. <br />
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Once the pant legs are inside out, match up the seams at what will become the crotch (I <em>hate</em> that word!) <br />
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Pin the two pieces together and just as you did when you sewed the pant legs closed, sew a quarter inch seam using a straight stitch. Sew a second parallel stitch a millimeter apart and then zig-zag down the middle of the outer stitch. Trim off the excess fabric. <br />
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After you have the two halves of your pants joined, you want to try them on. If they are too loose, you can take them in. If they don't come up high enough, you can add an extra long waste band. <br />
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I recycled elastic from old clothing. On the gray pants that have the logo, I chose to do a waste band because they seemed to be to short and would pull down in the back during squatting. I could have used the scraps leftover from the red shirt, and this would have looked quite nice. However there was an ugly old gray sweatshirt that has been sitting in the recycle pile for a while and I chose to take the waste band off of it because it matched so well. I cut the elastic to the length that I needed, enfolded it into the waste band and sewed it together. I then pinned this band, with right sides together, to my pants and sewed it with a double straight stitch and a zig-zag. Trimming off the excess thread, these pants were done!<br />
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The red pants were plenty high in the waste, and I decided that I wouldn't bother with a waste band. I didn't care to have a hem, either. I know that having the elastic showing makes them look like ridiculously long underwear, but I don't mind. My shirt will cover the elastic.<br />
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I did want to make the point, however, that they may well function as long underwear! You can have them as leggings in the colder months, wear them under skirts, whatever you like. <br />
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These pants were so easy to make, I can see making many of them in the future! Whenever I find myself running short on work-out pants, I can just grab a few big T-shirts from the thrift store or my husbands dresser and whip a few up! <br />
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This bag was made using materials I had on hand, and took less than 20 minutes.<br />
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1 child's ruined T-shirt, size 5 or close to.<br />
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1 metal coat hanger, or arm length piece of wire of similar gauge and width.<br />
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Needle and thread or sewing machine.<br />
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Pair of pliers.<br />
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My daughter was so sad when she ruined this T-shirt. I was too, it was the first time she wore it. We don't throw away fabric if it is in decent condition, because we know that we can always make something from it.<br />
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I've been in need of a new clothes pin holder and decided to use the shirt for that. <br />
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You can use a child's T-shirt, trim down an old pillow case, or make yourself a pouch from scratch. Whatever works for you!<br />
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I have made a few of these over the years and prefer the child's T-shirt because we usually always have one around to serve the cause - and because they are the correct width so as not to need to sew the sides or hem the opening. <br />
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It may be difficult to tell in this picture, but I flipped the T-shirt inside out and then sewed alongside the seams of the sleeves and across the top, just beneath the collar.<br />
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I straight stitched it, and then zigzagged on what would be the outside edge to prevent fraying. If you cannot zigzag, I would at least double stitch it as the bulk of the clothespins will be hard on the seam. <br />
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Trim away the sleeves and neck opening after sewing.<br />
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Using a pair of pliers, open up your coat hanger and stretch it out. You want the length of wire to be approximately 2 to 3 feet - or an arms length. <br />
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Fold the wire in half and pinch it with the pliers. <br />
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Three and a half inches from the bend, begin twisting the two sides together as you see in the photo. Give it a couple of twists. <br />
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You now have a bag instead of a T-shirt. The opening of your bag is already hemmed for you! On the inside of this hem, pop two little holes, about half an inch apart to feed the ends of your wires through the hem.
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After you've popped the wires out of the other side of the hem, use the pliers to loop them around each other as shown.<br />
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Bend the wires as needed to form a hoop at the opening of your bag. <br />
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You may now fill the bag with clothespins and hang it on your clothesline. There, it can slide along the line with you and you won't have to bend over to pick them up!desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-109430390940548662013-07-11T04:53:00.000-07:002013-07-11T04:53:28.493-07:00Home Grown Cantina<!-- START TOP CODE -->
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What's not to love about a good cantina bowl? One of my favorite foods is Mexican-American and my favorite place to eat is <a href="http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/Default.aspx?type=default">Chipotle Mexican Grill</a>. I know that Taco Bell has put out a pretty good imitation, and there have been many home recipes mimicking them both. I believe I have found the key to this specific flavor, however, and I have not only adapted the recipe to include more raw ingredients, I have dialed down the fat as well.
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This is my healthy, more natural version of an already healthy and natural way of eating!
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You may choose to add a seasoned beef or chicken, either tastes really nice. However, this recipe is meatless.<br />
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Notice my thick bed of lettuce in the above picture. This is one of those recipes where the fresher your ingredients, the better it will taste! Not all of my ingredients are grown at home, but most can be. Others can be found in your local farmers market. The few things that will need to be bought in the store can be bought raw and unprocessed. They are beans and brown rice, and of course some seasonings. <br />
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There are three layers to your cantina bowl (or burrito): Seasoned rice, black bean salsa and toppings.<br />
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Begin by cooking your beans. You will want to cook 1 cup of dry beans with however much water seems fitting. While it's true that you can buy canned beans, I prefer to cook from scratch. They do take extra time, but little work and canned beans contain some pretty ugly additives. <a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2012/12/seven-recipes-for-beans-post-holiday.html">I strongly suggest avoiding them.</a> Simply cook the beans according to the package directions. They will take about an hour, two at the most. Cook them in the morning and allow them to cool. They will keep until you need them. <br />
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<u>For the Rice</u><br />
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<li>2 cups dried brown rice</li>
<li>2 cups water</li>
<li>1 tsp. salt</li>
<li>1 tsp. garlic powder</li>
<li>1 tsp. onion powder</li>
<li>2 tps. chili powder</li>
<li>1/2 tsp. cumin</li>
<li>1 tomato, seeded and pureed</li>
<li>juice from 1/2 lime</li>
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Add all of the ingredients into a pan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes, or until rice is tender. Allow to cool<br />
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<u>For the Black Bean Salsa</u><br />
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<li>3 large ripe tomatoes, seeded and chopped</li>
<li>1 medium red onion, chopped</li>
<li>1 bell pepper, chopped</li>
<li>1 ear of fresh sweet corn, kernels removed (1 cup of frozen)</li>
<li>3 heaping tablespoons of chopped fresh cilantro</li>
<li>juice from one whole lime</li>
<li>1 1/2 tsp. salt</li>
<li>1 tsp. garlic powder</li>
<li>1 tsp. pepper</li>
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Chop all of the ingredients and toss into a large mixing bowl. Drain the black beans and rinse them. Gently fold them in. Allow the salsa to sit for a little while in the refrigerator. The longer it sits, the more the flavors will meld together.<br />
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Once the rice has cooked and cooled, and the salsa has had a chance to stew for a bit, put a cupful of rice in the bottom of a bowl and add some salsa. If you have meat prepared, you can add it as well. Finish with your toppings. <br />
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<u>Toppings</u><br />
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<li>fresh lettuce</li>
<li>skim mozzarella cheese</li>
<li>Fresh chopped avocado</li>
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You may choose to add sour cream or a lime ranch dressing, but this is a very good start. Serve with corn chips or tortillas or eat it straight with a fork. I like to make a batch of rice and a batch of salsa and keep them in the refrigerator. Putting a bowl together for my lunch is then super easy and I can eat deliciously healthy all week long. In the summer months - with tomatoes, fresh lettuce, cilantro, onion and corn straight from my garden, wholesome home grown eating is simple but exciting!<br />
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<li>Jennifer at <a href="http://www.hybridrastamama.com/">Hybrid Rasta Mama</a> shares <a href="http://www.hybridrastamama.com/2013/07/grilled-fennel-and-tomatoes-with-basil.html" target="_blank">Grilled Fennel and Tomatoes with Basil</a>! This recipe brings together some of the freshest, most vibrant flavors from her garden into a simple dish that even her wee-one adores! You can also find Jennifer on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/HybridRastaMama">Facebook.</a></li>
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<li>Sam in a guest post at <a href="http://www.hobomama.com/" target="_blank">Hobo Mama</a> shares a <a href="http://www.hobomama.com/2013/07/wilted-spinach-salad-with-tomato-coulis.html" target="_blank">garlicky, sweet, salty, and tangy topping for salads, sandwiches, pasta, and burgers </a>and pairs it with a delightful dish that will help you use up the tomatoes and spinach fresh from your garden or farmers' market! You can also follow Hobo Mama on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HoboMamaBlog" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.</li>
<li>Lindy at <a href="http://blog.poppysoap.com/">Poppy Soap Company</a> shares a recipe for <a href="http://blog.poppysoap.com/2013/07/11/grilled-peaches-with-balsamic-vinegar/" target="_blank">Grilled Peaches with Balsamic Vinegar</a><a href="http://blog.poppysoap.com/2013/06/13/start-your-day-the-grapefruit-wake-up-smoothie-way/" target="_blank">.</a> This easy recipe pairs well with protein heavy meals as a decadent and easy side dish! You can also find Lindy on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/poppysoapco">Facebook.</a></li>
<li>Angela from <a href="http://www.earthmamasworld.com/" target="_blank">Earth Mama's World</a> scored some 'imperfect' veggies from a local farmer's market and turned them into a perfect <a href="http://www.earthmamasworld.com/rosemary-roasted-veggies/" target="_blank">rosemary roasted veggie dish!</a> You can also follow Angela on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EarthMamasWorld" target="_blank">Facebook.</a></li>
<li>Amy at <a href="http://www.anktangle.com/" target="_blank">Anktangle</a> details two different methods of <a href="http://www.anktangle.com/2013/07/two-handy-ways-to-preserve-summer-greens.html" target="_blank">preserving hearty summer greens</a> (such as kale and chard) so you can enjoy the variety—and nutritional benefits!—year-round. You can also follow Amy on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Anktangle" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.</li>
<li>Destany at <a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">They Are All of Me</a> creates low fat, <a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2013/07/home-grown-cantina.html" target="_blank">healthy mock ups of some of her favorite restaurant dishes</a>, using whole foods and ingredients from her garden. You can also follow Destany on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheyAreAllOfMe" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.</li>
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I'm something of an addict when it comes to water gardens. I think I enjoy building them as much as I enjoy looking at them. Before I move onto the building, let me tell you why I must always have one. <br />
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Water gardens are ridiculously easy to grow. You practically have to try to mess them up. Trimming the plants back in the fall and mucking it out in the spring (that's a really gross chore, actually) is all of the maintenance it requires. I used to think a water garden had to have hundreds of dollars of electrical gear to maintain it. And believe me, there is no shortage of that stuff on the market! Leaf skimmers, UV filters, regular filters... it's a little crazy. Not to mention all of the chemicals you're supposed to dump in it. But, to be honest, I've just let them be for the most part and they get along quite well without me. <br />
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Water gardens attract and nourish local wild life. We usually always have tadpoles in the spring, and a resident bullfrog. The birds can get a bath or a drink of water, the squirrels, ground hogs, raccoons, you name it. And if we're lucky, we can see this once in a while! There's always snails and sometimes even leeches, water striders, dragon flies and other fascinating visitors. <br />
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I've built a few water gardens and I've lost count which one I'm on. So I'll start at the beginning. <br />
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This is what I started with, eight or nine years ago. The rental house I was living in had this funny wood framed box sitting in the middle of the backyard for no apparent reason. <br />
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The landlord said I could remove it if I put something better in it's place. So I decided to make a little pond. <br />
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I dug the hole, and then I dug up rocks from the very back of the yard. Actually, where I got the rocks was between the backyard and a creek that was owned by the city. So the city probably owned the rocks. I didn't think they would be missed. They were well underground and needed to be dug out. I also got my first liner for much less than was expected. I hadn't realized until much later that the store had it mismarked and they charged me for weed barrier. What should have cost me $60 was only $11. Like I said, I didn't know this until a year later. <br />
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Some gravel from another part of the yard, and some free mulch from the city dump and we were off to a pretty nice start. I didn't have a bench, but a neighbor let me have a stump to sit on.<br />
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I put a small ten dollar pump in it to keep the water moving since it had no plants at first.<br />
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I collected wild plants from the creek area, including bulrush and cattails. Visiting my local lake yielded some nice finds too, with a bit of duckweed. I had hoped to find water lilies in the wild, but no luck. I purchased one from Walmart for $4.89.<br />
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I transplanted a few other plants from the woods nearby and some roses from the front yard.<br />
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The photo on the right is my first pond, which cost me less than $30 dollars - just from being resourceful, working <em>really really</em> hard and getting very lucky.<br />
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But if you're a ponder, you'll understand why this wasn't quite enough. You see, ponders always want bigger, better and more elaborate. <br />
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I wanted a bigger pond!<br />
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I met a really sweet lady from a pond forum on Garden Web. She had a rather large liner just sitting in her shed and wanted to give it to me. I accepted, but I wanted to gift her something in return. <br />
She agreed to accept a large painting of her pond. I'm glad she did, that liner cost her $80 to ship to me! She also included some starts of some plants. Some of them made it, like the pretty soft pink grapefruit lily and the purple irises, and others didn't really like the weather up here. She was from Florida. Her painting took me a year and it's really quite large. But it was such a labor of love, let me tell you! <br />
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Thanks to her I was able to double the size of the pond. I used my old liner to put in an upper tier. <br />
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My landlord brought me over some hostas, and I built a little wooden bench from some branches (for the legs) and some pallets my husband brought home from work.
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I was building stuff from pallets before Pinterest made it cool! :D<br />
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The only cost for this was the cost of supplies for the painting and the shipping - all of which totaled less than $10.<br />
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I quite loved the pond after this and continued adding found plants around the perimeter and at one point, we bought a wooden and metal bench from a yard sale for $5. Here are some pictures!<br />
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I built this little arbor from branches I found in the woods behind the yard. <br />
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I still have these purple water lilies, and they are still very prolific bloomers. <br />
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Each year I have to pull them up and cut back the roots and stems and repot them. If left alone, the roots would matt up all over the bottom of the liner.<br />
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I originally wanted a water garden so that I could have it as subject matter in my painting. But I've actually never gotten around to painting it. <br />
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I am able to take some rather nice photos, though!<br />
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This waterfall worked out for a year, but the upper pool leaked too much so I took it out. <br />
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It was nice while it lasted!<br />
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One day my husband announced that the house across the street from his ill father was available for rent. I didn't want to move, but it was important for him to be closer to his dad. I wasn't going to leave my water garden, though!<br />
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I drained the pond and put the plants into a kiddie pool, and then I dismantled the whole thing.<br />
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I laid the liner out to dry before folding it up.<br />
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Each of these rocks was loaded up onto the back of the moving van and brought with us. Damn right. There was NO way I could part with them, having excavated each one by hand and carried it up a thirty degree slope!<br />
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Our landlords had been really good to us. We also felt that we had been good tenants and deserved to get our deposit back. Therefore I made sure this hole was filled in before we left. I dug up dirt from the creek area and hauled bucketful by bucketful and painstakingly filled it back up, with enough on the top to allow for settling. But you know, they still stiffed us on the deposit. <br />
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The new house had a nice slope in the back corner of the yard. This seemed a great place to put the pond. The slope would be perfect for a larger waterfall, and it wasn't beneath a tree, which I always regretted in the previous house - it always filled up with leaves quickly!<br />
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Digging a hole for a water garden, you always want a deep end for deep water plants like lilies, and a shallow end for marginal like cattails and rushes. <br />
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And boy, was I right about the waterfall! It was beautiful!<br />
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But there were some problems with this. The pump required to run the waterfall was a power hog, so we didn't run it very often and dirt would pool up in the filter, clogging it. The pump sucked... literally and metaphorically. It was always breaking down and needing to be fixed. It leaked a lot, too.<br />
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No one ever saw the pond except for me, on days when I chose to walk all the way to the back of the yard and sit by it. And without any shade, I never wanted to! After three years, I decided to move it again. <br />
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By this time, we had purchased our house and could do whatever we wanted to it. We have a two tiered porch, that when we first moved in, had a stair case coming from the top balcony. We didn't like this staircase, partly because it looked an eyesore and partly because our little ones would use it to carry out their escape plans. After their third time sneaking out, we took the stairs off and had a rather empty space that was perfect for the pond.
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I dug the hole so that it looked like the pond went beneath the porch. Moving the pond has shrunk it considerably, but it's important a water garden fit the space that it's in appropriately and this felt like the best size to sit beside the porch.<br />
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One day, I hope to build a second one on the other side of the porch so that it looks like the porch is sitting on top of a singular pond. <br />
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My kids had quite a lot of fun that day helping me move the pond, though I believe I did most of the work while they played in the pit.<br />
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This hole wasn't quite so difficult to fill in, since I could backfill the dirt that I had dug out of it in the first place. <br />
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Here is the pond as it sits presently! It's filled to the brim with plants and snails, frog spawn and probably leeches. In this spot, everyone can see it and we enjoy it every day, even in the winter. You may notice there is no longer a pump on it, because I've decided that they are much more hassle than they're worth. One day I may add a spitter, who knows. There are three varieties of water lilies, the irises my friend had sent me, and the cattails and bulrushes that I pulled out of the creek in the very beginning. <br />
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You can build a water garden out of so many things! They can be large, medium sized (like the ones I've shown here), or they can be as small as a <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/270708/indoor-water-gardens" target="_blank">pretty bowl with some gravel in the bottom and lily growing out of it.</a><br />
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You can visit Garden Web's <a href="http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/ponds/" target="_blank">Pond and Aquatic Plants forum</a> to get a lot of advice and see some really amazing ponds! <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=water%20gardens&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Awater%20gardens" target="_blank">There are many books that you can buy or check out from the library, as well.</a><br />
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Do you have a water garden? I'd love to hear about it!<br />
<br />desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-18760610848525167162013-06-23T06:42:00.000-07:002013-06-25T13:41:33.276-07:00So... you wanna make a clothesline?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbAUHz-tKnaO-FLKQ68GCrz2VArl7XNIu5AMPN4C0CKi73PS2uTq3egEKl60AWdQFgJHWVvSvpanaBtfmX0s2TMRasRqZKbtaZs2w4c8yr2T6CzSPGQwCuqLSgNvoUCJBGp_KcFnVNas/s1600/0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbAUHz-tKnaO-FLKQ68GCrz2VArl7XNIu5AMPN4C0CKi73PS2uTq3egEKl60AWdQFgJHWVvSvpanaBtfmX0s2TMRasRqZKbtaZs2w4c8yr2T6CzSPGQwCuqLSgNvoUCJBGp_KcFnVNas/s1600/0.jpg" /></a>I pretty much always use a clothesline in the summer. It helps me out for many reasons, and nothing as romantic as sheets that smell like honeysuckle or a fresh outdoor breeze, though. <br />
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The truth is, I quite enjoy hanging out the laundry and I can't explain to you why. It's time consuming and monotonous, but makes me feel... peaceful. I like that I can dry clothes in batches, and the laundry gets done much more quickly when I don't have to wait on the dryer. I like that I can dry larger things that won't fit in the dryer. I also like that the energy required doesn't cost me a penny. <br />
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My first clothesline at this house was made from repurposed lumber which we had leftover from an outdoor staircase we removed. I built it myself when my husband was at work and it worked really well. But I decided that the spot it was in needed a vegetable garden, so I took it down. <br />
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My second clothesline was this thing. It opens like and umbrella. We found it at a yard sale for $15. It lasted us 3 years, I believe, but this year it was done-for. The metal rods had rusted through and we couldn't repair it. It went to the scrapyard.<br />
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I have seen in my neighborhood some houses that have a long line reaching from the house itself to a tree or a post near the outside of the yard. The line is retractable and can be unhooked and coiled up to get it out of the way. I decided to make one of these. We just took the line out of the old umbrella hanger, but otherwise the cost would have only been $7 for the line and the hooks.<br />
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If you don't have a utility pole, perhaps you have a shed, or a tree?<br />
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The reason Joe staggered them was so it would be easier to wind the line around the two of them and prevent it from slipping off. We can adjust the slack as we need to.<br />
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When the line isn't being used, it can be coiled up and hung on the corner of the house, out of the way. This isn't a very tidy picture, but it can look neater than this.<br />
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desfentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468862781679887190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372239056646866179.post-2239926897126923802013-06-17T06:22:00.001-07:002013-06-17T06:22:54.627-07:00Around The GardenI absolutely love to garden! I can't do much with plants indoors, though between cats and destructive forces (kids) it's not really my fault. But I do find that Nature is a far better mother when it comes to little green things than me. I don't use fertilizer or pesticides/fungicides/herbicides, I just yank the weeds and keep them watered. Most of my gardening success, however, can be attributed to planting things where they like to be and leaving them alone.<br />
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This plant is a one year old American Hazelnut. I got it for free last arbor day from a local wild-life center. It needs a mate, however, as hazelnuts need to be in pairs in order to produce nuts. You can see that empty spot behind it, just waiting. Hazelnut trees aren't hard to come by, but it hasn't been the highest order of priorities as of late. When I do get a partner for it, in a few years I'm going to have gobs of hazelnuts!<br />
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This is my watergarden. I built my first one nine years ago. It was very little, so later that year I got a larger pond liner and built it bigger. And then a friend I met on a pond forum mailed me a very large liner (twice as big as it is now) in trade for a very large painting of her pond. <br />
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Most of the plants in this little pond I have had since I first built it, eight years ago. It's been moved a couple of times. There are no fishes, save for minnows that I buy ever year to eat the mosquito larva, and no filtration or pump. It's a great little tadpole haven!<br />
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For Earth Day four years ago, my kid brought home a little twig with some dried up "hairs" stuck on the bottom and told me it was a dogwood tree. He had heard his dad say he liked dogwoods.<br />
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It's not the dogwood our son was expecting, but a quick google search told us it's a Red Osier Dogwood. I planted it, tended it lovingly and now it is getting quite large. It put out it's first set of flowers this year, even!<br />
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I am beginning to plant more native plants in my yard, and slowly getting rid of the non-native varieties. For years <a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2013/04/growing-native-in-my-flower-beds.html" target="_blank">I have wanted a yard that was all native plants.</a><br />
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My daughter had other ideas, however, and insisted on planting some gladiolas. I also have some rudbekia from a trade that I botched. I feel guilty every time I look at them, but I love that they're getting ready to bloom already!<br />
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I found this and another growing along my back fence. I knew it was a native flower of some type, and a rather nice one. I put one on either side of the porch steps.<br />
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Part of the fun of finding plants like this is identifying them. I searched all over Google, but came up with nothing. I finally had to visit the <a href="http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/namegal/?29493" target="_blank">Name That Plant</a> forum at <a href="http://www.gardenweb.com/" target="_blank">GardenWeb</a>. They always help me out when I'm stuck!<br />
This is in fact, Wild Petunia and I find that gleefully ironic, if you read <a href="http://theyareallofme.blogspot.com/2013/04/growing-native-in-my-flower-beds.html" target="_blank">my post about planting native</a>!<br />
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Please excuse the plastic showing and the debris. We're going to be getting in some all natural wood chip mulch very soon!<br />
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This is a lilac, it's five years old. They are not the fastest growing plant. It is not a native plant species in my area, however they are quite commonly distributed and well established. This was a sucker (a shoot sprouted from a root of a parent) that I dug up and moved to another part of the yard. This is it's second home and I hope that we may get some flowers on her next season!<br />
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This is the mother lilac. It had been cut down to the roots when we first got the house five years ago. It is now extremely large, spanning eight feet at it's widest.<br />
We've tried getting rid of it a couple of times, because it's just not in a very good place. It needs to be kept trimmed to be tidy, but doing so removes the flowers for the next year or two. Not trimming it, it becomes quite unruly and for the rather manicured front yard, it's not what we prefer.<br />
It's here to stay, however, we haven't been successful trying to move it.<br />
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I am really torn about my rose bushes. I love roses! They look and smell so wonderful! As an artist, I love painting them. The reason I planted these here in the first place was so I could include them in my art.<br />
But I'm really not into spraying and they always look so awful. Black spot sets in just a couple of weeks into spring and the roses never live up to their potential. <br />
I do think that this fall I will give them to a neighbor and plant something native instead.<br />
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Except for this rose. I wish I had a better picture, it's so lovely!<br />
This rose was given to me by a very dear friend for Mothers Day, just after my daughter was born. It's an heirloom rose, called <a href="http://www.heirloomroses.com/roses/abbaye-de-cluny.html" target="_blank">Abbaye De Cluny. </a><br />
This picture does not begin to do it justice, it is one of the most beautiful roses I've ever seen! I positively cherish it and I couldn't bear to lose it.<br />
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This photo is of our colossal white ash tree. It's hard to say how tall it is, though it's clearly twice as tall as our two story house. At it's base, it is easily six feet in diameter. <br />
Last spring we had a dying juniper in our front yard that needed removing, and the tree cutter who came out remembered our house because of this tree. It's one of the largest of its kind in the city, he said, and has most certainly been around since before the house was built. <br />
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In the autumn, it puts on a beautiful display of yellow leaves, that sometimes turn a bit orange or purple at the tips. It's breathtaking!<br />
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I am very fond of this tree, though my husband talks about cutting it down. He likes his little joke. There's no way he's serious - or that I'd ever allow it! <br />
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This is a chain link fence. Every spring (except this year) I spend days cutting all of the poison ivy, wild grape vine, invasive ornamental vine, trumpet flower and honey suckle out of it.<br />
This year I said, "screw it!" We'll work on maintaining it at fence level and hitting it with the weed whacker once a month. The honey suckle really is fragrant though. Sitting in bed in the mornings with the windows open and honey suckle air sweeping through the room is heavenly. It also makes the line dried laundry smell delicious!<br />
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This year I planted an herb garden. Sadly, most of the herbs didn't sprout. I am mostly disappointed about the lavender and the rosemary. I was looking forward to infusing oil with those herbs!<br />
I did get a nice little crop of cilantro and parsley, however! This will do wonderfully in my home made salsa. <br />
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Ah, this little guy. This is my Mimosa Tree. I have always loved these trees, though they are not native to the united states. Unfortunately, they are also considered invasive. I planted this one on purpose and I refuse to get rid of it.<br />
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After trying to grow one from seed for two years, I was having no luck. One day, I was passing by my mothers old house. She lived only three blocks away from where I live now, but lost her home when her cancer took over and she died shortly after. Discovering upon passing that her house was on the market (ten years after she'd lived in it), I decided to investigate the property. It was very bitter sweet. I saw her bedroom, her living room, the kitchen. So many memories, even though I myself did not live there with her. It was the first house she had ever owned and she was extremely proud of it. As I was leaving, I saw this tiny tree growing up in the most unlikely place. A small dime sized hole in the concrete driveway had this sad and desperate seedling poking out of it. I rushed to the car to find our stash of emergency napkins, doused two of them in water and oh so carefully teased this tiny tree up out of its home. I kept it in a pot on the porch at first, and now it's given a place of honor in the middle of the backyard. <br />
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My lettuce crop is thriving! I've planted eight varieties here, though one I found too unpalatable to eat and another went to seed. We've been chomping on this for a few weeks now, and will have a few weeks longer.<br />
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This is an unintended pumpkin plant. I found it growing in the compost pit, no doubt sprouted from last falls jack-o-lanterns. <br />
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I popped it in it's own little bed so that I could tend to it, and it's very happy. I'm not sure if we'll get a good sized pumpkin out of it, but we'll see!<br />
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This is an unintended tomato plant. I didn't get a chance to buy tomato seedlings this year, however I've had over 20 volunteers crop up in random places. <br />
I've culled many of them, but I have about 15 of them growing. I've read that fruit from volunteer plants are often tastier than ones that have been planted, as the plants themselves are hardier and easier to care for.<br />
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This looks like the pumpkin plant, but it's a cucumber. They are both from the squash family. I have probably 10 of these plants that have really shot up in size the past week. <br />
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Tomato and cucumber salad is one of my favorite summer dishes!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The consistency of this paint is between watercolor and craft paint.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As an artist, I have plenty of experience producing and
packing up a painting station and dealing with some of the common mishaps of
artistry. I am also a profoundly messy artist. It is not uncommon to find me at
the end of a painting day with oil paints smudged up and down my forearms, my
thighs and my face. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a mama, I have plenty of experience painting with wee
ones. My kids see me painting and what a good time I’m having, they want to
paint too! You know what? Paints aren’t cheap and kids go through them quickly.
I’m always running out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What’s a frugal artist-mama to do? Well, make my own paints,
of course! So along with giving you a few tips for painting with kids, I will
give you paint recipe using materials most of us keep in our kitchen. Mind you,
these paints are staining. Make sure your kids are wearing old clothes and don’t
give them this paint the day before their scheduled portraits.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plenty of space to let her artwork dry.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Set up a work station
with lots of space</b>. If you’re worried about your table top or flooring
getting stained, you can purchase an inexpensive vinyl table cloth that can be
wiped down and reused over and over. Kids are messy and the best creativity
comes from being allowed to get into the project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have several clean
shop rags ready</b> to clean up spills or blot paint brushes. We prefer not to
use paper towels at my house and instead we use inexpensive shop rags that can
be washed and used repeatedly. I find this much more convenient (as I always
have plenty) and Earth friendly than throwing away dozens of used paper towels.
It’s also much less expensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Use a wide flat
bottomed bowl for rinsing</b> their brushes, rather than a skinny jar or glass.
Those glass jars are tricky when you’re a little one. I prefer a margarine tub
or something similar that will sit flat, hold plenty of water and be difficult
to tip over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Give them paints in
individual cups</b> (recycled yogurt cups work well) rather than a pallet.
There will be less mixing of the colors. I find that giving my little ones
paint pallets with small wells of colors becomes a big muddy mess as they can’t
seem to help themselves from trying to pick up all of the colors at once. Maybe
that’s just my kids…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Make sure you have a
place set aside beforehand</b> to dry the artwork. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My kids like to paint in sprees and will have
several drippy sheets of paper by the time they’re done. We often designate the
covered porch for a drying spot, but sometimes it’s rainy or windy. The kitchen
table is handy if we take the time to clear it off. What’s annoying is having
to run around with a soppy wet sheet of paper and finding no good place to set
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Play some music.</b>
When kids are just learning to paint and draw, much of what they create is
interpretive. Music can help get their creative juices flowing and keep them
into their painting for longer periods. This would be a great time to play some
jazz or something with a lot of feeling and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Don’t instruct them</b>.
That would be so boring! We know the sky is blue, so what if they want to make
it green? Who cares if their apple tree looks more like a bush than an actual
tree? What of it? Just let them be, let them play around. Interfering will just
throw up creativity blocks and maybe even put them off of painting. Just as
forcing kids to read books they don’t enjoy can put them off of reading, trying
to make them paint or draw the way you want them to can put them off of art
completely. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have the kitchen sink
clear before you start</b>. Wow. No brainer, right? Except I always forget to
do this and I find myself scrambling to clear the lunch dishes out of the way to
have a place to dump the dirty water, rinse the brushes and clean the kids. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now that you have some handy-dandy Painting with Littles
advice, here’s a quickie paint recipe if you’re interested. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is half an egg yolk with 2 tbs. water and 1 tbs. flour.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">6 yogurt cups (preferably with lids)<br />
3 egg yolks – make sure you get all of the white part off.<br />
6 tbs. flour <br />
12 tbs. water.<br />
Food coloring <br />
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In a small cup, beat the egg yolks until there are no clumps. Add 3 tablespoons
of water, and then the flour. Add the rest of the water, until you have a slightly
thickened consistency. Divide this up between the six cups and add the food
coloring. I used McCormick brand that I bought at a regular grocery store,
however, you can use <a href="http://www.maggiesnaturals.com/" target="_blank">natural food colorings</a> and even <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4794074_make-food-coloring.html" target="_blank">make your own</a>.<br />
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For the paint shown, I used between 20 and 50 drops of coloring of McCormick
Neon. These are just rough estimates. Have fun and fool around with the
combinations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These colors are very vibrant, and also quite staining.</td></tr>
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Red: 50 drops of pink<br />
Orange: 40 green, 10 pink<br />
Apple Green: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20 drops of green<br />
Dark Green: 30 blue, 10 green<br />
Blue: 40 drops of blue<br />
Purple: 40 drops of purple</span><br />
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*When my little girl mixed the green and the purple, it made a perfect black!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You can add a bit of water if necessary to lighten the
colors more. As you can see in the pictures, the colors are quite vibrant. Once
your little ones are finished painting, you can put the lids on the paint and
keep them in the refrigerator for up to one week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Happy Painting!</span></div>
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