Happy Birthday Addy!!!Happy 4th of July! Hope to see you out at the Home Grange 4th of July Parade! (Scroll down for actual directions. ) While you're there, why not become a member? You know you love spending time with me and the Pigs, Ogre sightings are frequent at the Grange and this year State Session is being held in Marshall, you can enter KNITTING into the State contests!! Plus National Grange is in Grand Rapids this year and I have been promised a giant fairy princess dress in sn... Read Full Story

My hands are a rainbow, not of fruit flavor. The Pigs, and even the OGRE did a family fun project. Oh, that's about how long I can keep a secret. We had a tye dye party. You would call it tye dyeing, it's a Tye Dye Party when we do it.There was dye, and fun, and some photos were taken, but evil camera is dead again. Crystal, you are right, the camera may in fact be evil because of it's zombie status. If you are itching to see what the Ogre Family did to perfectly harmless white t shirts,... Read Full Story

Do you even know what you missed when you decided not to go to Fabrications last night? You missed a brush with fame and glory. The Zombie Prom Date Knitters are such fabulous people, full of faith, hope, charity, and are noted for fidelity. Semper Fidelis! But better than that, we do AWESOME things. Check this,Other Dawn is a designer for Kalamazoo Knits! Which is funny, because if you google kalamazoo knits patterns, you get Knit with Snot! Another famous person!! I matched up Cascade's ... Read Full Story

Do you wait all day on the 4th of July for it to get dark so you can do fireworks? Kids driving you crazy because they're "bored?" Well, come on out to the Home Grange's 25th Annual 4th of July Parade!!!But wait!! Wonder Why Alpaca Farm will also be there this year!!! And I will be doing tattoos.It's just a hop, skip and a jump away over in lovely Newton Township (it's by Binder Park Zoo, roughly in the Middle of Nowhere, but really, it's by the zoo) The actual Grange Hall is at 9 1/2 mil... Read Full Story

Haven't heard from me in a while? We're you worried?Well you should have been!!I went from this...to this...in just mere hours. See my stretched arms? That's my sleeping space. See my legs? Below me was my friends sleeping area. Can you guess where we were?USS SILVERSIDES!!!For those who don't know, that's a WWII submarine. I went with Pigs 1 & 2 with their Cub Scout Pack. It was actually a riot. A well control riot, but a riot.First, how often do you get to sleep on a sub, outsi... Read Full Story

Summer Reading for your kids and you when they're done and you are wondering why they read it so quickly:100 Cupboards, N. D. Wilson-in the grand tradition of "holy crap there are other worlds just through there" of CS Lewis, join Henry on what seems like a normal summer at his Aunt and Uncle's house in Kansas when he discovers the 100 Cupboards. Available at Target. 1st of a series.Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan-Ordinary, strike that, worse than ordinary kid discovers his bad luck is actual... Read Full Story

Harry Potter at Science and IndustryWe saw Ron's "R" Weasley sweater. Sure, not technically book accurate, but sweet to see in person. His bed spread by the way, is not quilted, it's all hand knit. Our Orange and Green Barbara J. Hopps Charity Blanket from last summer is totally Molly Weasley approved!A bunch of outfits, and props, and, and stuff from the movies were in the exhibit. It was overwhelming, and awesome.Plus, Twilight fans-I saw Robert Pattinson's outfits from Goblet of Fire. ... Read Full Story

We need a new love in. I mean summer togetherness project. I think the squares thing went really well. Uh, except it was noted that maybe the color choice was a poor one. I’m going to throw some options out at you. Please remember I don’t give a crap if you join in or not. This is not mandatory. This is what I am personally doing. If you don’t want to do this, don’t think you can do this, don’t want to, don’t have the time, money or energy, THAN IGNORE THIS WHOLE THREAD AND MOVE ON WITH YOUR... Read Full Story

So yeah, I left you...but I'm back, and I love you more due to the time away.The Ogre made me leave all connections to the outside world at home. It's not like we went to a great barren wilderness untouched by technology or with crappy wifi. We were in Chicago. I was like the only person in Chicago without technology. While we were at the museum of Science and Industry, I hot wired some equipment and logged onto twitter. It was very oo7. I felt sexy and then shot someone too.Anyway beca... Read Full Story

Soo, Your Local Yarn Shop in Battle Creek called me last night. I mean your local yarn shop in your town could have called me also, but that would have just been weird. No, it was Your Local Yarn Shop in Battle Creek calling to tell me they were buying me lunch. I knew we were friends, but this was awesome. Turns out I won a drawing, we're not that close.But while we were on the phone, I did learn about Roof Sit for the Haven and Knit Under the Stars. (If this were a Kid n' Play movie i... Read Full Story