Knitting Dragonflies

I’ve been on a knitting break. I use to think I could knit through all things, but that has turned out false. I did finally perk up one day and think, “I need Yarn!” To anyone else who needs some knitting inspiration… Photo is Night Light from https://www.flickr.com/photos/donald_palansky_photography/ Go check out more of his inspirational photos Keep knitting!

So I have been looking at Kimono’s and kicking around the idea of sewing a Kimono cover of some type for a couple of years. I’ve watched numerous YouTube videos on how to make the pretty flowy ones that look sexy. But couldn’t find a scarf or fabric that I wanted to make one out of. Cut to me online looking at things, I ran across some Kimono tutorials again, and  thought Oh! I have some fleece that I bought to make a hoodie for a present, and that never happened so maybe I could make a kimono robe from it! I made one once from a real pattern and loved it and wore it for years. But I don’t want to invest in buying a pattern. I run across this vague tutorial on http://www.instructables.com/id/Instant-Cozy-Kimono-Robe-Made-from-Blanket/ . Interesting, but I was having a hard time understanding how to put it together, Sew lines??? This is how I figured it out!  Instructable directions, cut 3 lines in blanket. WTHeck?? OK I see, So I got my fleece out, and laid it out on the floor and

Well, I read and looked at reviews, talked to people who had one, and finally purchased a Fit Bit. I decided on the one. I didn’t like the look of a rubber bracelet. Little did I know that this little device was going to launch me off of the sofa to crazily walk everywhere. I literally got hardly any exercise, my excuse was I’m always standing at work, and walking. And I do walk quite a bit of work, but seeing the numbers, for some reason really made it “click”. As David Sedaris  people either get a Fit Bit (or other activity monitor) wear it and when the charge runs out, put it in the drawer, or worry because they won’t be wearing it while it is charging. Well that was me. When to charge it? I’m loosing steps! Maybe I am slightly obsessed, one morning I dropped by fit bit one while transferring it from my sleep band (for my wrist) to my clip, and dropped it! It landed just on the corner, and it wound not record steps! I gave an involuntary shriek, and my husband says “what's wr