2009 Conservative Friends Gathering in Pennsylvania

June 19-21, 2009

Keystone Fellowship Friend Meeting

hosted a Gathering in Lancaster, Pennsylavania.

Above is a picture of the ouside of Lampeter Friends Meetinghouse

and below is half of the inside.lol.

It's along PA 340 on west end of Bird in Hand in Pennsylvania. They only meet once a month there but we got to go...Yeah!

We enjoyed yourselves very much and want to thank all the many people who helped make it such a great Gathering...

THANK YOU!

The Knit List

I saw this one someone's blog and stole it

Bold for stuff you’ve done, italics for stuff you plan to do one day, and normal for stuff you’re not planning on doing:

Afghan
I-cord
Garter stitch
Knitting with metal wire (I don't think I would do this unless is was for jewelry)
Shawl
Stockinette stitch
Socks: top-down
Socks: toe-up
Knitting with camel yarn (I have camel fiber waiting to be spun up so I will be doing this some day. I would also like to knit with bison and possum.)
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Tip-down
Hat
Knitting with silk
Moebius band knitting (Not interested in...yet)
Participating in a KAL
Sweater
Drop stitch patterns
Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
Slip stitch patterns
Knitting with banana fiber yarn (Maybe someday and maybe sugar cane)
Domino knitting (modular knitting) (I don't really like how this looks...yet)
Twisted stitch patterns
Knitting with bamboo yarn (I don't trust bamboo yarn because of a panda bear show I watched that said bamboo has high levels arsenic in it and they wanted to know how the pandas could eat it without dying. I've tried looking this up but I have found nothing, but I'm still not going for this new craze. I'm thinking that before they owned up to playground equipment having arsenic in it you couldn't find information on it too. At least that's my theory and I'm sticking with it.lol.)
Two end knitting (I've seen some scarfs that do this but you have to graft in a lace pattern so I don't I'll be doing this anytime soon.lol.)
Charity knitting (I want to do this but I keep finding more things to knit for my family friends)
Knitting with soy yarn
Cardigan
Toy/doll clothing
Knitting with circular needles
Baby items
Knitting with your own handspun yarn
Slippers
Graffiti knitting: knitting items on, or to be left on the street (I would love to make a treesweater on a tree in my yard but that's all I would ever think of doing.)
Continental knitting
Designing knitted garments
Cable stitch patterns
Lace patterns
Publishing a knitting book (That would be cool but I doubt this would ever happen)
Scarf
Teaching a child to knit
Knitting to make money (I would think this would be a tough thing to achieve)
Button holes
Knitting with alpaca
Fair Isle knitting
Norwegian knitting
Household items: dishcloths, washcloths, tea cosies…
knitting socks- or other small tubular items- on two circulars
Dyeing with plant colours (I want to do this soon)
Knitting items for a wedding (Maybe for my kids but they all say they are never going to get married or leave the house. I'm thinking they'll change their minds.lol)
Olympic knitting
Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn
Knitting with dpns
Holiday related knitting
Teaching a male how to knit
Bobbles
Knitting for a living (I think this would suck all the fun out of knitting)
Knitting with cotton
Knitting smocking (I doubt I would ever want to do this)
Dyeing yarn
Steeks
Knitting art (Isn't it all art?)
Fulling/felting
Knitting with wool
Textured knitting
Kitchener BO
Purses/bags
Knitting with beads
Swatching
Long Tail CO
Entrelac (I don't think I'll do this as I don't like the holes in the corners but Hubby likes a pair socks made this way so maybe one day)
Knitting and purling backwards
Machine knitting
Knitting with self-patterning/self-striping/variegated yarn
Stuffed toys
Knitting with cashmere
Darning
Jewelry (This goes with the metal thing above)
Knitting with synthetic yarn
Writing a pattern
Gloves (Doing this in the near future)
Intarsia
Knitting with linen
Knitting for preemies (Doing this real soon)
Tubular CO
Free-form knitting (I'm not sure about this one maybe one day but I doubt it)
Short rows
Cuffs/fingerless mitts/arm-warmers
Pillows
Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
Rug
Knitting on a loom
Thrummed knitting
Knitting a gift
Knitting for pets
Shrug/bolero/poncho
Knitting with dog/cat hair (Totally not interested in)
Hair accessories
Knitting in public

How about you?

Upper Pennisula

It takes a long time to drive to the UP.

How long you ask.

So long you can knit a sweater.

Objects my look smaller on the dash.

(It actually was around 5 hours but that's not funny...Not funny at all.lol.)

Carrot, anyone?

Happy Easter =:>

(Please sing Veggie Tale's Bunny song 'cuz I don't want to be alone.

The Bunny, the bunny, whoa I love the bunnyI don't love my mom or my dad, just the bunny. The Bunny, the bunny, Yeah I love the bunnyI gave everything that I had for the bunnyI don't want no heath food when it's time to feedA big bag o' bunnies is all that I needI don't want no buddies to come out and playI'll sit on my sofa eat bunnies all dayI wont go to church and I wont go to school,that stuff is for sissys, but bunnies are cool!Girls in backround: I don’t want no pickles, I don’t want no honey, I just want a plate and a fork and a bunnyI don’t want a tissue when my nose is runny, I just want a plate and a fork and a bunnyI don’t want to tell you a joke that is funny, I just want a plate and a fork and a bunnyI don’t want to play on a day that is sunny, I just want a plate and a fork and a bunnyRepeat Girls in backround in the backround during endEnd: The Bunny, the bunny, whoa I love the bunnyI don't love my mom or my dad, just the bunnyThe Bunny, the bunny, Yeah I love the bunnyI gave everything that I ha-a-a-aaaad fo-or the bu-unneeee!! )

The Tiger Quilt

I lost my notes!

This sucks on so many levels.

Well, here we go anyway.

(See that you cruddy old notes where ever you are I can move on without you...

However, if you ever do decide to come back to me I'll let you. Really I will. That's just the kinda girl I am.lol.)

Here's the sneek peak from last month...Tiger fabric for my tiger lover.

Here I cut up the fabric.

I know for a fact that the binding was/is 8- 3" x 40"stripes.

The rest of it would be guesses...Sorry


Here's my cute (I thought) label.

I traced one of Max's toy tigers to create it.


Here it is all done.

Now I just need to hide it until Christmas.



Things I learned with this quilt:

I really like stippling.

(I hide messages in the quilt...Too cool)

I still need to work on my binding skills.

I need to keep my notes safe.

Max must be around me more than any of the other kids either that or he pays more attention to me because making things for him where he knows nothing about it is really hard.


Here's a sneek peak for the next quilt.

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I am a Daffodil What Flower Are You?

Wendy's Vegan Bannock ratios

Bannocks

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary bannocks are, " an unleavened flat bread or biscuit made with oatmeal or barley meal," and wikipedia states, "The Bannock or Banate are a Native American people who traditionally lived in the northern Great Basin in what is now southeastern Oregon and Southern Idaho."

Let's stick with the first explanation for this recipe.

I've been experimenting and I came up with this recipe that uses ratios so you can make as much of it as you want and in any flavor too.

The ingredients you'll need are:

Flour -any kind you want but remember that you need at least one to have some gluten to hold everything together or learn to enjoy crumbling bannocks...It's up to you.

baking powder- 1 teaspoon to every cup of flour you use.

salt- a dash for every cup of flour you use.

oil/fat- 1 tablespoon to every cup of flour you use.

water/liquid- enough to bring together as a dough that doesn't stick to your hands and you can form into little patties.

extras- dried fruit, nuts, spices, teas, or sweeteners. A low figure is 1 tablespoon for every cup of flour you use but you can put in more.

Mix everything together for several minutes to get a nice behaved dough.

Make little patties that are about 1/2 inch thick.

Here you can see I made them all ahead of time. I no longer do this as they always seemed to stick to each other...grumble, grumble.

Cook on a dry flat surface. 6 minutes for each side. Make sure that the surface is preheated so your bannocks don't stick and wiggle them around a bit after the first few minutes just to make sure they can and to give yourself something to do. Also make sure to keep the temperature right so that they don't burn.

Then eat and enjoy!

Leprechaun

The leprechauns did it again at our house.

However, this time I was sadden to learn that even the leprechauns seem to have been hit by these hard economic times.

How do I know?

Well, everyone got a pot. You know like the ones that are at the end of rainbows and instead of there being gold inside there was a soot sprite. You know those cute Japanese dust bunnies.

So see, even the leprechauns have no money left.lol