Anything Knitted and Crocheted

Welcome to my blog. I hope to blog about my knitting and crocheting as well as everyday life. The patterns that I post are original and as such there is copyright on them. When they are based on another pattern there is a link to the pattern.

My husband and I adopted a beautiful dog named Leo. He is a dachshund and absolutely adorable! we adopted him on June 23, 2010 and he has become the love of our lives.

I love to share patterns that I find along the way or to talk about some of the neatest designers that are out there today, so I love to post links to the designs or the designers.

So grab a cup a and sit and enjoy the blog.

Cora

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Saw this on Facebook...Brick Pond

What was used were:

Outdoor BBQ bricks or you could use an old fire pit as well.
Plastic liner or pond liner or a kit.

Home depot has one that is really nice:

Concrete Fire pit ($174.99 CAD

Home Depot has some great kits that would work and they go anywhere from $89.99 to 199.99 CAD. I think it would be best to get the kit with the pumps due to mosquitoes loving stagnate water. These are available online. The Fir pit is in store only.

Pond Kit With Solar Light - 270 Gallon $139.99 CAD

Pond Kit-84 Gallon $89.99 CAD

10' X 10' Black 45 mil EPDM Pond Liner $89.99 CAD

Folded the plastic over the second level of bricks.
Put the top layer on this holds the plastic in place.
Trim the edges.
Put a few small bricks in the pond to add height for my plants as well as giving the fish a hiding place from birds (like a little brick bridge).
The original poster.hasn't had issues with leaks and its made it through ice and snow:)

I hope you will give this a try, I would like to at some point. No fish though as we have cats as well as birds to contend with :)

This work by Cora Shaw is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.

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The “Proselytize Knitting” Badge

The “Proselytize Knitting” Badge - A requirement for all Knitting Scouts, the recipient must do his or her bit to present knitting in a positive light, whilst at the same time avoiding all references to “hipness”, grandmothers, and yoga.

I’m always doing my part in this arena whether it’s spoken or written like in this blog. I teach at my local community league, which was a fluke. I am involved in the Alberta Avenue Initiative and was asked to teach both knitting and crochet. I start with dishcloths as it gives the basics.

The “MacGyver” Badge (Level One) - The recipient must demonstrate clever use of a non-knitting tool in a knitting-related scenario. For instance, recipient has used paper clips as stitch markers, or successfully whittled and then utilized bamboo skewers as dpns.

I’ve used all kinds of things as stitch markers when none were available, and have found clever ways of knitting cables without cable needles using skewers.