Cardiac Collage is coming along, it's growing both in numbers of pieces and size of the pieces. You can see some irregularity in shapes due to some slightly different texture with the various yarns...one problem when you use bits and pieces. But, I think when things are pieces together and playing off each other...then it get's laundered and blocked, it will be alright. I'm enjoying the pieces parts, the mish mosh look to it. The irregularity to it, speaks to cardiac events. (participating in Slow Sunday Stitch, see blog badge in right side bar--yippee, haven't been able to participate for several weeks, and just realized, thought the link is correct and the badge is correct, I've been referring to it as Slow Stitch Sunday...oophs)
I mentioned in my last post (please scroll back if you missed it), things you can use toilet paper rolls for. Mentioned that I had saved several pictures of things that seemed like a good idea to me....but, could only find one (the bird seed thing in the last post). YIPPEE in a totally unrelated file I stumbled onto some of the other pictures I thought I'd saved. And, this is one of them. Depending on where you live, this isn't one you can do much with now...but come next Spring. Now I didn't read the article about this idea, but think...once you start the seeds you could plant the whole roll? Vs having to to try and remove the seedlings? Thoughts??
Been awhile since I've posted about another enjoyable British series or movie. Since I've been able to be a bit more active, less sitting and icing...equates to less watch my ipad. That, and I was out of town for two weeks. I had started watching this several week prior and just now got back to it. Finished watching it last night. Sweet sweet movie. Very enjoyable, but than what's not to like with both Judi Dench and Maggie Smith! Highly recommend this.
For my cross stitching friends. A gift I made long ago for a shower gift. Long enough ago, pre-digital, so this is a scan of a an picture, thus the quality is lacking.
Headway, even if minimal with my drop stitch (elongated garter stitch) shawl. You can see the two cakes of yarn are basically the same colors but different intensities or different levels of how vibrant the colors are. I think it will be an interesting look.........at least I hope so, as the fiber was $$$$$. It's super soft, fingering. The lighter version is BAAH New York, (Island Sorbet) 400yards, (100% SW Merino) the darker version is Swanky Sock 378 yards (10% cashmere, 10% nylon and 80% superwash merino Magpie, a local in the Park City area from my understanding. You can see the pattern beginning to show with small drops, than larger drops...light and dark. You can also the dreaded needles I moan about in the last post, Loops and Threads. See how the cord won't lay flat at all...
And more importantly look at the significant bump where the cords joins the needle. Horrible things. Happy to say it's knitted off those needles onto the wonderful ChiaoGoo.......what a difference. No bump to work over and the cord does NOT coil. Worth paying twice as much. Note to self, that's a mistake you don't repeatl
It's growing! Jeweled Lines is growing. This photo was taken a few days (when I thought I would sit down and write a blog post), it was just a hair short of 52 inches at the time, with one row of the turquoise section started. Got it stretched out as well as I can without having stitches fall off the needles, so it doesn't look very even in the picture, but truly it is. Mine concern at this point is whether or not I have enough turquoise to finish the current section and complete the last section....It's going to be close I fear. Once again the problem with quesstimation and no pattern, but when working with yarn you have on hand and or yarn that's been donated...........well. You play through and hope for the best. This ghan will be donated through my charity blog, Bridge and Beyond.
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For my blog friends who cross stitch, a project from long ago. So long ago, this was a photograph, not a digital picture, lol. Two quilted placemates basically sewn together to make an apron with a cross stitch area. This was a Christmas Gift for my Mom. Over the years the picture has faded...tried to brighten it after scanning, but it's still not a good photo. Wish I had done more of design. With today's eyes, it's rather plain. I wonder whether or not my Dad still has this somewhere in the house. I should ask him.
This was posted on Facebook as a teaser a few weeks ago when my friends across the pond were anxiously awaiting the next session. We here in the US...are still waiting. Just thought it was comical, so thought I'd share.
LOVED this yarn. Sooooooo soft. When my Darling Daughter was home for a visit, we naturally went yarn shopping. She purchased 5 different types of yarn, all at 50% off. I wasn't as lucky. This is one of two hanks I purchased, mine were only 15% off. This is 400 yards of hand dyed fingering weight. It suggest a needle size of 1............what was I thinking!!! Loved the colors, and softness, but now am in search of something to make with it that maybe I can use a size 3 for.
This is yet another of my English viewing while knitting and icing my foot. This was a very short mini series. Little Dorrit is a Charles Dickens story that takes place between 1855-1857. The story of being born and raised in Marshalsea Prison, a debtors prison. As many of Dickens theme, it's full of many emotions; but shows a good deal of the dark side......the hard times that people endured. Central figure is the same as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown, Claire Foy...who was also in Upstairs Downstairs, as the very colorful and not very nice sister. I do recommend this short series.
I don't often post political things on this blog, but felt this was very appropriate given current events. This Holocaust Memorial by Marie Uchytilova remembers 82 children who were taken from Lidice to Cheimno, an Extermination Camp in July of 1942. The fact there are large number of people led by extreme groups who say The Holocaust is fake news, never happened.......makes me sick to my stomach.
**Longer than normal post, catching up since it's been a bit since my last post.
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Jeweled Lines is growing, but it seems to be at a slow point right now for me. It's 43 ish inches. I'm a bit over half way through the largest turquoise section and next up will be a small gray strip followed by the amethyst. I've not been knitting quite as much as I've begun working hard at finding lost classmates.
My high school class reunion for 50 years (egads how did I get that old) is next year. I'm the person that finds people and maintains the database. It's a job. With those who've passed on (surprising how many), those that have moved, women who divorced and therefore have a different name etc. Anyway, because of that, I've been on the computer more and therefore knitting less.
This is a most unusual view from our windows this am. Seriously you can see we do not live in the country or a wooded area. We are in a very developed, long standing neighborhood. These two Deer (one has a reasonable size rack, and the other has one starting), spend a good amount of time cruising around in our yard, (non fenced), then hopped the fence behind us where the blue house is, then came back and jumped the chain length fence to our neighbor to the right of us. In front of blue house is a major road...one of the most major in our community that connects 2 neighborhoods and 2 freeways. They need to get across that road to get to safety. About 1/4 of a mile on the other side of said road and to the right is a golf course......perhaps that's where they came from? Down the busy road or any of our roads on this side takes them to the river in about a mile.......but then have to cross a 4 lane extremely highway to get to the river.
Last week I shared a cross stitch I made years ago (scroll back to previous post), so today I thought I'd share one of the quilts I made a good number of years ago. I do do other stitching besides knitting and crocheting.......just not as much. I have some lovely blog ladies visiting who do really intricate cross stitch and or make very involved quilts...with real quilting patterns. I'm a dabbler. But, this quilt was fun as it's made from flannel nightgowns. In my younger years we had a group of friends who skiied every year and we woman would have "team" nightgowns for lounging around at the end of the day. Nothing warmer or more comfy than a flannel nightgown after skiing in the cold all day. So, this quilt was made for a very good friend from those nightgowns with cross stitched squares that have memories from our various trips. I had planned to make one for the other lady in the group and myself........somehow, that never happened.
