Calling all needleworkers!
Friday is here.
I don't have a theme except I wish that any sisters (and any brothers who are interested) would come join my needlework circle and be friends while we stitch, gripe, talk, complain, share, celebrate and show off our work.
Is this always here on Fridays?
Okay, finishing the sleeves (I always work them together) on a turtleneck. Colinette Skye, I think the colorway (or coulourway *g*) is peacock. Three big chunky cables up the front over 8 stitches by 4 rib.
I'm getting antsy - I have some alpaca yarn on order, and it hasn't arrived yet. Planning to try a new shawl pattern from a book my daughter gave me for Christmas a couple of years ago. (Don't know the name of it - and it's at home and I'm not.) It'll be my first project in several years that did not use a washable, synthetic, no-dye-lot yarn.
I've been wanting to crochet Afghans for our wounded soldiers in hospitals. My problem is, when I'm finished with two or three, where and how do I send them?
I finished the first warmer and I've started the sleeve of the second...I'm not anticipating wrestling with that buttonhole again. :-(
My gripe for the day: I'm doing laundry, and discover my (expletive deleted) 17 year old dumped a load of my laundry in the washing machine back into the laundry basket so he could do his own laundry. And left it there, on top of other laundry to get the whole batch damp.
And then, he spent the night out (there is a teacher conference going on now and no classes) so I can't kick his hiney from here to kingdom come.
He IS in a point in his life where I don't like him. And I am fast losing my desire to do anything for him.
MY SECOND GRIPE: adults who buy alcohol that they give to minors. I saw something in the grocery which may have been a 29 year old man in the company of two teen girls talking like he might have been buying beer for them. But I just heard a snippet.
May God remember the actions of every adult who has given my teen and his friends tobacco or alcohol and may He judge them accordingly to the grief they have caused.
OOOOOH, needlework!!!! Can I play please?
My current (random) project is a baby afghan done with a granny square with all the left over yarn I have from 8 bazillion baby blankets and projects. The square is tiny (just 3 colors) so it will look cute and small for a baby. My question is... since I am a grandmother, how come I have so many friends who are having babies? Maybe I need to find a church full of old people 8-)
My next project will be a sweater for my son. I did one for him in high school that he loved, (and had to keep taking back from his girlfriends) and wore out. Now he has asked for another.
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Here's a link to see the cross-stitching hanging that I need to start. Right now it's still in the bag unopened sitting in the corner of the room. Right next to my unfinished shell blanket I've been semi-working on.
Things I am celebrating:
I've spent most of my adult life on the heavy side. Probably my average dress size was 20 or 22. About 9 months ago I was starting to move into 26s. Every time I ate anything with a low glycemic index in any real quantity, I would get sleepy. Then I heard my brother had been diagnosed pre-diabetic.
Something in me clicked. I read Dr. Phil's book on dieting, and although I didn't choose to follow his plans, it helped me get real with myself. About 7 months ago I started.
Now I am starting to wear 16 and 16w clothes (I'm still too thick through the waist, but it's coming down. I've lost 11 inches off of my waist, 9 inches off of my hips, and about 8 inches off my abdomen.
I've learned to eat differently, and I don't play the same old games with myself. And I am wearing smaller clothes than I have worn since I was 21.
That is something to celebrate.
I am learning to knit, and have gotten to the end of three projects now. The only thing I have left to learn is to cast off to finish each one. How exciting!
Abner, if I can learn to knit, ANYBODY can, LOL! I still think crocheting goes faster and doesn't need as much counting, but the knitting projects have such a lovely texture.
Please put me on your ping list. My favorite needle art is needlepoint and bargello, followed by crewel embroidery.
Today I'm not doing nothing. I have a cold and am rather dizzy.
I've been wanting to learn how to knit for some time now. I bought a book (no, I haven't opened it yet) on knitting, but recently a friend of my Mother's came over to visit.
She's a German lady, and was in the middle of knitting a few items during her stay. She claims that there are two different methods for knitting - an English version and a German version (I believe she called it 'picking'). Supposedly Americans switched over to the English version right around WWII for political reasons, but that the German version was much easier to learn and quicker as well.
I know this is a rather broad question, but for someone like myself that has never picked up a knitting needle, what's the best method to learn?
VRWKNC PING!
It is a gloomy, rainy, cold Friday here in northwest/north central Indiana. It would be a perfect day to curl up on the couch with the "Quaker Stocking" (see the last VRWKNC post), put a blanket over my legs, and stitch away!
Man, that visual just about did away with any desire I had to work this afternoon!
I am not working on my needlepoint armorial at the moment but will pick it up again soon. I have forgotten how to crochet even though my grandmother taught me how when I was a child. Can I play even if I am not working on anything at the moment? Winter is coming on and I will have more indoor time to fill.
I always wish I could have finished the Precious Moments cross-stitch that I started as a gift for a friend. More skill needed then the novice I was!
Thought you'd get a kick out of this. I'm chaperoning a Middle School dance tonight and I'm bringing my knitting. The s love it, they always stop to chat about it.
And if anyone gets out of line, I'm armed.