Make A Wish Quilt Project

Check it out Quilt Along  It's happening in 2017

please add this to your list of must dos for the year!

you won't be sorry

Patchwork Quilt Along benefits Make-A-Wish. This fantastic organization grants the wishes of children diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition. Make-A-Wish believes a wish experience can be a game-changer. Granted wishes help children feel stronger, more energetic, and more willing to face their medical battle, and for many the wish marks a turning point in the fight against their illnesses! 

Hall-OOOO-Ween!

Take any one of those pumpkins and turn it into this: 

Allhalloween,^[6] All Hallows' Eve,^[7] or All Saints' Eve,^[8] is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide,^[9] the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.^[10][11]

It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from Celtic harvest festivals which may have pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain, and that this festival was Christianized as Halloween.^{[1][7][12][13][14][15]} Some academics, however, support the view that Halloween began independently as a solely Christian holiday.^{[1][16][17][18][19]}

Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising), attending Halloween costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing and divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories and watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular,^[20][21][22] although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration.^[23][24][25] Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows' Eve,^[26][27] a tradition reflected in the eating of certain foods on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes and soul cakes.^{[27][28][29 (information from Wikipedia.}

Do You Podcast?

Years ago, I learned about podcasting--not that I would podcast myself, --but I would listen to podcasts.  There were very few then but now--oh, WOW!  you can find a podcast about almost anything and everything!  Plus now, you can find video podcast!!  Gee, I could spend hours watching techniques I would like to learn and know more about.

The above photo represents 50 best podcast of 2015

pod·cast

ˈpädˌkast/

noun

1. 1.

   a digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or portable media player, typically available as a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.

verb

1. 1.

   make (a digital audio file) available as a podcast.

More than 300,000 podcasts exist in the world as of the close of 2015. They range from products made by someone pressing record in their closet to million-dollar outfits with sterling sound engineering. 

Okay, I have my itunes stuffed with podcasts to listen too--if only, I could watch as many as I have waiting in the wings--here's a few that I found interesting for my craft purposes:

• Very Pink Blog
• Knitting podcast blog-- a listing of several
• Knitting list  
• Craftsanity--weaving
• Best of Quilting podcasts

WARNING:  Podcast/video casts are very additive!!

Color: Guide For Knitters

So, you are a knitter and wondered how color affects your knitting.  Here is an opportunity

to learn some interesting facts about color from a pro:  Ann Weaver

and it comes to you through the MDK (Mason-Dixon Knits gals).  Sign up for their "snippets"--a weekly newsletter.  

Part one:  What we talk about when we talk about color is up and ready to enjoy.

in this series, you'll explore five types of contrast:

• Contrast of hue
• Light-dark contrast
• Complementary colors
• Warm-cool contrast
• Contrast of extension

Nothing to lose but a little time and you can come away with better understanding of color in knitting.  Join me in this adventure!

TRAVELLING!

Yelp, I've been travelling and I didn't even leave my comfy chair!  Okay, it's a good thing sometimes when I travel through the internet; it is definitely a time suck!  But, I've travelled to many interesting places and met some really cool people.

Take Sarah Hunt and her Fiber Trek:


Then there is Kate Davies Designs.  She is working on a publication that will feature their travels. What photos--taking you to far away places where you can meander through paths of thought in an instant and snap back to reality when you want.
where will your journeys take you today?  I'm headed out to do my errands, but it was a fun time walking in someone's shoes for awhile

Attic Window Panels

I've been playing around with panels that were found in my stash.

One of the expatcher gals, Linda, was the first to do this in our group.  Judy M had

several Christmas tree panels that would be perfect to use window panel effect.

I'm practicing with this panel--first big mistake, I didn't take a photo of the whole panel

before I cut it into pieces.

At this point, I'm not too sure this panel works well--but, I'll trudge on as I've put in some

math time--Yes, figuring out how wide and what length the window panels needed to be,

took some math brain power!

I'm auditioning borders--thinking the top fabric works better than the light colored one on

the right.  I AM NOT going to buy more fabric--there is plenty in my stash to

play with.

Interested in doing this technique with your panel?  Check this you tube video out....

Weaving Away

There are days that I just want to weave, especially when it's the width is just 6" wide!

Here is the warp from who knows when!  I wrote about it in post "Note To Self", October 21.

I had tied onto the previous warp (cotton towels) and pulled through--not going to waste this 

lovely yarn.  It's been smooth weaving so far.  I planned this project (believe it or not)

to follow the towels in broken twill--now, I'm winding a warp for more towels but

will thread in twill--there is so much you can do with this threading.

and I can tie on for eternity !