Friends Forever 2021

 Friendship is to be cherished!  I love my friends!  Our times together are the best!  2020 put a damper on many friendships--we couldn't gather, we couldn't spend quality time, we couldn't share our ideas or our challenges--oh, there is internet, but there is something about being in person and hugging, shaking hands--laughing, joking, crying.....................2021 is going to be a different year!

Friends together is a block created and designed by

Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson

Let us celebrate FRIENDSHIP in 2021!

Last Minute Gift

 I have a friend who dearly loves OUTLANDER series.  She watched all the shows, read the books and talks nothing but Outlander--Claire, Brianna, and that hunk of a man--Jamie!

What should I gift her?  Garment from Outlander series based on patterns

from Handy Little Me

These are Brianna Fingerless Gloves--easy knit and quick!

I will not make them so long though-

Not to be forgotten--is the Brianna Fraser knitted cowl!

Gift Ideas 

Animal cloths is another stop for me--

one of my friends loves animals--so let's pair a dishcloth with

animal friendly handmade soap.

This friend loves cats!  oh my! how she loves her kitties!

So a knitted cat dishcloth for her paired with soap she will

love!

off to get my needles going!

Advent Knitting

 One of the ways I celebrate the season of Advent is to begin a new knitting project--each day there will be a pattern to knit--as I knit I might listen to The Bible Recap or a Christmas story or just place myself in the mood with some Christmas music.  Each day is a blessing--one that I'm happy to have that my hands can knit and my mind can rejoice!

My favorite knit along is a mystery designed by Tricia Weatherston--I think I've knitted the scarves the past 5 or 6 years.  This year is no different--Here is her description:  "It is a rectangular scarf. It is modular, knit in garter stitch of mitred squares. Dig into your fingering weight leftovers and gather as many or as few colours as you would like. My intention is for this year’s scarf to be colourful and cheerful in what has been a challenging year for all.

This scarf is a mystery knit, and the clues are released between 11pm and midnight. The first clue will be released on Nov 30,2020. The information pdf has a practice square, which is also the first square needed for the scarf.

The scarf is free until Dec 26th, 2020, at which time it will be taken down to amalgamate all the clues into one pdf and add images. Once it is back up on ravelry it will be for a fee."

Another Advent knit is designed by Julie Kubitsky

"This makes a square hap shawl. The center square is worked as a diamond from corner to corner fading thru 5 colors. Then you pick up around the edges of the square and work an old shale border with 2 repeats of old shale in each of the 5 colors."

Kat's Advent Scarf is one to use up all those tiny bits of yarn that just

sit in your stash!  

And away we go with our knitting during this Advent celebration!

No Shopping Here!

 Nope!  No Shopping on our agenda this weekend--just plans for a quiet time at home--eating leftover turkey and looking forward to Sunday when our daughter performs her original songs at Cowboy Church--She has been blessed with good lyrics and good musicians to assist her along the way--

in the meantime, as we try to complete a few chores around the house, I'm working on my loom!!  Yes, I finally sat down to retread my warp and begin a way vision of tea towels--

So far, I've found very few mistakes!  But, just wait till I begin to throw that shuttle, that's 

when those nasty mistakes will appear..

Here we go--yes, there were couple mistakes--mostly, missed

dents in the reed and 3 missing threads in the warp--not bad, I say!

Weaving along and already I'm thinking about the next warp--

do you do that?  I/m not even finished with this one, but I'm moving

onto the next one--

Up I jump to pull out my yarns--here is what I gathered--I'll

look at these for a few days--or weeks--I'm thinking that purple up

front could go back into the closet!  

Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!

 

Mapping..........................

 Mapping has taken a whole new meaning!  Have you seen this?  you can go down the rabbit hole if you visit this site!

I'm in awe!  I sat for an hour just watching these fascinating ways to do mapping--it's genius!  and an interesting way to use computers.  A friend is using Mind Mapping--something totally different--not something I'm going to do--besides, it takes way more time and brain power than I have!

Enjoy Skullmapping site!

Treadling We Go!

The fever has struck!  I pulled out some dyed cotton baggies that have been aging for some time now--

I've been wanting to spin these colorful fibers--actually, I want to downsize my stash!

Is that possible?

Let's begin with these two--

This nicely dyed fiber is 80% Pima and 20% Mohair--

spins smoothly.  It took me about 5 hours to do 2 oz.



Now to go to the other bag--80% Pima Cotton, 10% Mohair, 10% cashmere--whoop whoop!  Luxury mixed with plain Pima cotton!  

When I placed them side by side--it's not the same red, is it?  The one on the left has more blue color--

Guess it doesn't matter when they're plied together, it will look great!

I'm off to ply these two together and share the combination