When I lived in the North this was my favourite yarn. I can’t remember how many items I made from it but there were a lot of them. I remember that I made Dad a sweater one year for Christmas.
I didn’t have a lot of it left but what I had I used to make a few more hats in some of my favourite patterns. The bobble hats are from a pattern designed for the Husky yarn; the other two are patterns I’ve found online and have been using quite frequently regardless of the type of yarn I’m using.
I had a lovely day yesterday; I purposely spent the day relaxing; I was happy to know I can still do that. I needed a new project for the evenings so I dug into my bin and pulled out what was right on top. Once I knew the yarn I had to find a pattern. While I was sorting through the patterns I set a few aside to send to the thrift store. I was so relaxed that it didn’t even bother me when I had to reverse stitch almost all of the cross stitch that I did in the morning when I realized I had miscounted.
But it was back to normal today. The first clue on an online mystery quilt pattern was release. I didn’t plan to do it clue by clue because I wanted to see the entire pattern first. But the first clue only wanted four nine-patches so I dug into my scraps and got them done before breakfast.
After the video chat I headed out into the yard. It was a very satisfying day as I was clearing out around the lilac bush; the smell was amazing and, had my back not protested strongly, I could have worked out there much longer. Not to worry though as there are enough spots left in that section of the bed that I’ll get another days work before the blossoms drop.
I made two card tops this afternoon and I’ll work at quilting them tomorrow.
This book has been on the shelf for a long time. I always avoided reading it; I’m not sure why. It won a couple of awards and was a pick for Canada Reads, although it didn’t win.
This seemed less like a novel than connected short stories revolving around three Chinese-Canadian children and their relationship with other family members and their Vancouver neighbourhood. I found the story of Third Son the most interesting.
I am a very proud mother of three daughters who have all grown up to be confident young women. As they all live in different provinces they aren’t together very often but I’m happy that they send me photos of themselves when they are all in one spot. They are wonderful mothers; my grandchildren are very lucky.
Mod Bow Tie for Christy (from The Splendid Sampler 2 series)
When I saw the pattern for this block I was a little intimidated – it has appliqué, circles, and some bias strips. I used the glue method again for the circles and I had the bias strips left over from another project. The centre fabric (the bow tie) comes from a 100% cotton shirt I bought at the thrift store when we were allowed to visit random shops just to look.
There’s Always One for Kathryn (from The Splendid Sampler 2 series)
This card was a random pick from my tin of pattern numbers but there was no doubt about its destination when I saw the pattern name. I used the glue technique on this but I’m finding that gluing alone isn’t enough to get the points to match. I need to do the pin through each of the points and then glue; hopefully that would be enough to align them properly.
In the Hoop for Elizabeth (from The Splendid Sampler 2 series)
When Elizabeth and Kathryn were much younger we spent one evening a week doing crafts with the girl next door. I know that Elizabeth did some cross stitching because either before or after Madison was born she worked on a Winnie the Pooh project. The glue method certainly worked for this one and I was pleased with myself for coming up with a quilting pattern that didn’t involve any burying of threads.
