I think that I owe a lot of gratitude to my mother for instilling a great sense of musical passion in me. Even though I play guitar, I have always been partial to the banjo. I am in love with this music. I am in love with this blog, Today’s Letters. They are so in touch with their inner child and demonstrate an intoxicating amount of love for one another. The posts are so positive and happy that I really enjoy reading every one of them. Oh, and her taste in music is phenomenal.
I am a little intimidated by the serger, but I read the manual, and learned how to thread this marvelous machine today. Soon I will be on my way to “fashion extraordinaire”.
I heard about this in a monthly newsletter that I receive and thought it was a wonderful idea. Knit an 8 x 8 square for patchwork blankets that go to children in Africa. Done. I plan to make more as well, and for anyone else interested, check out the Knit-A-Square website.
One of my other amaryllis has bloomed for the season. They have been a funny bunch this year. Out of the three I potted; the first one: has a marvelous collection of leaves, full, lush and green, but not a bud stem in sight. (I figured out why, but we don’t need to get into that.) The second: had rather flimsy leaves, with a single bud stem which displayed two white flowers. The Third: would be considered a rock star. Honestly I didn’t have high hopes for this one at the beginning of the winter. The life inside stayed on a non-growing strike for weeks. Number two was just about in full bloom before number three decided it would do anything this year. It turns out that it would grow 3 bud stems and each with 3 flowers…with very little leaves. It made me laugh because of how very different each one of them turned out.
Parker got to see the fattest squirrel in the world, along with a silly woodpecker, and a baby calf, all in one day at Lee Martinez park last week. It was cold out, but the sunshine was beautiful.
Somehow I decided 10 days before Christmas that I would make this scarf for a gift. My intension was to give it on the big day but soon after starting it I realized it was going to be a bit more time consuming than I had hoped. Also with all of the holiday madness with baking and shopping, there just wasn’t enough practical time to work on it. So I finished it yesterday. I am pleased with how it turned out. Ended up being about 9 inches wide and over 300 rows long. Thick, soft and warm is what I was going for, which it surely is. I hope all of you can enjoy the new knits to come, I think there will probably be a lot of them.
