Goodness

Queenie's Natural Dye Studio is awesome! Friendly service is so important here! Now this is what I call yarn! These fabulous mini skeins are enough to make something glorious. Plus, Amanda Perkins is a crocheter! Amanda has got some heartful, soulful things going on! Color, texture, content, and patterns the best of all inspiration! My new yarns leave me smitten! Where's my hook! Ravelry fans view her goodness here at Queenieamanda! Bloggers go here, Dye Studio Diary! Plus her Lula Scarf happens to be on the cover UK's Inside Crochet.

Off

I got my granny square packages filled with homemade goodies, each receives a phone fob w/angel charm, and a set of milleflori crochet stitch markers(or knit!) And, crocheted granny square key chains! Uyp!

It was alot of fun to think of the recipients and to pray for each of them. I even coded the packages! Woop!
I wondered if my car would make it to the Post Office. It was starting to fail me. Not hitting on all cylinders equals loss of power. Hubby is charging up my fishin' truck and I will hopefully make it to work tommorrow. Last month he took me out to test drive, it look like we will have to ask them, "When are you going to lower the APR to 0%!" We have been patiently waiting.

I finally finished an heirloom baby blanket for my granddaughter, Lily Ryan, born last August. It was put off due to my injury. It is done with Elsbeth Lavold's Silky Wool in Eggshell. Lily received it right before Easter, yeah! I really enjoyed making this ripple(eer, feather and fan!) So elegant and classy! Now I see the spring issue of Vogue Knitting has a ripple dress, I am so thinking of doing this in black. I love the 360 degree shoot the ripple is the second view. My mother made one for my oldest boy and he wasn't into it, either was my second boy, but when my daughter found it, she went nuts! It was my daughter's blankie! Now, the tradition goes on! My daughter told me Lily took right to it!

I have offered to be an angel to my group, Granny Squares, on ravelry. I have made two squares each for three persons. I designed some and modified others using different finishes or colors. Chris Simon's Supernova was fun to make as was Suzan720's Ice Cave(I renamed Ice Cave Plunkin' due to the mods). I designed the Lotus and Dragonflies in the blue colors and the Pink Dragonflies.

Believe

The hubble took the first picture. Man discovered laminin, the next image. More about it here. What's out there and what are we made of? I would argue the "stuff" things are made of or what holds us together = CHRIST.

Psalm 139:13 (New International Version)
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

Erin go Braugh!

I love quilting. I teach quilting. Here's a little banner for the holiday! I machine stitched the pieces together and then hand embroidered the shamrocks with the buttonhole stitch. I finished with hand quilting and blindstitching the binding. Notice, I used a "green" knitting needle to hang it!

Juliet and another Dos Ripples

I love the outcome of this project. I heavily modified due to the Patagonia Nature Cotton. CO of 77 for the large, but increased to the medium size. Then I had a mistake in lacking one lousy YO. I ripped back to the spot and reknit it. I loved the way the colors came out between yarn variances. You can see in the first pic how it goes from dark to light, to mediun and the reverses. I tried to plan the darker skeins to be on the bottom, but love what it did.

Another Dos Ripples, this time in the ever so beautiful Noro Silk Garden. I did it to match the Three Tams hat in the grey color. I beaded the fringe with green, cubed, AB finish beads.

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Sweetly Broken, Jeremy Riddle

His concert at JFC last Friday was amazing! I don't want to compare, but he is so blessed and talented, a "new" Bono(U2). See link below to Facebook for video.

Miniature Knitter

Now to itsy bitsy.

Rachel John, Extreme Knitting, 1000 Strand Knit

Music by Amon Tobin.

Rachel John, Extreme Knitting, 1000 Strand Knit

Amazing! I guess the music is Amon Tobin?

Fish Hat(dead or alive)

Catching a fish lately, so far, alive! One more almost done.

A young man was in the shop when I brought it in and was smiling . He was willing to model it for me! He didn't even balk with the color! I think he wanted to take it home! It's nice to know someone young is smiling and approving! I will be teaching this next week! I have lots of classes coming up. Shameless self-promotion! I really love teaching. Last week I taught reupholstery, pillows, window treatments and HD(high definition) painting.

I also went to my chiropractor and acupuncturist. I go to these alternative practitioners twice a week since my fall. My traditional western doctor told me my scar would not heal up and to look at it that I would never wrinkle between my eyebrows. Well, it is healing and they have been very helpful and seeing them less due to their amazing treatments. I am really diggin' on the violet laser(from my chiropractor) for the scaring to my face. This has been like something out of Star Trek. Woosh! And the swelling is half the size! I think two more treatments and it will be fine and hardly noticeable, at least to me. Now, the numbness about the hairline has almost returned! Yes, if you are thinking I was a numbskull, I was/am...HA!

My new grandbaby has been teething! I remember this look...Sarah.