Taos Wool Festival Bitterroot and Chevron

Here's my stash from attending the Taos Wool Festival. I bought more, but sold some to friends in my knitting group. I loved shopping at Brook's Farm and Plain and Fancy Sheep and Wool Co. I also got some nice laceweight downtown Taos at Weaving Southwest. I like my nice pretty spindle and look who got one too, Mary-Heather aka RainDayGoods and Sue aka Mango2oo on the Ravelry.com. I got to visit with Tara Jon Manning, I have and love her books, "Compassionate Knitter" and "The Gift Knitter." I finished my Ten Stitch Triangle and Bitterroot all the same day, yesterday! I finished the Chevron scarf on my trip to Sheridan, Wyoming! I have been getting around since the last post!

Jackie over at Canton Village Quilt Works is having a nice giveaway, an AccuQuilter! Check it out and enter by placing four comments to answer questions on her blog. Thanks Jackie!

Quilt and material

Here's the quilt I have been hand quilting after machine piecing. It's going to be a class this fall at my local Joann Fabrics. Here's a sampling of the Kaffe Fasset quilt fabric I collected on the shop hop and other places like fabric.com.

I have been busy working on new class samples. I am quilting mostly. I have made a pleated log cabin and "Serene Shores" uses three blocks, "square in square" combined with "flying geese" and "sawtooth star." Our camera broke so we have order some new ones and hope to receive them on Friday. It's hard posting without new pics so I will offer you this not so new one. It's Susan Pierce Lawrence's "Forest Canopy" shawl. I love this pattern. Clean lines, great fun to knit. What is special about this one is that I used three different skeins of wonderful handspun by my best knitting friend, Tamara, oh yeah, here's Tam in her Haruni shawl I got to block for her.

Catching up on the Ten Stitch Triangle

I am tired of working on this shawl, although, it is somewhat of a mindless knit, that is until I had to frog back to a mistake. I have been having fun this summer. Plus I had a wonderful birthday with lots of knitting friends a few days ago.

Moving right along

I am up to the third skein on my Ten Stitch Triangle Shawl and feelin' the love. I may need one or more skeins. I love a roomy shawl. I think I would have finished it if I hadn't taken my husband shopping for a dog bed. We ended up getting a new leather couch and chair. So, what's a girl to do but paint the living room.

Stitches On The Road

Coming into Sheridan, Wyoming, I got some stitches on my Ten Stitch Triangle Shawl. I am always excited to go to Sheridan and see my son, daughter in law and lovely grandkids living in one of the most beautiful places of Wyoming. We had lots of fun. Emily and I baked, we went to the park for some baseball practice. We also went over to Greybull for the city's "Day's of 49". Greybull has an all class highschool reunion every ten years. I had lots of fun going to one of the best internet quilt stores, Big Horn Quilts . Big Horn Quilts is a fully loaded quilt store leaving no stone unturned. I finally got some great shots of the shawl I made my daughter in law in January for her belated Christmas present. She is the best model!

Another Shawl, another pair of socks

Here's yet another shawl I finally got around to blocking. I made it the first 18 days in March. Stephen West's "Daybreak." It's part of the 10 Shawls in 2010, I call it "Red Dawn" yes, sailors, take warning.

I have been shopping for quilting materials and here's Marge's wall of fat quarters at Creative Needle. My hubby purchased me a sweet Elna 6005 Heirloom Quilter last October from Marge. I have been piecing quilts. I am fascinated with Kaffe Fasset's new line of cottons for quilting. I got me some visiting Knitty Cat. There are some more of Kaffe's designs for quilting over at one of my fav quilt stores, Holly Cabin Quilts.

Oh, yeah, the socks. I haven't made many since the summer I made 13 pair. I decided I needed a pair made with Noro Silk Garden, I love them with my Birk's. Very cozy they are.

Some more shawls for 10 in 2010

Another Forest Canopy in Gray Paton's Classic Wool , Haruni Shawl in Waucania by Gypsy Wools and Luna Moth in Brook's Farm Mas Acero. Three more. Now if I had remembered my camera when I went to Illinois, I would have the other two I worked on when the new year began(two more of Forest Canopy, can you tell I love this pattern?) But, wait, I could block and take a pic of my Daybreak I made out of seven skeins of Colinette Jitterbug, now I am savin' the best for last. Tommorrow.

5 of 10 Shawls in 2010

Here's five of the shawls. Forest Canopy dk green Paton's Classic Wool.
Me and my friend Jeannie, I made her's out of Icelandic laceweight the pattern Forest Canopy again. Mine is Icarus, out of Interlacements Silk Mohair laceweight Dyer's Choice. The next is the Shetland Shawl out of my friend Tamara's handspun wool (three different skeins mostly purchased at Estes Park Wool Market). The last one in this part is the Swallowtail, done in Safran, 100% cotton.

Shawl Crazy

I have been knitting shawls. I love Susan Pierce Lawrence's Forest Canopy Shawl. I have made eight so far Since December. This one is done with Cascade 220 wool. Then ther is the Luna Moth. Luna is done with Brooks Farm Mas Acero in a lovely dark blue green which I purchased at the Estes Park Wool Market. I have been knitting alot this past year and have plenty to write about. Facebook(fb) has stolen precious hours from my knitting lately and am trying hard to give it up some. Never one to play games, I was "too busy" with projects. I started playing games on fb and easily got hooked into a web. I have now gotten back on my creative track and have been so blessed with a deeper understanding of internet addictions. Being blessed with new opportunities, new friends along with faithful old ones I perservere to be creative. I have been writing patterns, doing test and sample knitting. I can't believe how my grandkids are growing and how much deeper my love for my family grows each year!

Long Sabbatical

Hi all! It's been a long year of knitting, quilting and painting. It's been lots of fun combined with some struggles, but such is life as we all are aware. It's nice to be back writing. I have always been fond of writing, but would rather do the mentioned. I have been painting a series of water colors. Small paintings of lovely things; flowers, trees, animals and landscapes. I need to take some pics of them.

I have had much fun teaching quilting, painting, reupholstery, along with some fimo/sculpey beads, pillows, box cushion, the list is long at my local Joann's. I am excited about teaching this summer's classes. Children's art classes are by far the most fun, their ideas are so simple. Children remind me of freedom and the freshness of life.

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.