Saturday Was A Busy Day

I spent the morning running errands and shopping!

With a clutch of coupons from Michael's and a mission I set out to find specific stuff.

I was NOT expecting to find this gold mine of brand new never used wool French yarn in a jar

at the thrift store (well over $100 worth/I Googled it) for $7.50! There are 75 skeins!

I can see it used on knit sweaters, hats, scarves and fabric art quilts equally.

 Then I came across this set of watercolor paint brushes at Michael's so one coupon went for buying them at half the cost. You squeeze the base pushing paint up into the brush. Vibrant colors explode on paper! Another amazing way to paint!

 My purpose for going to  the thrift store was to buy three large sized men's T-shirts. Two black and one gray.($2 each) I came home and cut them into long 70" strips sewing pieces together to get that length. And in graduated widths of 9", 7" and 5". I layered them from smallest down to largest and sewed them together. Then...

 I cut them like this on both sides of the sewn line in the middle. I found this "pattern" in my Spring 2011 GreenCraft magazine from Somerset Studio. It will make a very funky scarf for my 18 yr old grand daughter for Chanukah. It's in the washing machine now. I will show you how it turned out in another post.

 Then last night DH and I had a DATE NIGHT OUT. Felt like it had been a while. We drove to Winters, CA where we ate out at the Mexican Restaurant on the corner. I had a huge Fajita plate of  sauteed chicken , onions,  green and red peppers, with rice and beans. DH had a huge pork burrito. It was all delicious.

From there we mosied up the street to The Palms Playhouse. Where we had tickets waiting for us to see and hear Tom Russell. You can follow this link to learn more about Tom's career.

 It was a full house in Winters! It's great that this tiny town brings in big name entertainers for us to enjoy.

 Russell is a a great showman who can tell a good story, crack jokes with the audience, and sing the fantastic songs he writes himself. He has written for movies and for many famous singers whose names you all know well. His accompanist, Thad Beckman played that guitar like crazy! Wow! An amazing evening!

Came home to bed, happy and fulfilled...it was a good day.

The Hearts Have It! I Think I Can, I Think I Can...

I've been practicing and practicing and I think finally I have it down!!!

This is my third attempt at a knit fair isle heart square

with embroidery trim using only two yarn colors for background! And the back strands of yarn are loose enough but not too loose.

They are fairly neat! Here you can see how it looks knit according to the chart before the embroidery is added.

This was my second attempt using three colors shown right after blocking it with the steam iron.

I was still knitting and pulling too tensely.

And of course you remember my first attempt also with three colors with the very wonky outcome!

and the very messy and too tense back strands!

So that done, I am now feeling ready to make this

"Many Hearts Baby Afghan"

design by Kristin Nicholas

for our baby to be.

My daughter in law said they like "earth tones"

NO PINK PLEASE

so I did my best to choose yarn colors that

would fill their wishes

but still make a

colorful

blanket any baby would be

attracted to.

I got brights and lights and darks in greens, browns, gold, sienna, wheat,

bright and darker blues,

red, purple, and a skein of lime green for fun.

21 skeins of Lion Brand Woolese on sale with a savings of $26 total!

Way to go Lynn!

;-)

Can't wait to get started!