Real Busy Weekend Here Knitting, Sewing, and a million other things too...

Real busy weekend (not in any specific order)!

Spent Sunday struggling to learn a new pattern in knitting this hoodie sweater for my 7yr

old grand daughter. (for Chanukah...not much time left!)

This is about as far as I got. Never ripped out so much in my life before!

But with great frustration, help from Knittinghelp.com, real people there who explain things in writing,

and videos to watch I mastered/well I learned pretty well to make this lace pattern

at the bottom of the sweater just above the ribbing (which I know how to do).

 Close up of the holy lace...hoping she won't count the holes as they are NOT all there!!!! LOL

 Then FINALLY having finished all the knitting for my grandson's gift sweater for same occasion, I soaked it and blocked it and put it out to dry. Well it didn't dry, even though the sun WAS shining when I put it out it was not hot out. So now it rests on top of the washer and dryer indoors. Maybe three or four days from now it will be dry and I can knit the parts together into a sweater/jacket for him.

 I also laid out and cut out another scarf from T-shirts. This one is yet to be washed so the cut parts will curl up. It will be for sale at the Davis Pence Art Gallery Holiday Market later this month. Hopefully I'll get a few more done by then. The two I already made are for gifts.

 And just in case you think THAT took ALL of my time...

 I also made DINNER last night! This is usually the job of my DH, but he was feeling less than par so I took over. Besides he would never dream of cooking a squash! It seemed to take forever but it was delicious none the less!!! (And DH is back to normal today! He can cook dinner tonight!!! (I still have some left over squash in the fridge for me!)

Wow, knitting, sewing, cooking...I'm a regular little domestic art goddess!

I hope you had an equally productive or at least enjoyable weekend where you are!

Idle Hands, Mine Are Not!

I had a hole in my work day yesterday so I ran home to play before going back to the office to see more clients. A friend had given me two bags full of fabric with cat prints predominating! I rarely if ever use printed fabrics in my art. What was I going to do with all this really nice fabric? I started tearing it into long strips...

and then I sewed the strips together

added some cotton lace in spots...

and let my mind gather ideas

as I worked...

stay tuned to see what this will become! *************

Do you ever decide you will never do such and such in your art

and then lo and behold you find yourself

doing just that thing you said you'd never do? And enjoying it? ♥

Happy Grateful Thrusday

1. grateful for holes in my work week that allow me to have time to create

2. grateful for YOU, my friends who come to my blog and leave comments

3. grateful for health and energy that allows me to do all that I am doing now

4.grateful for my friend Patty who wants to play with me again this Friday!

5. grateful for my special blog friend, Cris, who puts up with my abundance of email connection

What are you grateful for today?