THE BEST TIME OF YEAR

Folklore shirt

 spacing button gadget

Yup, it’s January 2023, no denying it any longer. Time is flying by -especially winter, my favorite season! Winter is my season to tuck in and do all the things I love- sewing, quilting, knitting, rug hooking and spinning. Far too many hobbies for this women to get all the projects done that she has planned. But, I have a start;

I have finished sewing the Folklore shirt and I am very happy with the results. I am not a detail anything kind of a person, (depend on my hubby for those skills) so doing buttons evenly is always a challenge here. No more, I have this new gadget and it does all the thinking for me!!!! Also, putting buttonholes in, well my new Bernina does all the math on that as well, all I do is hit a button. Sewing life is good here. Another old invention, new to me to use is Fray check. Sew in a button hole, fill with fray check, let dry and when that button hole is opened it’s perfect!!!! How did I not know about that!!!!

 On the Knitting front;

Ozetta Highland Slipover-Brown Sheep yarn from stash 

Gnome Pun Intended by Sarah Schira  

Hat completed . Planning on a monthly gnome project (will see how many actually get done. Remember I am not a detail, fuzzy anything kind of a person. This will stretch me(thank you Kat, I fell in love with your gnomes))

Several more projects started but we will talk about those later in the month.

January is a great month to eat down the freezer and pantry foods. It’s the month for lots of soups, homemade breads, roasts and …….

I love cooking in January and so far this month we have only spent 4 dollars at the grocery store.  The challenge is on as to how little we will spend this month on food. I am sure we will be doing this in February as well. 

linking up with Kat

unravel Wednesday

PICTURES, VACATION

Puddle DuckVest/Dress.

 

THE LION IS TO ROAR TODAY

Looking back , I realized all the projects I had been working on over the last few months were completed by December 31. Oh, this pandemic and 'stay home' has been good for completing projects. 

Of course, Jan.1, I casted on two more sweaters and have several quilts swirling in my head.

Let it begin again!!!

Scrap Quilt (no pattern-made up as I sewed.)

Hyphen

Buttons showed up after placing the order 7 weeks ago!

Marcel

No buttons yet for this sweater :-\

Humulus

Selbu Cowl

Yoga will be needed on this historic day.

Kids always know what their body/mind needs, (I'll not be using a bottle however.)

Knubbelchen

Yankee Tree Hat (without the trees)

 BIG, BIG day today in D.C.

Trump is depending on Pence to fight for him like a lion! Ummmm.... unlikely, unless Karen is there prodding him with a red hot iron poker!! 

And what about that -GEORGIA! (only trump could loose georgia and only Stacie Abrams could win Georgia for the Democrats !)

Keep your needles close today, it's going to be a wild ride.

(looking forward to seeing the lion roar) MEOW

OLD POST-PUBLISHED TODAY

 

I started writing this post the Friday RBG died and  the following week I was just too depressed to even post anything! I retreated to the basement and binged watch Shitt's Creek, I needed some humor as sick as some of Shitt's Creek humor is/was. I also knitted another sweater for B, (not shown here, next post.)

A week ago Monday, I got out for a long walk and started feeling better. Caitlin and I made approx. 42 pints of applesauce in the afternoon and life had kept rolling along for the rest of the week.

Friday was quiet, thanks to trump's COVID positive test...he wasn't tweeting! A much needed day of relaxing from that baboon's non-stop ugly tweets. I think all of America was thankful for the quiet autumn day!

Nov.3rd is just around the corner and this nightmare will hopefully end.

VOTE....please.

UNRAVELED WEDNESDAY

It's a burst of energy in the MAKING department. First up is the little red sweater knitted last fall for a 4 year old, who wore it camping and got it full of dust, dirt, river water and paint.(don't ask about the paint...uggg). I soaked it for about 30 hours and would you believe, it came out with no paint and clean, clean, clean. 

The variegated yarn is being knitted into a fall sweater for the 2 year old. The yarn colors remind me of 'Indian Summer', a favorite time of year for me. I am religiously using up yarn in my stash during my COVID knitting time/experience. I have had fun pulling out bins of yarn and finding the perfect skien/s for what I have in my mind to knit. Maybe by the fall I will feel the urge to buy some new yarn but for now I am very satisfied with my stash. 

The gold and maroon yarn I frogged from a project 3 years ago. Love the yarn, just not the pattern I had chosen to use the yarn in, I may be having that same issue again! I decided to use this color combo for the Through the Loops Mystery Knit and I am not sure I like my choice. The pattern is amazing, but such contrasting colors, perhaps not. I think maybe 2 color yarns that blend together may have been a better choice for me. I am going to hold off knitting any more on the Mystery shawl and see how it turns out for the other participants. I hate giving up so soon and have had fleeting feelings of failure, then I come to a screeching mind halt and scream, "This is knitting, not a failure but accepting what I like and don't like."  I have never done a Mystery knit before for fear of not liking the end product and using up all that time and material that I could have been making something else that I do like.  Well, first mystery I guess is a bust for me.

The pink and brown quilt is a pattern out of Quilt Mania, that I started a year ago. I had finished 6 squares when I pulled them out 3 weeks ago. It took me all of 4 days to finish the last 24 squares and set in half triangles,( 2 weeks spent finding the magazine with the pattern).  Next the borders will go on, then the machine quilting will commence. 

Books:

Song Yet Sung   *****

I think this is one of the best books I have ever read!

The Last Runaway ***

Interesting, I liked the characters and the descriptions of the quilts. The story , so so.

Looking forward to finding some joy in the my next week of COVID life.

Joining Unraveled Wednesday with Kat

MID WEEK IN JUNE

Erin sent me this picture of her in part of her COVID  uniform. She works for a huge health system in the mid-west that is seeing a spike of COVID patients and has been reassigned to ICU(she has ICU experience) from the OR. She is not thrilled with the reassignment, but times  call for all hands on deck. N95 masks are uncomfortable to wear and with a shield, oye vey!

My heart goes out to her, she is tough and a trooper;-}

Finished Juliette Shawl and I am happy with the yarn I used. I frogged an outfit that I wasn't happy with to re-use with Juliette. Wish I could tell you the name of the yarn, I lost the ball bands...yikes. I am terrible at documenting my projects. Juliette is a great mindless knit and calmed my anxiety during all the issues we are having in America.

Working on a reproduction quilt that I started last year. I really need to knock off several unfinished projects in order to start all the projects I have in my head. I love to start new projects, then get distracted with something else, misplace pieces to unfinished projects or forget about  said unfinished  project(old age)...yada yada. I think I am back on track now and of course have BIG plans.

YARN ALONG MAY

Continue to stay at home, being in the higher risk category, (higher risk due to age). 

Yes, we go to the grocery store, pick up occasional to go meals, and best of all we are seeing the kids on a limited basis. We are waiting to see the COVID stats mid May, if numbers are going down, will re-evaluate going out more, if numbers go up, tighten up our 'stay at home' regiment. I don't have high hopes that numbers will go down with so many people NOT wearing masks, feeling it infringes on their constitutional rights. Selfish, selfish people!

In the mean time, getting in daily walks. Taking pictures of amazing things in nature, I'm not sure I would of noticed before 'stay at home'.

Reading: Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone  *****

Dark Money *****

Knitting: Notice

yarn ; Holst Garn

Are you on 'stay at home' restrictions? How is it going ? How are you using your time?

Wearing a mask when out?

Joining Giny at Yarn Along

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