The UPS man cometh....

Knock, knock, knock at my door. Who can it be? Maybe the maintenance man, come to fix the laundry room door? No! It's Mr. UPS! Yay! It's a package from Lion Brand. I ordered this two weeks ago, and got an e-mail it was shipped one week ago. All of that seems like forever! LOL I'm too used to our Instant Gratification culture. Waiting has been horrible.

Ooh, I had forgotten that I checked the box for a real live catalog, not just the online version. I love paper pages, that you turn with your fingers.

Yum! Vanna's Glamour, one of my favorite yarns, in fact, I think it's my very favorite!

Oh, lovely. Five skeins of Garnet, and three skeins of Lapiz. I can't find these colors locally. Now to figure out what I want make. I hope I have enough, because I have given absolutely no thought to a project for these, I just had to have them. Greedy me. Maybe there's a pattern in that catalog! LOL If not, I may have to search through my archived issues of Crochet and Crochet World magazines.......... or go to the Lion Brand Site......... whatever, I'll figure it out. I've got a fun task ahead of me. Where's my E hook?

Quick Granny Pillow

I work on so many projects that take a while to make, that I wanted to make something I could finish up quickly. I decided to make a quick Granny

pillow. I figured it wouldn't take long to make, and it didn't, just a few hours. I made the pastel colored side first, then I really didn't care for it. I just don't have the gift of color, much as I may wish I did. What I wouldn't give to have an eye for color, and to not have to ask 'Does this go?' So for the other side, I just put three colors together. The pillow is quite pretty, despite the terrible pictures. I am trying to work on getting nice pictures of my work as well.

Now back to the many unfinished projects I've got going!

Queen Anne's Lace

Well, one of my blogging friends makes a lot of beautiful Queen Anne's Lace scarves, and they are each more beautiful than the next. I just love them. So I thought I would try my hand at one. Wow! Beautiful, and they work up so quickly. It's a little two-row repeat that is just so satisfying, the epitome of simple beauty. I used my favorite 'I Love This Yarn' in one of my favorite colors. I will do this again!

Grandma

Grandma is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car. She writes:

Dear Grandchildren,

The other day I put a 'Honk if you love Jesus' bumper sticker on my car. I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good He is, and I didn't notice that the light had changed. While I was sitting there, the guy behind me started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed 'Gor the love of God!' 'Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ! Go!' What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus! Everyone started honking! I just leaned out my window and started waving and smiling at all those loving people. There must have been a man from Floriday back there because I heard him yelling something about a sunny beach. I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. I asked your uncle in the back seat what that meant. He said it was a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. Well, I have never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign right back. Your uncle burst out laughing. Even he was enjoying this religious experience! So, grinning, I waved at all my brothers and sisters and drove on through the intersection. I noticed that I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again, and I felt kind of sad that I had to leave all my newfound friends after all the love we had shared. I slowed down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one more time as I drove away.

Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!

Will write again soon,

Love, Grandma

Honeybee Scarf

I am calling this my Honeybee Scarf. The name of the stitch is actually the Honeycomb Trellis. I like this stitch, it's fun, and it goes quickly (if you're not making it in black, that is...) and it creates a very pretty fabric, I think. I may make this again, in a gold or yellow or cream, to really carry that Honeycomb theme. I love this yarn, it's I Love This Cotton, and I think the color is black sparkle. It's got really cool little green shiny flecks in it. This picture seriously does not do it justice, it looks like a fly here, and in real life, the yarn is just so cool, the green really does sparkle in the black. I got a lesson here, making something in all black. I guess I didn't realize I've never done that before, but boy, black is hard on your eyes. The stitches are harder to work into, just because they're harder to see. That's a bummer, because I have more of this yarn, and because I have some wonderful black shimmery I Love This Yarn, that I want to make a shawl of, something for a New Year's Eve-type party. I love to sparkle for a nice party now and then. I look forward to owning the shawl made of the black sparkly stuff, but at this point, I don't look forward to making it. Ha! And when you think that it will be a shawl for a prospective New Year's Eve, it should be something in a kind of closed pattern, so that it will be somewhat warm, so it will, of course, take longer to make than this scarf did..... ah yes, sounds more inviting with every thought, huh? Ha. Ah well, I'll think about that later.................. Y'all have a wonderful day!

Catherine Wheel

Well, I have actually been crocheting lately. LMHO I actually have enough to do a few posts at this point. Ha ha. This is Catherine's Wheel. I got it out of a book. I notice it in quite a few of the books I have. It makes a fairly heavy fabric, so I'm not sure it would make a really comfy blanket. I'm exploring a lot of different stitches, and trying to make different things with them, you know, to expand my knowledge. I'll get there. I'm not really sure if I like this pillow or not, though I may try it again later, in maybe three colors, and maybe some of the reds, gold, and browns that I love so much. This is a nice nubby pillow, I think David will really like it under his fingers next time he visits.

I'm still working on that granny stripe. Man, I don't think I've ever spent so long making one item. Of course, it'll sure be worth it, that thing is gonna be gorgeous. And, of course, when you get down to it, I have way too many WIP's..... I went through and finished a few things yesterday, maybe I can finish a few more directly......

Y'all have a wonderful day.

Flippin' Basketball....

Every Friday, when I get up, the first thing I do is watch The Mentalist on the DVR. I love the Mentalist. Today I couldn't. Flippin' basketball playoffs..............