Episode 117: Roses are Red...

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Warm Thanks :

HollyDaisy2000--Welcome aboard! Thanks for loving on my Don't Know Yet!

TinyShinyThings--about "bricking"...

Covid:  

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What's On My Hooks and Needles:

Finished:

Wrapped in Tiny Chains crocheted cardigan

VJM Wednesday Snood

 

Super Speedy Cowl

My Own Wednesday “Snood”

 

In Progress:  

Stash toss 2023 (4 in versus 15 out) 

Vest-uary 2023: week off to finish the Chains sweater

Lanesplitter Skirt- I’ve turned the first corner and I’m on the straight-away--32 inches along!

Don't Know Yet--a year in blocks-- onward! Seaming experiment:

19 x 19 blocks! 

18(19) squares=361 squares. And extras

 

Arranged, photographed, and clipped. Rows 1-6 sewn together, ends woven. Row 7 clipped on for seaming. Row 8 (not shown) clipped separately to seam short edges. That’s 114 blocks out of 361 done!

Pennsylvania Dutch embroidery--not yet

Reach for the Stars Hat--just clearing my immediate vicinity in my studio.

Lady Eleanor Shawl-- The Next Big Thing. Progress in middle of skein 7/11. 32” long so far.

My Favorite Resources:

Lisa Souza Yarns

Webs for supplies

Sierra Cottons and Wools in Bishop, CA

The Altered Stitch in Valley Village, LA

The Knitting Tree in Airport-land, LA

Wool and Company 

Dizzy Blonde Studio

Latelier on Ventura

Alpaca Direct

Birch and Cider for custom leather tags on Etsy

Dizzy Blondes: 

Still working on more merino from morrobayfleeceworks.com

3rd bobbin (sigh), but no progress

A fuzz ball of Minerva daily continues: 1 per day

Unboxing the new Nano—not yet

Strategy: 

Interpersonal Strategies: GIVE: Gentle, Interested, Validating, Easy in your manner

Help Ukraine from President Obama

More ways to help from Lovecraft

                                                                                            

Fluffy Books:

Introduction to American Deaf Culture by Thomas Holcomb. 

A Brazen Curiosity  by Lynne Messina—the Beatrice Hyde-Clare series 

Free textbook on intro to cultural anthropology 

Aw, Shoot!

Stretching and biking

Something I Really Like: 

Birch and Cider tags arrived!

Put a Lid on It:

Tea tastings:  continue. Plum Deluxe Magical Butterfly Herbal

Johnson Bros stoneware:

Blather:

ASL:   Deaf culture class: not so much

Pupdate--  Captain and Queenie and Blankets

Dog nose protector for discoid lupus

Hubsdate: car fail

Calendar:

Grand Canyon: June 5-9, 2023

Sunnybank: August 17-21, 2023

And Minerva gets the last word: 

Be an equal-opportunity person where love is concerned