Knitting Dragonflies

I got this sent to me and thought it was nice. Something cool that Xerox is doingIf you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services.How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!! This is a great site. Please send a card. It is FREE and it only takes a second.Wouldn't it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these? Whether you are for or against the war, our guys and gals over there need to know we are behind them...

I bet you know what I mean. I was very happy with myself, setting in a bookstore, early in the morning , with a cup of coffee and my new knitting mag. I bought this specific one because I had been flipping through and there was a lovely picture of a beautiful women in a field with a dreamy sweater on. Everything was perfect, her hair, the field, flowers and of course especially the sweater. Over the next several weeks I picked up the mag and kept looking at the sweater. Well this lead to me buying everything I needed to make it online (this was Fall of 2000, yes I am ashamed to tell you this). Over the years of knitting, I have pulled this sweater out and worked on it, first the pattern was confusing, then I decided it needed ribbed cuffs, because wind would blow up my sleeves, and if I was going to have ribbed cuffs I needed a higher collar. Yes, since you are probably a knitter you can see where this is going, I ran out of yarn, bought more, not the right color, got a contrasting col

OOOps ....This is a candid shot of me after using my Visa at my LYS !!!

Back to work, I have a theory that vacation good feelings last only about 15 min tops after I return to work. My theory still stands true, I think 10 min this time. I did make it to the break room. I have had it burst in the parking garage once, that was the record, out of my car I hop, all relaxed, and a coworkers ambushes me and says "the entire computer system has been down for 5 days!!!" Need a little vacation flashback...... OK that's better.... Remember I have needles and I'm not afraid to use them.....

My girlfriend and I are doing a Christmas Craft show, I was going to sell handmade scarves, (which I am now) but quickly decided that I needed something that was quicker to make. Thus, the quest for a item. I have quilted a lot in the past, but have not for years now. So after much dithering and searching I decided to try my hand at baby/toddler size rag quilts. I really had a hard time finding info on them. I just started myself, by using some descriptions of rag quilt that I had seen for sale on EBay etc... and after a few errors along the way decided on the way I was going to proceed. This is the best free info that I found on the Internet: http://www.craftsofchaddsford.com/makeragquilt.htm Beware, for you must have some muscle in your cutting hand, the snipping of the "rags" to get the cute look of the quilt, is a marathon of hand cramping!! I now have 20 quilts done, mine measure approx. 40X40inches. One of the big problems, is that I am continually buying more flannel,

I did start quilting again, I finally realized that I gotten quilters block after washing two quilts with red fabric in them and getting a big red bleeding mess!!! After trying the only product I could find, I did remove the bleeding and some color of the rest of the quilt as well. It was a last ditch effort to save both of them. One turned out OK, but the other would make you LOL and your head hurt. Of course I did jump back on the quilting horse and made one today, that was because in my trip to Joann's to buy the fabric dye remover I ended up buying another 150.00 worth of fabric, so to quite that little insane voice in my head I had to make at least one quilt. That being said, I feel like I am back on track. Right now I am learing at a sweater that I have been knitting since Fall of 2000. Yes, that is not a typo!!! It has only taken me 7 years to decided to frog this monster!!! More on that later. Go start Happy Knitting!!

Well I keep trying to quilt for the craft show, but somehow I keep picking up yarn, looking at yarn magazines, after all Fall is the Great issue for all knitting Mag's. I have been sewing up my shrug, Yes I finally got it put together, now I am ready to start knitting my ribbing around it. I am working on the Cat's Paw lace scarf, and believe it or not, after spending a unbelieveable amount of money on fabric, batting and thread etc....Yes I have started buying yarn and knitting scraves to try and sell at the craft show. Eeek! And it is the first weekend in Dec. and I have, oh, I am not ready to pull my head out of the sand yet and admit how many yards of fabric I have to quilt up. Don't get me wrong, like to quilt, but yes you know what I am going to say, LOVE to knit. So Until I pull my head out of the sand and get the gritty stuff out of my eyes..... Keep Happy Knitting!!