Showing posts with label grand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grand. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

SWEET "P"...YARN ALONG

“And in the act of making things, just by
living their daily lives, they also make history.

Knitting is clothing made in spare moments,

or round the fire, whenever women gathered
together... It's something to celebrate-clothes
made in love and service, something women
have always done.”

~ Anne Bartlett 













A sweet wee cardigan
for a sweet wee one
who just turned three
months old.

A well written pattern that
takes you step by step so
there are no guess work and
has me browsing the designer's
page for more items to cast
on.

Using Red Heart Anne Gedde's
Baby Yarn so it can be thrown
in the wash with ease, important
for a young working family.

After being disappointed in my
last two books I have finally found
a book that I am enjoying, at
least so far, so my hopes are high.
Ordinary Grace ...

From Amazon::

“That was it. That was all of it. A grace
so ordinary there was no reason at all to
remember it. Yet I have never across the forty
years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”

Told from Frank’s perspective forty
years after that fateful summer,
Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly
moving account of a boy standing
at the door of his young manhood,
trying to understand a world that
seems to be falling apart around him.
It is an unforgettable novel about
discovering the terrible price of
wisdom and the enduring grace of God.

Did  you see the ABC's of Knitting Survey?
I would love to read your answers. :)

Joining Ginny


Thursday, January 1, 2015

MEANINGFUL

A meaningful life is not being rich,
 being popular, being highly educated
 or being perfect. It is about being real,
being humble, being able to share
ourselves and touch the lives of
others. It is only then that we could
have a FULL, HAPPY and
CONTENTED LIFE.

— Unknown













Our Christmas was beautiful,
but afterwards came that blanket
of depression that always comes
so I took a little time off to soak
in the quiet and regroup.

The weather has been sun, cold,
warm, rainy, weather typical for
the coast of SC, but I have managed
to get out to explore every day. Now
if I could just get the snow I so dearly
covet.

I had a pleasant phone call from on
of the hospice nurse's who took care
of my Pappaw asking if I would knit
baby items for her niece. I've never
knit baby socks before, but now feel
quite the expert since I have since
received several more calls asking
for baby items.  It's amazing how
the universe works since this is the
year I will welcome another member
to the family. I was honored to
attend an ultrasound and see the
next grand before he/she even draws
a breathe. Life...it's amazing!

Collard greens and Hopin' John are
cooking and I have spent the day
redoing my home planning book,
the book I use to run my home for
the year. These activities are tradition,
tasks I always do on the first of January,
tasks that help me begin the year and
keep me focused. Do you have a
tradition you follow?

I am excited to cast on my first Christmas
gift of 2015 by joining Melissa and
many other wonderful knitter's in the
Jared Flood KAL. I have chosen to knit
Stonecrop, using yarn I have in my stash
since my LYS is closed for a few weeks.


2015......it's going to be fun.