well... not exactly... but my laptop died and I have been without far too long! Yesterday the husb took me out and we shopped for, and bought, a new laptop. YEAH... I am back in business.
While I was offline I got a TON of things done. {Imagine that!}
I took Eva K to see her grandson play college football. It was 900 degrees {slight exaggeration} that day. In the fourth quarter the sky turned black, it began to hail, lightening, rain cats & dogs, and we had a 3 hour delay {no exaggeration}. The Wartburg Knights came out on top beating Monmouth College. Yeah team!
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| Mom and Skinny Sister's son Riley |
At my Rockin' Bobbins meeting we decided to exchange blocks for our Scrapity-Do-Dah quilts one more month. I completed 5 more sets of 12 blocks for our exchange. {OK... hardly Amish... what would I do without my Bernina?}
I cranked away at my YO-YO Along project and I now have 782 completed!
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| My yo-yo travel kit |
I finished knitting my
Fledermaus-Tuch. It is waiting to be blocked.
I finished knitting Mom's
Stitch Sampler Shawl. Again... waiting to be blocked.
I began this project....
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| Found @ ClassicCableKnits.com |
I bought this pattern at the
Classic Cable Knits trunk show held in August at
Village Yarn Shop. This project begins with the pretty edge and the pattern uses a chart. {Why have I been so afraid of knitting charts?} It has been SO enjoyable to knit.
I am using Madeline Tosh Vintage yarn. The pattern is written for sock, DK, or worsted weight yarn. Nice touch! Since I am generally a serial knitter, rarely knitting a pattern just once, I will probably knit this project in another weight...soon. Maybe a KAL at VYS?
I finished
listening to
The Daughter's Walk, by Jane Kirkpatrick. This story begins with the historically factual 7,000-mile walk taken by a reluctant Clara Estby and her mother, Helga, from Spokane, Washington, to New York in 1896. The fashion industry is looking for promotion of the new, shorter dress for women; Helga is looking for a $10,000 prize to save the family farm from foreclosure. The novel follows Clara after the walk, spanning 40 years. I enjoy historical fiction and I found this novel interesting. I was not, however, totally captivated.
I began
reading a bevy of Lincoln books. Very interesting. I look forward to downloading a new book for my walks.
What were you up to while I was gone?
2 comments:
Boy, you've got a lot of projects going on -- and they're all beautiful. Yoyos are definitely Amish LOL. And that book looks VERY interesting -- I'd like to check it out!
Anne! You do so much!! The stitch sampler shawl is gorgeous. If you want a different spin on a Linclon book, "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" is very entertaining and well written. I had to keep reminding myself that it wasn't fact! I actually listened to it, so maybe put it in your download queue?
kim
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