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It was autumn-actually a warm spell of 60 degrees F when I went to bed last night. I woke up and it was winter.
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It's been like that here. It's been cool but not cold for a few days, then got actually late spring like and it felt hot, and then thump, its in the 20's and all the leaky windows are easy to find. The weather gods on the news say when we have a delayed winter its more likely to be a really cold one. My main heater wasn't working and I finally decided to fix and buy new cost the same so I'll go with new. I look forward to keep the layers but not having to be next to the heater.
On the other hand, I have all my projects set up to enjoy and need to find something i could crochet. Thought I tend to be intense about my hobbies and love the way they come together so I don't mind not wanting to go somewhere outside. With online shopping, that's the good part about winter.
One cat who's real small is snuggled in the sweater under the jacket I'm wearing and I look like I'm ready to give birth but he's a warn and happy little black furry guy. His name is Itty Bitty He's like a little purring heater under that jacket.
One cat who's real small is snuggled in the sweater under the jacket I'm wearing and I look like I'm ready to give birth but he's a warn and happy little black furry guy. His name is Itty Bitty He's like a little purring heater under that jacket.
Ha! We had one of our feral kitties come out really puny. We called her Itty Bitty Kitty. She was twice as small as her siblings. Unfortunately, a coyote got a hold of her and she didn't make it.
Usually I'd be chocheting but I don't have anything I want/need right now, and have been doing LOTS of emboridery. I've been using the plastic canvas with the small openings, and it looks beautiful but can be washed. I use the regular four ply yarn, dividing it in two, and some of my large collection of wool yarn, and a step at a time plan. The last one started off with a detailed border, matching the tones of the color first. It's reminicent of medieval design with everything 'dappled' by another color and both ornate and stylized. The middle is a sky (dark to light blue, with gold daples), tall mountains (white and purple tones) white daples. Then is a sea of dark blue with blue and green and white/violet daples. Then a sandbar in golds. The whole thing looks dream like.
I'm going to try to put some pictures of my pieces in my photos. Help would be appreciated.
I've always got to have a project going, and of course as soon as I finished it, I started the edging on another one. I think I could do a gift for the holidays or two for family too.
i crochet a lot too so I always have yarn available in case of an idea. I've tried knitting but it never took.
I think the thing I love so much about stiching is I also like to draw, but stitcing combines both the amazing calm of watching the picture grow one stitch at a time with seeing the picture coming together. I don't use regular patterns, or if I do, it gets a lot of changes. Mostly I start with a little design and build on it.
I also crochet with great concentration. I figure out my own patterns, but have made a DS9 style trek uniform out of crochet and also a winter coat which looks like the larger coats they have in one of the movies. I lined it with a thermal shirt cut open in the front but LOVE the way it looke so official. And its even warm.
My living room always has a box of yarn and maybe a few drawn out patterns along with projects in process sitting there. Neat or not, that's where it lives. It's also got the best light, which you need to see the whole range of colors. BBCA is a freebe on Dish right now, showing HOURS and HOURS of star trek, so I'm a very happy camper right now.
I am so not the person to help you with uploading pictures (I just click the button and hope it works; any problems and I'm out), but I hope you can figure it out; I would love to see what you're working on. Your latest one sounds lovely. I'm in awe of those who are artistic and creative. I can only draw (not in color) from a reference picture and while I might be able to do the math to come up with a knit or crochet pattern, when it came to what colors looked good together, I'd be lost.
I used to do cross stitch when I was younger, but it got to be too hard on my eyes. Even knitting (and I crochet too) leaves me seeing double after a bit. Crocheting coats and clothes is ambitious! I tend to stick to accessories, like hats, shawls/scarves, mitts and kitchen things and the occasional blanket. Have you seen those crochet puzzle balls? I recently made one that was a carrier pigeon to 'carry' a thank you note for me. It wasn't real pretty, to say the least, but it was something different and fun to do.
Usually I'd be chocheting but I don't have anything I want/need right now, and have been doing LOTS of emboridery. I've been using the plastic canvas with the small openings, and it looks beautiful but can be washed. I use the regular four ply yarn, dividing it in two, and some of my large collection of wool yarn, and a step at a time plan. The last one started off with a detailed border, matching the tones of the color first. It's reminicent of medieval design with everything 'dappled' by another color and both ornate and stylized. The middle is a sky (dark to light blue, with gold daples), tall mountains (white and purple tones) white daples. Then is a sea of dark blue with blue and green and white/violet daples. Then a sandbar in golds. The whole thing looks dream like.
I'm going to try to put some pictures of my pieces in my photos. Help would be appreciated.
I've always got to have a project going, and of course as soon as I finished it, I started the edging on another one. I think I could do a gift for the holidays or two for family too.
i crochet a lot too so I always have yarn available in case of an idea. I've tried knitting but it never took.
I think the thing I love so much about stiching is I also like to draw, but stitcing combines both the amazing calm of watching the picture grow one stitch at a time with seeing the picture coming together. I don't use regular patterns, or if I do, it gets a lot of changes. Mostly I start with a little design and build on it.
I also crochet with great concentration. I figure out my own patterns, but have made a DS9 style trek uniform out of crochet and also a winter coat which looks like the larger coats they have in one of the movies. I lined it with a thermal shirt cut open in the front but LOVE the way it looke so official. And its even warm.
My living room always has a box of yarn and maybe a few drawn out patterns along with projects in process sitting there. Neat or not, that's where it lives. It's also got the best light, which you need to see the whole range of colors. BBCA is a freebe on Dish right now, showing HOURS and HOURS of star trek, so I'm a very happy camper right now.
The story goes that my grandmother once hired a maid. But she was the type of person who would clean BEFORE the maid got there because I my grandmother didn't want her to think she was a slob. So the maid had nothing to do and taught my mother how to crochet. And my mother turned that skill into an art. My mother used to crochet, knit, and do plastic canvas. She made everything from blankets, stuffed animals, sweaters, and Christmas decorations. She did beautiful work. She never taught any of us how to.
As for posting pics, the best way to do it is to sign up for one of the freebie picture sites-Photobucket, Flickr, and many others out there. You can then upload your pics on there. (They have buttons which says, "upload" that helps you navigate how to do it.) Once your pics are up there, with Photobucket, they have several options, one is "direct" and that is the one you want-and you copy it. Then when you are here, on the top of where you are posting, you will see an icon of a picture. You click on that, delete the "http" and then paste. The reason why you delete the "http" because you copied it and if you don, you will have 2 "Http" and that will screw up the link. Your pic should appear on your post.
On Flickr, it is a bit more complicated. After you upload a pic there, you have to go where it says "download this photo" and then where it says "All sizes." You choose which size you want. I always choose 500 medium. The you right click on the photo and then click "copy image location." Then you hit the icon of the picture on the top of the post and paste.
Ha! We had one of our feral kitties come out really puny. We called her Itty Bitty Kitty. She was twice as small as her siblings. Unfortunately, a coyote got a hold of her and she didn't make it.
Dang those coyotes, one got a kitten we had, and then one morning we heard our favorite goose carrying on like the end of the world and it was for him, I was just in time seeing a fox dragging him away. Even so, that was an awesome day of nature that I was fortunate to witness, my son came out a minute later and was playing the detective from the very long trail of white feathers, he was about 7, chasing a goose and wondering and figuring out what had happened while I just watched the wheels turning in his head in silence.
If I even remember a day, it must have been a good one, and that was a good day.
Dang those coyotes, one got a kitten we had, and then one morning we heard our favorite goose carrying on like the end of the world and it was for him, I was just in time seeing a fox dragging him away. Even so, that was an awesome day of nature that I was fortunate to witness, my son came out a minute later and was playing the detective from the very long trail of white feathers, he was about 7, chasing a goose and wondering and figuring out what had happened while I just watched the wheels turning in his head in silence.
If I even remember a day, it must have been a good one, and that was a good day.
One Easter, my younger sister and I each got a chick that was our own. They were in a separate coop from the other chickens we had. My chicken was a Silver Duck Wing. I forget what my sister's was. They were getting big, but still not adult size, when we went out one morning and the door of the coop was torn off. There were some feathers, and that's all. Don't know what got them.
We didn't have coyotes in the area, at least not back then, but we did get red foxes in the wood nearby.
One Easter, my younger sister and I each got a chick that was our own. They were in a separate coop from the other chickens we had. My chicken was a Silver Duck Wing. I forget what my sister's was. They were getting big, but still not adult size, when we went out one morning and the door of the coop was torn off. There were some feathers, and that's all. Don't know what got them.
We didn't have coyotes in the area, at least not back then, but we did get red foxes in the wood nearby.
My poor chicken. Fifty years ago.
Poor Queeny, when she was just a princess and her sister had an evil dark wing duck who cast an ill wind on Queeny's innocent silver wing duck, the horror, the horror, but you will never forget day will you?
I remember what else I did on my day, matter fact, I owe a great deal to many ducks, it's funny, maybe everything is connected with ducks?
Ducks have many admirable characteristics. I'm a fan.
Me too. Ducks are wonderful.
Walt Disney called Donald Duck "the Clark Gable of our stable".
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It wasn't real pretty, to say the least, but it was something different and fun to do. 
