* * * * * * * * * * ta da! done. * and it was so much fun to make. (big thanks to karla for letting me test the pattern) *
* i put the leaves on backwards. i turned the buttons into flowers. i'm really bad at following directions when it's not imperative that i do so. * * that said, karla's pattern was clear and easy to follow (all of her other patterns that i've seen are too). she adds very well labeled close-up photos and drawings for all the steps
leaving very little room for error. nice. * * and i managed to finish it at night so my littlest did not see the final project which means i can still surprise her with it for her birthday. * she's gonna just love it! *
* * * * * * * * 'steps' taken from 14:15 of proverbs.
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leaves
for Christmas i got a little plastic cup with a peat pellet in it and a pack of seeds.
my little e and i carefully read the directions
(well, i read them and she repeated them after me)
before we planted them.
she was so ready to see them growing 5 minutes later
and as she somberly carried the cup from the window sill to me, she sadly said,
“they didn’t work“.
ah, patience is a learned skill and i am perhaps not the best model of it.
a week and a half later when the little seedlings poked their tiny newborn heads out of the soil
taking their first peek at the world,
my youngest tenderly carried them around quietly singing to them.
this greatly concerned my son.
‘is that good for them?‘
‘do they like it?‘
‘will she hurt them?‘
i think my assurances only partially comforted him.
we find it so hard, don’t we?, to accept things outside of our own understanding.
i even find it hard to believe God, the creator of everything, when His way is not my own.
(this, of course, is often.)
next, my girl decided she must share the new sprouts with everyone, absolutely everyone.
so each person who entered the house
each family memeber who entered the room
and each soul who braved a telephone call into our day
was told at the top of her little lungs ‘smell them!‘
as simultaneously the fuzzy green growth was thrust at their faces
(or at their receiving ears as the case may be).
i love her enthusiam.
i hope
no, i pray
that the things that are important to me are obvious
blatantly unaviodable, to everyone who touches my life in anyway.
this is all on my mind as i tie up the loose ends (literally) of my test crochet for karla.
it is the leaves that got me thinking.
we work so hard to flatten and straighten our work
when it is nearly finished
by wetting and blocking and drying it just so.
yet, these little green bits of crocheted wool of the andes
look the most like ‘real’
the most like the way leaves were actually created
if left to curl
and bend
as they will …
… sometimes i spend a lot of time,
ever so distracted.
fighting against all the wrong things.
here’s to today, a monday, a new day
and to a clean (forgiven) slate.
‘leaves’ taken from 22:2 of revelations.
tangent
ears
eyes
cookies
these are a few of my favorite things
but really.
these are just a few of the things my two youngest kids think that the covered cds i crocheted for the ends of itsybittsysider’s log cabin carrier should be used as. i may whip up a few more for them to use for toys when i’m ready to assemble with the current ones.
as far as knitting goes, i have often knit with two, or even three, strands of yarn held together. i like big needles and this is a good way to bulky up most any yarn so i can use them. but it has always been more than one strand of the same kind of yarn. this week i’m using knit picks wool of the andes bulky which is plain wool (although calling the great colors it comes in ‘plain’ is quite an understatement). i’m knitting this together with knit picks suri dream which is light and airy. the resulting fabric is not really much like either of the yarns knit up seperately. it’s sturdy like the pure wool but has this great ‘makes me want to stroke it’ halo to it. already in my head i have ideas for what else to knit in this combination and i’m not yet done with the pillow…
since i am known for not thinking in a straight line, it should be no surprise that there’s another project in the works (or should i say another new project in the works). it’s still hush, hush but i can say that the soft touch of plymouth yarn company‘s kudo silk blend is really nice to work with. watching the colors stitch by stitch as they gradually change from light lime green to muted pink to soft brown is fun and there’s a tweediness to the whole skein that really attracts me.
see no evil.
hear no evil.
eat no cookies?
how about have no fear? there, that’s better.
‘fear’ taken from 23:4 of the psalms.