In yesterday's mail I received these wonderful gifts from TypsTatting. Thank you, Margaretha! The bag is a wonderful size for carrying around my projects, and it has lots of generous pockets inside. It will come in very handy when Mom and I drive up to Minnesota to visit two of my daughters in June. The dishcloths are wonderful! I knit my own dishcloths, because I like them so much more than store-bought. They're thicker, and the bumps help make clean-up a breeze. Margaretha was also kind enough to include a ball of Twilleys Twenty crochet thread. It's in shades of brown, and right now I'm craving chocolate!
I've been on a drop spindle kick lately. I'm trying to learn how to spin, without great success, but I am determined. I know I can do it. I think I just need some time with someone who knows how to use a drop spindle so that I can pick up some hints.
Last night I was looking through Etsy shops (a very dangerous pastime!), and I found the hat pattern I've been looking for. No, I didn't know that it existed. I knew what I wanted, and I knew that someone out there had to have created it. Now all I have to do is find my size J crochet hook. I really do need to clean up my sewing room!
I"m making progress with "Stella Alpina"... maybe I'll post a picture of my progress tomorrow. I've also been reading The Girl Who Played with Fire. I'm about 3/4 of the way through it. The third book in the series will be released this week. While I could do without the foul language and the descriptions of the side of life I'm happy not to be a part of, the story lines are intriguing, and the plot unfolds in a way that keeps me reading! When I finish with this series, I think I may return to the kinder, gentler Agatha Christie or Patricia Wentworth!
What awesome goodies! Are you a member of Ravelry? If not, join up! There's a large spinning community there and they can help you out with any questions you have about spindles. I'm looking forward to summer, too. Wish I could get out of working until September...
ReplyDeleteCongratulations that is a lovely bag you have won. Enjoy your summer break, you have lots to look forward to
ReplyDeleteI coveted that bag! LOL! I have a ball of that same brown Twilley's - it was given to me!
ReplyDeleteI think my lace guild is going to do a drop spindle spinning class some time this year. Two people have offered to team up and give it anyway. So I've been drooling over the many "tools".
Lucky you - summer off! So wish I could do that!
I really envy you! There will be no tatting--or crafts of ant kind--for me for awhile. I broke my wrist in three places last week while at work! I am so depressed. I've got to come up with some way to tat. That's my therapy! Now, I have no therapy. One positive note, though--I broke my right wrist and I am lefthanded. So, there is something good in all this.
ReplyDeleteSo glad that all of your goodies arrived safetly. Enjoy your summer break!
ReplyDeleteI love that bag, too! Looks like you are busy with your tatting and I will remember these books. I may want to read one! ♥
ReplyDeleteLots of room in that bag for all the tatting you are going to have time to do in the next few months! I eagerly await what issues forth from your talented shuttles, Diane, now that the pressures of work are receding quickly into the past. (Perhaps you will be smitten with late-night reading, as I have , over the past few weeks - can you tell? I cannot seem to shut up!)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your win and Happy Hols!
Wordy Fox : ))
I am looking forward to seeing progress on Stella Alpina.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your ambivalence about grim stuff in detective books...they are fiction so the authors have a choice about what they include. Too much "realism" seems gratuitous, to me anyway!
A road trip in the summer sounds like fun.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful bag!
I like the idea of shades of brown colored thread, hummm, wonder where I can get some.
Enjoy your time off, I look forward to seeing what wonderful things you create this summer.