raindrops on dishcloths...

and crochet on edges

athletes on tee vee

and lots of

cheering

groaning

and 

asking

WHY!!!!

are you enjoying the Games

I am

and while I cheer

or 

groan

or

(as in last nights men's gymnastics)

ask WHY!!!

(he clearly fell off at the end

he did!!!)

I knitted a dish cloth with what looks like 

rain drops on it

and when I wasn't watching them fly through the air

 or streak through the water

or fall off their horses

ouch

I made one more little bag with a crocheted edge

and it can be either

horizontal

or

vertical

.......................

kinda like an athlete!!!!!!

:} :} :}

I have all that scrummy fabric

so 

why

not???

so...

I'll see ya later

OOOOO

:}x

buttons....who's got the buttons...

ME!

bloooooooo ones

and brown ones

and yellowy orangeie goldish ones

and greeen ones with diamonds in them

:}

no buttons here

just hot pads and scissors in like colours!!!

here

...raindrops on dishcloths

and a bunch of colourful flowers....

went to the store and came home with a couple of treasures

it's 100 degrees F again 

+ humidity

is it winter soon!!!???

wiggles and bags and beads

OH MY!!!

while browsing through Pinterest

I bumped into this pattern

which is free and on the 

website

and although I said I had put the hook down for a while

(except for when I pick it up to make the edgings on the pincushions and floss bags)

:}

I just had to make it

I had nothing to do on the couch in the evening while we watch the idiot box

which actually wasn't too bad this week... ??

I know!!!!!

anyway I have a stash of cotton yarn that needs using so I dove in and ended up with a little 

wiggly flowery mat

if you've never wiggle stitched this is a good one to start with

the pattern calls for much thinner yarn

but I don't pay attention to things like that

not when it's for things like this

my collage obsession continues too

for those who asked

Picasa has the editing tools that used to be on Flickr

you have to download Picasa

(just do a search on it)

and then you get to play too

:}

hope you all have a good 

day

 evening

 night

or tomorrow

til the next time

!!!

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obsessive compulsive...

is what I seem to be these days

can't stop doing the same thing over and over

the only difference is that I'm happy to do it

so it isn't a disorder

yet....

more patching

more finding out how to do things

ripple

with fabric

ripples are everywhere with the

Missoni

madness of a few months ago

not that I follow things like that anymore

:) :) :}

but I saw something somewhere that had ripples and I set about finding out how to do it with fabric

I found out 

so now after I finish what I'm working on 

I'll try a ripple or two

nice...

it did something over the weekend it hasn't done in ages

it rained

softly quietly undramatic ally

no wind no great flashes of light bright enough to blind you

no loud thunder rolling from one side to the other shaking the ground as it goes

no downpours that obliterate the view

just rain

water from the sky

nice...

and at 6.00 p m the sun came through the window of

theroomontheleft

and lit up my desk

so I took its picture!!!

nice!!

pins and needles...

not much of anything these days

the heat came back 

 went out in it for a few minutes and couldn't take it

there were horrendous storms again last night

this time way North of us

(I know...US weather from a crap UK paper!!!)

we got nothing

and we need rain

just a few miles West of us it reached

111 deg. F

43.8 deg. C

no matter where

that's hot and it doesn't belong in the foot hills of the Blue Ridge

so I have been in

the

roomontheleft

quite a bit

playing with the cool fabric

or on the couch under the fan 

set on medium

reading my books

my favourite books ever

Alexander McCall Smith

and his ladies

Ma Ramostwe

or

Isabel Dalhousie and her philosophical musings and her tartan clad baby Charlie

or

Bertie and his overbearing mother

or Cyril (a Highland Terrier) and his gold tooth and his weakness for human ankles

have you read any?

if you haven't

 you should!!!!

I can't stop reading once I start

husband watches the pages fly and close to what he thinks is the end

he asks

shall I hit the buy button

we have them stacked in the wish list on Amazon

because

A MC S

hasn't stopped writing

and I won't stop reading until he does

I may not read for a while but when I do

there better be three or four waiting

so in the heat I get to go to Edinburgh

or

to the heat of Africa

a heat I do remember

even though I was little

but it seemed different somehow

and we certainly didn't have ceiling fans

set 

to 

medium!!!

mess...tidy...mess...ti.....

 I imagine 

by now

 you are sick of seeing this little patchwork whatever

last time

promise

it's done

and beribboned

and already full of stuff

I crocheted  around the edge

having to use two different colours as I didn't have enough of the first

but hey...who's looking!!

I am!!!

I played around in Picasa a bit and made another collage

Picasa has the editing things that used to be on Flickr

so you can play too if you like (or have Picasa)

then it was time to find a ribbon for the bag so out came the

ribbon box and because it was under the lace/trim box

the lace/trim box too

don't have nearly as much lace/trim as I used to have

thank goodness

and as you can see I found a matchy matchy ribbon 

the box I had the floss in suddenly became crowded

so the bag will hold the new or unused thread

or the other way round depending what mood strikes me

what strikes me now is a hunger pang as it is almost time for dinner

steak and baked potato

for me anyway

husband has other ideas

back soon with more

see ya

MWAH!!!

patch stitch hook...

a little patching

a little stitching 

and

a little hooking

I replenished my embroidery floss stash with a few new hanks

I gave all my old stash to someone who sent them to Haiti

so the ladies down there could continue with their crafting

after the earthquake

it was a small thing for me 

but I hope a lot of smiles for them

anyway

on I go with the fabric

 the floss

 and the finagling 

:}

bad workman or his tools

while I was edging the patchwork pincushions I remembered a hook I had seen that was designed to do exactly what I was doing

I ordered one and it came today

it certainly has a sharp end!!!

but it isn't for the type of fabric I'm using at the moment

no matter how I try to get it through it either won't go or it gets caught on the way back

and it ripped the thread and pulled it

so glad I tried on a scrap first

brain must be functioning for a change!!! 

so I'll go back to the old fashioned way of starting the edge

with a needle and thread and the blanket stitch

I am sure that I will use the new hook at some point

find the perfect thing

bbbbbbbbbooooooooooooooo!!!!

found these on the camera

the last one was the last temp recorded before the storms came through and cleared it out

:{

do you draw things you're trying to make

I wasted some fabric trying to remember how to make a 

log cabin block

I was close

but as they say

t'was no cigar

so I drawed it!!!

:):):)

 and now I can do it

well I'll do it once I finished the

patches

patch patch patch

hope all are well

see you around the interwebs peoples

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