monday at the desk in...

rotl

found it interesting how many say it's hard to do this stitch

I hope the video I linked to

 helps you try it again

or for the first time

this is what is called

brainless work once you have it figured out

not that you have to be brainless to do it

no no no

it's so easy, you can do it without thinking about it

!!!

:)

Nilla

is making one too

only hers is much prettier as the yarn is mohair and the colours deeper

and she's making the knots much smaller

 I saw hers after I had seen some somewhere

probably on Ravelry

and the variegated yarn she is using sparked the thought I should make one

I only had that one ball, which is why I had to go back and get a second

(I am continuing with another yarn I have

you'll see it down a bit on the page)

while I was re-organizing

the organization

of the organizing

I came across the embroidery I had bought a while ago

I saw a pillow on someones blog

and as it was in the first days of my blog hopping I was pretty shy about asking where she had got it

but I asked and was told she found it on e-bay  :(

(it's an old old piece from Avon of all places and it's.......from 1974!!!!

reminded me of the things I used to make when I was a mere child)

!!!!!

so when I heard that I gave up thinking I would ever have it

and then

and then

while looking through Etsy one day

THERE was the pillow

unfinished, still in it's bag

in perfect condition

and she wanted $20 for it

I gave her the $20 and when it came I put it away

and two years later or more now

it's on the desk and I've done a couple of squares

and I'm not using the nasty old "wool"

I using some lovely

new DMC thread

for being an oldie

the fabric is in amazingly good shape

and using the thread makes it

less

old looking

above is an example of what happens when you do it in the evening

and can't see that you changed colour

but I may just leave it

flowers do do that sometimes

change colour mid way!!!

and it shows that I am not a mere child anymore!!!

the eyesight is getting as old as the piece!!!

after I posted yesterday

I started on the other shawl

sat outside with it for a while

the weather is being so well behaved these days

cool and rainy and sun shiny with pretty white clouds floating overhead

so I just sat and hooked

until the bloody mowers and chain saws and leaf blowers

started up

men and their noisy toys

and no it wasn't the hubs

it was all the other hubs

!!!!

so I came back inside

cooked dinner

and just kept hooking

all evening long

because it's brainless

and easy and fun

and

so am I!!!!

"pull up loop

yo

 pull through lp, sc in back strand of long lp"

I'll finish it today as I have little else to do

it's raining again

the house is still presentable

it's too early to care about dinner

so I'll be here hooking

sewing when the wrist gets tired

and hoping those in the

path of the flood waters

are sensible  enough to get out of the way

and know that

plastic and duct tape aren't going to keep you safe and dry!!!!

?????

have a good day all

I'll "see" you soon.....

:)

 "If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul

by a flower in spring bloom,

maybe your soul has never been in bloom."

 --Terri Guillemets

no ufos here...

thanks to the sister

I think the bowl has been identified and if so

it's even more of a bargain

than first thought

lucky me

huh!!!

 I don't care if it is or isn't

(but I think it is)

I have it

and that's all that counts!!!

went on a little trip up the road in between raindrops yesterday

I had to get another ball of yarn

because I only bought one for some unknown reason

and the husband had to replace something he broke the other day

I am getting worried about the

useless craft store

it seems to be revamping

like so many other establishments of commerce

are these days

and they seem to be taking out what is wanted and bringing in

crap!!!

sorry, but that's what it is

things that will be on the clearance shelves in a few weeks

the grocery stores are doing the same thing

taking what is popular and always out

and putting rubbish on the shelves

we found a really good tea that both of us liked

it just happened to be

Tetley British Brew

:)

nice black tea... plain and simple and

tasty

 it isn't there anymore

but if you want

every flavour you can imagine added to your tea

then by all means be our guest

and those paper towels you use, that last a whole day and that actually stay together even if you scrub

no... sorry, we offer these fall apart if you even think of water ones

the more you have to use

the more we have to sell

drives me up the

wall

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

like the flowers they have to offer this year

adverts on TV tell you and show you all the beauties blooming and looking lush

and just drooly

and no I don't believe everything I see on tee vee

:)

but go to the store

and

you find half dead, dried up, even though it just rained, ugly, yucky, messes...

and the prices

HUH!!!

I am not paying $5 for a dead plant and one wouldn't do it anyway coz they are on the small side at that price

and the prices

went up for Mother's Day last week

almost $30 for a pot of ugly and the kids were all smiles

 but the Dads weren't

:(

so I got the yarn

and we got what he broke

and then some!!

I saw this and fell in love

as I do...

(the pots not the shriveled up plants)

they're called

cupcake pots

;)

and are attached to the tray

as I was walking through the store with it clutched  in my hot little hands

I got admiring glances and two ladies asked where I had found it

I didn't have the heart to tell them

I got the last one

:)

and the yarn I had to get was because

 I found something I had to make

NOW

and I did

and then ran out of yarn

Lover's Knot

Solomon's Knot

Celtic Knot

Never ending Knot

call it what you will

I call it

DONE!!!!

finished

finito

fait

terminado

terminou

färdiga

and I love it

so seldom that I start and finish

so no ufos

(un finished objects)

here today!!!!

it's half wool and half acrylic

so of course I had to start another

with the cotton I got in

Nag's Head

hope this flies off the hook as fast as the first!!!

the evening was spent on the couch

spaghetti and meatballs

lemon pudding

:)

a cup of tea

scary movies

accompanied by a

huge rolling thunder and lightning storm

that dumped

wonderful rain on us

without any drama

and it made the flowers go boom

and mr froggy smile once again

:)

EDIT...
OOPPss sorry forgot to add the link to the stitch
just try it
you'll find out it isn't hard
really it isn't
hey
I did it
 and you know what a twit I am
just try it
you can do it
promise
!!!

the geese

we have a family

just one this year

they let me snap them this morning

but they didn't let their own kind come too close

I wish you could have heard the noise at this point

the two in the back were letting papa know they were not happy

to be rejected

 one came to see the babies

and they let it

what made me go outside was the mother goose

chasing off a nosy parker

who must have gotten too close

so she was already upset

when I arrived

and as I have learnt to stay still and not too close

they are beginning to ignore me

I like it when they do that!!!

bargain bowl

this is the .99c bowl I got at the charity shop

it remeinded me of the russian

palekh

boxes

I have one

 for sure and

maybe

a second one

but this makes a nice little collection

of look a likes

if not

likes!!!

it is papier mache

decoupaged

for sure

and considering it was on the shelves of a charity shop

in really good condition

I was thrilled to find it

 I snatched it up so quickly

there was a sonic boom

 that visit was the best one yet

:)