My Flower

Here is my batik flower for this week.

I was sewing more hexes and half hexes on the border. Do you see what I did?

I decided I needed to pay closer attention. lol A few snips, a flip and I had it going the right direction. Whew!

Happy stitching!

Half Granny Shawl

Friday night my back went out. My sciatic nerves was not playing nice at all. So I knew I was about to spend some quality time in my recliner. So I gathered up some yarns that I thought looked nice to gather, a glass of iced tea and the remote. By Sunday night I had finished the half granny shawl minus the trim.  I was going to put fringe using all three colors of yarn but I ran out of the green and the varigated.

 I took this pictures Saturday afternoon. I forgot to take another picture Sunday afternoon.

So lilac yarn it was for the fringe. I had never put fringe so I got my Stitch 'n' Bitch The Happy Hooker book out. Easy peasy. I know what I need to do differently next time with the fringe.

Have a great day!

Piddling

Last Sunday night (13th) I got sick. I do believe that was the worse headache I ever had. I had another symptom that was very unpleasant. While the one symptom went away in 24 hrs, I continued to run a low grade temp and just basically felt icky. So I did a lot of sitting, watching TV and doing nothing. I would get on the computer but the headache would return and I would have to get off.

I had one moment where I thought I felt like sewing. Obviously, I didn't.

I ripped it part, said a few dirty words and went back to bed.

Lacy picked up some books and magazines to entertain me. She did a great job!

The machine embroidery Room by Room book came with a CD of embroidery designs. There are projects in each book/magazine that I want to do. I need to finish a few projects before I start anything new though.

Have a great week!

Shawl finished

Finally got the needed skein of yarn and worked furiously to finish it. Now why I thought I needed a shawl is beyond me, I have no idea where I will wear it since it is just a tad chilly for anything less than a parka. ;) I did decide to put fringe on this since I had a couple of mentions of putting fringe on the first shawl I made. Then I found this edging and I liked it better so maybe or maybe not next shawl will have fringe. :P I've been looking at patterns to decide if there is something small I want to start when I finish this. So far nothing is jumping out at me.

Shawl progress report

I have 40 rows done on my shawl. For some reason, I thought that the shawl would only consist of 56 rows, now I'm thinking I was wrong. Never having made this shawl I was just guessing. I had originally thought I would do 10 rows crimson, 5 rows ivory, 10 rows crimson, 5 rows ivory, 15 rows crimson, 10 rows ivory, etc etc. Now I'm thinking I will just stick to the 10 rows crimson and 5 rows ivory.

My shawl

I started my shawl Saturday morning. I needed to be quilting but just didn't have the energy to move anthing but my hands. I think it is going to be beautiful! Here is what I have done so far. When I'm finished it will reach to my knees.

Half Granny Square shawl

I found this link on Ravelry. I love all the patterns and blogs that I can find at Ravelry.The link for this pattern took me to Ambar's webpage. Lots of goodies over there and when Ambar found out I was having difficulty she contacted me. Now how sweet was that? Now that I know what I was doing wrong this is so easy and I can do it without thinking. I love making things that I don't have to continuously count. I am already planning the next shawl using self striping yarn. FUN FUN!! Lacy thinks I should make summer shawls using this pattern also. We will see. I didn't put much fringe on shawl because I wasn't sure who I would give the shawl to and I didn't want them to be overwhelmed with fringe being in their way.