...10.18...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...I finished the third fleece blanket with the crocheted border for the Senior Center...

...the yarn from the bin at Church was a sport weight...so I held two strands together...which is maybe just a little bit too thick...but I think it's ok...

...and I've made a little bit of progress on the Simply Red...one front is finished...and I'm working on the back...which is the middle...you're supposed to do the back first...but I just decided to do the front panel first because that's where I was and I didn't want to cut the yarn and reattach it for the middle/back...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...10.11...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...minimal progress on Simply Red...we're under a sort of deadline to get these little lap-ghans finished for the Senior Center...

...so I finished the pretty flowered one...and I did do the shell stitch border this time...

...and I found a ball of that sage-y green in my stash and I thought that it matched the leaves pretty well...so I did the single crochet border with that...but then pretty quickly realized that I did not have enough for the shell stitch...crochet uses so much more yarn than knitting that it's hard for me to judge how much I'll need...

...but I found another ball in a soft green that goes well with the blanket too...so I just alternated every other shell stich and carried the other colour under the shell...I actually like the effect of that a lot...

...and then...wouldn't you know it...when I went to put away the leftover yarn in my tote downstairs...I spied another ball of the sage-y green...oh well...I'm quite happy with the two tones...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...10.4...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...a few more inches on the Simply Red bolero...

...and the first of the fleece lap-ghans for the Senior Center...the 'pattern' calls for shell stitch...but I thought that was a little too girly for this baseball print fleece...so I did a variation of granny stitch instead...I like how it turned out...I'll probably do shell stitch on the other two though...

...what's in your workbasket?

~Have a lovely day!

...10.2...Over the Weekend...

...since we didn't watch our movie Friday night like we usually do...we watched it Saturday...and it was my choice...remember when my friend who was walking the Camino missed my birthday and sent me a card with some chocolate...well...the chocolate was Peace Chocolate...and there's a movie about the family that started that chocolate factory in Canada...Peace by Chocolate...it was good...

...and I'm feeling so much better now...I got up early Saturday...and had a quick mug of tea and a vegan buttermilk biscuit with a homemade sausage pattie to start the day...

...because I had to head over to the Church for the Prayer Shawl Knitting/Crocheting group meeting...

...we're doing a new-to-us sort of a group project...a whole bunch of fleece lap-ghans for the local senior daycare center...

...first we cut nice straight edges...not as easy with fleece as it looks...haha...

...and then we used this little cutting tool to make little slits in the fabric for the crochet hook to poke through...

...and then we had the fun of rummaging around in our stash closet to find a matching yarn...we have a ton of yarn...

...I chose this bright yellow to go with this one...there were so many patterns to choose from...

...a group shot of everyone hard at work...

...I brought three home to work on...

...and another flowery one...the yellow yarn will actually go with this one really well...but I think I may have a green or two in my own stash that I may like better...

...and this one reminded me of Our Airman's baseball themed bedroom in North Dakota when he was little...

...and I love the red and white yarn with it...

...so right after that meeting I headed out to get the groceries...

...I got lots of neat vegan things...

...Ben and Jerry's Mint Chocolate Change...

...accidentally vegan Doritos...

...and I know I've been lamenting the inability to find my favorite Silk Protein milk for some reason...so I got this creamy Oatmilk to try...

...and I got a Daiya pepperoni pizza to have on hand...

...and then when I stopped at a new to me Harris Teeter...they actually had my milk...so I got three of them...

...and then in the afternoon I made a vegan German Potato Salad...

...and we headed over to a friends Oktoberfest party...

...there was so much delicious vegan German food...a pretzel and mustard table...

...my overloaded plate...so delicious...

...sweet vegan marzipan fruits for dessert...

...lots of little party favors...an Oktoberfest wristband...

...and a Kiss Me button...

...Sunday morning...I texted my sweet sissie a piccie of me dressed for Church...

...because I was wearing a cute cardi that she'd given me for my birthday...back in 2010...blogs are so useful...aren't they...?

...one of our parishoners gave us this lovely bouquet of fall flowers after Church...

...and I made a cherry pie...using the cherries leftover from the clafouti...

...I used my old pie helper to roll out a nice thin crust with no flour...

...and used the scraps to make some lattice strips...

...it turned out so pretty and delicious...I should make pie more often...

...the Man's little Hen and Chicks have already outgrown their little pot...

...so we got a bigger one and repotted them...

...and I changed out the porch pillow...Hello Pumpkin...

...and we opened the sauerkraut...and it is so perfectly crisp and delicious...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...9.27...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...progress on the Simply Red Bolero...so far...not a lot...

...because...

...I made another quick double crochet cotton dishcloth to enclose with Mom's birthday card...the four of us siblings actually got her a larger gift together...so this is not her only present...haha...

...wrapped it up in a pretty pink paper and added a complementary flower as a 'bow'...

...and...

...the Prayer Shawl group is meeting on Saturday...and I want to 'turn in' my latest finished lap-ghan...

...remember someone else started this afghan with the light dusty pink...and it was a bit wonky...and had started to taper...maybe one of our newer crocheters as tension problems like that are pretty common with newbies...so I used all of the dusty pink that was in the bin with this afghan...then added a really light pink...then a darker dusty rose colour and another one that is almost a lilac with a pink-y hue...and then at the end I tried to mimic the little bit of flare from the beginning...and added in some tiny bits of leftover yarn from the closet at the Church...

...but I'm done with that now...so I'll get crackin' on the Simply Red...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...


~Have a lovely day!

...5.24...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...a few more rows on the pink afghan for the prayer shawl group...I ran out of the lavender/pink-y colour and added a darker dusty rose colour...and I'll probably just use that up and call it done...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...4.19...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...so Monday night was my first time back at our Prayer Shawl workgroup at the Church in three years...we didn't meet during the pandemic at all...people were working on prayer shawls at home...but this is a lot more fun...we all sit around the big conference table and chat and discuss patterns and what we are making...right now the group is making baby blankets and hats for a local women's shelter...and so I chose a couple of shades of pink yarn...and got started on a simple double crocheted striped baby afghan...

...and then of course...I finished the second sleeve of the Carnaby Street Sweater...all that's left is putting it all together...

...the sleeves are normal sized...they just look small in the photo because of how much the stockinette stitch wants to curl up...

...what's in your workbasket this week?

~Have a lovely day!