ready for 2010

Glory

Light of the world!

Glory to the newborn King

The Everlasting Lord

The incarnate Deity

Jesus our Immanuel (God with us)

the Prince of Peace

the Sun of Righteousness

Born that man no more may die;

Born to raise the sons of earth;

Born to give them second birth.

~ from: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," Charles Wesley ~

In the same region there were shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.

And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened.

But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased."

When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, "Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us."

So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger. When they had seen this, they made known the statement which had been told them about this Child. And all who heard it wondered at the things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart.

The shepherds went back, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as had been told them.

Luke 2:8-20

betcha can't knit just one

There's just something about Estonian Lace.

Nancy Bush has compiled some extraordinarily beautiful patterns in her book Knitted Lace of Estonia, and I want to knit them all!

With the Triinu Scarf I used US 6 needles, a heavy fingering weight alpaca and went with the 5-stitch nupps.

With the Lily of the Valley Scarf I stayed with the 5-stitch nupps, went down a needle size to US 5 and fingering weight Seasilk.

Now, with Madli's Shawl, I'm at a US 4 (Lantern Moon straights), laceweight yarn (merino/silk) and 7-stitch nupp:

This will take quite sometime to finish. Recently, knitting has more become process-oriented. Perhaps that's the influence of spinning? Slows you right down and relaxes you into the moment.

shabby scarf

I was in Kohl's the other day and a rack of shabby, skinny scarves and hats caught my eye. They reminded me of the stash of leftover yarn I have from a throw I knit several years ago.

The various yarns are: ribbon, curly bulky wool, mohair, super bulky chenille, loopy boucle mohair, cotton/rayon bulky boucle, worsted wool and eyelash chenille. Yep. "Art" yarn. Handpainted in the "avalon" and "honeysuckle" colorways by Katsara yarns.

This scarf is wider than the ones I saw: with a cast on of 16 stitches, knit on US 9 straights in simple garter, ends left unwoven. Then, thinking something more was needed, I grabbed my bead box and started randomly stringing on beads.

A quick, fun knit!

The New World Order

Or more precisely, the new (my little corner of the) world order.

I think I need a bumper sticker that reads: "I'd Rather Be Knitting." Still, it's refreshing opening a closet door and knowing exactly what's in there.

Last week I was re-hanging some suncatchers and in a minute's time put my hands on the wire and snippers. Ah. Luxury.

Then there's the delight of seeing all that colorful fiber each time I reach up for a crochet hook in the crochet box (or itty bitty needles from the beaded knitting box, or ... you get the idea.)

All the beading things are with the beading things.
All the card making things are with the cardmaking things.
All the embroidery things are with the embroidery things.
Nice.


The Itso large fabric bin ($10 at Target) works great for holding all my scarves and shawls. Itso neat. Itso much less messy. Itso great not having to fold and stack everything carefully.

Here's the walkin closet that took the longest to organize. (You're seeing about a third of it.) My dh asked if the silk flowers could find a new home. One thought was our giveaway pile (wow, was that huge.) But then I got the idea of sticking them in the green vase/pitcher that holds my old aluminum straight needles. Tres chic, non?!

It hasn't all been about cleaning. I thought this Dick and Jane fabric would make a sweet privacy curtin behind the baby's changing table.

Hannah's quilt top is together now. 140 - 6" colorful squares. It's folded and neatly put away until January. More details then.

ocean

lilac

hyperventilation

Trillions?

sage

sunset

sand

sunshine

charcoal

sky

red