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Saving my life

What is saving your life right now?

 

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What is saving my life right now?

In times past crocheting saved my life. Somehow organizing those threads helped me to organize my life. I crochet less these days, though I hope, after my visit to the optometrist next week, I will see better and in turn enjoy crocheting more again.

These days my computer and the internet save my life:

  •  the wonder of Skyping with my beloved daughter and granddaughter who are 4,000 km away.
  •  the joy of connecting with family and friends via email, Facebook, shared photos, blogs.
  •  the excitement of learning new things about the world we live in, from the news, from science sites, from gossip sites.
  •  the rest of just zoning out while playing solitaire.
  •  the fulfilment of creating a slideshow of memories
  •  getting a new vegetable in my Community Supported Agriculture share, going online to find a recipe.
  •  googling the address and printing out directions for a friend who need to travel to another city and wants to know how to get the hospital there to visit a friend
  • the lostness of a non-functioning computer and the relief in getting it back again

So I say loudly, “Thank God for my computer and the internet!”

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Itty Bitty outfits

Mina is really too little to dress and undress with the itty bitty babies, but I like to make outfits anyway. One day she will enjoy them more. The original outfits Marjorie and I made are here: here and here.

I made the sundress on a visit to California last summer, and the purple pj’s this past winter. Right now the girl virtually lives in a bathing suit, so I made one for the babies, in aqua, similar to the girl’s. itty bittie babies Mina with the babies at Christmas (2011):

Mina with the itty bitty babies
Mina with the itty bitty babies
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My Personal Day

I have learned to take the day off each year on May 4th. It’s just not a day I want to be sociable. It’s a day I need to just feel whatever I’m feeling; to mourn all over again — yes, even 26 years later. This year I went to Goderich again. I like that beach park (though I don’t hang out in the sandy-beach part).

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Happy Easter

I want to give my favourite little girl an Easter present and candy isn’t, in my opinion, a good option. So I crochet a gift. This year I made two little owls, ‘cuz the wee girl likes owls, one wide awake, and one a little sleepy, using “Grace” thread by Patons. I downloaded the pattern from KnitPicks.

Easter Owls
Easter Owls
Mina on Easter morning
Mina on Easter morning

Love you, Mina!

I also made one with scrap yarn for my great niece, Hayden.

Hayden's Owl
Hayden’s Owl
A Burkard Easter

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Fingerless gloves II

On Monday morning I spent about two and a half hours brushing snow off car in Delta Car Sales’ lot. I wore my fingerless gloves under a pair of stretchy chenille gloves. The first problem was getting the second pair on without pulling the fingerless glove down. I could get them on comfortably with a little effort. However, as the morning went on the FG slipped down more and more. But they were really nice and warm and I like them! I decided they needed to be anchored in place.

Adding the between-finger stitches was complicated by the hard use they had received. The yarn was somewhat felted in the palm. So the job I did was not very neat. I will adjust my pattern to reduce the number of stitches in the last complete rounds and then properly calculate out the number of stitches per finger. I need some more yarn!

modified fingerless gloves
modified fingerless gloves