Barbara's Creative Projects
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.
Love you, Mina!
I also made one with scrap yarn for my great niece, Hayden.
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!
The problem with gloves/mitts when walking the dog — you can’t open the plastic poop bag with your fingers covered! In browsing the internet last night I found a pattern for fingerless glove that looked intriguing ( http://crochetme.com/media/p/90002.aspx). I made lacy fingerless gloves last year, but these are more solid, and they had a thumb! So this afternoon, after 4:00, I started crocheting. I had to use two different colours as I had only one ball of each colour (Queensland Collection Merino Spray – 100% extra fine merino wool; 4mm crochet hook) which wasn’t quite enough to make a pair of gloves. I was amazed at how easy the pattern was and how quickly they made up. My 9:00 o’clock the gloves were done — and I had time for supper, walking the dog and a couple of phone calls in between. Now I have to test these in “the real world.”
This year I am helping to prepare a PowerPoint presentation for First Mennonite Church’s Christmas Eve service. As I have very little experience working with PowerPoint I decided to play with Keynote (Mac’s version) on the weekend. This is my experiment (43 seconds long, no sound):
After months of not being able to see my stuff online, tonight I went into the Dashboard, changed my theme and Wah-lah I’m visible again! Lots of projects to add now (not tonight, though).
Because I had tendonitis in my right shoulder I really didn’t do much from mid-February until late summer. I will correct the dates in posts to what they would have been had I been visible online.