(10/12)....streaming

All week I tried to get back here to post. First Ginny's Yarn Along went past, and then Elizabeth's Needle and thREAD. I just couldn't get my act together. Life seems so very fragmented right now. There just is not much time for blogging. In fact, I am thinking of closing my food blog permanently. I enjoy blogging about food, but it seems that spot on the web is just another google hit for the most part. I don't think most of the people who find me know me or care to. Kind of defeats the purpose. I want someone to come and sit with me while I cook, and chat about nothing in particular.

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Since I didn't get here in time for the weekly yarn and sewing links, I'll catch up now.

I finished the Peapod green socks and I have yet to block them. I'll come back and post a finished picture. They turned out very nicely. I noticed I had a really sore right elbow earlier in the week and tried to remember where I had cracked my arm, when I noticed that when I used my hand, it hurt my elbow. That could not be from a bump or bruise. I finally realized it was knitter's elbow. I think those green socks did me in.

So I cast on another pair, for my mom this time, just to really make it sore. Just kidding, actually it's a little better I think because I hardly knitted at all Wednesday or Thursday. I think it got so sore not from actual knitting but from pulling the socks over the connection on the circular needles. Knitting two socks at a time is a lot of pulling over bumps. I am using Knitpicks nickel circulars size 0. Anyone have a solution for getting the stitches over the bumps more easily? I have to keep the sock stitches pretty tight, but I feel like most of my energy knitting socks is spent pulling the stitches over the bumps and untangling the yarn. I am going to start a hat for my friend Gina and take a break from the socks.

I love this yarn. It's merino wool and cashmere, and the color is Flamingo. It should make a nice soft hat for my friend Gina's pretty little head.

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Last week I sent off a baby quilt to this little man. He is so cute and spunky looking. I loved working on that quilt, because the colors are so autumnal. And those little woodland animals are sweet.

These pictures were taken when I was pinning it to quilt.

Aren't they cute little friends?

I have some skirt fabric for both Faith and I, and since the temps today may not get to 55 degrees, I think I need to get some fall/winter skirts made this weekend. 

Faith and I are fighting colds that we have had almost all week. She is coughing, and my nose is completely stuffed for five days now. One of those bratty school kids (my own, I think the college kid) brought it home and suffered for a day or two. My immune system is not what it used to be.

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I am also working on a chain bracelet for my friend Kelly, and have six scapulars in the queue, as well as four St. Michael chaplets, a St. Andrew chaplet, and a really special project I talk about below.

I just mailed away a wire-wrapped Seven Sorrows Chaplet and a pair of Miraculous Medal earrings.

I love those amazonite beads.

 I love those medals.

I love, I love, I love. {wink}

I also have the beautiful pearls pictured below, which a lovely woman sent me to make a tenner for her daughter and niece, and a five decade rosary for herself. These are her dear departed mother's pearls. 

Her mother's name was Barbara Ann, so I feel like I have a heavenly friend to be with me while I craft these sacramental treasures from the pearls her beloved gave her. I feel very blessed to be able to do such a favor.

It almost breaks my heart to cut this string of pearls apart. I take solace in the fact that they will actually be used for prayer when I am finished.

There surely is no shortage of projects around here. If only I could clone myself and get them all done quickly. And this has been quite a crafty post. I apologize to those of you readers who are not crafty. I'll try to come back tomorrow and give you an update on our medical issues, which should be just as boring. {wink}

Have a great Friday.