by TorchSinger

The Rules: Rules are posted at the beginning. At the end of the post, the player tags 5 people and posts their names. Then the player goes to each of the “named” people’s blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. If you’ve been tagged, you do the same, letting the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer. They, in turn, answer the following questions. Here we go!

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?

I had an almost 1 year old and an 8 year old and I was working at a lawyer’s office. I was trying to work things out with hubby #1 but he wasn’t trying much. Pretty much just working and taking care of kids.

2. What are 5 things on my to-do list today? (Well, I have more than five, but I’ll stop there.)

• Laundry
• knit something
• finish ripping up bathroom tile
• pay bills (blech)
• organize hencircle penpal stuff

3. Snacks I enjoy:

Dr.Pepper, Little Debbie Star Crunch, Mt. Dew, popcorn with an obscene amount of butter, wafer cookies, sour patch kids

4. Places I’ve lived:

I’ve only ever lived in Texas so these are places in Texas - Longview, Liberty City(formerly known as Hogeye), Spring Hill and Sweeny

5. Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

Hello can you say big house with lots of land? I want a farm with animals, sheeps and horses and bunnies and goats. I might even grow something. Have to have farm hands though, and a maid. Oh..and I want a studio with spinning wheels and looms and things like that. I’d buy my dream wheel and loom.

Dream Loom

Dream Wheel

I’d like to do something to help teach fiber arts so maybe open my studio up for campers and have teachers and things in.

(If we were billionaires, Manperson wants to build a castle and also have an area that we could rent out to SCA groups to hold events.)

Ok..so I’m tagging Joy, Faerielady, Dani, Aimee and Geebaloo

On Saturday we went to our monthly Books-A-Million knitting day. It was a fun time as always and we got to sit and stitch with our fellow knitters. Ruby, one of the knitters brought us all a little gift.

Hand made project bag

She’s also a quilter and said that she made the bag with her leftover quilt scraps. I LOVE IT!!

On Sunday I helped BikerChick toward getting her craft room organized. We went through boxes of stuff that we brought back from her old house. I came across this box.

Box 'o floss

Isn’t that amazing? She has a few of the floss organizers with the floss on bobbins so she let me bring this home. We were looking at some of the price stickers and they have $.44 on them. I find this interesting since floss is $.25-.28 around here now. I guess it used to cost more??

Yesterday I got my Mary Jane’s Farm Farmgirl Sisterhood membership packet. I worked on my badge and finished it last night.

I'm a Sister now!!

It’s not that great, but I like it. I haven’t decided what I’m going to put it on yet, but I’m sure I’ll come up with something. I may haunt goodwill for an old denim jacket and use it to put my badge and my merit badges on.

Today was a good mail day. I got a card in the mail from my Mary Jane’s Farm penpal and a box from Faerielady.

Look what was in the box!

Merino Fleece

That’s a merino fleece. Will need to clean and card it, but that’s easy peasy!

Also…

Yarn

Yarn pretty! She sent me this because it was tangled. No problem there either! BikerChick likes to untangle stuff!

I’m gonna stop here now, because I need to go write back to my penpal! See you next time!

I’m not even going to try to explain why I’ve not posted in a while. I’ve just been busy, but for some reason have nothing to show for it. Well nothing much. I’ve been working on taking my certification tests for teaching and getting my daughter ready to head to college. It’s been a madhouse around here.

Anyway, I have posed a Freehand Embroidery tutorial over at the Plurkett Hencircle, and I thought I’d share that here.

Tutorial

Hopefully I’ll have more to share with you soon.

The neglectful blogger.

I’ve been quite a bit busy lately. I’ve been helping MissViolet with the Plurkette Hencircle, sewing, cooking, gardening, spinning and knitting and occasionally glancing at the loom. (hopefully more about that tomorrow)

I have a FO!

Specs:

Pattern: Nanner Socks by Wendy Johnson

Yarn: LnV Sasquatch Sock in “overripe nanners”

Needles: size 1 1/2 (2.5mm) dpns

These are my new favorite socks. I cast on for these on the 27th of June and was finished with them on July 6th. I would have been done sooner, but I had to help mom pack and move things from her old house on Friday (yes July 4th!) and hardly knit at all that day. I’ll be doing these again for sure!

Some people asked to see the dishtowel that I mentioned I was working on in my last post.

This is kind of an inside joke. It started with a plurk missviolet made about needing to start the day over.  The word mulligan came up and I decided to make a “mulligan” dishtowel. This is free hand embroidery and I used the outline stitch to do it. I love its rustic look. I’ll be writing up a tutorial on how to do this soon and we’ll post it over on the Farmgirl site.

I’ve even picked up my tatting needles again.

These are just little samples that I did to see if I could remember how to do it. It was like riding a bike!

I have joined the Tour de Fleece this year. I have some portable spinning on a drop spindle and I’m working on some scarlett wool on my wheel. (I have no clue what it is..it was unmarked when I bought it.)

I’ve had a lot of fun this past week, and hope I have more to post soon.