January 7-8, 2012 Weekend, Friends, Mother-Hood, Family, and Wiggly Crochet

Happy Monday to everyone! I hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was good; we started off Friday evening with dinner with my friend Susie and her husband Korey. After dinner we enjoyed a Netflix movie called Madagascar 2 Out of Africa. John and I had a great time with our friends and what’s fun about it is that Susie and I could sit and crochet as we watched the movie. I started on a cool project that I had gotten off of Ravelry.

My sweet friend Merri who has been a loyal follower since my days at Crochet Soiree has a new pattern out called Mother-Hood and you can purchase it here.

I decided to make my Mother-Hood out of the Deborah Norville’s Everyday Soft Worsted that I had picked up the other day to try for the first time. Wow I love the way the yarn is so soft and it glides right through your fingers and off the hook so smoothly. Anyway I worked on my Mother-Hood during the movie and when I ran out of yarn, I went to pull the yarn from the center of the next skein and the yarn was very tangled and it took me 2 more hours to untangle the mess. John was so scared that I wasn’t going to be able to save it, but I did.

Saturday morning was filled with preparations and cooking for our monthly KS My Stitch guild officers meeting. This time I decided to make my homemade egg rolls and fried rice. They turned out very good and everyone loved them. Kaye brought some wonderful cake like cookies with a dainty frosting on top, with a carton of Haagen Daas chocolate ice cream. Thank you, Kaye for always knowing just the right thing to end my meals with. We had a productive meeting and we have decided to do some crochet-a-longs this year and I’m happy to report that our first crochet-a-long in January will be Merri’s Mother-Hood.

I couldn’t help but take these pictures of John as he was vacuuming in our entry way. He reminded me of Ghost Busters with the vacuum attached to him like that. He kept wondering where the flash was coming from, then he found out it was me taking his picture as the flash kept reflecting off of the mirror in front of him. It was too funny! Anyway we ended our Saturday with dinner at TJ’s Burger House where we met up with John’s sister Ricci and her husband C.W.

When we arrived back home I was able to finish up the Mother-Hood while we watched another movie. The movie must not have been that good; because I can’t even remember what it was all about. I love the way my Mother-Hood turned out and I do love the Everyday Soft Worsted yarn; it drapes beautifully and thank goodness none of the other skeins gave me any problem of tangling.

Sunday I made roast for lunch and invited John’s brother, Johnny Grande (he’ll be 90 this month) over to enjoy it with us. I have to laugh a little because I see my John turning into Johnny Grande every day. John hates it when I say that, but it is the truth. He acts so much like him sometimes that it’s scary. 🙂

Oh by the way our KS My Stitch guilds January meeting’s program will be on Wiggly crochet. We are supposed to have our grid done before the meeting and then we’ll learn how to add the wiggly part of it. Well while I was waiting for the roast to cook I decided to make my grid and then I decided to go ahead and fill mine in too. I try to buy every wiggly crochet trivet that I see and had always wondered how they were made, now I know and I’m not sure that I want to make many more of these as they are very time consuming. All I know is that I will still be collecting wiggly crochet especially now that I know how much time it takes to make it. So how was your weekend? Did you do everything you wanted to?