Sad News About My Beautiful Friend Molly Wilson, Wool Felted Bag, More Crochet, and Thank Goodness it’s the Weekend

It’s with a heavy heart that I break the news of Molly Wilson’s passing a week ago today. I will remember Molly for her kind, generous and witty personality. Molly was a retired pre-K teacher who loved to hand quilt first and then her second craft that she loved was crochet. Molly also had Multiple Schlerosis which kept her from hand quilting so she picked up her crochet hook and made many items.

Molly was also confined to a wheelchair the last 10 or more years of her life and stressed more than once how she knew that her illness was wearing her loving husband Jay down.

Although he is just as kind, generous and witty a person as Molly was, he never gave up on her and never complained of being tired. For the last 5 years of Molly’s life she suffered numerous strokes. I remember speaking to her on the phone after she had suffered one, she said “I sound like I’m drunk; don’t I?” and I remember asking her “why” and she said that she had suffered a stroke, but she would get over it and sure enough the next time I talked to her she sounded just like herself again.

I also remember asking her how she could crochet if she wasn’t able to move one of her arms and she said that she had her ways. Molly wasn’t a quitter and she fought a courageous battle until her heart couldn’t function anymore.

I will miss Molly’s humor and kind comments and May She Rest in Eternal Peace.

I know Molly woud want me to carry on with my love of crochet so Thursday I picked up the KS My Stitch Crochet guild felted bag that Cass Carson made for us again this year. In January of the past 3 or 4 years we have had Cass design and make us a bag out of a wool felted sweater for a drawing. The rules are if you pay your yearly dues by the end of the evening meeting in January you get your name put in a drawing to win the wool felted bag filled with lots of crochet goodies. Good luck to everyone who enters.

Oh by the way I finished Johnny V’s mittens and I even added strings so that hopefully he won’t lose his mittens.

Then I made his daddy John IV a cool black beanie hat. I hope they fit and everyone is happy with them.

And one last thing I got word that the doggy sweaters are coming back to me so that I can alter them in some way. It seems that when the dogs are running in their sweaters Rocky keeps stepping through the neck and the flower part of Daisy’s sweater swings around underneath of her and she trips over it. I’m so glad that their Momma is so understanding is willing to let me try to correct the problem.  🙂

Wait a minute one more thing. The weather here has changed to winter so I got to wear my Mother-Hood and oh my gosh I love it. It keeps me warm from my head to my shoulders and that’s all I require, because I have other wintery things to take care of the rest of me. 😉 Is anyone doing anything exciting over the weekend? I would love to hear all about it if you are or even if you’re not.