February 18-19, 2012 Weekend, a New Lantern Moon Hook, Almost Maine with Rosina, and a Few More Can & Jar Jackets

My weekend started off with a trip to Material Girls to drop off some of my jar and can cozies. I think they will make a great crochet addition in place of the hats, now that the weather is going to be too warm to think about hats.  Anyway, I think my jar jackets and can coats with little potted plants in them will be a great little get well, happy Tuesday, happy birthday, just because gifts that will be easy for people to buy and especially easy for me to make. Ha! Ha! 🙂

Then I decided to stop in at my local yarn shop “Twist” for some much needed yarn and friend therapy. I first found some Kertzer’s Down-to-Earth cotton yarn that had to come home with me. I don’t think that I can ever have enough of this type of cotton yarn lying around my house, if you know what I mean. Then I’m not sure what made me look at the Lantern Moon hooks, but this Featherlight hook caught my eye. I thought to myself I already have all the sizes of Lantern Moon hooks and I do love them, but if there is one thing about the Lantern Moon hooks it’s the weightlessness of each one of them. Compared to the aluminum hooks there’s no comparison. They are so light and easy on your hands and thumbs. Well, I decided to treat myself to this new Featherlight size I hook made of plantation grown wood. (whatever that means?) Anyway, sweet Susan rang up my purchases and as she picked up the Featherlight hook she asked if I had one of these and I told her “no”. And then she said in her sweet English accent, “Oh, because I was going to ask how you found them?” And I answered in my sweet Kansas accent, “Oh, I found them right over there on that rack with the rest of the hooks.” It seems like she looked at me above her reading glasses with a little question mark on her face. And thankfully dear Diane came to Susan’s rescue and explained to me that sweet Susan actually meant that she wanted to know how I like the hook; if I had actually used one. Of course I was very embarrassed but the Twist clerks are so very kind and we had a good laugh over my misunderstanding. I love spending time at Twist and I always wished that I had more time to spend there. But I needed to get home and get ready to go to the Northwest High School production of Almost Maine and try out my new Featherlight hook. First off I love my new Featherlight Lantern Moon hook and yes it’s very, very lightweight and easy on my thumb and hand. I highly recommend the Featherlight.

I had a great time spending time with my dear friend Rosina and seeing all the drama kids again. The actors did a wonderful job and so did the Professional Cooking students who prepared the meal. I love seeing the actors perform but at the same time it makes me very lonesome for my Joshua, because I miss him so much.

Saturday I worked most of the day, but did get to break away to enjoy lunch with Rosina. We ate at Five Guys Burgers and Fries. Wow, do they every give you a lot of fries, no matter how hard we tried we couldn’t consume one whole small order of fries between the two of us. Thank you so much, Rosina for taking me away from work for just a little while.

After work I was able to finish up another can coat before heading off to bed.

Sunday consisted of laundry & ironing. This was one of the pieces that I had in the ironing pile. I can’t imagine who would want to pull the threads in a piece of fabric to make holes so that they could turn around and fill in the hole with a buttonhole stitch and place these holes just the right amount of spaces to make a

design like a flower,

a cross,

some streamers, and

arrows. Oh-my- gosh does anyone out there still do this type of work and does anyone know what it’s called?

I even had time to make another jar jacket and I think this one will be perfect for my hairdresser to maybe put her brushes, combs, or pens in.

I also had a chance to make my meatloaf and man was it good, along with a baked sweet potato, corn, and some risotto.

Oh, and I also slipped in a nap. Aside from working on Saturday, I had a wonderful one. So how was your weekend?