July 21-22, 2012 Weekend, Baby Adleigh, Material Girls, the Slightly Scary Scarf, more Washcloths, and the New Mollie Makes Magazine

My weekend started off with a stop at Material Girls on Friday evening to drop off Terry’s three items. I am pleased to announce that Terry loved the crochet edged blanket, the open weave scarf, and the cell phone case. She said they were all perfect. I just happened to bring in the rest of my cell phone cases and crochet edged washcloths to show the other employees. Before I left I had sold 2 cell phone cases and 2 washcloths. I was very happy to know that they liked my crocheted items enough to buy some.

On Saturday morning I was determined to finish up the 4^th project for Terry before starting anything else. I was pretty proud of myself that I had been able to stick with the slightly scary knitted scarf and planned on finishing it that day. I had been knitting for a couple of hours and my sister called; she wanted to know if I wanted to meet her, her Mother-in-Law Aileen, and our Mother for lunch. I laid the knitting down and got ready to meet them at the Egg Crate. Jackie asked me to bring my crochet edged washcloths with me. She bought 4 of them. We had a great lunch and good conversation. When our Mom found out that Baby Adleigh was home from the hospital she immediately wanted to go and see the baby. So Jackie and I took her to our Nephew and Niece; Matt and Kim’s to see the baby.

Oh how I love to see my Mom’s face light up when she holds those babies.

Of course my Mom had crocheted her little purple and white booties along with a matching crochet edged flannel blanket.

It was so much fun seeing big sis Ella fussing over Baby Adleigh just like a little Momma.

When we left Matt and Kim’s we dropped off Mom and then Jackie and I went to Material Girls so that Jackie could drop off a door prize for the upcoming Quilt Shop Hop. They just loved her Market bag and who wouldn’t it’s so cool? Jackie’s Market Bag will be a downloadable pattern that will be available on her website. If you’re interested check back with Jackie on her website here in about a week; again the pattern will be available for download only and you can purchase it directly from Jackie.

I also had brought the assorted can coats and jar jackets that Cathy had asked me to make for her a month ago. I’m happy to announce that Cathy decided to take all the covers, along with 2 vintage dress hot pads, 8 crochet edged washcloths and she placed an order for a one-of-a-kind crocheted plastic bag holder. It looks like Cathy is getting prepared for Christmas and I love that I was able to help her with that. 🙂

When Jackie dropped me off at home I was very determined to pick up the slightly scary knitted scarf and was hoping that I could finish it. I was very excited when it was time to bind off the stitches, we-l-l when I went to pull the fabric out flat it looked like I had dropped a stitch. So I panicked and tried pulling the stitch up and as I did that the next stitch dropped and it kept running down because the yarn was so slick. I screamed slightly and then decided that I needed to just lay it down and walk away. Since I hadn’t ate dinner I called my daughter to see if she would like to join me and I told her about my little problem. She just laughed, because I was a little freaked out about the dropped stitch. (of course if you ask her I was a little more than a little freaked out) Ha! Ha! But you know how it is when you’re not familiar with certain things; as I am with knitting. I figured I would have to take it to Twist to get some advice and help. So Jennifer and I went out to eat and had a wonderful time visiting and just relaxing. All along I couldn’t stop thinking about the dropped stitch.

After I dropped Jennifer off at her house and arrived back home, I decided to put my big girl pants on and tackle the knitting problem myself. I then pulled out a set of smaller straight knitting needles and accessed the situation. After further investigation I found that I didn’t actually drop a stitch, the yarn had came untied at the joining of the last two pieces of yarn. I then took all the stitches off of the size 11 circular needles and pulled all the rows out from the last two colors of yarn. I then placed the live stitches onto the straight needles and tied the last two lengths of yarn together so that they wouldn’t come undone. I then took my circular needle and started knitting the stitches from the straight needle. I finally finished up the scarf and bound off the stitches around 9:30 pm.

Yippee and Voila! Here’s the slightly scary scarf all done and I do love the way it turned out and bet that Terry will love it too. What do you think?

Sunday morning I couldn’t wait to get my hands on my crochet hooks and let the thread create something that was so mindless and easy for me. As I had sold 14 of my 18 washcloths I decided to start on the sets of 4 crochet edged washcloths that I had thought about making. When I completed 4 of them alike, I tied the ribbon around the set of 4 washcloths as I was tying the ribbon my mind started wandering and thinking about how cute they would look in a little basket. I lay down my crocheting and I cut out my 40% off any regular price item and my 20% off the total ticket and I headed to Joann’s Fabric Store to see if I could find some little baskets. And of course Joann’s didn’t disappoint me. I think these little baskets with 4 washcloths in each will be good sellers at the Hesston Barn Sale on Saturday, October 6^th.

Then I couldn’t resist picking up the newest (to the USA) Mollie Makes magazine

and was very pleased to see Ms. Amy Butler’s fabric line advertised on the back cover. Some of you may know that this line was reproduced off of her very first line of fabric. I always try to keep up with Ms. Amy and what’s going on with her and I do that by following along on her Facebook page here.

Anyway, I had a great weekend spending time with family and friends because that always makes me happy. How was your weekend?