January 12-13, 2013 Weekend, a Few More Hats, Wristlets, Mom’s Sick, and a Fun Idea

First of all thank you for all the kind and helpful tips on the tights situation. It was fun reading what you thought I should do about it all. HAHAHAHAHA!

My weekend started off with finishing up this special order hat for one of the computer technicians that comes in once a week to where I work. He wanted me to make his wife a K-State billed hat and this is what I came up with. I used purple for the base with a gray and white stripe and then gray for the front band and silver buttons. I do love how it turned out and hope that she loves it as much as I did making it.

On Saturday we had our KS My Stitch officers meeting; this time I made vegetarian vegetable soup and if I do say so myself I thought it was very delicious. 😉 We had a good meeting and it was fun catching up with Donna and Kaye. Poor Susie couldn’t join us because she had to go to Maui. So sad! Just kidding, I’m so glad that Susie was able to get away and just have fun. Anyway after the meeting I went to Twist to help Lisa with the second session of the Crochet 101 class that I was to teach but had to miss the first session because I was in Oklahoma attending my Uncle’s funeral. Lisa teaches some of the Knitting classes and the Crochet 102 at Twist. Lisa is very good and has the same ways of teaching as I do; she’s very calm and very patient. I know it’s hard for some of you to believe that I’m calm and patient but I usually am with the people who sign up to learn to crochet. I had a ball getting to know this lovely group of 7 young ladies and have a feeling we have hooked 7 more.  🙂 While I was at Twist I found this Malabrigo yarn and thought that it would look beautiful made up into the wristlet pattern that I found in the Noro Crochet book. I do love the way they turned out and I loved how quickly they worked up.

I also started this bearded hat before the ladies came over for the guild meeting and finished it up on Sunday morning. I even woke John up by turning on the light wearing the hat. I’m surprised I’m still breathing as I think if he would have woke me up wearing it I would have probably knocked him out. 😉 This saying comes to mind when I think about that: “Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let her sleep.” 🙂

I do love the way it turned out and I’m having a hard time believing that I just made it up as I went.

I made the hat for my nephew Zach who lives in North Dakota and I hope he enjoys it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

I also found out Saturday that Mom’s phone wasn’t working so on Sunday John and I went and purchased her a new one that included a corded phone (that works when the electricity is off) and a cordless one. Since Mom came home from Oklahoma very sick I thought Sunday would be the perfect opportunity for me to take the phone, some cough drops, Cuties (Clementine oranges), and a bowl of my vegetarian vegetable soup. As I always do when I see Mom I take a picture of her as she said “Tamara; my eyes look horrible.” I told her that she was beautiful no matter what and that I need to capture every moment with her. I don’t think she understands that I’m just trying to create a memory of her for me to keep forever. Anyway I tried to hook her phone up for her and failed so John had to rescue me and all he did was plug in the adapter to the phone jack (I knew it was something simple I just couldn’t figure that out). Although he was able to hook it up properly and she can make and receive phone calls the answering machine portion of the new phone is not working so he will be calling her phone line carrier in the morning to get that straightened out for her.

Now for the fun idea; the first part of January I was reading a blog post from one of my favorite blogs “Cute as a Button” and thought her idea she wrote about here might be fun for John and I to do this year. But I wonder if I could fill our jar with Funny Things We Say and Do. I already have 3 written down in one day so it shouldn’t be too hard. Besides that I can’t wait to write them all down on those pretty little pieces of scrapbook paper that seem to always manage to end up in my shopping cart at Hobby Lobby, now the paper can be “Justified” finally.  😉 So how was your weekend? I would love to hear all about it.