February 9-10, 2013 Weekend, KS My Stitch Officer’s Meeting, a Joann’s Run, Simply Crochet, Giant Pom Pom Maker, and 16 Baby Grannies

My weekend started off with the KS My Stitch crochet guild officer’s meeting. It’s always fun getting together with everyone and catching up on what they have been doing and making. I loved having Lucy join us too; she finished up one of those ruffly knitted scarves while we were talking and started another one. For the last 4 years we have done a bag giveaway with lots of crochet goodies in it at the February meeting. The way you get your name in the drawing is to have paid your yearly dues by the end of the January evening meeting. Then the Secretary and Treasurer work together to gather all the names who have paid their dues.

Then at our February Officer’s meeting we draw the winner. So we did that……and no I’m not going to give you the name of the winner yet. But here’s a picture of the bag all stuffed with neat stuff. (Bag and contents are worth around $100)

I was also so glad that Susie’s husband Korey drove her to my house; even though Susie wasn’t feeling quite herself I was very happy that she decided to attend. Susie fell in love with the colorful heart that I had made last weekend. I had racked my brain before Christmas on what to give to Susie and Saturday I knew that she needed the colorful heart. It made me smile to see how happy it made her and I think the laughter and visiting made her feel a little better. I made chicken tortilla soup, a tossed green salad, and Kaye brought Pomegranate sherbet for dessert. I know I can’t believe it either that I didn’t even take one photo of the food. I had every intention to do so but once I started eating I never thought about it until all the ladies left. Oh well I’ll try to get a shot of them next month.

Someone mentioned that I’m never in the photos, so here’s a picture of me looking all purple except my cleavage area looks a little jaundice. Must have been the golden lamp shining on it.  🙂

After the ladies left I loaded up my car to head to Joann’s on the east side of town. I needed to purchase more items for the giveaway bag and I wanted to see if they had the first issue of a new magazine from the UK called “Simply Crochet”. Much to my surprise they had 8 of them and I had to have one. I’m looking forward to making a few of the projects in the magazine and can’t wait until the second issue hits the states.

I also picked up a couple of skeins of yarn to make my Sister-in-Law Ricci a crocheted crusher hat, plus I couldn’t resist this huge pom pom maker. I can’t wait to try to make one of those. It might be a good way to use up all of those little balls of yarn that are hanging around.  🙂

I also stopped by Hobby Lobby to pick up one more ball of the Bernat Handicrafter crochet thread to make 16 different colored squares. After dinner John and I decided to go to an actual movie. We went and saw “Silver Linings Playbook” and we really liked it. When we arrived back home John decided he wanted a bowl of sherbet that was left behind from our officer’s meeting. Since it has some sugar in it he decided to take an extra shot of insulin and since his blood sugar level was high at 200 before even eating the sherbet. I went to sleep around 10:00 p.m. and was woke up by John jerking around 2:00 a.m. He was having a diabetic seizure and from past experience I knew that I couldn’t do anything and since he was jerking I could not administer the sugary shot (I can’t remember what it’s called) that we have in the nightstand. So I called 911. Paramedics arrived about 5 minutes later, along with a fireman and a Wichita police officer. The officer just happened to be one of 3 who had been summoned by John about the dog barking incident. One of the paramedics took John’s blood sugar reading and it was at 21. They immediately placed an IV and squeezed sugar water directly into his veins and he started to respond and then he started asking questions about what happened. The paramedics asked if this was the first time that this happened and I told them “NO” that I have had to call 911 about 5 times in the last 5 years. I told them that I have mostly handled it myself for the last 18 years; except when he is having a seizure. Anyway the paramedics left around 2:40 a.m. and I changed John’s clothes, put socks, and a hat on him so that he could get warm. He fell asleep just like a little baby would do if you swaddle them. Me, on the other hand could not fall asleep (as usual after one of these episodes). I’m not sure why I’m telling you all of this but I somehow needed to get it off my chest and document it. Sometimes after I know he’s ok I just sit and cry and Sunday morning was no different. I can’t help but think that I cry for myself and what I have to go through to help John, but on the other hand I mostly cry because I hate this disease called diabetes and how it has affected him and so many other people who I know and love and not to mention all the people that I don’t even know.  😦  Anyway, that’s enough about that.

Later Sunday morning I finished up the laundry while crocheting these cute little baby grannies together. I wanted to show you how I crocheted them together. I used the technique that Lucy from Attic 24 uses to crochet her granny squares togther for her afghans and she has a wonderful tutorial on how to do that very thing here.

I love how when you crochet in the back loops of each square

and then when you flip it over you can hardly see the stitches at all; you will not believe how hard these pictures were to take with my own two hands. I had the lens cap in-between my teeth and held the camera strap with my right hand so that neither would show in the pictures. It’s all in a days’ work for just the right photo.  😉 All and all I had a good weekend and I hope that yours was good too. I would love to hear all about it and hope that you all have a great week.