April 13-14, 2013 Weekend, Crocheting with my Friend, another Scrappy Washcloth, Cutting Down the White Birch, Dinner with Jennifer, and Cleaning up the Yard

My weekend started off with meeting up with my friend Linda. Linda has been following my blog for quite some time and had always wanted to meet me, when she found out that I was teaching Crochet 101 at Twist (even though she had already taken the class) she signed up just so that she could meet me. Isn’t that sweet? Anyway we have met at Twist a few times since the Crochet 101 class and she took my washcloth class last month. We went to lunch at Picasso’s and then sat and crocheted on our washcloths. It’s always nice to sit and crochet with friends.

Upon arrival back home I found a group of people joining in to cut the white birch down between our new neighbors on the east of us and our house. The tree was there when I moved in 33 years ago, it has always seemed to be in the way and when our new neighbor Isaah asked if we minded if he cut the tree down, we of course said yes please do.

It was fun watching how all the men worked together to get this huge tree cut down.

The man that was up in the man lift said that he was actually scared of heights, but he didn’t mind as long as he was in the bucket.

I have always loved to watch men at work. 🙂

We ended the day with dinner with Jennifer at Le Monde. When I took this picture John had just said to Jennifer “Oh my Gosh what is she doing with that camera”? And I replied, “You bought it for me mister.” Of course he couldn’t deny that. 😉

Sunday consisted of me lounging; crocheting, ironing, and watching the onions grow.

While John was outside cleaning up the yard I sat here and tried to concentrate on joining my little baby dahlia throw together.

But while I was joining the pieces together I couldn’t help myself; I started thinking about what it would be like to have my scrappy washcloth on the cover of Simply Crochet. So I just had to stop crocheting and go take a picture of the washcloth on the Issue #3 magazine I picked up at Twist on Saturday. I think the colors look pretty cool with the colors of the magazine. What do you think?

Then I started looking inside the magazine (the little purple kitty head is actually a tape measure that came attached to the front of the magazine, if you were wondering)

and when I saw the patterns for washcloths I remembered this cotton yarn that I bought probably almost a year ago and thought oh my gosh it would make some really pretty washcloths for the bathroom.

Then I found this. Remember the other day when I asked you all what I should do with my leftover soap? Well here I go; I’m going to have to make this cute little soapsaver now.

Somehow I drug myself back downstairs and finished up joining the squares together on the baby dahlia throw. It looks like I need about one more section just like this one before I can start adding borders around it. Oh my gosh what was I thinking when I started this project? I thought I might be able to have it done for the State Fair in September but now I’m not sure. Oh well, back to reality.

John asked me to come and look at the yard after he cleaned up the flower bed in the front yard; he loves it when I sit and watch him work and when I bring him something cold to drink. 😉

Then as we were sitting together on our little wall of concrete I thought “outloud” and said “this would make a very cute picture from the back.” Of course John being John set out to find the tripod and the plate to hold the camera onto the tripod and 20 minutes later we had our picture.  🙂  See how thoughtful he is; he would do most anything for me. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding why. So how was your weekend? Did you get lots of things done or did you just relax? I would love to hear all about it.