May 17-18, 2014 Weekend, More Hats, a Surprise Flower, Breakfast with Mom, and Owl Cushion Liners

I started my weekend off with another hat and an earwarmer headband for a 6-12 month old.

I have talked about this before and I am now convinced that the reason I like to collect old zippers, stems from my paternal Grandma Kingery (Vada). These are some of the zippers that my cousin Jill gave me that Grandma Kingery left behind. I have been looking at these zippers for many years and thought there should be that I could do with them. Then I purchased a hat pattern from CrocheTrend and it had the directions on how to make a

flower from a zipper. So before I headed to Twist to teach my Crochet 102 class I whipped one up. I’m not sure if any hat or anything is worthy of this adorable (hard to make) flower. 😉 I could have made a baby hat in the time that it took me to make one flower. Anyway, who knows if there will be any more of these flowers, Heaven knows that I have plenty of zippers to do so if I get that wild hair brained idea to make another one.

I spent the afternoon at Twist teaching two lovely ladies how to read a pattern and both of them made a granny square and a coaster. They were model students and I loved that they were excited about learning new things, even after crocheting for quite a while. When I returned home I made another hat and John and I ended our evening with dinner and a movie, Labor Day. We both enjoyed the movie very much.

I have been meaning to mention that Joshua got another job. He now works for ilili Mediterranean restaurant in Manhattan as a host. He seems to enjoy his job and has to dress up for work. He asked me the other day if I would look out for him some cool bowties and skinny ties. Well, I happened to stop into the DAV before I got to Twist and I bet you already guessed; I found a couple of skinny ties that I think he will like, of course we will have to dry clean them before we send them but I feel very fortunate that they were good quality and very reasonable at .98 each.

Sunday morning I managed to make 2 more hats before Mom arrived to take John and me to breakfast. I ran out of yarn again, but I held two turquoise yarns together and finished it with them. I like the way it turned out and hope someone else does too.

After we ate I was pleased to find out that Mom wanted to stay and visit for a while with me. She is so funny every time I show her one of my new hats she has to try them all on. This is the only one she left on long enough for me to take a picture of her in it.

I started another hat while Mom was at my house but did not finish it yet. But later on in the evening I sewed up 4 owl cushion liners. I plan on making 2 more crochet owl cushions for the Kansas Barn Sale. I am still struggling along with my computer after a nice young gentleman replaced my hard drive and updated my operating system to Windows 7 from Vista. Now the built-in mouse runs even though I have it switched off. Plus, the cursor just randomly shoots up into the previous paragraph and starts typing my words there instead of where I actually want the words. It’s very frustrating and it takes me twice as long to write anything. Anyway, I have a co-worker who is helping me with the mouse issue and hopefully she will be able to fix it soon.

I am trying to pick out new glasses after 7 years of having the same ones. I think I have finally decided on THE ones. Gosh could the dark circles under my eyes get any darker? Yuck. I would love to hear what you all think about them (the glasses not the dark circles). HAHAHAHA!