July 6-12, 2015 Rainy Days, Crocheted Edging Class, Friends and Family, More Crocheted Things for the Kansas Barn Sale, and the Garden

Last week it rained a lot. This is in front of our house early last week during a afternoon rain storm. The streets were flooded and cars were stalled at the end of our street.

Remember how pretty my four o’clock’s were? This is what happened to them after the rain. I am always sad when the rain or the wind blows them over like this.

I held my first crochet edging class on Wednesday of last week. I taught the ladies to crochet around the edge of a washcloth. I think all of them enjoyed it. I know Winifred was happy that she decided to go ahead and come to class.

I know I enjoyed watching each one of them as they became more confident that they could actually make the pretty scalloped edging. This one is Becki’s.

This one is Winifred’s.

I was very proud of Sharon, come to find out she had tried teaching herself to crochet the last two weeks. I think I convinced her that she needed to take my Crochet 101 class coming up this Wednesday. I still have 2 spots left in that class if anyone is interested in learning to crochet in the Wichita area. Call Picket Fence Quilt Company at 558-8899.

I loved seeing how quickly Mary was going around her washcloth.

Here’s my washcloth that I made during class. I just love the way turquoise and red look together.

Thursday night John and I went to one of our favorite Mexican restaurants; Cholita’s. It’s fun running into people we have been friends with for many, many years. Here is April with her little boy. I have been friends with her Momma and Dad before she was even born.

I managed to make another pair of the Moogly’s Ups and Downs Baby Booties. I love this yarn. It’s from Berocco and it’s a blend of cotton and acrylic and it’s called Weekend. I think it is perfect for these little booties. This is one of the projects that we will be doing at our KS My Stitch Crochet Guild retreat coming up in September.

John is always telling me that I only crochet with the colors that I like. He says that I hardly ever step out of my comfort zone when it comes to colors. Well, I decided to try a variegated yarn of these fun colors. So I made a long tailed hat…..

and finglerless mitts. I bought these orange flowered buttons a couple of years ago on clearance. I am so glad that I was finally able to use them.

Since winter will be here before we know it; Lisa (Picket Fence Quilt Company Owner) and I decided we needed to set up a hat and fingerless mitts class.

And since I had not made the Moogly’s Ups and Downs Slouchy hat or mitts in any of Lisa’s yarns, she asked me to make them in Cascade 220 yarn. Although many people love Cascade 220, I’m not one of them. I have tactile issues and wool pokes me and makes me itch. I decided I would have to look at Lisa’s other yarns to recommend another one for the hat and mitts. Even though I don’t care to use the Cascade 220, I still think they look good in the yarn.

Friday night we decided to get together with John’s sister and brother-in-law for dinner. We ordered the fried green beans as an appetizer. I highly recommend them!

CW and Ricci were very pleased with their meals and we had a very nice visit.

After dinner Ricci and CW stopped at our house and I always get a kick out of Ricci and how she loves the things that I make. I love that the hat matched her shirt. I always enjoy when Ricci and CW stop in for a visit.

Here’s another headband/earwarmer for the Kansas Barn Sale. I especially like the button. 😉

Saturday morning when I dropped off the Ups and Downs hat and mitts to Lisa at Picket Fence Quilt Company I noticed some new yarns that she had just gotten in. I decided that maybe the one on the right would work for the hat and mitts. It was so funny because Lisa and I were looking all over the tags to try and find out what size of yarn they were. There was not a 3, 4, or 5 anywhere to be seen.

After I finished the hat in the MayPole Eurobaby, I noticed the ribbon that came down below the word MayPole made a dk. Duh, the yarn was dk weight and the hat ended up being very small. But I think it still worked up very pretty.

Lisa asked me to make a men’s hat out of the MayPole Eurobaby in the gray stripes. I just made up this one and will be selling this at the Kansas Barn Sale.

Here is the one that will be on display at Picket Fence. I used Liz McQueen’s free pattern called Brain Waves Beanie. You can find it on Ravelry here.

Finally, yesterday I was able to get out into the backyard to check on my veggies. Here is one of the Tami G. tomatoes. I can’t wait for them to turn bright red.

Here’s an overall view of our little garden. It is being taken over by weeds and my Mother would be appalled by that. I am unable to get down on my hands and knees or use a hoe because of my back issues. So I pull a few when I can and let the others just go.

Here is one of the bigger tomatoes and I am looking so forward to having a lot more as the summer goes on.

Here are the yellow squash. These are some of my favorite squash. I dice these up along with onions, egg, corn meal and then fry it. I can eat this and tomatoes all day long and never tire of them.

Oh my gosh our cucumber vines are full of these blooms and if each one of them produce cucumbers we are going to have them coming out of our ears.

I love that this sunflower just came up from the seeds that John puts out for the birds. I’m happy that the birds missed a few and now I have two of these lovely flowers in my backyard to admire. So what have you all been up to?