Here are the two items I made for my granddaughter's birthday!! The shawl is my Queen Sarah Shawl pattern made smaller for a girls size.
I am in the process of writing and making the pattern available in Ravelry. First I need a picture of her modeling it. So I have to wait for the birthday.
I am working on an afghan for my friend Anthony and his new wife. I am halfway done with it.
Have a great day!!
God Bless you!!
Mary

My daughter is graduating from college with her Masters in Engineering. I am making her this shawl for graduation. The pattern is in Russian, but it has charts. This is actually my first time using charts to do Crochet. It seems to be going well. I have made doilies before and this pattern seems a lot like them. It probably helps some, the fact that I have been crocheting for more than 40 years. I know the stitches well. I just hope I can get it done before May 8th.
Have a great day!!
God Bless you!!
Mary

I have a couple of things done. The Afghan is done and donated to Hope Circle. As in the past there was no one there so I just left it. I guess I am just the anonymous donor. I also got one of the pairs of Purlwise Plain socks done. I am almost done with the second pair. I used fingerling weight leftover's from stash yarn. I have no idea what the yarn is. Some is acrylic and others are super wash wool. For some reason the scrap socks feel better on my feet.

Today I need to get out and hoe some more in my garden so I can get my plants in. I have only 3 tomato plants in the ground. I like to spread out newspaper under them and poke the tomato cage through it to keep it in place. it helps keep the weeds from growing close to the tomato plant and inside the cage.

Have a great day!!
God Bless You!!
Mary

Ok what do you do with yarn that someone gives to you, where they started making something, but you don't know what.
A friend gave me this yarn that is done in a bunch of Hairpin lace.
I thought for a while then I came up with a granny square hairpin lace afghan to donate to a place that gives blankets and hats to terminally ill patients, to keep them warm. They are called Hope Circle.
I'm using some other yarn that I had in my stash to make the granny squares.

Recently in Ravelry I have added a couple of more patterns to my designs. Some socks and some baby booties. Our group of ladies that meet on Thursday nights are thinking of making baby booties for the Pregnancy Resource Center. One of the ladies said that they were really in need of them.

Have a great day!!
God Bless You!!
Mary

Bed Dolls

Hi!!
Here are some Bed Dolls that I made for my Granddaughters for Christmas of 2006.

I just now got around to taking pictures of them.

I think I had pictures of them but somehow in many computer changes they had gotten lost.

So now I finally got new ones and I have added them to my Ravelry projects.

We are supposed to get storms here tonight and tomorrow. Hopefully they will be gone by tomorrow night so that I can go to our Knitting get together at Barnes and Noble. We meet every Thursday night and have a good time talking, and knitting, and ready to teach others to knit or crochet too.
Have a great day!!
God Bless You!!
Mary

Star Afghan

Hi!!
I got the star afghan done! Ready now to send to my Niece.


As you can see Rosie had to just hop up there and get into the picture. It really surprised me because she is scared of clicking sounds. Maybe the camera has a different kind of click. That or she thinks the Afghan is hers. Anyway now I am back to knitting my crazy socks and my sockdown January socks. I am going to a Conference with my Church this weekend so I may put another sock on the needles that has some mindless knitting to it. Get some knitting done in the hotel between services and on the 5 hour trip. I have just too many ideas of all the thing I want to make and I just know that I can't do them all at once like I want to. I knit one thing thinking oh I want to knit that other thing. What a mind full of projects I have. Hmmm.

Hi!!

I finally got the Tiger Socks done for my Son in law. I had to crochet 4 Afghans between the time I started them and getting them done. 3 for weddings and one I donated to a place where they provide them for very sick patients or people going through Chemo. I didn't get pictures of all of them. They were the same pattern as the one I have a picture on a previous blog entry. The outside colors were different but they were basically the same. Now to some Tiger Socks for my Son.

Have a great day!!
God Bless You!!
Mary

Yarn Crochet

Hi!!
I have been busy Crocheting lately, I saw a picture of an Afghan so I tried working out what I thought it looked like. And I went on a trip to Southern Maryland and went to Crazy for Ewe Yarn store in Leonardtown. I picked up some yarn made from Crab and Shrimp shells and some Bamboo and cotton yarn.

Hi!!
I got the first Afghan done! Now to the second one and to the post office to mail it and the baby booties.

Have a great day!!
God Bless You!!
Mary

Business

Hi!!

Well I have 3 baby booties and one Afghan Square done. Just plugging along!
Here is a picture of the Afghan Square. I have been so busy putting our local Christian directory together that it has been hard to find time to knit or crochet. I will be glad to be done with that little book. I have much to do in my gardens too. Especially the waist high weeds need pulled.

Have a great day!!
God Bless You!!
Mary