2009--and January has gone....

Some friends of mine have a yahoo group

called Threads of Love and they are knitting

and crocheting and various other handiwork

for favorite charities. They have me hooked and

I have been making *Happy Hats* for preemie

babies... it brings me such pleasure and I hope

along the way they can help keep wee head's warm..

2009 International Freeform Fiberart Challenge

It has been announced.......

The challenge is to interpret the four seasons representing them as you see or experience them where you live. I'm jazzed about that..Anyone who belongs to the

Yahoo International Freeform list can enter (Anyone can join!!)

...I really enjoy these challenges.

I have a couple ideas rolling around for what or how I want to interpret the

lower Alabama seasons....

Click below if you want to go look at whats been done other years!

Previous Challenges

I missed September!!

Becky and I were pretty busy...We were getting some things ready for the Elf Made site and the craft shows she is doing the next couple of months. It has been a blast!! She was working on her displays last week and sent me a couple photos.. I made *happy hats*--as I said in my last post and then decided to paint christmas ornaments ..Since the Elf tree theme this year is "wood 'n shoes" I gut busy and sewed a few different elf shoes,You can see them on the elf made page. Elf Made
Ya'll have got to go look at the wooden crochet
hooks Becky makes..Thats all I ever use now!!!

I finished up my Round Robin *Scrumble exchange" and have them all on the way.

What fun it has been...I have recieved 7 so far and it is VERY exciting!!! They are allso different and so wonderful..I will wait until they are all here and put them togather with a common thread. I'll upload a few of the ones I sent out.

There were 22 of us.

Wow--where did the time go?

Here I am in Alabama....all those visits called my name and we ended up moving here...Nice place to retire to...Love that the Gulf is so close!!! now if the hurricaines will go away so we can cruise down there!!!

I'm still free forming.....

Have been making hats--Happy Hats--specifically..I have about 45 made for

the *elf made* christmas shows....They are fun..Each one is free formed and different...

I joined a scrumble exchange and thats a blast...There are 22 of us..exchanging aprox. 10x10 scrumbles...from all over the world...I have recieved 3 of mine..each so different and so COOOL.... I will join them all togather when I get them with a common yarn..Can't wait ..

I have 16 of mine made mailed or read to go to the po... I will start posting photos of them soon...

Termite made the trip to Alabama with us..

Here he is checking out a WIP lapgan..HE assures me this is already big enough for him..HE is almost a year old and because he is a pill the stash has had to be put incognito...in plastic bags in the crates with holes..I miss seeing it but he just was loving it way to much...

Yea..I'm one of those cat lovin' yarn folks!!!

So---this time from Alabama..where I can feel the gulf breeze gently blow by, Always.Kathie

Summer heat is behind us...bring on the yarn...

Thanks to the folks at Grafton Fibers for

this wonderful free sock pattern....

Easy to make and comfy to wear!!!!

http://www.graftonfibers.com/socks.htm

This is called

*Rest, In Pieces*

and it was prompted from a challenge in the

FF Challenge group to make a granny square

poncho..I had several skiens of this fancy fur

yarn and figured it was a great project for it...

18 skiens later......here is the poncho..

modeled by my daughter Dolly..

It reminds me of the rag crochet rugs ladies used to make...

The Princess has her *wings*

...and here she is........

Gypsy Wings...

I went a little crazy with buying grey/black/ white

yarns on my visit to Alabama and this is what has

evolved. I named it *gypsy wings* and it is with out

a doubt the softest piece I have ever made. It is living

in a basket--because our kitty, Missy, adopted it..

Moving into August. or...In The Pink

Becky & Dolly

Dothan ,Alabama----IT was Hot..

We visited and crocheted and visited some more..

Made a couple runs to Michaels to buy SALE

yarn...whoooooo we got some bargains!!!

I actually got to work on... and finish the

pink, free form ,baby blanket while we were visiting Becky.

It was for Sierra Anita.I delivered it to

her today.. she slept through it---Her Mom

loved it!!!!

The Pinks were a fun colorway to work with..

I have a gray project in the works...that wasn't

planned..stay tuned for what it turns into at

a later date....

The official Hot August Nights is over....It was a huge

success and we had a wonderful evening of food,music,

friends and frolic......and the anticipation of the Silent

Auction........The beach chair was a crowd pleaser and

sold for a hefty sum....The catfish, Penny found a new

home with a local Lawyer.....A good time was had by all.....