When I went out to go pick up my produce from the local gardener & this is what I found on my car. 😦 So I decided to take the old junker if it would start. It did. Got me there but when I got ready to leave… Dead. After a couple tries and a panic call to Himself we found the jumper cables in the back of the Dead One. Tami brought her truck around and after nearly giving up hope we got it started. Whew! Yes, we may be good Mountain Women, as she said, but I ain’t changing that darned tire! lol In fact, I doubt these days if I could even get it off as I could in the Olden Days. Not as strong as I was used to be. 😛 Or as determinded! :laugh:
So I have not gone anywhere else today. There is still the old ford pickup but I can barely reach the pedals and the seat is permanently set at Tall Guy! Nothing I need to do that badly. I cleaned house instead. It was in need after the long hectic weekend, anyway.
Hope your Monday was sunny and smoke free.
Hazel, here in fiery N. CA. 🙄

I haven’t finished her face yet but she and her accessories are made with the 4″ Multi-loom. It’s a mohair & wool blend. See the baby Set below.

I wove this baby set with the Multi after a set in a 1940’s pattern book. The yarn is modern…I think I have the correct label. It’s TLC Baby Amore`, a chenille type. Very soft and cuddly. I made the set with one skein and have some left.
I did use the 4″ for most of it but the yoke called for the 2″, which I just happened to have as Randy made some for a customer. I knitted the band on the cap as I wanted to know how the yarn did that way, it did fine.
So now I’m ready for the next baby who comes along! 😀 Last year I ended with several sets of baby things (I like making them) and donated them at xmas time to a local children’s support group.
It’ll go well with the pink bear! (Check the button!)

Today, Friday the 13th, my art partner and I hosted the group with a surprise live model. Peter did a great job for us & found a way to sit still for 30 minutes while we sketched away. The inset is a 2 minute sketch… not too bad for such an awkward angle. Lots of foreshortening. The other is a more finished drawing but I’m going to do a bit more on it. He very kindly gave me permission to photograph him so I still have the model. 😀 I think every one enjoyed it. It was one of the quietest art gatherings I’ve been to… everyone concentrating on their work! Not that we aren’t serious about art… it’s just that we are a very talkative group as a rule.
But anyway… that was my Friday 13th, which proves to me that luck has nothing to do with it!
Hope yours went well, too. 🙂

We did some 4 minutes sketches, too. They were fun.

Sitting below him, I had a odd angle and he looks to be 11 feet tall!

People, including Randy, keep offering to mow my ‘lawn’ for me but I decline. I don’t even call it a lawn. It was a meadow before this cabin was built. In fact, when we first moved in we had tadpoles each spring where it stood water. But they put in drains so that’s gone, but I am the one who cares for the place so I choose to only mow twice a year. I have a lovely bunch of rose clover this year and there are ox-eye daisies, English daisies, ajuga, self heal, dandelions, thyme, and oregano escaped from planters. Sage and roses and black-caps around the edges, wild flocks (make that phlox!:blush: ), lungwort, many many grasses and lots of different ferns along the creek edge. There’s a little pink flower whose name I don’t know but who’s face I enjoy, too. And bees & butterflies and other pollinators. The birds were pictured earlier, but there’s also hummers, and robins, and grosbeaks, and little ones we hear but hardly ever see. flickers and woodpeckers (including the pileated pair) who we certainly hear! And the doe brings her fawns in the summer. I fence my tomatoes and the rest is open. Well, my point is, I have a lovely yard and I Don’t Have To Mow Or Poison anything! 🙂
If I want a golf course… my poor deluded neighbor has one. 😦

Well, fluffy big clouds, anyway. I never heard any thunder and the rain we got was just a regular fall-down-and-wet-everything-for-several-hours type of rain rather than the noisy frog strangler that usually comes with a Thunder storm. But the clouds were pretty and the rain was welcomed so it was all okay as it was. Today was a lovely warm rainless day, with temperature back up into the 70’s. I worked on rearranging the studio and the storeroom. Made lots of room and organized some stuff so that (hopefully!) I can find it when I need it without searching for days. I want to set up my knitting machine again & I think I have room for it now. Once Himself gets my shelves built I’ll start sorting yarn and once that’s done I’ll post an invitation to anyone who wants to drop by and craft. I think I’ll offer weaving, knitting, or crocheting lessons if anyone wants to learn the basics, too.
I think it’ll be fun. 🙂

They get up every now and then and look to see if it’s still raining. It is, so they have a bit of a snack and go back to bed. I’ve been a little more active but not a lot! Got some loom business done this morning, bade the cousins goodbye as they left to go back to Oakland for a couple weeks, and since then have mostly been trying to teach myself to knit cables. Guess I’ll have to do something domestic in a bit… vacuum maybe. On the other hand, it’ll just get mucked up again so I may just join the cats!
Hope your day is relaxing! 😉

Isn’t she elegant?! This is Margaret and she’s wearing the first sweater that I ever steeked. I think that’s the correct word. I designed it as I went along, stitched and cut without fear. It being as small as it is I could be brave! I think it turned out very nice and could even lead to larger projects. But this is another one that I did not write a pattern for so will not get into the book. The first one is a rather lovely (if I do say so) entrelac pull over in lavender and yellow.

I love knitting for Margaret, tho. She never complains about the fit or that the wool itches or she doesn’t like the colors, and she looks good in everything. Her sweater and faux pleated skirt were also designed by me. 🙄 Sis is test knitting my patterns (woo, was that necessary!) and I hope to be ready to Publish soon.