Last Saturday Maddie and I sat on our couch for her first knitting lesson.  I was teaching her the steps, the rhyme that goes with it (see below), and telling her to have patience, that it would take a bunch of practice.  She had been begging me to teach her.  I would find her in … Continue reading A Duck to Water

Let's take a break from my series on Type 1 Diabetes: My Journey.  The hat craze continues...two cotton hats, one knitted, the other crocheted.  A bit of back story for each of them:  the knitted watermelon hat on the right is made from a Susan Anderson free pattern.  Susan B. Anderson is one of my … Continue reading More Hats…

We did have a couple of coolish days  a few weeks ago...and we haven't seen them since! But it got me itchin' to knit and crochet again.  Especially knit.  And not just any knitting...hats, on double-pointed needles!  The crocheted hat on the left, I made to give as a gift to a friend who's having … Continue reading Hat Craze!

Here they are!  Cute little birds for you to make! It was so much fun trying to make 'em as cute as the ones that visit our deck.  I'm not sure if I achieved it, but I do love the shape and colors.  I actually began the design by drawing them...coming up with a realistic … Continue reading Nesting Birds

I told you I'd give you peeks at what my Happy Little Squares are becoming.  Here's the first:  9 squares becoming one bigger square!  Woo Hoo!  And another set is not quite 9 yet.  There will be more of them, these little squares.  And then things will take a turn...rows and rows of colors...and there … Continue reading Peek #1 and Thoughts on Becoming

I have never actually gone owling...except through the pages of a book.  For years, my husband and I have read to our kids a wonderful book titled Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, with exquisite watercolor illustrations by John Schoenherr.  As you read this book and gaze at the images, you feel as if you too … Continue reading Going Owling

Years ago, I remember watching entranced as Bob Ross painted his "happy little trees" for us.  Watching one of his landscapes unfold and come alive right before your very eyes was indeed mesmerizing.  So too are these little crocheted squares.  They are made from a Lucy pattern, she calls her Summer Garden Square. I'm quite … Continue reading Happy Little Squares

Many years ago, when I was setting about to teach myself to draw and paint, two guys who had graduated from the Savannah College of Art & Design, encouraged me in my endeavors by saying, "Just have no fear..."  I don't think they realized how much I would recall those words.  Every painting, every sketch, … Continue reading Have No Fear

Well, almost all of them.  There are several of them still sitting in baskets or bags of in-progress projects and, I'm sure, there are stragglers in the sofa cushions and maybe out in the bowels of our cars.  Seriously, do I really need all of these?  But of course!!  Can you guess what they are? … Continue reading A Place for All of Them