Recent Posts Tagged With blessings

• The Blessings

  Posted on Friday February 12th, 2010 at 10:17 am in snow blessings

  Well to apologize would be futile. I've ignored the blog. That's a sin and a crime. I know. I've been playing around with my eyes...changed the contact lens prescription, had to have the pupils dilated, etc. etc. etc. Mostly I've been busy with the C...

• A Special Kind of Prayer Shawl

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 08:37 am in Church prayer blessings prayer shawls

  Still have time to enter the contest and win a nice 'knit kit' or some stash yarn from my stash to yours!The prayer shawl in the picture was started last Sunday during church. I like to sit in the back and knit. It's not that people can't see me, but...

• The Chicago Top Ten for the Week of Oct 12, 2009

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 10:40 am in Advertising artists attitude blessings artisans

  I woke up this morning with a headache - the kind that tells me my blood pressure was a little high - so I took a walk. A workout makes everything better - which is why I should do more of them. And I do feel better! It was a very short walk, but eno...

• Don\'t Fight The Feeling

  Posted on Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 10:57 am in creativity friendship hats blessings finished objects

  I was having a conversation with myself last night. It was very brief. I had stopped working on a scarf because I just wasn't feeling it. You know how that goes, you cast on and you start knitting and you don't get that great feeling of working towar...

• New Life

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 11:10 am in community creativity attitude designing blessings

  What on earth did I do before knitting?I started the shop more than a year after I picked up the needles. I haven't had it for a year and I've made over 60 things - I'm a knitting fool! Was there a life before knitting>I am finding it hard to answer ...

• They Shoot Husbands, Don\'t They?

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 10:00 am in inspiration creativity attitude blessings intentions

  First, I want to do some Friday Shout outs!Kim's Crafty Apple is one of our advertisers and she does some really lovely quilts. As you may know, quilts have a place in my heart because I used to have some quilts from my maternal grandmother and I got...

• That Which Does Not Kill Me...

  Posted on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 12:22 am in community attitude blessings stitchcraft

  Still no DSL. The new modem arrived and when I installed it, there was still no dsl service. I called the Customer Service department and they did a line test and said I was not getting the dsl feed. (So, they couldn't do that before they made me buy...

• Even When You're Not Looking

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 04:20 pm in blessings shawls finished objects sequins afghan designs

  It seems folks want to read about Jared and Alexander. Those are the names of the two sons in My Father's Son. I'll be taking input for a couple more days on which book to write. I don't have a problem writing this one first. The pre-write for this o...

• Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Niece and Nephew

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 10:18 am in family weddings blessings nephews nieces

  Here they are: Mr and Mrs Cotton-Schmidt. It's a strange and wonderful thing to think I saw this little creature when they brought him home from the hospital. I have fed him, changed his diapers, took him on outings with just the two of us even disci...

• This Week's Chicago Top Ten Week of August 31

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 12:07 pm in family artists chicago attitude blessings

  Yes, you want to know about the wedding and I want to tell you all about it. The first thing I will say is: I forgot my camera and the camera phone just wasn't hitting it. But my sister and sisters-in-law took lots of photos and they promised to post...

• Wedding Day!

  Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 08:10 am in family weddings blessings

  Today is the day my nephew is getting married. I was with my brothers and one of my sisters, two nephews and two sisters-in-law until about 12:30 this morning. Talk about synergy, they are staying in the hotel where I spent the night before and my we...

• The Choices We Have

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 10:46 am in choices attitude blessings

  This photo has nothing to do with what I am going to write about. Usually in cases such as these, there would be the 'this spot left blank' or whatever it is that I put there when I don't have a photo to go with the post.But I don't want to feel blan...

• It is Fini - shed!

  Posted on Sunday August 23rd, 2009 at 02:52 pm in weddings blessings blocks afghan patterns afghan squares

  There is nothing like a self argument to show yourself just how mature/immature you really are.The Conflict:The wedding afghan is finished. The wedding afghan is a present for my nephew and his fiancee who will be united in what I hope is wedded blis...

• Back on the Block - Simple Stitch #7

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 08:40 am in gifts weddings blessings nephews

  The wedding is nine days away! This really is a blue color. I know it looks green and it's a green color, too. I think the official name is Cape Cod Blue. I don't know what they do in Cape Cod to make their blue look like a mixture of blue and green ...

• Back on the Block - Simple Stitch #60

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 09:18 am in blessings afghan squares

  We're moving right along. With the afghan and with other things. I know things will turn out the way they are supposed to and sometimes you have to live with the fact that backstabbers don't always get what's coming to them.I am about to start square...

• Unforgettable - This Week's Chicago Top Ten

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 09:00 am in inspiration Advertising friends handmade community

  Oh man, the things that have caught my eye for this week. It's dangerous going to look for treasure because you are likely to find it if you know where to look. I suppose my saving grace is that I don't have a lot of money to purchase everything I se...

• Baby, Baby Don't Cry

  Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 10:41 am in Advertising friends babies etsy blessings

  IIt's been quite some time since I interviewed Janet Lendecker about her shop JanetNicoleCreations. Since that interview in May, she has added some additional items to her shop and had a couple of sales. Now, lest you think I am taking credit for tha...

• Tribeca! - WWKIP - The Yarn Store

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 02:41 pm in yarn blessings wwkip chunky yarn

  Warning: this post can cause a yarn orgasm - I'm just saying!Get something to drink. This will take a while.I loves me the yarn! Y'all know I don't even have to have a reason to buy yarn, I just buy for the same reasons I buy CDs and books - I'm a li...

• Everlasting Love

  Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 02:42 pm in st. louis blessings husbands

  Updated designbcb!So I was going to take this trip to St. Louis for World Wide Knit in Public Day. The plan was a bunch of us would start in Chicago, buy tickets on Amtrak headed to St. Louis picking up other knitters along the way. We would try and ...

• Just One Look

  Posted on Friday May 1st, 2009 at 05:12 pm in community blessings artfire

  Yes, I know, I have a store on Etsy. I will also have a store on ArtFire. I think it's only fitting since:I'm a new columnist for the ArtFire online magazine Handmade News!!Yep, I managed to fool them into thinking I can write for them and the reall...

• Conviction of the Heart

  Posted on Sunday April 26th, 2009 at 03:44 pm in friends community restaurants blessings mansions

  The Sit & Knit or SNK as Knitting Knoobie coined it, was a success. Not everyone who RSVP'd showed, but there were a couple of dozen knitters who came and sat on the Veranda of Pleasant Home - Mills Park and did some stitching for Compassionate C...

• Imagine

  Posted on Friday April 24th, 2009 at 03:14 pm in community chicago summer scarves blessings

  It's 80 degrees today, so imagine how it felt going out and photographing a winter scarf. Ah but what a scarf. I must admit I like how it came out. It is a very generous 80 inches so it will keep someone toasty when summer and fall are through this y...

• Sugar, Sugar

  Posted on Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 10:50 am in girls community designing blessings caron

  Seriously, any cuter and we'd have to put a warning label to diabetics on it. I don't think the plan was to make one so small, but it was just so cute I let it go through. Sometimes you have to take the path in front of you not the one you made.This ...

• OOO Baby, Baby

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 04:22 pm in prom blessings prayer shawls homespun lionbrand

  Sometimes you just have to take a moment to sit in a small amount of awe:Not because you did something particularly great, but because something really lovely came out of something so simple.This is a very simple garter stitch shawl and the yarn does...

• On The Coast of Some Place Beautiful

  Posted on Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 03:29 am in inspiration happiness blessings effort shawls

  There is just no denying we love our craft. We all have family members who shake their heads because just about every time they see us, we have needles in our hands. And on those rare occasions when we don't have needles, we have catalogs in our hand...

• And A Little Child Shall Lead Them

  Posted on Friday February 20th, 2009 at 02:42 am in school inspiration community friendship fellowship

  StitchCraft got a note from Reiley to make some squares for her 'Pay It Forward' Project at school. She is making blankets to give to abused/ill children. The project was a bit more successful than even she imagined. I sent her eight - and I wasn't n...

• The Birth of a Designer

  Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 10:44 am in inspiration etsy scarves designing blessings

  I know, it's been almost a week. What kind of blogger goes without writing to their peeps for almost a week? The kind of blogger who has been working on a project that is taking way longer than expected. Still, I understand that is no excuse and from...

• Who Ate My Afghan?

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 04:36 pm in business community etsy blessings

  I went over to the Etsy shop this morning to discover that my afghan was gone. Now, I suspect that if I had made a sale, I would have been notified so instead of getting excited, I panicked. Never fear, I found it. I had somehow delisted my afghan - ...

• I'd Like to Thank the Academy...

  Posted on Monday December 29th, 2008 at 03:55 am in blessings ravelry afghan patterns knit blogs super chunky

  This message appeared in my Ravelry mailbox:"1:23 PMRequest to feature your photo: Very Thick - Not So Quick AfghanSent at 8:20 AM YesterdayWe’d like to feature your photo on the Ravelry page for Triple Wave Afghan by Martingale & Company."I'm ...

• It's Christmas Week

  Posted on Monday December 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 am in holidays friends happiness community christmas

  Ok, so there won't be hats for everyone this Christmas. I forgot just what a hectic schedule I have this week. But that doesn't mean there weren't hats made.I did manage to get a few knit up, but since they aren't going to anyone in particular, I act...