Stash Envy by L. Boyer

My dear daughter told me abut this book.  After listening to her speak about it I wanted it.  I told her I'd wait until she let me borrow it from her but I'll admit I'm a bit impatient.  

If you know me then you'll have to admit I'm getting to be an old lady and set in my ways and I made up  my mind and followed through...(I got my book).

Now the hard part comes because I'm forced to WAIT 6 days until it is delivered.

New Colors

Well I started my shawl in a pink color but didn't have enough yarn to finish sooooo I took it all apart.  Then I went in search through all my bins for a color I had enough in. I ended up with 3 skeins of Navy Blue and 2 skeins of Turqua.  Wasn't too happy with my choices but I tried and it has begun to grow on me.

I'm only a quarter way through with it but I believe it may be a pretty one once I'm finished.

UFO Humor

Just working on the many UFO's I have underfoot. Hoping to finish a few this year.

The F-word being 'finish it' of course.

Oh, how I wish!!!

ARRRRGH!

Found 3 skeins of yarn so now I have enough yarn to make my shawl.  My only problem is I really don't want to use this color. Dark Navy......I'm wanting to get away from dark colors. I think I'll try to intergrate some turqua into it.  Won't know till I try.

Triangle Brushed Acrylic Shawl ©2007 Sandra Petit http://www.crochetcabana.com

This is the pattern I'm following so you can get an idea.

Butterflies

Well with the new Sunday school theme I decided to add butterflies. Thought on it and came up with a cool mobile. Not the best, just using what I have. Need to get busy on creating some trees for the classroom.

http://dishclothdiaries.blogspot.com/2010/06/2-d-butterfly.html?m=1

I've made two of these for my classroom.

In other news, still working on my pile of ufo's, and gathering more project ideas as well as telling myself I shouldn't start anything new. That is a problem in itself. 

Made a mistake

I started a pink shawl but my mistake was not realizing I didn't have enough of the same yarn. I'm trying to use up what I have and not go out and buy new stuff.  So I undid the whole thing and went in search for a color I had at least 3 skeins worth. 
Arm is still sore and I'm having to rest today.  I'll start on the new color tomorrow and show pictures.

Finally Back

It's been quite awhile but I'm finally able to use my arm some.  It's still healing but at least I can now start some craft.

I chose crochet because I use my right arm and hand the most now days. My left hand just holds the yarn but it's a start.

I started this shawl today around 2:00pm.

  I've worked on it a little bit at a time resting my arm between rows.  It's actually coming along quite nicely.

This is what I have so far and it's 7:21 at night now.

Gonna call it quits for now and rest the arm so I can do more

tomorrow.

A bit of this and that

Those spool birds are so easy to put together I decided my craft room needed one, just to add to my creative space.

Decided it was time for a new door hanger. Hard to do when you just feel drained of inspiration and it took half a day on pinterest before I saw something I liked. There was no pattern, so I pulled out some graph paper and got busy.