Glorious day!

Glorious day! If I were a poet, I'd write an "Ode to this glorious day". I finally got enough sleep and I feel fantastic!!!! I found the cutest patterns on the garn studio web site for baby clothes and toys. I'm going to copy their toys today. I have a bag of oddments of yarn. So now I get to go play with yarn. So much fun! I hope that my toys look just as cute. You can see them here:

Garn Studio Baby Drops patterns

Now I'm off to have some fun. Whoever you are, wherever you are: I hope you have a wonderful day.

Shay!

Last night, my daughter did something super cute. She's only 2 years old so whenever she does really clever things, I'm just amazed by it. So last night when I was busy in the kitchen, I noticed that she had grabbed my crochet hook out of the afghan I was working on. Then I saw that she was repeatedly putting the hook in and out of the afghan. I asked her, "Are you crocheting?" She looked up with a big smile on her face and said, "Shay!" Then she kept repeating "shay" while putting the hook in and out of the afghan. I thought it was so cute. I had the presence of mind to film a little bit of it since my video camera was within reach. Someday, I will share that with her to encourage her to learn to crochet.

New Year, No Hooks!

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day were spent visiting my family. It was great! What a lovely time we had. But I made a terrible mistake when I left to go home: I forgot my crafting bag which has all my crochet hooks and most of my knitting needles in it!!! What a ghastly thing to do. Because I now find myself in the new year, all jittery from lack of crocheting and knitting. Yesterday, I found myself wandering from room to room, mindlessly looking for something to work on. I found a Tunisian crochet hook and some old Red Heart Supersaver yarn in a garish teal color. So now I am doing a simple afghan stitch panel. I was not sure what I was making. It was just a big swatch of plain afghan stitch. But then I had a moment of inspiration. I remembered that you can cross-stitch on tunisian afghan stitch! So now I am going to find some goofy cross-stitch charts, such as for mushrooms and squirrels or something weird like that. Then I'll decorate the fabric. And I guess then I have to decide whether I am brave enough to send it to my friend who is having a baby. I was thinking I might tell her that it's a changing pad for when you want to change your baby when visiting someone (and you don't want your baby to pee on their sofa, or whatever surface you are laying the babe on.)



So much fun. I love making stuff!!! So this is my new blog for recording my zany ideas. I am calling it humble threads because I usually work with inexpensive yarn and make simple stuff.