Hobo Bag

Okay...... so if there is anyone who is actually reading this thing and viewing my projects...I guess you've figured out by now that I work on a lot of different stuff at the same time.

I've always been like that...I need to be able to switch gears and work on something different when I get bored with a particular stitch.

Sooooooo....I've started making this Hobo Bag.




Gonna make it bigger (longer top to bottom) than the pattern calls for simply because the folks that I would make them for (should they ask) don't carry small bags.

I'll be adding this one to my Ravelry In-progress list this afternoon.



Now I just need to find the perfect strap and I'm finished!


TLC :o)

Mary Maxim - Breast Cancer Awareness

A while back I was surfin for a pattern to make for my (now ex) boyfriend's sister. She has breast cancer. I found this pattern but had never done filet crocheting before and wasn't too keen on spending $35.00 to get an original pattern to try it out.

The wonderful ladies on Crochet Partners heard my cry and one beautiful soul actually snail mailed me her pattern so I could try it out. So here is my start...completed 2 row sets and will probably do 3-4 more before I end it.

Baby Hats

I saw a post on Ravelry.com from a lady who's sister is a nurse overseas. She was asking for baby items to donate so I decided to make a few baby hats to give.

I got this pattern from: http://debscrafts55.blogspot.com/

I'm way behind, I told her I would make them a few weeks ago but there have been a lot of things going on in my life lately. Some sad & heartbreaking and others wonderful like a breath of fresh air.

I am truly blessed!

TLC :o)

Knitting Update

Well I have knitted & purled to get myself aclimated to those two stitches enough so (in my estimation) that it's time to venture out and actually try a pattern. *LOL*

I'm doing a Three Crosses dishcloth pattern from Knitmore03 on Ravelry.com.

THREE CROSSES

This is what I've done so far.....

-TLC

Purple Thoughts

This is one of my favorite poems....

*shameless plug since my blog is being featured this week*

Purple thoughts trimmed in dessert sands got me thinking of travel to foreign lands. Will you unravel this map with me and let me explore your body from sea to shining sea? I want to see you in me.

Put it down until I'm in a daze you got me singing like Hendrix feenin for my next fix of purple haze. The fog is thick and I can't see you but every time I touch I feel you.

Feel your touch on me and feel you in me. I feel the envy of those who want you but now you are with me. Mine for the asking yours for the taking. Is it me or do you feel the earth shakin with the rhythmic beat of the heat that is being produced.

I wanna be a recluse with you and enjoy the soft sand of this dessert land alone with the sun competing for our attention you are my cure and I am your addiction.

-TLC

UGH

Okay....I had to frog my 1st attempt...picked the wrong type of yarn...too light & I couldn't see the stitches.....back to the drawing board.

Not bad for my 2nd try *lol

I'm finally doing it!!

I've wanted to learn how to knit so today I was determined to start. :o)

I crochet with ladies at my job every Tuesday during lunch. Even though there are other crocheters...I'm the only one that does it....they ALL knit.

So today begins my quest...I'll keep ya'll posted.

TLC :o)

Life

Today has been a very strange day and I don’t know what to do with myself so I find myself here....writing a blog entry because I cannot leave work and I can’t unleash the scream that is threatening to break free from my throat.

First Charlton Heston dies then I find out that one of the beloved members of my old church died yesterday. I was almost 1/2 way to work this morning and realized I had left my badge at home so I had to turn around to get it and was late to work.

Then I get a hysterical email from my cousin about one of our childhood friends this is basically all it said "Daddy said Tony got hurt - possible brain dead - start praying" WHAT!!!! It took me almost 2hrs to piece together what apparently happened:

Apparently, he was kicked in the eye while practicing karate and it started bleeding but then it started swelling. They took him in this morning b/c he was having symptoms similiar to a stroke. They then found out he had a blood disease....leukemia. He is responding but yet they say he is brain dead. Not sure when he was actually kicked in the eye.

I have to leave my desk to gather myself because I’m about to loose it 4real...come back and sit at my desk....open up my yahoo email and BAM....get the news that the mother of my mentor from college and the grandmother of my best friend/Imani’s godmother has passed away in New York.

I am emotionally drained. Please pray for me & my friends’ families. Because the internet is crawling with psychos and nut cases, I’m not going to post their full names but our Father in Heaven knows them so I beseech you to pray with me & for them all during this time.

Me :o(

AAAARGH!!!!

Well...I had to buy a new cellphone yesterday. *hearing Taps being played in the background* Dropped mine for the last time and it flatlined on me. *pouring out a lil likka for tha homie*

Maybe this new phone will take better pics :o)