Mom's Works

    Well, I am told by YoungShepard that I was suppose to blog once this week.  The truth is every time I tried he said he had something important to post.  So I was pushed aside for things like annoucing the birth of Cherokee.  I don't mind if you don't.  To be honest, I am a very schedule set kind of person but I think that comes with running the farm and the shelter.  Animals in general are set to a schedule by nature so I guess that is why I am that way.  So I tried to post on Wednesday, just like last week.  My plan is that if I am going to post it always be on the same day so that those that want to read it can and those that don't can skip that day.  
    With that said I have to say I have not gotten alot done so my post will be short.  First, I finished YoungShepard's  scarf that I made him for Christmas.  It is made of some wool yarn that I got as roving from Tempted Yarns and spun up.  It is just the right size for YoungShepard to wrap around his neck under his coat in the winter.  (No I haven't woven in the ends or blocked it yet)

The other item that actually got worked on was the Park Place Wrap.  I am proud to say that with help from a friend I don't know if I got the pattern right but like always it looks like the picture only in a different color.  I am on row 24 of 49 I think. 

There was one more thing that I have in the works but it is just that I forgot it last time I posted.  It is a large winter bedspread for Little Man. You see we don't have central heat or air.  So in the winter we use wood and gas heaters to heat the house.  The bedrooms, however, have no heat at all.  So we use electric blankets to stay warm when the gas and wood heat struggle to keep up in the middle of the cold winter nights.  Well, YoungShepard loves to have a hundred blankets on top of his electric blanket.  He says it keeps the heat in.  Again there is no pattern to it.  I am just using different blues and some white to stripe a simple tunisian stitch.  I do tend to like tunisian crochet when I want an item to be warm.  I don't know if it is just the tight stitch that I like or not but when it needs to be warm I think it needs to be tunisian.  That is just my thoughts anyway. 

I don't even have a plan or pattern for the color changes either.  When I get tired of one color or I think it is enough, I just grab from the big basket of Blues I have set aside for this project.  There is everything from white to dark to light ... Here see for  yourself.