Knit Your Square To Give Your Share - Part 3

mioliere

Pam - I've been thinking about you and sending lots of gentle thoughts.

Kinsey - yes, I am getting excited about our trip back to see the family. So excited, in fact, that I couldn't resist buying this little dress for Summer this morning

My very old childhood doll is modelling it for me! I've found a pattern for a little knitted shrug so I'm hoping to find the time to make one in white to go with the dress. The dress is for a nine-month old - Summer is five months old this weekend and the six-month size would not have lasted for very long. She can always grow into it! The photo doesn't show the dress in all its glory, really - it has lots of little bits of embroidery on it in different colours, a some smocking on the front, and a little frill at the bottom.

We went shopping after we had dropped DH's van off to have new tyres fitted; the tyreshop is conveniently handy for the shops. I bought the dress and also some blank CDs for backing up computer stuff and DH bought some new jeans; there are sales everywhere here at the moment, the same as in the UK, I expect. We were lucky to find the jeans - DH is 6'4" tall and we have looked everywhere for the right leg length for him.

Anyway, it's a horrid day here - pouring with rain and very windy. It's supposed to be 10 degrees but we've just put the heating back on!

Well, it's three weeks today until we go back to the UK so not long really. I've already started packing in my mind!

Anyway, I'd better go and get the lunch on.

KathyXX

Kinsey

Pretty dress, and I like the doll. I've got one somewhere that will now be 60 years old (!)
Is the dress typically 'french', young mothers like something a bit different don't they?

chalky_75

Pam -- The gentlest thoughts to you today and yo all walking a difficult road right now!!

Lovely to read about the squares. It did occur to me that some people may be enjoying them so much they would like to see them completed as a personal project. If so you could just post a picture so that we can all enjoy them ( be nosey!!) And they can be added to the lapacuddlyghan total.Thought it might help with postage costs and maybe you would like to donate the blanket to a local charity you support

Only a thought, If you would rather please send them in April and I will sew and complete them and we can decide together where to send them. I think there will be enough to send to many different things which everybody will be happy with

In the middle of making orange,grapefruit,mandarin,clove and myrrh massage oil. I saw the idea on Grow your own drugs Christmas Special and have been dying to try it

Instructions,pictures and recipe on my blog later if you fancy a peep

Right off for a stir!!

ALWAYS_POOR

I am sad to see Orkney Star go, I love reading her posts.

I've just been looking at Chalky's blog, lovely, it made me smile. How nice to live in a warmer climate. I also enjoy looking at Kathy's blog from time to time. I have a friend who lives in France and I have visited a few times, her life seems very similar to Kathy's.

I've found it hard getting back into the swing of knitting for charity since Christmas when I undertook a few pressie projects but I have managed to finish a Sands blanket which I started in November. So here goes:

Totals for the week:

1 Sands blanket
1 Chalky's square


It is the first square I have ever knitted!

My mum has knitted:

1 vent bonnet


Will now amend my signature.

Kinsey

Having a fuzzy brain day, can some kind soul tell me where to find the DK vent bonnet pattern please?

psso

Is this the one you wanted?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/04/18/ventilator_bonnet_feature.shtml

or there`s this one without the flap, lots of other patterns as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/04/18/ventilation_hat_feature.shtml
Elaine.x

Pippa.S

I wasnt going to post yet because I have a Pizza in the oven and its nearly ready ....But.....I saw your post OrkneyStar and I am so sorry to read that you are leaving us,
I hope we havent made you feel unwelcome in any way. But do understand if you want to go and I wish you health and happiness, and maybe we will run across each other on LH .

I will PM you
Anne
x

psso

Hi everyone, well I eventually managed to draaaaag myself out of bed this morning, and DD had decided that she wanted to choose the wool for baby things herself so draaaaaged ourselves out to the next town to the wool shop :rolleyes: in the pouring rain. What a chore it was trying to decide which shade of pink and blue to buy (took her ten seconds flat - she doesn`t have her Mum`s wooly genes that`s for sure) but I`m allowed to choose which patterns to use all by myself.

Kathy, I hope your DH doesn`t have the same luck I had with my two new tyres. Had them fitted the day before the snow started here (16th Dec?) and heard a clicking sound on Wednesday night coming home with DD from work. DS said he`d have a look in the morning when it was light, but when we went out the tyre was flat as a pancake. Got it changed and went to the tyre shop to get it repaired but when we went back the guy told us it was unrepairable and I`d need a new one - it was one of the new tyres:eek: It has to go in for MOT on Tuesday so hope there`s nothing else major needed. Why do all these expenses hit you at the same time ???

Well that`s a request for food being shouted through so I`d better go and turn on the cooker.

Elaine.x

paulineknit

Glad you are going back to the original roots of squares; squares were the reason why I joined this forum in the first place. Takes me back to my childhood of knitting squares at school for the Hungarian refugees, then through the 60s making squares for Oxfam blankets, and so on. I find the process of knitting squares to give comfort to others so rewarding, and a chance to use leftover yarn creatively.

L_C_Wilson

Pam: I have just popped in for the first time in ages and seen about your sad loss

Please accept my sincere condolences and know that I feel all that you are going through - my mother died a week gone Wednesday and my heart is broken. I am so lost without her. We had the funeral on Thursday and now that a lot of the running around is done I just don't know what to do with myself. I know that you spent a great deal of time caring for your mum too, so you'll know what I mean I'm sure.

I designed a memorial sheet for the funeral and included a poem which I found online, it echos my thoughts exactly and I thought you may like to read it:

I thought of you with love today
but that is nothing new
I thought about you yesterday
and days before that too
I think of you in silence
I often speak your name
All I have are memories
and your picture in a frame
Your memory is my keepsake
with which I’ll never part
God has you in his keeping
I have you in my heart