Change Of Plans

Hello everyone. How is your week going? We’ve had very hot and very humid weather here, but it’s supposed to cool off into the 80s beginning tomorrow for a few days. We are all looking forward to that.  We have been basically hibernating in the basement. Dennis goes out and does yardwork in the early morning and then we have been making our way through watching the “Midsomer Murders” series on YouTube. We have watched them all before, but we’re enjoying seeing them again. I guess a benefit of getting old is although we remember the individual episodes, we rarely can remember who did it!

I have been busy with various types of needles while in my cool cave. You might remember this photo from my last post. I had started a blanket to replace the afghan on our bed that is pretty old. Dennis didn’t care for this one very much so I ripped it out and let him choose the pattern.

My cute little assistant is showing you the pattern I’m working on now. It’s called the modern granny rectangle blanket. It doesn’t take a lot of thought, although I often forget to do the connecting round between the “cubes” and have to rip it out. Regular granny squares don’t have the chain going around the entire blanket that you then double crochet into on each round. It is fun and I’m enjoying it. As you can tell I’m using five different shades of brown with the cream in between each one.

I also finished cross stitching all of the Christmas ornaments for this year. I still have to do the finish work, but I feel like the most time consuming part is done. I am not a neat cross-stitcher where the back of the work looks as nice as the front. Don’t judge! Ha ha!

I showed you this first picture in my last post also. This was my Hobby Lobby clearance yarn haul

 and the total I spent was $39.56. The original price was $158.80.

Two days later we found our self driving by a different Hobby Lobby and Dennis suggested we stop. I love that man! This is what I came home with that day. They had completely different types of yarn on clearance at that store. Now I wish I had gone to the third Hobby Lobby in our town, but I restrained myself. The total I spent at the second store was $38.27 and the original price was $157.80. So close to the first haul! It was not planned at all. With the second store I was able to find a lot of “I Love This Cotton,” which is my favorite for making dish cloths. They also had quite a lot of baby yarn which the first store didn’t have, so I stocked up on that.

I had been using up a lot of yarn and had some empty cubbies. Now they’re all full again and I’m ready to go. On the top left shelves the two top cubbies are sock yarns. On the right top six shelves are baby yarns. The rest is a mix of specialty yarns, mostly worsted weight yarn and my cotton dish cloths yarns. I don’t think I will need to buy yarn for a long, long time. The two bins on the far top right have completed projects in them for charity. The middle one has mittens and the one on the right has shawls and baby hats and blankets.

And speaking of my cute little helper, today is her birthday. She is one year old! How did that happen? I honestly don’t know what we did without her. She is such a loving dog. She’s always by our side and is kind of like what they call a velcro dog. We love her.💜

These two sisters have brought so much joy into our lives. They are both equally loving and affectionate and happily shower you with kisses. They both love to snuggle up in your laps, either alone or together. I can’t believe that the two of them are as sweet as they are. How lucky are we? We gave Zoey a new bag of mini tennis balls this morning and she is in seventh heaven.  She throws them all over the place on her own and plays soccer with them too by kicking them with her front feet. Of course she also loves to play fetch with us.

I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the summer, or winter if you’re down under. I also hope you are managing to find some peace in this crazy, mixed up world we’re living in. Although the price of groceries, gas, and diesel, along with everything else is completely out of control and skyrocketing right now, there is somewhere that we can find peace for our souls. And that is with the Lord. I know that when I leave this crazy world, I won’t have to worry about any of those things anymore and that He will ultimately sustain me.

Have a wonderful week my dear friends.

Much love and many blessings,

Betsy