The happenings at our household this
weekend have been slow and relaxed. I came down with a bad cold /
throat thing, and spent most of Saturday lying on the couch piling up
the Kleenex. Sick of watching tv and my head too fuzzy to concentrate
on a book, I remembered an embroidery project I planned to start. I
loved that one issue of Martha with all the bird embroidery. So I
printed out the pattern from her website, and kept myself happy (or as
happy as one can be confined to the couch) with a few hours of redwork.
I am so happy with the results I plan to frame it, and I have almost completed a second one to make a lovely pair.
The only other excitement Saturday brought was a copy of a book in
which two of my knitting patterns were published. Eons ago I was
contacted by a publisher asking if I would be willing to contribute two
or more patterns to a teen knitting book destined for release in the
Fall of 2006. Even though I think there are way too many teen /
kid-based knitting books out there, I couldn't turn down the offer for
a little cash, and who doesn't like to be published. I should have been
prepared for how long it would take to get my copy of the book, after
all it was months before I received my copy of SNB Nation after I was
published there. Anyhow here are a couple snippets of what I
contributed.
Sunday morning brought some relief to my sore throat, but my head it
still quite stuffy. The warm breeze blowing in woke me up early, and in
a simple celebration of the summer-like weather I had strawberries and
cream for breakfast.
And finally before I forget, here is the promised photo of the dress I
made a couple weeks back. It's comfortable and the pattern was so
simple...