A Rosy Pink Lace Scarf--SOLD

This scarf is made from Anne Yarn produced by Schaefer Yarn Company. It is truly a special yarn. It is handpainted, so each skein is unique and variegated, and it is so soft and shimmery that you'll want to wear the scarf every day. My friend in Chicago swears it is significantly warmer than it's thickness would suggest...an efficiency I like.

The pattern for this scarf is called Breaks and Recesses and makes a wonderful lacy pattern throughout that looks like little boxes surrounding a center opening. The fringe is twisted.

The scarf measures 8.75x65 and sells for $85.

Oooh...shiny

:)

Dark Grey and Berries Alpaca Scarf--SOLD

This alpaca scarf, like the others, is wonderfully soft and fluffly. The weave structure is called "crepe" and gives the scarf some dimension/thickness that is also very nice.

If you love wool, alpaca will become your next best friend. It's soft and very warm.

This scarf measures 9x68 and sells for $55.

A Bridal Shower Gift

Two towels and a bread cloth for my daughter's church teacher who is getting married. They are 100% cotton.

A Very Special Green Scarf--SOLD

This scarf is made using tencel and velura. Tencel is a fiber made from wood pulp and looks and feels like silk--for a lot less cost! It is stronger than cotton and shimery and very pretty. Velura is a polyester chenille that feels so soft that all you want to do is touch it.

The scarf is designed based on some of the scarves I've seen in the old movies I've been watching recently. They all seem to have these broad horizontal stripes, and since a lot of the moves are still in black and white, the stripes look tone-on-tone to me.

The combinations of textures and colors in this scarf will make it one of your favorites.

It measures 8.5x68, has twisted fringe and sells for $65.

My First Double Weave!

So, I'm really excited to post this picture of my first double weave project. It's a blanket made from 100% cotton in burgandy, gold, oatmeal and green. Matches perfectly in my living room. I'm very proud of this project! The fringe is twisted and it's very heavy and warm. I'm looking forward to cool weather already! Maybe we'll turn the AC down tonight.

Brown and Beige Alpaca Scarf--SOLD

This really soft and pretty alpaca scarf is made using a variegated brown and burgandy yarn mixed with a beige to create a traditional diamond pattern throughout. It is hemmed and the fringe is twisted.

Alpaca is very soft and very warm and really a wonderful fiber.

The scarf measures 5.5x68 and sells for $55.

Christmas Napkins

This is a custom order from my mom (so if you like them, you'll need to also make a custom order :) )




There are 16 napkins, 4 sets of 4. I don't know how she will give them away--in what kind of sets. I can see the sets I've put together below, or all green, or one from each group. It'll be fun to play with and think about.



They are made from a blend of cotton and linen and are really soft and wonderful to touch. The cotolin is stain resistant and washes and dries like a dream. Use them, throw them in the washer and dryer with your other towels and they are ready to go again.

Solids

Colors with three 1/2" white stripes.

Multicolored 2" stripes.

White with 2 1/2" colored stripe.

It's a Sad Day

My friend's daughter died yesterday. She was the same age as my daughters. She had cystic fybrosis and while her death wasn't really a surprise, it's still difficult to imagine. I don't have anything else to say.

Happy Birthday Mom!

100% cotton towels in blue, green and white. They are really soft and wonderful and the pattern, I think, is very pretty. Mom said she's been showing them off to her friends already. Happy birthday Mama!

Dry for a bit

It finally quit raining and hopefully we won't have any more major downpours. We were really lucky this time. People were so scared and worried. Post-Katrina Stress Syndrome I call it!

Afternoon Update

Still nothing really bad...just windy and lots of rain, but no flooding, so that's good....a lazy Labor Day so far. Thank goodness.

So far so good...

The weather isn't great, but so far it isn't terrible either. It was eerily like Katrina in that I woke up at 8am this morning to wind and rain, but nothing of the magnitude and power that I woke up to three years ago. I decided to check out the weather, like I did three years ago, and luckily we still have power. When I turned on the tv to monitor Katrina, we lost our power.

I'm hoping that things don't get significantly worse. I'm not foolish enough to think that this is as bad as it will get, but I do hope that we manage to keep power and cable (for internet) and that the worst thing I have to address is the leak in my living room that I can't seem to find the source of!

More updates later.