PROGRESS!

Here's the progress on Vintage Velvet so far....I actually didn't do much over the weekend...I had 5 shows this past weekend (did I mention that I am a part-time actress??), but between today and yesterday...I am making up for lost time. Of course alot of that has to do with the fact that we are having a get together for the recipient of this scarf--and I would like to have it done by then. Are you noticing a theme with my work? Yes, I work much better under a deadline. I guess I like having a specific ending point---hummm what does that say about me? Either I am a terrible procrastinator, or I have some bizarre form of OCD and this is how it manifests itself. I guess I should be grateful...I mean it could be worse. Anyway..this thing feels (I know I've said it before) just luscious. I am feeling the way I did when I made it before, and that is "do I really want to felt this thing?" Will it come out this soft? The answer is no, BUT, the end product is equally beautiful. I will take a wait and see approach with this one.

Have you all seen this magazine? I picked it up the other night while doing some late night shopping--you know the kind where you are there getting everything from milk to feminine stuff (sorry but there it is), and you see this magazine and think--hummm that looks good and before you know it, you've added it to your pile. Well you can imagine my surprise and shock when, as I was paging through it before going to sleep I saw a familiar face.

Yep--that's Ann Shayne ladies and gents. One half the voice behind that great Mason Dixon blog. I did not even hear her mention it in her blog. But there she is looking beautiful I might add, with her essay on her most memorable meal. I have to say I was a bit confused at her selection: "Tang and Saltines", but after reading the essay, it all became much clearer. She really is such a nice person and I for one am so glad that she is such a popular face for knitters everywhere!

I just wish that I lived near her, and could go knit with her whenever I wanted. Wouldn't that be cool.

And last, but certainly not least, is this piece of partially embroidered linen. I frequent local thrift shops and just thrill when I come across a piece like this. But I am also saddened in a way. I can't help but think of the person who started it and I then begin to wonder about what happened to him/her and why it never got finished. To me, they are like orphans...beautiful and just needing a loving hand to take care of them and finish what someone else started. So for all of a dollar, I bought this, the yarn, the hoop, the little silver scissors and a beautiful sheet of directions from "Elsa Williams Needlecraft". I did a google search on her and apparently she was definitely a leading force in women's needle art during the last century. Her parents were living in South Dakota and taught her to do all this incredible stitchery at a very young age. So, for just a dollar, I feel a special connection to this incredible lady and I WILL finish this piece; for her and for the person who lovingly started it.