Light & Dark Lace Club - Sign-ups are here!

 

It's now time to sign up for the April/May edition of the Light & Dark Lace Club.   This one will start late April.

Here are the colorways:

Carnation, Cornflower, Lemonade, Cucumber, and Dusty Apricot.  

The yarn is Carrie Lace yarn:  1300 yards of 80/20 merino/silk in a lovely lace weight.

The price is $36 + first class shipping. This includes one skein of yarn in the colorway you want, plus the pattern which is emailed out in clues and worked up as a KAL.  There's a lovely group on Ravelry for discussions and problems.

You may buy as many skeins as you like, and I'll refund the pattern cost ($5 for club members) for the extra skeins.

Where can you purchase?  In my Etsy shop, of course:  http://fritzl.etsy.com

I have plenty of yarn, so don't worry if there are only a few openings shown.  I add as the orders come in.

Here's a preview of our mystery KAL.  Yep, I know.  you can't see much of anything, but it is a Mystery!  I'm doing mine in Cucumber, and I love working with the yarn and the color.  Lovely, lovely yarn!  This is going to be a nice size garment, given that amazing yardage.

Questions?  Ask me here, and I'll answer.

Here are some pics of the last project, the Forever Shawl.

  

You know what today is.

The first day of Spring!

So that means that it's time for the annual Spring Poem.

Here it is!  The Spring Poem

High up, over the tops
Of the feathery grasses, the grasshoppers hop.
They won't eat their suppers,
They will not obey
Their grasshopper mothers and fathers who say:
"Listen my children, this must be stopped.
Now is the time your last hop should be hopped.
So come eat your suppers and go to your beds."
But the little grasshoppers just shake their green heads.
"no, no," the naughty ones say.

"All we have time to do now is to play.

If we are hungry we'll nip at a fly,
Or nibble a blueberry as we go by.
But not now. Now we must hop.
And no one, but no one can make us stop."

The end

I've been in hospital Mommie mode, but she's home now and very happy to be there.  She's way too old for any kind of procedure let alone an angioplasty.  But she's walking on the bad foot, and eating, and very  cheery.  Now if I can just de-stress....... 

I'm still here

But stressed.  The Mommie has to have angioplasty on Monday, and given her advanced age, I'm very nervous about it.  On the good side, she's in pretty good shape.  On the bad side, she's 97. 

I've done a bit of sewing, and a lot of nervous knitting, not a bit of which I can show you.  And a bit of dyeing, too.  Here are the colors for the next edition of the Light and Dark Lace Club.

The colors, except for the blue, are all spring pastels.  I wanted the blue to be lighter, but when I dyed it, it looked so totally washed out, that I went a bit darker.

They'll be up for sale sometime next week, depending on Mom's procedure.  Just thought I'd tempt you a bit.

Here's the latest doll quilt.  This time I'm using Hobbs Thermore as the batting, and the needle just slides through it so easily.  I rather like it, maybe even better than the all cotton one I've been using.

And that's it.  Spending tons of time going back and forth to doctors, having tests done, stressing out.  You who have done elder care know the routine.

It's snowing.

We really need rain or snow around here.  Otherwise it's drought time.  Still, I'm glad I"m hanging out at home today.

New project bags:

I can't get enough of sewing these adorable guys.  They are such fun to do.  I love how the lining peeps out when you cinch the bag closed.

And what's in them?

A scarf for Hiz Hubz.  That's the top pic.  Almost done, which is good, since I'm so bored with it.  He likes them long and skinny.

A pair of socks for elder DD, who decided (finally) that she likes my woolly socks.

Both are knitted from a new yarn I'm checking out.  It's a merino/Donegal tweed yarn that is so soft.  Looks rough and tough, and feels like a baby's bottom.  That soft and pretty.  Very nice to work with, too.  I was also concerned that those nubs would aggravate me, but you don't even feel them as you knit.

This week's yarns.

Lookie here: http://fritzl.etsy.com

Some pretty new yarns for this week. These were dyed some time ago and I forgot about them. They are so much prettier in real life.

 Cherry Blossoms

I love this colorway. I saved this one for me and then realized that I had one already. It's so pretty and feminine.

Spring Dreams


One of my favorite colorways.  I adore blues, greens, lavenders, etc all together.  I find this most soothing.

 

Sunset

This is a glorious colorway. It would make the loveliest shawl.

I sewed 2 more project bags this week.  One I already gave away, and I have to photograph the other one, but it's too dark.  Tomorrow if the light is good.

Mom and me

I don't ordinarily post pics of me or my family, but this one I just couldn't resist. Here is a pic of my mom and me taken this past Sunday. Notice that we both have white hair.

Yippee!

The dyeing mojo is back!  There was a long spell of me not dyeing much except for specific groups and projects, but all of a sudden, I just want to dye up neat colorways for the fun of it.  All are individually dyed and one of a kind.  This latest bunch is not pastel!  Shocking, I know!  But vivid and colorful, and delightful to look at and knit with.

Cool Jazz! 

Hey, There!

Promise!

Are they not pretty?  You can find them in my Etsy shop:  http://fritzl.etsy.com

Pattern recommendations (all available on Ravelry):
Escalator
Slip-Zig
Diamonds Modular Scarf
Taos Scarf