I am a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. I write books on knitting and crocheting, I teach and I design for magazines. I love doing cross word puzzles and have had original cross word puzzles published. I love being with my family and friends, holidays, traveling,and watching old movies.I love dancing but do not get the chance too often any more.I also love Shakespeare and belong to a Shakespeare club, which is 115 years old. I love playing bridge too.
We have a gloomy, cloudy, some rain falling, kind of day, so when I received this photo in an e-mail this morning, it made me smile. I know nothing about it, or who should receive credit for it, but thought that I would share it, and perhaps make you smile too. I have finally finished the book that I have been working on. I thought that I was finished two weeks ago, but decided to add a few more things. Of course we still have to do the tech editing and refining, but the actual project work is done. Very soon, I will be telling you all about it.
On the heels of finishing this one, I have already started the next. This one is very preliminary, but beginning work is started, so I will continue to be very busy.
I don't know how many of you are on ravelry, facebook, many knit/crochet lists etc, but if you are, you know how time consuming these things can be. I am afraid I cannot keep up with all, but I try. For the time being, I have resisted twitter, my brain can only hold so much :-).
Right on the heels of winning the CLF awards, I received my copy of CROCHET! magazine yesterday, and discovered that my jacket is on the cover. I did not know what issue it was going to be in, and I did not know it was to be the cover. Very nice surprise. Thank you Carol Alexander, for choosing my jacket and for a great magazine. And for making my jacket "Editor's Choice" for the month.
As if this was not enough, today is supposed to be a gorgeous day, temperatures in the 60's, I love it!
I have some exciting News to share. It was announced last night on Getting Loopy, that I have won the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, and THE BEST FREE FORM CROCHET DESIGNER 2008 AWARD. The awards were presented by the CLF Group on Ravelry. The program had some technical problems, so the last 8 speakers never got on, but Mary Beth Temple has re-scheduled us for March 30th http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Mary-Beth-Temple.
Thanks so much to all who voted, it was very exciting to be nominated, because the list of nominees was mind boggling, but to win is truly a high.
The CLF is devoted to promoting the art of crochet, and its founder, Laurie Wheeler, works tirelessly to get the word out.
I am going to be teaching there, sounds wonderful doesn't it?
I just finished reading an article in PIECEWORK MAGAZINE pieceworkmagazine.com written by Mary Ann Colopy, on Eleanor Roosevelt. It seems Eleanor was an avid knitter and there are photographs on record, showing her knitting from her late teens until near the end of her life at age seventy-eight. She also did needlepoint, sewed and embroidered.
It was a very enlightening article, about a first lady who really did it all. She embraced traditional symbols of womanhood, but was a very untraditional first lady. In the article there are photos of her knitting on a plane in 1936, and also sitting at a table with her husband, the president, knitting. The article goes on to say that she was seldom without her knitting and she knitted at political conventions, on trains and airplanes, after dinner parties and even while serving at the United Nations. She also knit a lot for charity. This great article appeared in the 3rd Annual Historical Knitting Issue of Piecework Magazine.
We had our March meeting yesterday, and what a fun meeting it was. We had a full house of attendance, about 25 members, all busily working on projects. Our project for this meeting was making leaves for the Tree Project
http://www.internationalfibercollaborative.com/html/treeproject.html In addition to making leaves we had a great variety of show and tell items, such as; From top to bottom: Nancy S, a beginner, crocheted her very first afghan and she was so proud of it, great job Nancy! Irene made a glitter hat and scarf, the picture does not show how lovely it is. Dottie almost finished her beautiful shawl. Hilda made booties, but did not want to model them for me, In addition to her glitter hat and scarf Irene made a fabulous ruffled scarf .
Kathy made a great baby blanket using up some left over yarn, Rosalie's blanket was awesome, Ruth is making dolls for our chapter's annual Easter sale.
Sheila looks very happy modeling her poncho, and Diane was not quite finished with her blanket, but it was so pretty I wanted a picture of it any way.
Fun group, fun day, lots of productivity, a great time was had by all, Oh and we had dessert too:-)
