Right before the pandemic, Laura’s craft group started a group project making knitted/crocheted Twiddlemuffs for donation to a memory care/Alzheimer’s facility. Apparently some patients can have restless hands, so these are meant to be fiddled with. They’re embellished with buttons, beads, and ribbons (inside and out) and are made of variously textured yarn - […]
It never ceases to amaze us how crafty folks can be… We enjoy tea and have some of these little tea canisters that seem too nice and sturdy to just throw into the recycle bin. We challenged Cindy to come up with a re-purpose for them, and look what she did!
Our friend Cindy has been busy crafting, and we were gifted this amazing cork wreath - thank you Cindy! She does beautiful work, and this will be a cheerful and festive addition at Christmas-time.
Our Christmas cactus got into the spirit of things too
Always the Saturday before Super Bowl Sunday.
This year was Armenian stitching and was fun! Very woven as you go, so it was a bit of a puzzle to make it work. Food was great, catered from an Armenian restaurant - apparently “Western Armenian” - very Mediterranean - stuffed grape leaves, marinated chicken and […]
We will all miss you.
Here are some of the Handmade Holiday Pins that Stevie gave to Laura over all the years (He bought them from a lady at work and handed them out to ladies he liked)
In honor of the 2019 Master’s Tournament, Laura made Southern Pimento Cheese Sandwiches for her ESSS meeting.
Watched the Iditarod Ceremonial Start, and stitched on a baby blanket WIP (Work In Progress) as part of the 9th annual Iknitarod. Hoping to finish the blanket by the time the Iditarod finishes.
Laura spent the weekend visiting yarn shops as part of the LA Yarn Crawl 2018. There were 26 total shops participating, but this year she only made it to 7. 7 must be her lucky number though, as she was the lucky winner of a Daily raffle at Jennifer Knits (Torrance) where she won a […]
Local Yarn Store Day!
(Conveniently scheduled over the 2018 LA Yarn Crawl weekend )
Dying Easter Eggs
Stanford Egg
Navy \ USA Eggs
Laura finished both of her Iknitarod projects - a pair of fingerless mitts (made from Easter Egg Dyed yarn), and a baby blanket.
Ava provided quality inspections.
Watching the start of Iditarod XLVI and participating in the start of the Iknitarod IX on Ravelry.com
Lazy Saturday on the Couch.
The Crew view
Cereal Box Projector & Eclipse Glasses
Laura attended the annual Stitch-and-Pitch night hosted
by the Yarnover Truck (yarnovertruck.com) and enjoyed watching the Dodgers game (and stitching of course)
She even got a pack of baseball cards from Topps (topps.com)
as a giveaway - Aug 12th is National Baseball Card Day
Watching the start of Iditarod XLV and participating in the start of the Iknitarod VIII on Ravelry.com
After years of saying “Someday, Someday…” Laura has finally decided to enter one of her many quilts into the LA Quilt show……
“I was fortunate to attend three Mary Ellen Hopkins quilting seminars, where I made many quilting friends and learned many MEH concepts and techniques. This quilt is a celebration of those good times, and […]
Taught a fun class in how to make a Crochet Edged Fleece Blanket in June. There were about a dozen people in the class and everyone caught on really quickly – there was even one person that had never crocheted. I did all the prep work on the blankets (cutting, hemming, poking stitching […]