created -- Easter joy

focusing on the good things created during the week...

Alleluia! The Lord is risen!

 

K studies clues from the Easter Bunny to follow the steps to her basket of goodies!

 

Mugging for the camera after church.  You can't see it, but her socks match her purse match her dress!

 

Racing to hunt Easter eggs!

Hope your holiday was a blessed one!

created -- shalom!

Focusing on the good things created during the week...

It's hard to take a picture of yourself wearing the sweater you made, especially when the cat wants to get in on the act!

The sleeves I added are enough to keep me toasty without roasting me in alpaca.  A shout out to Myra at Woolbearers in Mount Holly for helping me work out how to do them nicely!

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Focusing on the good things created during the week...

This week:  loving the process of making a felted wool blanket.

Making the initial cuts.

Seaming sweater scraps together.

Wait, what? There's no room on the worktable for new pajama pants now!

Pressing the seams on my new over-the-door ironing board -- small but mighty handy!

What can K and I make with all these little bits?

Some of the finished 14" by 14" squares -- start looking for someone to snuggle with.

There's still more work to do.  File this under "Works in Progress."

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Focusing on the good things created during the week...

Midnight Caramel Crunch Shortbread.  Need I say more?

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Focusing on the good things created during the week...

Choosing sweaters for a new felted-wool project is always a joy.

The finished wool-felt project: a poncho for my niece A.

K snuggles with some bamboo stuffing as she works on her book report project, a sock puppet of Mr. Brown from Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?

Popping some bubble wrap on a break!

Clowning around with Mr. Brown

created/on my needles -- the sweater obsession edition

focusing on the good things created during the week...

I'm so proud that I finished the yoke of my Shalom cardigan! Now I can't stop knitting on it!

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Focusing on the good things created during the week...


This week:  Lots of freshly organized space in the studio, and one happy cat!

 

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Focusing on the good things created during the week...

A pretty impressive tangle incurred when I tried to ply my newly spun "art yarn singles."  Hooray for time to spin!

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Another week, another bout with bronchitis.

Focusing on the good things created during the week:

This week, courtesy Aunt H:  A whirling dervish!

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Due to a bout with bronchitis, I'm afraid I haven't been particularly active this week, and so haven't been taking many photographs.  "created" will have to take its form in words today:

Focusing on the good things created during the week...

• Progress on my tea leaves cardigan
• One spinach quiche for Sunday dinner and one herbed quiche for the freezer
• Cottage cheese dill bread and French Lentil Soup 
• A good start on K's Science Fair project with help from D
• A totally doable challenge to myself to knit a sweater in a (short!) month
• A significantly greater challenge in accepting the role of craft table chairperson for the church Christmas bazaar -- but still doable
• A precious memory of time spent with a good friend in need

If you are inclined to share, please leave a comment with some of your week's good creations.

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Focusing on the good things created during the week...

Ties on the quilt that was meant to be K's Christmas gift -- it should be bound by Valentine's day!

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Welcome to Created, a new feature of this blog inspired by Dialectic Dichotomy's Sanguine Saturday and designed to focus on the good things created during the week by me, by my family and by my friends.  I would like to eventually include submissions from readers, too.  The post will normally appear on Sundays but is a little late this week because I have just developed it as the response to a challenge from a friend.  I will try to keep the narrative to a minimum -- I plan to simply use photographs with captions, and I hope that the format will become clear with time.

Plenty of progress on my 'Tea Leaves' Cardigan.