It's All in the Timing...

They say 'Mother knows best,' and I guess it's true. From my earliest days I remember Mother commenting on my horrible sense of timing. She's been gone close to 8-years and I can assure you my sense of timing has not improved.

In her later years my mother started sewing as a hobby. She had sewn on-and-off for years but usually for projects like draperies, school costumes (I was a great pilgrim!), etc. My left-handedness intimidated her a bit so she never taught me to sew. Truth be told, I had zero interest in learning. Lest you misunderstand, that was ZERO interest.

Well, as it turned out, Mother passed away, we gave away all of her sewing materials and then, about two-years later, I wanted to learn to sew. This was also right after the sewing shop here in Greer closed down.

During my time learning about sewing I found an interest to quilt. Yep...right after the little quilting shop in town closed up. Since then Hancock Fabrics in Spartanburg closed and Wal-Mart in Spartanburg stopped carrying fabric and cut back on their stock of other craft items.

Fast-forward a few years and my new interest in loom knitting. I remembered there was a little yarn shop nearby in Taylors - oops - they closed up last month.

Now I'm working on jewelry - I guess I better get to that cute little bead shop - and fast!

Hope you're staying dry this weekend - we've had rain for days.

Bet'cha didn't know...

Just like everyone else these days our family is certainly staying busy. I hate to say I've been too busy to blog but it is an easy thing to put to the side. I have started to jot notes on Twitter here and there but really not much more than I've posted here. I'm going to try to keep this rather short - you probably know I can be quite wordy. Why say in ten words what you can say in 100?

Bet'cha didn't know that I'm making progress with my loom knitting. I moved on from scarves and recently made a small afghan for Zach. Last night I made a hat for Kaitlyn. Tonight I'm starting a dishcloth project. That means using cotton yarn instead of the basic acrylics I've used before. I'm really looking forward to learning about socks. I think that could be fun. Typing it out makes it sound kind of funny (odd rather than ha-ha), but it's true. Loom knitting has been a reasonably-priced hobby thus far, but, unfortunately, as I go along I'm learning more. Now I find there are a lot of looms out there that I want in a variety of sizes, types and gauges. They're also a bit more expensive than the plastic ones I started out with. I guess the steps are just going to go a lot slower now.

Bet'cha didn't know that Christopher is on his first Boy Scout camping trip this weekend. The weather is just about as perfect as I could have hoped for for him. I'm really anxious to hear how he liked it.

Bet'cha didn't know that Abbey prepared her first dinner this evening (with me as her adult helper). She chose a recipe from her Paula Deen kid's cookbook. Pasta with homemade cheese sauce. Angel hair pasta with a rich alfredo cheese sauce. I thought it was really good but I don't think Abbey cared much for it. She likes the jar sauce better - it's smoother.

Bet'cha didn't know we had an interesting week weather-wise. We went from 4" of snow early in the week and finished up today in the high 70's and sunshine! We even got to experience the rare 'thunder snow.' Yep, thunder, lightning, and snow. That was different. Oh, and Trudy doesn't care much for walking in snow - not with her 2" legs!

Finally - no matter how many years I live here in the upstate - I never get used to the incredible beauty of the seasons. I may complain we don't see much of a winter, but it's still more than what I had in south Florida.

Time to go move the clocks forward (ugh!) and knit a few stitches before calling it a night. Have a great rest-of-the-weekend!