Happy Friday!

So, I am going to try to remember to enter a blog each week.

This past week has been good. I am back working as a school bus driver. With a little help, got the floors, and trims installed upstairs, an old customer is getting a scarf he ordered, and like I said, back working my route from last year.

Steve's going in to the city on Monday for pre-op. Then at the end of this month, he goes in for a few days for stem cell extraction. A couple weeks later, he goes in for transplant of stem cells. He has to stay in hospital for a few weeks till stems take.

Which does give me an opportunity to work some more with the house. I got lot's to do, and to get it up to hospital standards as far as clean goes.

I am taking the year off from craft fairs, but still taking custom orders. I am creating a whole new look, with a new logo. A total revamping. It's going to look awesome when I am finished!

Sometimes I do need a lift. 

Going through a difficult time is very hard

When someone you love is hurting.

Sometimes I do need a lift.

"friends" may come and go,

a REAL friend stays by your side.

Sometimes I do need a lift.

That real friend will come up to you,

draw you in,

hold you,

as the tears cascade

not only yours

but theirs as well.

I feel lifted.

When that real friend cries with you,

Laughs with you,

Shares with you,

Hears you out,

Listens to you with their heart,

Acknowledges that nobody is perfect,

and loves you as you do with them.

I feel gifted to have a friend like you...

                             ~by Regina Napolitano

Granny Square Lapghan

 

This lapghan is mostly made from scraps of yarn from previous projects. The one thing I’d like for you to remember, stick to one brand type. This pattern is for Red Heart Super Saver. This sample is for a lapghan, approximately 55” square, but you can add on and increase amount of skeins to make colourful bedspreads, and Afghans

 

Materials:

Scrap yarn enough yardage to go two rounds.

Or

 

3 skeins of different shades red, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange, brown

1 skein white

1 skein black

K (7mm) hook

Scissors

Yarn needle

 

Ch 4, slip stitch into first chain to form a ring, chain 3 (this counts as a dc throughout project)

ROUND 1: DC into ring twice, chain 3, *3 DC into ring, ch 3, repeat from * two more times. Join with slip stitch into third chain on turning chain. Slip stitch to first ch 3 space.

ROUND 2: Chain 3, 2 DC into ch 3 space, chain 3, 3 DC into same space to form corner. *Chain 1, 3 DC, CH 3, 3DC in the next corner, rep 2 more times from *. Fasten off.

ROUND 3:  **Join new color in any corner. Chain 3, 2DC, chain 3, 3DC in same corner. *CH 1, 3DC in CH 1 space, CH 1, 3 DC, chain 3, 3 DC in next corner. Repeat from *.

Slip Stitch to next corner, CH 3, 2 DC, CH 3, 3DC in next corner, *CH 1, 3 DC in CH 1 spaces, 3DC, CH 3, 3DC for all corners, rep from *. Join with a slst in top 3^rd ch of turning ch.

ROUNDS 4-18

Repeat all steps in round 3 using all different colors, 2 rounds of each color.

Rounds 19-20: Use a full skein color, repeat round 3, do not fasten off.

ROUND 21: SC in each DC, and CH 1 spaces, 2 SC, CH3, 2SC in all corners, join

ROUND 22: DC in each SC; 2 DC, CH1, 2DC for each corner.

 

ATTACH TILES:

*Take 2 tiles, attach white yarn into both thicknesses of the tiles.

Using BACK LOOPS (BKLP) only, SC to the end, SC through both thicknesses again.

Take two more tiles, go through both thicknesses on first DC after corner break.

SC BKLPS to end. In last DC before corner break, SC through both thicknesses. Fasten off.

Unfold, and re fold open sides, repeat steps from *.

 

BORDER:  Using Black, attach to any of the DC, work 2 rounds of DC, 2 DC, 2 DC 2DC in each corner, Slip stitch in top of turning CH. Fasten off.\

 

Lapghans: 4 tiles.  Twin: 6 tiles.  Full/Double: 9 tiles.  Queen: 12 tiles.  King: 16 tiles

Baby: 1 tile, only repeat Round 3 and go 40 more rounds, and finish off with Round 22. Apply your own border to suit

 

 

 

Sometimes, change is good. Some, not so good.

It's been a while since I visited here, things have been happening with my personal life. Steve, my darling husband of 20 years, has been diagnosed with Stage 1 Multiple Myeloma. At first I didn't understand it, but as it turns out, is bone marrow cancer, and has been undergoing treatment from the top doctor in the country.
We just completed a 4 month stint of chemo injections, and now bone growth therapy. I seen a man, who went from a 185, waste away to a 146. Bones fragile, and he's got this widespread. We believe this may have started back to 9/11, when he worked with other volunteer firefighters clearing of debris.
Yes, we are going to look into this much further.

That being said, I have been keeping busy. Working, driving a school bus. And at home, currently in a state of chaos. I am redoing our upper floor. So far the little room is complete, now tackling our bedroom. New flooring, a fresh coat of paint, a new bed....the list goes on and on. Selling things we don't need or want, or trashing things. Been stagnant for too long.

Which brings me to a new phase in my hobbies. Threads N Strands is no more. I am calling it Pebble Lane Stitchery for now on. It's where I live, work, and play. I am working on new concepts, new ideas, and entering another great phase in my life.
Working on bringing Etsy back to life, new items to sell, fresh concepts, and possibly asking my friends to model for me. I got my stitchery groove back, I made a wedding sampler for a couple of friends a few months ago, they were floored. So, while I am thinking about it, I am going to take an asprin, and stitch my afternoon away...

Blessings
G

My goodness! I am just terrible about blogging! Or lack-there-of!

OK, in short, I completed and graduated to Crochet Instructor.

I am still on the lap-ghan mission for the NYS Firemans' Home.

Just been really tired lately, but I cannot get a break.

:(