Make one, take one

I bought a postcard stand. My original idea was to fill up the stand (all 40 slots) and let people take whatever they want. Then I thought again. What if I created a postcard station so people can make and take, or make and leave their own postcard? Perfect.

Now I have to invite people over.

A lazy knitter

A cabin in the woods, a bevy of food, the clacking of needles, a perfect setting for knitting. 10 of the people who went on a knitting retreat with me last weekend, knitted. I embroidered. Sometimes I have trouble following directions.

I did make a showing. I completed a project. A washcloth. One washcloth. Every few months I knit during my knitting group. When it is cold out, I make gauntlets. When it's warm, washcloths. My favorite washcloth pattern is from Homespun Living.

Have a Texas themed bathroom? You can make a washcloth. Friend having her fourth baby? Make a washcloth. The amount of fabulous and downright horrible patterns is mind boggling. So go ahead accomplish something. Let me be your muse. :)

Etsy Craft Party

A party full of crafty goodness with plenty of people you don't know? Yes. I am hosting Tucson's Etsy Craft Party. Lots of ideas are milling around in my brain and the brains of the half dozen people I've accosted for help. Have any ideas that would make it more fabulous? Please let me know.

The party is June 10th. The location is in the works. There will be craft projects you can work on. I'll let you know more, when I know more.

The pillow plan

What do you do when your pillowcases get a little dingy? If you're me you decided to drown them in embroidery. This is one of the apparently 12,000 motifs I will have to finish in order to cover one side of a king sized pillow case. I am using water soluble stabilizer to transfer my patterns. I just trace the pattern onto my stabilizer, put it in the hoop with the fabric directly behind and start stitching.

This week's book is If the Buddha got Stuck. This is the second of the If the Buddha... books I've read. I also loved If the Buddha Dated. Dr. Kasl has an easy way of writing that asks you to look a little closer at what you hold true and why. She tweaks your thinking (if you let her).

I've also finished A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. Though it was written 90 years ago, many of the points Woolf makes are still valid. Though at this point (at least in the West) a lot of the ideas that hold women back are self imposed rather than dictated by pipe smoking men reclining in calf-skin chairs. What I enjoyed most about this book was her humor. She compares the juice the seeps from prunes as what flows through the veins of misers. Who knew, Virginia. I may actually have to give To the Lighthouse another try.