Happy Dishes

 

I suppose it would be easier

to just go to Walmart

for new dish cloths,

but where's the fun in that?

Besides,

  food tastes better

on happy dishes

and dishes really

love hand knits.

 

Pattern from Golden Bird Knits.

For the Stealthy Ballerina

Babydoll wears a shrug

like this to ballet each week.

She has outgrown the pink one

I made a couple of years ago.

I'm SURE she will dance

just as gracefully as ever,

but it may be difficult to tell

since she'll be wearing camo.

 

AND

if she should feel the need

to wear the shrug outside of dance class,

I will be cool with that...

OK, I will be giddy.

Pattern:  Ginny Shrug

from More Knitting Under the Sun 

Yarn:  Cascade Yarns Heritage Silk Paints

(I bought this yarn for another purpose

which did not pan out - it's great yarn

and I plan to use what I have left for a scarf)

The Last Laugh

 I was never good

at Cat's Cradle.

I couldn't get the string to do

what I wanted it to do

and if string could mock you,

that 3 ft loop surely did...

Is that part of the reason 

I am so string/thread/yarn

obsessed as an adult?

Dunno.

But when I am able to loop

400+ yards

of wonderful yarn

into a lace shawlette,

I can't help but feel

that I'm having 

the last laugh.

 

Pattern:  Holden Shawlette

Yarn:  Ella Rae