2011 July 09 — Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

July 9, 2011 · by JudyL

Camp Loopy Project II starts July 15 and it’s socks, mittens or gloves but the catch it . . they have to have cables. The yarn for my project will be Madelinetosh Sock and the color is Composition Book Gray, which is actually a grayish lavender. I have this same color in Madelinetosh Vintage to make a sweater.

Deciding on a pattern to use is the hardest part so I’m going to ask you to vote to decide what pattern I should make! That way, if it’s too hard or I don’t like it, I can blame you. Between now and cast on day (July 15), I may come up with a totally different pattern but as of today, here are the choices and you can leave a comment and tell me which one you think I should choose and why you think that. I tell you what I’ll do . . because it takes a few minutes of your time to look at the patterns and comment, I’ll draw a name from the comments and one person will receive three spools of Essential thread from Connecting Threads. A name will be chosen Sunday (tomorrow, the 10th) evening.

When I first began looking at patterns, I was looking for something really easy and I thought I would use Cabley Goodness. The more I looked at patterns, the more I liked more intricate patterns. Intricate or simple? July 15 – August 15 is going to be a crazy time around here so I just don’t know whether I should do something I can do almost with my eyes closed or whether I should tackle a project that will keep my mind off all the things I should be doing besides knitting.

The first pattern option is Paraphernalia. I like those cables and think they would show up nicely on the tone on tone grayish lavender yarn.

If I had to choose today, I might choose these. They’re Olympic Copper and I really like them.

These are BFF Socks by Cookie A. They look kinda “retro” and I can see how they would be fun to make.

I’ll add up the totals, and I may or may not make the socks you’ve chosen . . just depends on what’s happening and how industrious I feel on July 15. Your choices are:

Cabley Goodness
Paraphernalia
Olympic Copper
BFF Socks

Tell me what you think!

Getting Sad Thinking About It!

July 9, 2011 · by JudyL

As time to leave MO gets closer, the tears flow easier and easier. Chad is staying here for now. He’s looking for a full time job and chances are slim he’ll find anything in our area but he’s working here for now and will stay here when we leave. Of course, he’s excited about being on his own, though money will be real tight . . and if he can’t make it and it takes forever to find a real job, he can always come to Texas.

Last night at dinner I was asking him if he’s going to come see me and he said “If you send me the money!” I told him that was fine. Birthday and Christmas money will stay with me til he comes to see me and if one year passes that I haven’t seen him, that money goes back into my account!

Later last night, I was cleaning out pictures on my memory sticks and began looking at recent pictures on my backup hard drive.

This was when he had received a nice little check from a drawing at school.

He was all dressed up here to go campaigning with his friend who was running for coroner. Would you vote for someone whose friend was dressed like this?

Holding Speck!

Mom and Chad with a quilt she made him.

When he was in his friend’s wedding two years ago.

Oh, I’m going to miss my boy but I know other moms have survived and so will I but I’m going to put this hard drive with the photos somewhere so I don’t accidentally come across when I’m feeling kinda sad . . that would probably send me driving to MO to see him way too often.