Something to Do...

I was looking for something to do.  I didn't know what I wanted to do.  I knew what I didn't want to do, though.  I didn't want to read.  I didn't want to knit.  I didn't want to sew doll clothes.  I didn't want to lay out the blocks of the bowtie quilt.  I didn't want to work on anything that was already in the works.   

So, here's what I ended up doing...I took the cut off corners from the blocks of the bowtie quilt and made them into half-square triangles.  72 of them.  I needed just 64 of them to make this mini-quilt...

You may think I planned the center 4 hst's to be the way they are, but actually, I made an error.  The prints (not the neutrals) should be making up the inside square.  But, I kinda like it like this, so I am not reverse sewing anything!  This mini-quilt measures about 12 inches square.  

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Here's Riley wearing the football hat that I made for me Mum to give him (talked about here)...
                                


                                



"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.". Jeremiah 29:11

Sometimes...

I knit.

When I am not watching tv or on the phone or reading

(I read just 23 books in the entire 12 months of 2013...
usually I read at least 3 times that many!)

...I am sewing.

Usually.

Sometimes, though, I knit.  

 Cuz, after all, knitting is my therapy.
Written about here.

 

Little sweaters.

Lately, hats.

For dolls.

Or, for little boys.

Like this one...

 

Me Mum wanted to knit a 'football' hat 
for Riley, sister's youngest grandson.

However, me Mum has difficulty knitting these days.

It is very sad, as she was once a world-famous knitter.

Okay, not really, but she could have been!

She did absolutely beautiful work.

That has changed drastically in the last few years...

aging and Parkinson's Disease being the culprits.

I told her I would knit the hat and send it to Riley.

It'll still be from her and Riley will love it!!

So.

Sometimes.

I knit. 

 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.". Jeremiah 29:11