Tomorrow is one week since I fled NM and ice, snow, and mud. I have managed to get half of my face sunburned this week (don't ask), visited my kids many times, watched a gazillion movies, and supported my local Starbucks (one of my most guilty pleasures when out in the greater world). I have also patronized my local burrito stand and then walked for several miles in hopes of slowing down its adhering to my posterior.
Today I spent with my friend from high school. Lots of fun, including a visit with her parents, and ending up copping some retail time on the way home. I have, for years, been avoiding mirrors,
and today I finally decided to buy this baby to face the facts. I won't tell you the conversations that surrounded this experience...just let me say it's right in there having to own up to being old enough to have an AARP membership to acknowledge my life has come to this. Dang. And it was never going to happen to me. Youngsters, beware.
Remember I told you about the great shawl I received before I left town? It has now taken the status of a security blanket...I haven't been more than five feet from it for days now. I packed few clothes and instead, brought just about every skein of hand spun yarn I could shove into one big duffel bag to see if I could create my own. Inspired and in a huge creative slump, this gift rattled me back to life and these are the shawls I've made this last few days...with another on the needles as I write. I hope they inspire you as much as I was inspired by the original... ---Martie
9 comments:
Hi Martie,
Those shawls are beautiful! Glad you're enjoying the warm weather and family time.
Oh wow Martie - the shawls are absolutely stunning!
Catch you when you get home :-)
xoxo
LOVE the shawls. I am dashing down to the studio today to put some of those hoarded, precious handspun skeins in my chair-side basket for the next project. Picot edge pattern???
BTW, I'll have a skinny grande vanilla latte, pls,,,
Martie, I love that pattern, where can I find it? Glad you had a good trip!...Love, B...I am in heaven washing fleeces...
The shawls are spectacular and you didn't even have to travel to Durango (little personal joke). I love both of them equally, so much for "randomness".
What gorgeous shawls & by such a gorgeous lady! Share your pattern with us! I am experiencing some of our NM melt as I type this. Halston says there is no spray from the snowboard as he comes down the mountain - only a splash of water! Miss you.
Hope he's having a great holiday...give him a hug for me.
The pattern is the same triangle shawl we've all been knitting this last year, and one of them has a picot edge bind off...super easy and very rewarding.
Sorry to miss you this trip but loving my time in the sun with Tanner! XOXO
As we are now officially into Autumn on this side of the world (Australia) I love seeing the pics of the handspun yarn shawl...will soon be making a couple myself...thanks for the inspiration Martie and enjoy your holiday.
Pam.
Suitable for framing, but better for cuddling. Lovely!
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