Last night at church, Sugarloaf UMC, we had the first annual SUM Awards. These awards were designed to highlight each ministry area and the top volunteer in that area. I won for the congregational care ministry for my Prayer shawl ministry.
I won the Golden Needles Award and when the name of the award was announced, I heard a couple of gasps as I am well known for knitting at church functions when ever I can. If I had planned things out better, I would have been caught knitting in my seat and brought it with me. The entire night was tongue-in-cheek, but there was a serious side. The other people that were given awards also work very hard in the church for no real recognition, I know we all do it because we do love what we do. And that I am humbled to have gotten this award for doing something I love to do, knit and help people. I have been feeling that I have been slipping in my ministry and in my faith, since my mom passed. I have been missing something, a hole in my soul, and last night, I really felt the love from all those at church. I have never really felt part of anything and here at this church, it is truly a family.
I will be making a new shawl pattern from this book that I was given, I will post as I start making it. I have some special yarn that I have been waiting to use to make this. Not sure who I want to give this shawl to, but I know that God will put that person in my life and show me that they need the shawl and the love.
I hope that today is a blessed day for all those that read this blog and that if you like it, please share it and get it out there. I will be writing again soon!
My life as a mom, knitter, and human! Will try and showcase what knitting I am working on and my forays into designing my own knits.
Intro
My thoughts about life, family and knitting. I am a knitter of over 30 years, just starting to spread my wings on designing my own items. I knit for fun, for my prayer shawl ministry at Sugarloaf UMC, and for my sanity. This blog will chronical my life and what is happening day by day. Grab a cup of tea and enjoy my short rants.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Another Day knitting Away!!
I belong to this awesome website, Craftsy,com and I really love using it for knitting ideas. They have online classes and workshops, some free, but I get some great information there and learn how to do new things. I finally have seen how to do Continental knitting and purling, I could do the knit stitch but the purl stitch I never caught on. I got the beginner knitting class, there are some great things in there to learn, and I get to keep it forever. They have crochet classes also, I have a couple of free patterns from there also.
I am working on a great little neck warming scarf, got it from this beginning knitting class, and it is fun to make. I am getting back on my feet from all the drama of earlier this year, and this is great therapy for me!!
I will post a picture of the finished project in a later blog, just finishing up the first half and starting the 2nd half. This also keeps me from sewing the cardigan for my daughter, I do hate to sew but I have a training video on this one and how to block correctly, which I was never shown how since I taught myself how to knit.
I hope you all find something to work on, pop on a comment and let me know what your latest project is! I would love to see it.
I am working on a great little neck warming scarf, got it from this beginning knitting class, and it is fun to make. I am getting back on my feet from all the drama of earlier this year, and this is great therapy for me!!
I will post a picture of the finished project in a later blog, just finishing up the first half and starting the 2nd half. This also keeps me from sewing the cardigan for my daughter, I do hate to sew but I have a training video on this one and how to block correctly, which I was never shown how since I taught myself how to knit.
I hope you all find something to work on, pop on a comment and let me know what your latest project is! I would love to see it.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Here is it halfway through April and I feel like I have come out of a fog! With the passing of my mom in February, life seems to have stopped, all the things I would take joy in just was not doing it for me. I had lost weight and now I am back up, guess stuffing my feelings down with food was my drug of choice. I have made some changes, I am back to watching my food intake, keeping it to real foods and healthy choices. I have started to walk again, with the warmer weather I am enjoying the outdoors again. We have an updated walking Greenway, so I am off to that this morning to check out the updates.
I am back to knitting, I will post a picture of the sweater that I am working on, Katie outgrew her cardigan and wanted to have the same one, different yarn colors, but just bigger. I also have a wonderful pattern for a triangle shawl and will start that later today, Just need the needle for it.
This will be a short one. I have to get back into my knitting and crocheting and start designing, I have some things in my mind that I want to create.
God bless and keep happy!!
I am back to knitting, I will post a picture of the sweater that I am working on, Katie outgrew her cardigan and wanted to have the same one, different yarn colors, but just bigger. I also have a wonderful pattern for a triangle shawl and will start that later today, Just need the needle for it.
This will be a short one. I have to get back into my knitting and crocheting and start designing, I have some things in my mind that I want to create.
God bless and keep happy!!
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