My daughter sent this to me on Facebook and I just had to share and I am sure there are many more stories like this out there.  My daughter is a Neo-Natal Nurse at Vanderbilt.  My daughter-in-law is a nurse on Pedia-Flight, Pediatric and Neo-Natal Critical Care Transport for LeBonheur.  My son is a Peramedic at Methodist North.  I am so proud of them and all those that take care of these small children and others.  To work with these small children takes a very special person.  What a blessing to see the miracle of God even through all the pain they must have felt.  Thank you for sharing this video, I hope you won’t mind me sharing it here. 

Ok I got the rest of my material for the quilt   

The backing is the large blue and brown.  Then there are the 4 beige pieces you need, the binding the flying geese shashing and the border!  Now to get it all cut out.

Last night I went to sit and sew at the church and we are starting to cut out our quilt.  Well kinda!  I bought my book a few months ago and I have torn the house apart twice looking for it.  Well yesterday before sit and sew I figured I would never find it.  So I ordered a new one.  At sit and sew Justine let me look at hers for what I needed.  (thank you )  Well I said as soon as the other book gets here I will find the first one and guess what?  It did not take that long I found it last night!!!!!!!  Oh well.   So now we have to get things cut out because we will start sewing in October. 

I am using Moda, Civil War Crossings by Barbara Brackman.  It is BEAUTIFUL.  I bought the large fat quarter bundle and am going to get some coordinates to do the sashing, border, binding and backing.  I have never done a quilt with civil war materials.  I usually go for the brighter ones.  But I think I am really going to like this one.   I am making the 12″ blocks, 16 of them and the last one tells a story about the quilt.  I can’t wait to get started sewing.  I think I better have the HQ Sixteen up and running by then!!!!  I will want to quilt this one right away.  Then maybe I will quilt a few of the other ones I have ready to go.  (Maybe lol)

I need to blog, but between Ravelry, Facebook and My Space who has time?  oh ya and knitting, sewing, spinning, dyeing, embroidering, quilting and lets not mention cleaning (I think I remember this but I could be wrong), cooking, sleeping, and socializing

I have been doing some more dyeing!  Imagine that!    One is rainbow sock yarn and I have started a pair of socks out of it already.  One is Mr. Moody Blues for my husband, MR. MOODY BLUE himself.   lol   He hates all the bright colors and thinks they look awful so I made him some he would like.  ALL BLUES!  And the last thing I posted are Kelsey’s finished socks.  I hope they fit!

Here is my newest dyed yarn.  Most of it is kool-aid dyeing, but the yellow in the citrus colors (the yellow, orange and green yarn) is actually lemon sugar free jello.  Kool-aid does not have a bright yellow so I thought I would try this and it seemed to work.  In the cornucopia colors (yellow, red, green and dark red yarn) the yellow is acutally from mustard.  I used the same idea just I used mustard in the water/vinager instead of kool-aid because we all know once mustard gets in something it never never never comes out.  LOL   Both have been thoroughly washed and rinsed afterwards in very warm water and they did not fade out.  Thank you to Enchanted Yarn and Fiber for all the lessons!   

I stopped in at a local knitting shop yesterday while I was wedding shopping with my daughter.  OMG!  Look what I found.  They are called the Fibersphere.  They are really neat.  They keep your yarn clean and the coolest part is you can put two together and use them to keep your sock yarn from getting all tangled up when you do two socks at once on circular needles.  

You know if you can not laugh at yourself, you should learn how.  I just have to share this story from today. 

Well, first I broke the belt on my spinning wheel.  This is the first time I have ever done this and it was from either to much use or it just broke.  I will go for the to much use reason.   :)   So I email and whine I broke it and RoLynn tells me how to fix it.  yayyyyyyyyyyyyy  This won’t be hard at all and it was not.  (now those that know me can see this look on my face as I tell you this next part)   I get it all back together and let it the joint fix cool.  Now I am ready to put it back on the wheel. 

The question is HOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!  

(some of you saw this coming)  Yes, I took it totally off the wheel and had it in another room fixing it!  So now as I go to put it around the wheel I figure out that when you join the belt it must be under that piece of wood BEFORE you join it.  OMG! what a wail I let out.   LOL  Now I must do it all over again!  Yes, I have done it and it is fixed. 

Note:  if there is a way to get it under that piece after fixing it in the other room, don’t tell me till the next time I have to fix it. 

I am spinning Soy Silk for a very special project.  I can’t say what for just yet as she reads my blog. (but some of you already know)

It is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo soft!  It is going to stay the natural color.  I am so very excited and can’t wait to design the pattern for this project.  I got the Soy Silk fiber at Enchanted Yarn and Fiber.

Today at Enchanted Yarn and Fiber, I took my second dyeing class.  The first was the kool-aid dye.  I did not get a picture of it up but I did get pictures of this class yarn.      I made 2 skeins of sock weight yarn and I am going to cable ply them.  I can’t wait to see them.  Did I beat you getting up pictures Nancy?  LOL

UPDATE:  I named this colorway  RAINBOW SHERBERT   that is what it reminds me of