Crafters Monday April 8 through April 14

Good afternoon or in your  cases good evening.I hope you both are feeling better and having a good day. It's just my kind of weather here today. Nice and sunny and almost 80 degrees. I'd love having this weather all year.

Ginny, I forgot to tell you that you were right. You've always said that the toaster would turn up in my house. Well it wasn't exactly in the house. The other day I mentioned that dh found it in the garage but it was here. Unfortunately I think that when I thought I'd never find it again I may have disposed of the crumb trays. I think that a piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper under the toaster would work or maybe a small cookie sheet but actually I don't really see us going back to using that one and I'm glad we didn't take it to Indiana. It would have been way to big.There definitely is not much counter space in a small camper.

I was going to get back to working on dh's blanket but then I couldn't find it. I finally did find it though so that might be my evening activity.And speaking of blankets, Years ago I bought a bunch of kits from Herrschnerr's. Most of them I didn't like much after they got here so I took the yarn out and added it to my other yarns. However there's been one kit I saved in my craft room so I got it out today. The problem is twofold. First is that the yarn is a #2 weight. Next problem is that the pattern's been in that plastic all this time and I guess the heat must have caused the damage....you can't read the pattern because the pages stuck together and all the printing is transferred onto the print on the page facing so all the directions are on top of each other...hard to explain. I'll try looking up a similar pattern or use the yarn for something else and might even crochet it with two strands held together. It won't be enough for even a baby afghan but maybe I can make a car seat blanket. If that fails I can make hats with it. I'm sure the yarn is discontinued by now. It's really soft yarn.

Good morning!

Ruth said, is quite a saga about the pattern, although you did a good job of explaining how the pattern just became unreadable because of the paper it was printed on and how it was stored. It’s disappointing that Herrschnerrs would not provide you with the pattern, but I don’t even know if these companies, actually keep track of products that they used to manufacture a kit. It’s not a surprise to me that they couldn’t or would not give you the pattern. What I did find really interesting. Is your comment on vintage crochet patterns, have crochet patterns changed over the years? I don’t do that much crocheting so That’s not something. I’m really on top of. Regarding your toaster first of all, I’m glad you found it! I don’t believe I would use parchment paper underneath it, I think the top temperature range for parchment paper is around 425 but with a toaster, you have the potential for a , an exposed electrical element and if the parchment paper stuck to the electric element could cause a fire. I would be much more tempted to go to dollar tree and try and find a disposable aluminum tray or possibly even a loaf pan cut the sides of the loaf pan down and see if that will fit underneath your toaster . Those I think would be more suitable. But you said you’re probably not gonna use that toaster anyway.

CJ, I guess you had a busy day yesterday, like me you didn’t join us yesterday and I hope that you had a good Saturday.

I’m still not 100% from that stomach virus I had but I am getting better. Yesterday, my youngest daughter came over with her two little ones and spent a few hours here which was good to see them. I also got some housework done. Later on in the day, I managed to get the binding strips attached to each other and started to see how they will lay going around the quilt, if you haven’t done that before it’s important to see that the seems in the binding don’t fall on the corners of the quilt. And doing so I realize that I miscalculated , the number of binding strips that I needed so I had to cut another one last night. Of course that’ll be easy to add on because nothing is showing in place yet. Later on today, I’ll attach that other binding strip and then actually attach the binding to the baby quilt. So this is the beginning of the end. I will be attaching the binding using the machine on both sides so that it can be washed because it’s a quilt for a child. Speaking of machines I wonder where mine is. I’m expecting that I’ll have mine back this week.

I’ll check in later! Have a blessed day.

Hello

Ruth - I'm glad you can make something with the older yarn, it sounds pretty. I think things made with the shell stitch look really nice. I'm glad you had some nice warm weather too I'm sorry you and your DH have to deal with frustrating medical providers, it seems that a lot of them are this way now. I hope everything over the next few weeks go well for you.

Ginny - Hope you continue to improve and that you do get your machine back soon. I'm glad you are almost finished with your quilt

The weather has been really nice this weekend. I went up to my house yesterday morning and everything was alright there. I was able to see my lilac bush blooming. It's very old, over 60s years old, and I only get a few flowers each year but at least I was able to see and smell them for the last time. I took a picture too.

I haven't gotten back to my quilting yet. I made a mistake cutting the pieces for this quilt so I'll lose one row from the quilt, but fortunately I have enough correct to make 6 rows (instead of the 7 in the pattern).

I've still been getting some slight headaches and I also have problems with my ears. I'm thinking I might need to see an ENT specialist because the ears could be causing the headaches and problems associated with that. Who knows!

Take care