White Rose of York

I made this brooch to wear this week in respect for King Richard III, who, over 500 years ago, was the last English king to die on the battlefield.

His bones, once believed lost, were recently found underneath a parking lot. Today he is being re-buried in Leicester Cathedral with proper ceremony and prayers.

There are those who say his remains should have been returned to York. I can understand how they feel, and to some level I agree. It would have been very nice to see him rest, at last, in York. But on the other hand, he was a Christian (Catholic) and any consecrated ground would be appropriate. Beyond that, since Psalm 24 says all the earth is the Lord's, then that kind of renders the whole discussion moot anyway.

But there we have it - my white rose of York brooch.

St Pat's Day

I made some earrings for St Patrick's Day!

Any Excuse...

...to upload a pic of my boy on my blanket!

Dr Smith's Afghan

I'm working on this afghan for the surgeon who removed my gallbladder; it's in his university colors.

I love the corner to corner pattern. I think it's my new go-to pattern.

Decoupage!

OK I must do this too.

Decorating Jar Candles

I must do this!

Now, to figure out how to refill a used jar once the original wax is all burned up....

EDIT! How to make concrete votive candle holders!

Engineer Blanket

This is an afghan I'm making for Joe. It is in the colors of his old unit, the 82nd US Army combat engineers. I'm doing 8 rows of crimson and 2 rows of white.

I do need more red yarn, however. I'm getting low.

3 New Scarves

I completed two new scarves this week. One was for a Chicago Bears fan. Here is a photo of it before I put the last row of blue yarn on:

This one was done in rows of crossed double crochet. I finished off at the end of each row and left long tails which became fringe.

And I did a Joseph's Coat scarf in some very wintry colors:

And of course, my diabetes awareness scarf:

Funny that I make many scarves but I live in Florida and can't wear them very often. Well, it's just what I do.

Now, I also have this:

...and I'm considering making a scarf out of a bunch of them. Hmmm. It's pretty involved, but imagine what it'd look like in the end.

Ergonomic Hook Handles

Today, I went to Joann's and got some clay and made some ergonomic handles for crochet hooks.

I think I like the way they came out!

I think the top photo shows best the silver sparkles that are part of the white clay I used.

Now....to figure out sanding and polishing....or even if I want to do that to them....

Update!

I'm working on some other projects that I'm going to post photos of here.

First, here's two really good shots I got of a blue and white afghan I'm making. I got this in early morning sunlight on the back of my car.

Here's a granny scrap afghan I'm working on:

I like the random colors of the granny scrap afghan.

Here's some squares I'm making:

Those squares came from this blanket:

I thought better of doing this pattern - something about it wasn't singing to me, not for an afghan - so I'm reworking it into squares, to stitch together to make an afghan.

I'm also doing this scrappy steps afghan:

Yarn! Yarn happiness!!