tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25930659406859950522024-02-06T22:13:08.123-08:00THE DAILY FIBERJodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.comBlogger422125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-43091473014319845662013-03-14T12:31:00.001-07:002013-03-15T08:03:37.649-07:00moving day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hello Friends,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I am moving and I hope that you will follow me to my new place:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I've missed you all and look forward to reuniting with your words, your creations, your inspiration, your kindness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">best,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Jody</span><br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-90490721952961060802013-02-25T12:33:00.000-08:002013-02-25T13:37:13.650-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Greetings from cyber-hell. <br />
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Tonight I will download an updated OS into my mac and hopefully it will play nice with my nikon. Please keep fingers crossed.<br />
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I have been so pleasantly surprised by a growing interest in my knitted Snoods. <br />
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I knitted them for my sister's cavaliers and dog fanciers seem to like them very much! I am working hard to put a PDF together so that you can create your own snoods to keep your pooch's ears out of his/her food! They also provide warmth during these cold northeastern storms that we've endured this year.<br />
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If you want to see these modeled by one very adorable Cav, go to my sister's blog on Wordpress -<br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-51613426853538544822013-02-07T07:17:00.001-08:002013-02-07T07:17:25.618-08:00to love means to stay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"If a woman holds on to this gift of being old while she is young and young while she is old, she will always know what comes next.." C.P.Estes<br />
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I've embraced this notion for many years, but I never saw my hard drive crapping out in a nano second - and with it my journal, my images, my years, my Daily Fiber. While I wait for the new part to arrive I think about resurrection, about starting over. <br />
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In 10 months I will pass into my sixth decade (God willing and the creek don't rise!) ETR (estimated time remaining) is in my thoughts more than I care to admit. I've developed insomnia this year and when I do sleep, my dreams are peppered with the grostesque, the fantastic, the horrifying. I calm myself with thoughts of travel. I tuck myself deeper into my down comforter, disturbing the sleeping cat, puff up my pillows which are covered in the softest linen, and I think about sleeping in a little Scottie trailer, a tiny tin airstream, somewhere out west, under the stars. Everything that I need, I have. And then it is morning.<br />
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I will be back! Thank you for checking in on me.<br />
xox</div>
Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-8957900365036593632012-12-31T12:39:00.002-08:002012-12-31T12:39:19.270-08:00thoughts on new year's eve<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My coworker and I walked to our cars together this afternoon. She turned and remarked that her father had a saying about the new year's day. It was something to the effect that one should start with the best intentions, the best foot forward on new year's day, as that first fresh day would then determine the tenor of the year. I wish I could have quoted her - I was intrigued by her words. What if her father was right? What other stories and myths and bits of wisdom had I missed out on!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We are all searching for something. The horrifying events that took place this past year in classrooms, in subways, in shopping malls, tells us that we are living in a land where love and legend and heroes are disappearing and being replaced by a darkness that is destroying our humanity. I don't have any answers. Standing outside in the dark, long before sunrise, I wait for for my good dog to complete his business. The stars are unspeakably bright and an owl is calling from across the marsh. I feel safer in the natural world than in any city, on any sidewalk, or any island shared by my own kind. What to do?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's a start. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Have a happy and safe New Year's Eve and tomorrow - well, tomorrow, let us be the best that we know how to be.</span><br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-27711715653177309932012-12-26T13:54:00.000-08:002012-12-26T13:54:45.953-08:00merry and bright<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Christmas in New Canaan. This tribute to our father, the Fire Chief. And to my son, working a 48 hour shift, keeping people safe.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gifts to open - no one wraps like my sister. She graduated from Vassar College with honors in English, but I secretly believe that she majored in Good Taste!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The white lilies literally opened while we dined -</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And everywhere one gazed, a treasure or two!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dinner was delicious - but dessert, well .... dessert was a different story. I didn't take photos, but you'll believe me when I tell you that we had a marvelous cheese cake, a gorgeous pecan pie and a deluxe carrot cake. Yummy City. Long story short, a crystal cake stand collapsed and slide sideways shattering into thousands of shards which flew in ALL directions, including the tops of the desserts. So long, desserts. Each and every one, shoveled into the trash.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What to do? My mom and my brother-in-law and I piled into the car to go and have a walkabout at New Canaan's "Crown Jewel' - the Waveny Restoration Park.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My BIL is a modest man and does not boast of his contributions to this incredible place. But he has been instrumental in many phases of the Park - especially in the addition of the olympic pool ... but I don't want to embarrass him. What I do want to say is that this place is so special - it is worth a stop and look. My sister and her garden club have spent endless hours working in the Walled Garden -</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It seems, on this Christmas Eve, that our traditions are disappearing. Or maybe this is life, on life's terms. I am resistant though, to our family shrinking and scattering to all corners of the continent. Our children, now young adults, have work schedules that do not include holiday sit-downs. It is hard to feel connected.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think that we need a few weddings and many babies to follow! I want to see my family hunkered down around the harvest table, elbows rubbing, laughing, debating, sneaking scraps to the dog. I want that fullness, that sense of everything-is-right-with-the-world that only comes with such a gathering.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tomorrow we will journey to Connecticut to join my sister in New Canaan. Andrew and Carson have to work, Hilary has the flu. Matthew couldn't make it in from Santa Fe, BUT we will have Hadley and ourselves and mom. It is enough. It has to be. No sense crying after some other arrangement - we have to move forward and create new traditions and share in the gratitude that we have what we have. There, that's better. On, on. ( a little pep talk is good for the soul!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, I am reporting from Empty Nest Central where we plod forward into this new territory, somewhat confused and bewildered by change. Tonight we will honor the victims of Sandy Hook by placing a lantern at the end of the driveway. " Imagine all the people, living life in peace ..."</span><br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-69588444523151796622012-12-15T05:44:00.001-08:002012-12-15T05:44:07.493-08:00sadness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My prayer is sent up for the Sandy Hook community - to all who are affected by this senseless tragedy. My prayer is about unconditional love. For ourselves, for each other. </span></div>
Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-41371729306513008172012-12-09T06:27:00.003-08:002012-12-09T06:27:48.121-08:00rainy weekend<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The silent treatment always fills me with guilt, especially if it is given to me by the Dog. (We spent far too much time in the sewing room on a rainy Saturday). The Dog would prefer to be outside, mucking around in the tall daylily bed, sniffing out whatever the visitors from the night before have left.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is resignation in its purest form. Still, he is hopeful - so much so that I have to limit my trips downstairs to spare him the disappointment of NOT going out in the rain! It means limited amounts of tea and restricted bathroom breaks! I do love him so. I've noticed that his gimpy hip is advancing and I know that surgery is in the cards and it breaks my heart to think that I will have to go on without him one day. In a perfect world he would go with me everywhere - including work. His cheerfulness would be a balm in that place, I can tell you!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I made a lined hat for my nephew who does ski rescue patrol out west. I thought that it would be especially warm when worn under his helmut up in the mountains. Unfortunately for Matt, Scott saw it first, tried it on and declared it perfect for working outdoor construction. I've started another.</span><br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-16184442460403768612012-12-02T05:11:00.002-08:002012-12-02T05:11:38.257-08:00i met a shepherd<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The college hosts a crafty Tuesday where local artists can come and display their wares. Some weeks there are enticing vendors such as the couple that makes 25 varieties of pickles! Or the apple farmers who bring baked goodies that can move anyone's taste buds to indulgence! This past week brought a lady shepherd and her really beautiful woven blankets, for starters.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I couldn't pass up these two skeins of chocolate - they were whispering "leg warmers" to me! The yarn is sold by the ounce and boasts of having absolutely NO knots! The lady shepherd explained that knots are not welcomed for the weaving of a blanket. She was preaching to the choir! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So much going on here - I was hoping to find some old glass buttons in my stash. I finally found three quiet green ones. I think that she will like this very much, especially when she sees the underside!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hello Kitty never fails to bring a smile.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I was in my twenties I was wild for cross stitch. These holiday place mats popped up when we were moving my mother, and I brought them home. As with everything else, she kept them in impeccable condition. I wonder if she actually used them for herself and dad.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They will grace the holiday table this year and bring a smile or two, and certainly memories of a time gone by. </span></div>
Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-59814217071958783072012-11-24T06:19:00.003-08:002012-11-24T06:19:44.710-08:00dilemma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The day after Thanksgiving always presents me with a dilemma. I NEED to visit either the fabric store or the yarn shop. The fabric store is a long drive to the east - across the river, a different county, etc. It means that I will bump into Black Friday shoppers (eeekkk!). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The yarn shop, aaahhh, the blessed yarn shop - nestled under a bright blue Gardner sky with the Gunks as a magnificent backdrop. . . a pretty winding country road with sheep grazing and ponds dotting the landscape.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's a no-brainer. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you ever find yourself in my corner of the world (upstate New York) you must take a trip to Gardner, which is south of New Paltz, another fun place to visit. There you will find Paula's gem, <a href="http://www.whitebarnsheepandwool.com/">The White Barn Sheep and Wool</a> farm where she raises sheep and sells the most delightful combination of fibers. When I say that it is the county's best kept secret, I do not exaggerate. Paula is an artist and her fine sensibility reigns - the most unique patterns, the loveliest knitted samples, great tools, good assistance, workshops, knitting groups, gifts made by local artists (including moi) - but go for the FIBER!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You cannot leave empty-handed. This discovery boasts almost 500 yards! Paula believes in quality AND value. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I got home the mail lady had delivered one of my favorite catalogues - Isabella. Have you seen this one? I usually toss most of the catalogues in the trash ... but this one is special. By the time I finish with it there are multiple turned down pages!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A happy weekend to all!</span></div>
Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-61536424378962879992012-11-21T17:11:00.000-08:002012-11-21T17:11:18.462-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fun! What would be more wonderful than a holiday quilt with gnomes!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Monica, your designs make me laugh - they are so fresh! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have been working again in the sewing room - taking a break from my knitting. Here is a special package which is ready to ship - I can hardly wait to get this one out there!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I have a new pot holder for my son who is hosting our Thanksgiving dinner at his house -</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He's so great - he ran out and got gluten-free flour and lemons and the spices that I'd forgotten today. I'm going to reward him with the most gorgeous cherry pie ever! (with crumb topping!) And keep in mind - everything that we are eating this holiday is <strike>freaking</strike> specially gluten-free!!! I'll let you know how it all works out ...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy Thanksgiving, All.</span></div>
Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-38756349317332526372012-11-18T09:19:00.003-08:002012-11-18T09:19:50.410-08:00a verb for making warmth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Exciting times around here - the darling daughter returned, driving through the night, stealthy, fooling all. And she is here, she is home. A chip off the old block - packing her car beyond its limits, motoring from south Florida - a 24 hour journey accomplished in one shot. Truthfully, she is braver than anyone I know. Happy beyond expression.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So there has been baking and consuming - fresh spinach with artichoke hearts ... a big hit!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There are holiday gnomes in the sewing room! I want to place them in everything that I am creating! A visit to the <a href="http://thefatquartershop.com/">FatQuarter</a> site is in order as I have no green or aqua gnomes. I hope that they still have some in stock because, as usual, I was late to this party and unaware of <a href="http://thehappyzombie.com/">Monica's</a> wonderful designs until just recently. Mine is an imperfect world - if I spent the time navigating quilting blogs that I'd like to, there would be precious little time left for quilting! It's the dread Day Job. It spoils everything!</span><br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-17488470932251378252012-11-03T06:18:00.001-07:002012-11-03T06:18:50.202-07:00after the storm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We were so very fortunate this time, unlike our neighbors along the shore and beyond. We lost two old apple trees, and that was the worst of it. As I watched the devastation along the Jersey shore I felt guilty that I was warm and dry. Today I will gather together some warm items that our local church will distribute to those who lost everything. It's not much, but if everyone would do one small thing to help ... imagine.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I think about fabric, I daydream about it, and recently have started drawing - making thumbnail illustrations - designs that I would like to see produced. This is on my Bucket List - to have my own line of fabric. Dreams need space in which to germinate, to develop into strong sturdy reality and I give mine tenderness, encouragement and as much square footage as I can spare!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Christmas is just around the corner. I'd like to be ready this season, but if I do manage to finish my gifts, it will be a first. Still, a large portion of the joy, for me, is the time spent working with my holiday fabrics and ideas. Many will never see the light of day, others will be prettily wrapped under the tree. The process is the beauty part.</span><br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-42999431180512521372012-10-29T04:42:00.000-07:002012-10-29T04:42:49.609-07:00frankenstorm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What to do in preparation for a monster storm? Empty the freezer!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chicken and dumplings may soothe those without power ...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Crab cakes readied for frying (I am lucky to have propane which means that I can cook, even if I have to do it by candlelight!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Apple sauce, apple crisp - and when I weary of the kitchen -</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's back to the sewing room where baskets are coming together nicely. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After we finished cleaning up the yard and putting all of the outdoor furniture away, I was happy to come indoors to sew for a few hours. The wind is picking up and I'll be shutting this computer down soon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For everyone touched by this storm - be cautious! Take care and stay away from trees and power lines. For my special guys Andrew and Carson - you'll be in my thoughts - be safe, Godspeed.</span></div>
Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-61408084503857591412012-10-25T03:29:00.000-07:002012-10-25T03:29:06.366-07:00handspun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was hard to part with the three skeins of handspun that Patty had given to me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It went home with Mom and will be donated to her knitting group's favorite benefit. She loves it and I am wondering if it will actually make it to the sales table!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Harley's play date went home and he has been sulky. Cats are no fun to devil - they have that unfair advantage of perching - usually high up and out of reach. I sometimes wonder what these creatures do all day long while I am at work and the house is silent.</span><br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-52624441904504401622012-10-21T12:53:00.001-07:002012-10-21T12:53:15.001-07:00i had a birthday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lucky to be an October Child - I am always grateful for the autumn that graces my special day. Mine falls on peak weekend in upstate New York, which is akin to icing on the cake of any birthday - fiery potent spectacular October! One has to remind oneself to exhale!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The blueberry bushes are aflame! And they have serious competition from the sugar maples -</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last week's rains brought down much of the color, but here are a few images for you, Hilary - I know that you do miss this time of the year in New York when the Florida beaches give up oceanic hues, but no oranges, golds, crimsons ...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The colors seem more subtle this season. Oh, wait - I misspoke!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Back at the house I celebrated the end-of-a-decade kind of birthday. It was lovely. Mom came for the weekend, gifts in her arms (thank you sister for the wondrous scarf and much anticipated book!). We indulged in a morning at the <a href="http://buttermilkfallsinn.com/">Buttermilk Falls Inn and Spa</a> and I don't even have words for the ways in which those good people pamper their guests! If you can, book a getaway to the Spa, pronto!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Later, my son came by with this glorious bouquet for his mom.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Roses, hydrangea, agapanthus, sweet william, anemones .... (swoon)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Did I mention ORCHIDS!!!! It is divine - so much so that I divided it into two bouquets. Thank you Andrew, I absolutely love this arrangement! I love you too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just wish that you wouldn't object so strongly to having your photo taken!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A perfect weekend, well, almost.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We missed you Bean. We always do</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The beginning of a new baby quilt - so joyful!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And another - because I have many babies to quilt and knit for this year.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There will be kites, of course. And pinwheels and polka dots.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yes, I finally cut into my flea market fancies. I am looking for a source for this original collection - if anyone has some to sell, or knows where I can find it - PLEASE let me know!!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am learning a hard lesson after all of these years ... if you LOVE it, buy as much as you can afford. Just do it. You will not regret this decision - what you WILL regret is a shortage down the road!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today I was thinking about Christmas. That's right, Christmas in October. I was feeling kind of sad because my girl is not here in NYS and probably won't make it in for the holiday. I did what any quilter worth her salt would do - I pulled out a holiday UFO that needs to be sent south for my daughter by early December.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This tree skirt was started last year, but added to the UFO pile. It's going to be fun to complete - I started quilting it today with MAGENTA thread!!!! I'm thinking palm trees and ocean views! Maybe I should deliver this myself .. it's something to think about!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There is good news and bad news. The good news - my daughter is decorating her little heart out - collecting and gathering and fancy-ing up her new nest. The bad news - I'm not there to help! She's chosen a location that is 1500 miles away. (sniff) I can't call and invite myself over - stop by with fresh fruit and vegetables - plan little outings to wherever. I miss her.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I am happy for her, despite my whining. One earnestly and deeply desires happiness for ones children, above all else. I comfort myself with Making. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My daughter likes a pitch black room in which to sleep. This little prototype will tell me how long the elastic needs to be for her head, and then I will busy myself with fancier versions! This image is upside down, drat!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She is indulging herself with what she calls a 'Girlie' bathroom ... black and white and pink. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In between - some good reading;</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last, but certainly NEVER least, my beauty boy is waiting for me. He isn't much interested in my making of things unless it includes filling his bowl with something yummy. His patience is always rewarded!</span><br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-21371027702697272832012-09-29T06:02:00.003-07:002012-09-29T06:02:47.376-07:00what's in a name<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little 'yarn bowls' are off to the LYS this morning where they will (hopefully) beguile and seduce the customers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you look closely, you will see my new card which makes me feel ridiculously legitimate!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Curious how a little rectangular piece of paper can make a person so happy! For me, it was the icing on the cake of an idea that I've been hatching for a very long time. It was the one small item that prevented me from taking my creations to market. All excuses aside. Clear throat. On, on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bear with me ...</span><br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-48890593075573765262012-09-23T16:55:00.000-07:002012-09-23T16:55:24.873-07:00a pillow-y kind of week<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't know where the summer disappeared to. It's time for me to return to work and I still have a memorial service to attend before I can close the chapter to summer 2012. Scott lost a first cousin and his oldest brother within a few weeks of one another, and he is reeling from all of the bad news. We would benefit from some good news.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sewing really saved me this month. I started with beach pillows for my daughter -</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lying on a blanket in the sand will be a more comfortable experience with mom's portable pillows to support the head! I added tabs and clips for the storage of car keys - minimal is best at the beach! No one wants to lug around a bunch of stuff!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So much fun to make - and now I need to get these in the mail.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had another order for pillows - what's with the pillows this month? (I am not complaining!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These colors are outside of my comfort zone! But I admit, I enjoyed them once I got rolling along!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Each one is reversible - </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At last count there were 5 babies to knit and quilt for in the coming months. The first shower is next Sunday and I've got nothing! Did my Muse go on vacation without me?</span></div>
Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-64283132637388973682012-09-07T09:07:00.001-07:002012-09-07T09:07:11.915-07:00sun spots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's a big day. I took a deep plunge this morning into the unfamiliar waters of self employment. I ordered my first ever business card! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was great fun to design the card when Vistaprint makes it so easy - so ... legitimate! Here's a sneak preview minus the text:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This little image says it all for me. More, later... 14 days, to be exact - as I didn't splurge for the overnight delivery! It's more exciting this way - prolonging the gratification, if you will. I say this today, but by midweek I will undoubtedly be fuming and pawing the ground!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A new market bag almost ready to go! Ayumi's popsicles were the inspiration for this piece. I love them so much that I am already experiencing separation anxiety! Did you hear that, Hilary? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Paired with Kokka linens and some of my machine-quilted cottons - not to mention this adorable Lisette lining that I found - how can I go wrong? Would you enjoy taking this bag to market?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My bags are lined with machine-quilted cottons while the bases are interfaced and quilted with a denser batting for substance and longevity. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This bag may appeal to a knitter - who else would understand and empathize with these kinds of images!!! I've been playing around with this one for a few days and I think that it is finally ready to be assembled. Dark. I like it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It won't be easy to let this one go either! How many bags can one person use? My cousin told me that I should create what I love and the $$$$ will follow. This probably doesn't apply to the person who cannot be separated from her work! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm going to continue to create my fabric vessels. I'll work until the ideas diminish and fade. And I'll watch reruns of 'Hoarders' and think about opening an Etsy account. These are new waters that I am wading into. Complete with sun spots.</span><br />
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Jodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385925436122590384noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593065940685995052.post-18915736501621829792012-09-05T07:55:00.001-07:002012-09-05T07:55:42.230-07:00a rumbly kind of summer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All across Blog Land writers eulogize summer's end. I woke this morning to the sound of rumbly thunder and knew that it was not so - summer may have packed her bags, but she has not left the building. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> In the orchards the tractors strain under dense loads of newly picked apples, but the air is decidedly summers' - thick and heavy with humidity. I feel for the pickers who struggle in this heat climbing their ladders, filling their pouches, wiping their brows. Even while the crop is three weeks early, fall has not been roused - he is yet to arrive with crisp morning breezes and highly saturated colors. Perhaps he is lying in bed like myself, listening to all that rumbly thunder.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One has to get up at some point to feed the cats and let the dog out. Sleep has been difficult this summer - my dreams have been filled with unexplainable images which often follow me through the day. The best remedy is to busy oneself.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here is a little bit of what I've accomplished this week -</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My daughter is on a Hello Kitty kick. She complains that she "missed the memo" as a child, and refuses to believe that I DID pedal this line (because I loved it so). She was adamant, a fiercely determined child - no Hello Kitty for her - SHE wanted Rainbow Brite! And so it goes. Turns out you're never too old for Hello Kitty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is a second seat cover for her car which has black leather interior. It can be a painful experience to sit on the seats in the Florida heat without some protection!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've been making more of my "Yarn Bowls" based on Ayumi's wonderful pattern.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Perfect for sock knitting - jewelry storage, hand knitted wash cloths, you name it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My love affair with selvages continues. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This project is almost finished - tune in later in the week for the end result (I love it!) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally, a completed pair of cotton bed socks for the Florida daughter who turns the AC up REALLY REALLY high and sleeps under comforters (she hates the northeastern cold, but needs to sleep as a southern polar bear might!) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oops - these are inside out - but you get the drift.</span><br />
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