It's so nice to have an artist in the house!

This is Judy--I have been coveting a medical alert bracelet from a website that has really pretty ones, but I just can't justify the expense. $75 and up is just not in my budget at the moment for jewelry, even medical jewelry. I had gastric bypass surgery a year and a half ago, and it is important for emergency personnel to know it, for a number of reasons. Anyway, wanted one, couldn't afford it.

Fortunately, my daughter is a very good bead artist; I showed her the bracelets on the website and ordered the medical alert tag, and today she made me two really pretty bracelets. I want a couple more, so they will go with everything I wear, but we need to get some more clasps.

Here they are:














Nice, aren't they?? We cannibalized some jewelry we had around for the mother of pearl hearts and the solid pink beads, and the other beads came from inventory she already had. Total for 2 bracelets was more like $8 than $150, and besides, mine are unique.

Knitting content will return soon, I promise. Maybe even tomorrow!

Whining has its price

Kathy here. Since I am a self employed accountant, my summers are pretty quiet. I was whining about being bored, so Judy suggested that I post to the blog. It reminds me of my mother who always had lots of suggestions for things to do whenever I whined about being bored. Most of them involved doing homework or housework. Up here on the northern tier, we are suffering through the last gasp of summer. though I know that others think that 86 farenheit is not hot, but we are used to much lower temperatures. Not to worry, the state fair starts tomorrow & after the fair, it is fall.

We are all in a frenzy here getting ready for the onslaught of Republicans & their convention. Many of them seem to be confused. I have heard several times that it is in Minneapolis, but it is really in St Paul. I hope that they do not wander the streets of Minneapolis looking for the convention.

My latest project is a knee sock, but there are no pictures, because it is too early in the process. Maybe more later.

Kathy

I am a bad blogger

I forgot to include Kathy's scarf in progress in the previous entry, which was kind of the reason for setting up the new blog today. Duh.

So here it is, a feather and fan scarf, using kid silk night held together with sea silk. Purty, isn't it?

What we are working on now

Even though we haven't been blogging, we have been knitting! Kathy finished a couple of triangular shawls that she needs to block and take pictures of (nudge, nudge). Right now though, she has just hit a yarn shop that's going out of business in Minneapolis, where they have lots of yarn shops, unlike here in the south.

Here is the loot from her raid, I mean shopping trip, to the store, with her cat Rosie guarding the catnip bush from human meddling. There is some Kid Silk Haze, some Kid Silk Night, some Dream in Color sock yarn, and I can't remember what else.

And look at that pretty green grass! It's nice and cool in Minnesota, at least by comparison to here.


Here is some more of the loot, intended for me; a pattern book and some fuchsia Kid Silk Haze, yum!!

And then there is my latest knitting:

It has been SO freakin' hot here in SC that even inside in the air con- ditioning I only want to knit with cotton. So I've kind of been on a washcloth jag. The pink ones on the bottom are for me, and the purple ones on the top are for Kathy. Look at that pitiful brown grass in my yard in the background, too. We are on mandatory water restrictions here (not that I would water the grass anyway), but anyone from the south can tell you that you know you are in the middle of a drought when even the crepe myrtle trees are dried out...they love it in August, usually!!

Right now I am working on a pair of footie socks for my daughter, but there isn't enough to even photograph. Maybe later in the week.

First post

OK, here goes.

This is the first post for our new blog; we previously posted as Dragonflyknits, but that is closed now. We are Kathy in Minnesota and Judy in South Carolina, best friends since college (and that's been a while!).