Following the Thread

For anyone who read my last post, I want you to know I am feeling better.  Sunday was a bad day, but time has passed and I am not feeling as overwhelmed.

 I am thinking I will have to change my cape idea for Halloween.  I was going to do it in crazy quilt style, but I need five and a half yards of material for the cape.  I may just sew 18 inch squares together and only do the shashiko style quilting in some of those squares along with a little other embroidery and beading.  Five and a half yards is a lot of crazy quilt embroidery.

In my first blog post I wrote that crafting is sort of spiritual for me and I am going to use that as a means of getting over my depression, or at least feeling better more often.  I bought five skeins of rainbow Moonlight Mohair from Lion’s brand on clearance.  I am going to knit myself a shawl.  But I am going to do it as a working meditation, maybe sitting on the grass at the park, and focus on reconnecting with the divine.  When I am depressed I feel cut off from divinity, this is going to be an attempt to reconnect.  I’m not great at knitting, but I think I am going to try a lacy drop stitch on size 15 needles.  Big needles are easier on my hands and I have trouble keeping track of fancy lacy stitches.  I haven’t tried this stitch yet, but I will as soon as I get another project off of them.

I am knitting myself a velvet skinny scarf.  A few months back I bought a single skein of velvet spun by Lion’s brand.  It’s in the baby yarns so colors are very limited, but the white I bought is very nice.  The yarn is a thick, soft chenille and the scarf is three inches wide, but it should be long enough to wrap around my neck.  I work on it while I wait for my slow computer and slow dial up to change pages.  I’ve done quite a bit today.

You might notice I finally got some links up on my sidebar, woohoo!  I’m working on pictures next.  I am determined to figure out what I am doing wrong because I want to show off my stuff like all of the other bloggers.

Oh, I want to learn how to spin too.  I was pricing hand spindles today online at www.carolinahomespun.com this morning.  Some simple ones aren’t too expensive, and neither is cotton roving, so maybe I’ll save up and buy some.  I may try one of the stores in Sacramento first.  I think there is a store downtown that sells supplies.  Maybe after Christmas, if I get some cash, I might go for it.

Well, just so you know I just spent 30 minutes trying to get a picture up on the page and couldn’t get it to link. But I will keep trying, I just don’t have anymore time today.