Time for a new Post: Yes, I'm Still Breathing; I can Hardly Believe it Myself.

It has only been a few years since the last post. The Corona Virus has kept the world in lockdown since March of 2020. Some people were sick maybe as early as December 2019. Most of the activities of our daily lives have been put on hold since March 2020. We've been vaccinated now and the CDC says the masks can come off. California's mask requirement was lifted yesterday, June 15th, 2021.  Today, I went for a walk with my adult son by the Eel River for the first time in over a year. It is time to say goodbye to some unhealthy habits that mysteriously began with the lockdown. Besides a lack of exersise, Hubby and I began eating bag after bag of candy orange slices. What was that about? We craved sweets like never before.  Both of us put on ten pounds that we didn't need.

It was nice to have a big tv, the internet, Netflix and Amazon Prime for entertainment; and Facetime on our iPhones for keeping in contact with my daughter whom I could not hug for over a year. I am a compulsive crafter, artist and do anything but housework person. So it doesn't take much for me to be able to entertain myself. Above is a digital drawing using Adobe Fresco and the Apple Pencil on the iPad. Also....

silly things on paper:

I dye yarn:

Organizing information is another pastime, like this handy graphic I made to help me remember the Kitchener Stitch. Feel free to copy it and print it up on some card stock to keep it handy in your knitting bag.

I designed a knitted crop top for my daughter called, Autumn Crop Top.  I didn't finish it until May of 2021, so she modeled it in the Spring. 

I can't change the name of the Pattern because it would not be suitable for the drawing that I originally made when the idea first entered my brain. All my ideas start with a picture in my imagination, then a drawing, then a name before actually creating something. Then all the problems have to be sorted out. Like making the pattern understandable so I can repeat it the next time.

Other designers are better at making patterns than I am. Here is a crop top by Boyland Knitworks called Soldotna. It was a very popular pattern for many knitters. I made two for my daughter using Malabrigo Yarn.

My sweet cat, Goku, died and I had a terrible flu at the end of January and into February,  2020. It left me so breathless I went to the Dr. in March. She ordered an xray, but the Covid lockdown began in earnest and I never made it into the lab for a test.

Other cats have kept us company.

Raziel, and Chrono:

Living through fire season for the last 3 summers has been difficult and sad. As July and August approach Californians get more and more tense. I wish there could be a huge building project that would take the floodwaters of the Midwest and deliver it through a pipeline to the Southwest to help us with drought and fires. Simplistic, I know, but it would still be nice to save that water, somehow.