Lynn Carson Harris

Endpaper Mitts

I've had these mitts finished for a while but haven't gotten photos of them until today.

The pattern is Endpaper Mitts by Eunny Jang.
The yarn is a no longer available hand paint and cream baby ull.

I love the look and fit of this pattern and the directions are great.  The tubular cast on and cast off give a great finished edge. I know I'll be using both methods again in the future. Heck, I'll probably use this whole pattern again - It is THAT good. I don't usually knit the same pattern more than once.

The hand painted yarn lost a lot of color in the washing but I love the faded blue jeans look that they have now. The original color can be seen here.

Custom Quilting

This weekend, I finished quilting a quilt for a customer.

I like the bishops fan design for borders. It puts a nice frame around the rest of the quilt.

You can see the quilting design in the blocks here.  I love the colorful batiks that she used in this quilt. She says this is a graduation quilt. It will be a lovely addition to a dorm room.

In addition to finsihing the quilt, we attended three music events this weekend. B and D also replumbed the house so that we have water up to the new bath! The room has no fixtures or walls yet, but the water is there!  They worked until 2:30 this morning so that we could have hot water in the rest of the house today. Someone even washed all the dinner dishes before going to bed in the wee hours of the morning. Thanks D.

Thank You

Sara, Ian, Lisa, Steve, Jed, Nathan, and Rick, I am SO glad that you live, play music and teach in our hometown. You all do great things to make our community a wonderful and musical place to live.  You inspire all of us. You provide impressive music events which are gifts for all.  You teach and make it possible for us to have music events by people of all ages.  You help the young build skill and confidence.  And you encourage them to come together in diverse groups to make music and new friends.

We appreciate you.  You are all shining jewels in Chelsea's crown.  Thank you.

Smell the Flowers

I hope you are taking some time to smell the flowers.

I am sure it would be even more fun if you wore a cute vintage dress while enjoying the flowers.

Have a great weekend and try not to be bothered by the bees.

Our redbud was buzzing with bees yesterday - big bees and little bees. It was really quite loud.

Pretty in Pink

I think it has finally arrived. The reward for the dull dreary winter months is finally here! Everything is bright with color. The grass is very green and growing. The early flowers are up and blooming. Our daffodils are fading but there are now bright tulip colors all around. Trees are bursting with flowers and leaves. This week is PINK.
Our appricots,

redbuds,

and the very photogenic crab apple are all in full bloom.

Oh, I do love spring.

 

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Fun Filled Day

I hope you had a great weekend. We had a busy but very fun filled Sunday that started with strawberry shortcake!

After lunch P had her Twinkle Cupcake Recital (five versions of Twinkle on the cello and cupcakes for an after treat).

We did a little tree planting - and look, short sleeves!

The day ended with a walk in the woods.



I think we may have scared the fairies but I am pretty sure there were some there.



It does seem like just the sort of place for woodland fairies.

Don't you think?

I couldn't have asked for a better day!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day.

Solos, Snacks, and Sewing

Whew. I'm glad the weekend is here!

M played his concerto beautifully at the concert on Wednesday and received a standing ovation! I am really glad that we ordered a DVD of the event.

P had her kindergarten concert  on Thursday. It was pretty fun to watch. Kindergartners can be very wiggly. I think it is a good thing that they worked in a lot of hand motions with the songs.

Tomorrow P will have her "Twinkle Cupcake Party." She has learned to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with five different bowings on the cello. She is giving a little recital and there will be "after snacks." P has informed us that her favorite kind of concert is the kind with after snacks. The concerto concert had an after reception, the kindergarten concert did NOT. We had to get our own after snacks after her performance on Thursday. SO, today we will make cupcakes.

I also managed to get some sewing done this week. I am doing some custom quilting. I made a template for the colored sections of the quilt and finished sewing all of those motifs yesterday. I just need to quilt the background.

Have a great weekend and I hope you can fit in some crafting fun or something that you WANT to do.

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