November 27, 2006--Thanksgiving's over, but thanks to all of you for continuing to send squares and emails. Nan from Saginaw continues to amaze me with all her hard work as does Marjorie and Shelly and Kathy. Mary from Traverse City sent us a beautifully knitted square done in a diagonal lace pattern. Also thank you to Patricia from Warson Woods, Missouri. The squares are beautiful. I feel like the old Romper Room lady looking in her magic mirror when I thank all of you--gosh, I am dating myself! The pictures on this page are the recently completed blankets. I will be putting up some more soon!
November 14, 2006--OK--I am a procrastinator--I have said it; I admit it. However, tommorrow blankets are heading out of here for Louisiana. I received an email from my friend Heather at Blankets for the Gulf that she had received a request for adult-sized blankets from a gentleman in Cameron, Louisiana. Well, I contacted the man, and he wrote back that he didn't feel he deserved our blankets they were so beautiful! Now see--that makes me want to put them together even faster.
As some of you know, companion animal issues are also important to me. Our little shelter group received quite an honor when we were featured on the Humane Society of the United States website honoring National Shelter Week. In case you want to read about us, click here. Read all the essays--ours is Elk Country Animal Shelter in Atlanta, Michigan.
Tomorrow is the opening day of deer hunting firearm season in Michigan. There's lots of orange in town, and the grocery store is packed with out-of-towners buying anything on the shelves from beer to bologna to more beer!. Good for the economy; not so good for the deer.
The group in San Diego has done it again. A box arrived via UPS this morning at my mother's place. Sometimes when the UPS gal doesn't want to drive down our dirt road (we live in the sticks, friends), she leaves packages at my mom's. Well, it was a large box filled with squares and crocheted yo-yos; Shelly--get ready; they (the yo-yos) are coming your way. Additionally, there were squares from "Boots" in Arizona--making our state totals now 21! Thank you, BOOTS!
Next week is Thanksgiving, and I cannot begin to thank all of you for making this coming one so special. So many new friends, kind notes and emails fill my days and weeks now with this project.
November 6-- We're back from Michigan's Upper Pennisula! My cousin arrived from St. Louis with a crochet hook in hand last Wednesday. After a day for her to re-coup from the ten-hour drive, we and two other friends headed North over the Mackinac Bridge for a weekend of talk, good food, drink, antiquing, more talk, and of course, some blanket work. We met two other friends who had gone up a day earlier to open the cabin. Snow fell the morning we left, but once we were past Gaylord, Michigan, the snow eased up, the sky cleared, and we saw plenty of ground.
Watching the sun rise over the lake, gazing at the full moon sitting above the lake and sharing the time with good friends was wonderful. We worked on three blankets--beginning two with our friends Shelly (Minnesota)and Kathy's (New York) friendship knot crocheted squares. Lots of oohs and aahs , ladies! I promise some pictures of the new new quilts by week's end. And don't worry; all our friends' squares are well -represented in the blankets--from San Diego and Canyon Villas to Bay City and Virginia.