Hello friends on this beautiful Sunday.  We had some really bad thunderstorms last nite here in Orlando and I know they really named Florida correctly....the Lightning Capital of the U.S.  Poor Vallie was shaking and not letting me get 3 feet from her all evening.

I have been trying to keep busy and I received an order for two of my small round bags.  I thought I would share them with you.

They are for a customer at Needle Orts and I must admit, the older I get the more I like orange.   It's such a nice clean color and goes with alot of different colors.

Next up are some new patterns I picked up.  I'm shameless.

As if I have enough time left to stitch all of these.  I'm back to working on Cherry Hollow Farm by Stacey Nash.  It's slow going but I really want to finish this one.  I'll post a picture soon.

Then I discovered that when I start shaking if I knit a bit my shaking stops so I started a cowl for myself.  I have several solid color crew neck slip over sweaters and I found a chunky weight yarn that has every color of the rainbow....and then some.

It's an Ella Rae yarn called Lace Merino Chunky and it's 100% wool but so soft.  The pattern is a very easy one.  Use size 10.5 needles and cast on 140 stitches.  Knit 1 round, k1 p1 on next round, repeat these two rounds till you run out of yarn.  I have two balls of this so mine will be about 10 inches high by about 25 inches around.  It's a nice relaxing knit and stops the shakes for awhile so I can cross stitch for a little bit more.  I don't know why this works but it does for me.

I hope all of you have a fantastic week and please say a blessing on Tuesday morning for my DH.

Blessings Upon You, Barbara