tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10953960529071516682024-03-13T14:35:45.925-06:00ONE OF A KIND FIBER ARTShand painted queen size quilt - donated to raise funds for the Crisis shelter where I lived. the proceeds paid for the playground for the children in the new shelter. 2003Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.comBlogger464125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-60760335330743073422013-08-05T17:52:00.002-06:002013-08-05T17:52:51.148-06:00<h2>
Please go to this link to see some of my quilts. </h2>
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Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-81643552896468193612013-08-03T20:21:00.001-06:002013-08-03T20:21:46.341-06:00<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Hi everyone! I just looked over the blog as I have been away for some time and </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">I would ask you to check out my flicker pictures on the right hand side -- click on </span><span style="color: #a64d79;">Flicker.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #0c343d;">It gives a pretty good idea of my thread painting and appliqued wallhangings done since 2008</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #0c343d;">I think I am getting the urge to get back at it but have a bit of a time problem. I couldn't even come in here to read the posts for quite awhile and that is why I haven't done any posting. </span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #0c343d;">I am feeling so much better and with the wonderful support I have received from my TP friends on Knitting Paradise, and reading the kind words from my quilting friends, I just am feeling more like getting back to it. There is a possible move coming up in our lives and if it comes through we </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #0c343d;">will be on the west coast and they don't need much in the way of knitted objects so it would be a good time to go back to the landscape quilts and the crazy patch. Will see what happens. </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b><i>I hope our tentative plans come to pass - but it is out of our hands. Well, I am going to go and read. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b><i>I just opened up a workshop with my friend Gwen who is teaching 3 beautiful scarves in the </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b><i>"Let's do Christmas early ' series of workshops which started last month. some great workshops </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b><i>are happening . I have them booked right through until Mar. 2014 - which amazes me. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b><i>talk to you all later. Designer (Shirley)</i></b></span><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></b>Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-4936326621942806122013-08-03T14:51:00.002-06:002013-08-03T14:51:52.820-06:00<b> IT IS SO NICE TO BE BACK! I have been really busy this past while in</b><br />
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I am having a lot of fun there - as I am organizing workshops (sound familiar)<br />
using teachers (KP members) who teach different Knitting or crochet technique or projects to other KP members. It is very satisfying and seems to be quite successful<br />
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My life has settled down a lot after losing Rob and then Pat had major heart surgery in 2011 ( two valve replacements, then I had a bad fall while he was in the hospital and went face first into the carpet with an attack of BPPV (vertigo) (looked like I had been hit in the face with a baseball bat) - Pat had two valves, mitral and aortic replaced and was in the hospital for 45 days . He is doing very well now<br />
but since then there have been other medical situations . However things are looking very much better for us and both of us are feeling much better. Hayley is 9 -- unbelievable.<br />
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I have spent some time quickly scanning the different blogs - so nice to see all of you are doing so well with your quilting.<br />
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I will talk to you all soon. ShirleyShirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-6621020486018029632013-08-03T14:21:00.000-06:002013-08-03T14:21:26.253-06:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't done any posting for awhile but just realized if you wish to go back to the beginning you can click on the 2008 archives and start at the beginning! I hope you do. Shirley</span>Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-78412691508166372612013-08-03T14:11:00.001-06:002013-08-03T14:11:26.252-06:00<h2>
Hi everyone -- I want to welcome those of my friends from the Knitting Paradise forum -- especially the KP Tea Party members. </h2>
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If you are interested in seeing my work, this blog opened in 2008 and if you scroll down each page until you reach the start of the blog you can see my complete blog with all the different works i have done over the past few years - especially pictures of my Arizona projects and my Thread Painting and quilted wall hangings- then recently the knitting and crochet projects. </div>
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Welcome to you all - I hope you enjoy my blog. Shirley </div>
Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-35167399010774437552012-10-21T06:37:00.000-06:002012-10-21T07:00:27.341-06:00and here are some moreand more--------<br />
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I also received a wonderful yarn bowl from my hubby for my birthday, and my dear friend Deb made me one as well so I am very lucky.<br />
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Here are some warm, cozy slippers that was part of a workshop on KP (knitting Paradise).<br />
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I have been doing a lot of designing - especially sweaters and have had fun with it. The two below are my Waterfall tops which have become a popular workshop class. they are comfortable and slimming (I do need that!)<br />
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This is an afghan I made for Hayley - she loves purple, pink and wanted a flower afghan. The blue was made for my son's mother in law Frances, who loves blue. I also made a knitted afghan for my dil in bright sunrise colors. As you can see I have managed to keep busy.<br />
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I have been doing a lot of knitting and crochet this past 2 years. here are more of my projects.here is my latest coat of many colors which I taught in a workshop - we just finished and some pretty nice sweaters were knitted.<br />
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I have made a crochet or knitted afghan for all my family and a friend, as well as lots of other little<br />
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<br />Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-39258423614190279362012-10-20T20:20:00.002-06:002012-10-20T20:20:44.230-06:00Hi everyone, I am back after quite a time awayHi everyone -- it has been awhile since I have posted. I have been knitting up a storm on Knitting Paradise and have opened another workshop section, much like Learningfa with quilting. I still haven't touched my sewing machine since Rob died -for some reason I have lost heart for doing art quilts.<br />
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We have had a very heavy three years, but FINALLY things are starting to look up. Pat is doing very well, thankfully, and so am I so life is so much better than it has been for the last 4 years.<br />
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I am doing a lot of designing and am teaching a coat of many colors cardigan, as well as a top down waterfall top both my designs. Also going to be teaching a crochet afghan workshop in the new year.<br />
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I am keeping busy with the new section. I learned with the quilting forum(learningfa) that people are anxious to learn and people are willing to teach, and there is a place to put both together.<br />
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It is nice to be back and I hope to drop in more often. Not sure how this new blogger works, but will likely be able to figure it out.<br />
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Bye for now, Shirley <a href="http://www.knittingparadise.com/" target="_blank">http://www.knittingparadise.com</a>Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-20353978236855512872012-01-29T14:47:00.000-07:002012-01-29T14:47:25.653-07:00finished my ribbed top pullover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AukUOcevivA/TyW9_vdPPrI/AAAAAAAAC9A/2CxdwVgIgyY/s1600/DSCN5347.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AukUOcevivA/TyW9_vdPPrI/AAAAAAAAC9A/2CxdwVgIgyY/s320/DSCN5347.JPG" width="143" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HqEre7PGkWc/TyW-IsR0u6I/AAAAAAAAC9I/k-7YVajyAcE/s1600/DSCN5346.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HqEre7PGkWc/TyW-IsR0u6I/AAAAAAAAC9I/k-7YVajyAcE/s320/DSCN5346.JPG" width="187" /></a></div>I just finished a new pullover in worsted weight yarn -- the yoke is done in ribbing - I changed the pattern quite a bit and am happy with the results. I am also working away on an afghan-so am keeping busy.Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-18199626116753528412011-11-28T15:44:00.000-07:002011-11-28T15:44:25.449-07:00Hat and scarf for my Grand daughter.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0KZNFsV2n3E/TtQOTISPrcI/AAAAAAAAC8w/pSgC8_xKeg4/s1600/DSCN5274.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0KZNFsV2n3E/TtQOTISPrcI/AAAAAAAAC8w/pSgC8_xKeg4/s320/DSCN5274.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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She has started knitting - and has done 2 dishcloths and is working on a scarf - amazing.Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-6164907802463532172011-11-28T15:41:00.000-07:002011-11-28T15:41:35.097-07:00ANOTHER KNIT ALONG SWEATER! LOVE IT!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4RwOGgZXwSE/TtQNPrQLlII/AAAAAAAAC8o/eP7BHA_Fp0M/s1600/thumb-1320366137747-img_1015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4RwOGgZXwSE/TtQNPrQLlII/AAAAAAAAC8o/eP7BHA_Fp0M/s320/thumb-1320366137747-img_1015.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Here is another finished pullover from our LETS DESIGN A COAT OF MANYCOLORS which<br />
we made on a wonderful knitting and crochet group - Knitting Paradise. <br />
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We are going to do another knit along in the NEWYear and there is lots of interest. These sweaters don't follow a pattern - we use number of stitches to the inch,measurements and ideas! I am so pleased with the way they are turning out. There should be 5 or 6 more finished in the NEW Year as well as a lot of new members starting.<br />
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We are also going to do a Knit along with a top down pattern (see my bomber jackets). so much fun.<br />
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ShirleyShirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-11633063924754035152011-11-20T18:15:00.000-07:002011-11-20T18:15:55.584-07:00Another sweater from my Knit along group.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pRkZ-xYB-QM/Tsml1A4yA4I/AAAAAAAAC8g/YfrvlKh9LH8/s1600/thumb-1321827500140-sweater_007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pRkZ-xYB-QM/Tsml1A4yA4I/AAAAAAAAC8g/YfrvlKh9LH8/s320/thumb-1321827500140-sweater_007.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Look at the wonderful job Dana Kay did -- especially the yoke. She also put a hood on her sweater. some of the work coming out of the Knitting Paradise forum for this Knit along is absolutely wonderful. I am going to do another one in the NEw Year.Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-46884043950967519182011-11-11T08:39:00.000-07:002011-11-11T08:39:20.293-07:00REMEMBERANCE DAY 2011Today is Remembrance Day here in Canada and other Commonwealth countries, I believe.<br />
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Please take special time to remember our fallen heroes and the families and loved ones who<br />
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ShirleyShirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-20944640544732914892011-11-06T17:35:00.000-07:002011-11-06T17:35:37.998-07:00I am a proud Canadian and....<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">-next week is the Canadian Remembrance day -- </span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Lest we Forget </span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> It is funny</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> how it took someone in England to put it into words......</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers , 'The Sunday</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Telegraph'LONDON :</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Until the deaths of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan , probably</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> almost no one outside their home country had been aware that</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Canadian troops</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> are deployed in the region.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> the world, as</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> everything Canada ever does.. It seems that Canada 's historic</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> mission is to</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> strangers, and</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> the hall,</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;">waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> breaks out, she</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> suffers serious</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes,</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> there is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> glamorously cavort</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;">That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;">continent with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> the United States , and for being a selfless friend of Britain</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> in two global</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> conflicts.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions one foot in </span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;">the old world and an </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">address in the new one,</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> gratitude it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> deserved.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Yet it's purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> in two world</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Canada 's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> entire population of seven million people served in the armed</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> forces during</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> victories of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> capable soldiers</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> in the entire British order of battle.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> neglect, it's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> memory as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> somehow or other the work of the 'British.'</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> the war with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Atlanticagainst U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> participated in the</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> ashore on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> D-Day alone.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> fourth largest</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> air force in the world. The world thanked Canada with the same sublime</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> indifference as it had the previous time.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> if it was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> which the United</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> which, of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> separateCanadian identity.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Canadian. Thus Mary</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox,</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> William Shatner,</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter,</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Mike Weir and</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Dan Aykroyd Michael Buble, Justin Bieber have in the popular perception become American, and</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> ChristopherPlummer, British.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> ceases to be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Canadian as a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> to find any</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> takers.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;">> Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> achievements of</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> unaware of</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;">them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> by</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> anyone</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> else - that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> world'speacekeeping forces.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> Canadianimagination was the sorry affair in Somalia , in which</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> out-of-control</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> was then</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> abasement for which,</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial;"> naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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I have my Christmas presents nearly finished -- and have enjoyed every moment ! It has been interesting to do knitting again after many years of fabric work. I hope to get back to my fabric landscapes and thread painting after Christmas. <br />
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We are both (my husband and I) doing very very well and I am so thankful that he has come through<br />
serious surgery and is back to being himself again. I am swimming at least 3 mornings a week (water exercises) and after swimming a group of us have coffee in the condo clubhouse. Our kids live nearby and our 8 year old grand daughter is only l5 minutes away. Life is good. Shirley<br />
<a name='more'></a>Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-32270763459295650332011-10-28T19:03:00.001-06:002011-10-28T19:03:30.388-06:00Scarf Shawl.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WqqSZs4T-UY/TqtP-yH7aeI/AAAAAAAAC6Y/vQGy04SEaqA/s1600/DSCN5249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WqqSZs4T-UY/TqtP-yH7aeI/AAAAAAAAC6Y/vQGy04SEaqA/s320/DSCN5249.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SWInPIDZHRk/TqtQDlpHltI/AAAAAAAAC6o/dsIRdhCP1wE/s1600/DSCN5251.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SWInPIDZHRk/TqtQDlpHltI/AAAAAAAAC6o/dsIRdhCP1wE/s320/DSCN5251.JPG" width="234" /></a></div>I used a size 15 mm (l9 US) needle and a size 7mm needle and did the 'condo' stitch for this shawl.<br />
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I then crochet a fancy border along the bottom two sides. It can also be worn as a shoulder shawl.<br />
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Lots of fun!Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-5130888727772225102011-10-21T18:31:00.000-06:002011-10-21T18:31:13.175-06:00new slippers -<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ucKTaoSxkOc/TqIOhJq3H1I/AAAAAAAAC6A/CXB2GfLtkZo/s1600/DSCN5234.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ucKTaoSxkOc/TqIOhJq3H1I/AAAAAAAAC6A/CXB2GfLtkZo/s320/DSCN5234.JPG" width="267" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bdjBv0YK5Wg/TqIOlJbJ_qI/AAAAAAAAC6Q/i_TX7r3hQi8/s1600/DSCN5237.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bdjBv0YK5Wg/TqIOlJbJ_qI/AAAAAAAAC6Q/i_TX7r3hQi8/s320/DSCN5237.JPG" width="183" /></a></div>I just finished these -- easy to make and nice and warm. I will wear them over my knitted worsted socks this winter as our floors always seem cold to me. I made the pair this afternoon. Pattern is a bit confusing but once you figure it out it works out quickly. lots of funShirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-25227316293216699082011-10-12T08:48:00.000-06:002011-10-12T08:48:08.798-06:00here is some more of my fabric and thread painting work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--uZUzZ5DkMo/TpWn4vuYBaI/AAAAAAAAC5Y/BHuIC2EryEo/s1600/DSCN4621.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--uZUzZ5DkMo/TpWn4vuYBaI/AAAAAAAAC5Y/BHuIC2EryEo/s320/DSCN4621.JPG" width="248" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7tobZ8PqtmM/TpWn-IO3-BI/AAAAAAAAC5o/6ICDOmQ7DWE/s1600/WINTER+CREEK+-BS+CLASS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7tobZ8PqtmM/TpWn-IO3-BI/AAAAAAAAC5o/6ICDOmQ7DWE/s320/WINTER+CREEK+-BS+CLASS.jpg" width="284" /></a></div>I got very interested in thread painting and also decided to fool around with photo shop and the first picture is a result. All these are l2" square pieces done on heavy web (timtex) Such fun!<br />
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I will be going back to doing these after Christmas once my knitting projects are finished.<br />
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ShirleyShirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-77669075756165970212011-10-12T08:41:00.000-06:002011-10-12T08:41:55.387-06:00Some of my art quilts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhHOtuI2oaQ/TpWmiHK78WI/AAAAAAAAC5I/wPD-l0z7ZTQ/s1600/DSCN1771.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhHOtuI2oaQ/TpWmiHK78WI/AAAAAAAAC5I/wPD-l0z7ZTQ/s320/DSCN1771.JPG" width="265" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5XHNtc5hO2o/TpWmqXNIJeI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/-KUFdu46pd4/s1600/DSCN4040.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5XHNtc5hO2o/TpWmqXNIJeI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/-KUFdu46pd4/s320/DSCN4040.JPG" width="308" /></a></div>I have spent the last l5 years doing Fabric Art quilts and just this past year have taken a break and am now working on some of my own knitting designs. I am going to post a few of my quilts in the next while and I hope you enjoy them. Shirley-Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-22474400203523472712011-10-10T08:47:00.000-06:002011-10-10T08:47:09.794-06:00Another " coat of many colors"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DzZKRU_bbIU/TpMEQkksKeI/AAAAAAAAC4w/ATwe3TPjm7w/s1600/thumb-1318251135721-001__800x683_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DzZKRU_bbIU/TpMEQkksKeI/AAAAAAAAC4w/ATwe3TPjm7w/s320/thumb-1318251135721-001__800x683_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Here is another finished sweater from my workshop on " Knitting Paradise"- We each figured out<br />
our stitch numbers for our sizesl- and away we go! I am really happy with the way these are turning out. If you want to check out the forum the link is attached. I am having fun knitting for now but will likely return to art quilts sometime soon. I have some projects for Christmas to finish first.<br />
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If any of you are knitters you should join Knitting Paradise -- it is a great place and all problems are solved! (ask me how I know!)Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-11134043533571594602011-09-24T21:11:00.000-06:002011-09-24T21:11:20.265-06:00Class I am teaching - first completed sweater!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dRVWy7GHXVE/Tn6aS4ksIqI/AAAAAAAAC4s/pTCPmf7PYqI/s1600/thumb-1316911215605-finished_sweater.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dRVWy7GHXVE/Tn6aS4ksIqI/AAAAAAAAC4s/pTCPmf7PYqI/s320/thumb-1316911215605-finished_sweater.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><br />
<a name='more'></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have joined a wonderful knitting group called Knitting paradise and the girls liked the sweater I showed them that is my own design so I offered to teach one on line. This lady has never knit a sweater before and made this one within one week. I think she did such a great job. We are having fun and it is nice to get back into teaching again. There was no pattern -- they have to work out the size on their own and then from the # of stitches to the inch, they make a sweater - either a cardigan or a pullover to fit themselves. She is going to make one for her boyfriend as he liked it so much. I am very proud of how she just 'went for it' </span>Shirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877771960944738477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095396052907151668.post-29038283282373722452011-09-18T14:14:00.000-06:002011-09-18T14:14:19.284-06:00drawings for a sweater I am teaching on Knitting Paradise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gBCBoigzTJw/TnZQdu6eRUI/AAAAAAAAC4o/h_3vObGGCCQ/s1600/DSCN5218.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br />
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