Happy Mother's Day!!!!

I was looking for something else when I found this heart pattern on Jon's Pattern Pages. She designed it in memory of her mother and it just seemed fitting that I tat it today in memory of my own.

I didn't have too much of a problem remembering how to do the daisy picot but for some reason, my first long picot would not come to the front like the others so....I clipped and frayed them all, but I really did want Jon's version!

ps...I used 2 to 2 1/2 yards of size 20 thread, 3 yards tops! I put on way more than that and just measured what was left. Always good to have an idea of how much thread to wind.This is my mother, Dot, in 1948 as a senior in high school. She was 16. She didn't turn 17 until she graduated in May. She wasn't much for pink but she did love red so I made the heart in red and white. She wasn't good at everything and she didn't know everything but she sure could make you feel like you did. I think that was her special gift not only to me and my sister but to anyone who came in contact with her. She is dearly missed, still, after all these years. She passed away in 1988 from cancer.

I posted the beginning of this crocheted gerbera daisy on my lace blog but thought I'd put it here too, just because it is pretty. It's not quite done. I ordered some findings for the back and then I'll stitch the center flower down along with a bead or button and some padding.

If you're from the midwest and maybe a few other select places in the States, you know this is SHROOM season. That's really just fun slang for mushroom or specifically, yellow morels. My oldest son came by today to wish me Happy Mother's Day along with a gift...and then a second gift of these mushrooms when he came back up the hill from hunting them. YUM! I have them soaking now. Can't wait to fry them up and EAT! I've also talked to most of the other kids and the day isn't over.

I spent a good part of my morning tweaking some safety training I'm doing tomorrow. I'm still sorting and cleaning, sorting and cleaning. The mower wouldn't start so I had to buy a charger and it's charging now. Of course, I also noticed the front wheel is going flat. I really need to take some vacation and catch up but that's not going to happen for at least a few weeks. My car was backed into by someone in the parking garage and so a good part of this week was involved with the car in the shop. Didn't cost me anything but time and annoyance and really, stuff happens. In the overall scheme of things, that was nuttin'.

It did delay my focus on some electrical work and getting my new garage in the works though. My middle son has made great strides in cleaning up the deadwood and cut wood in the driveway so I'm pleased with that. We still have so much to do before I can get a garage put up but I'm also excited that where the old garage is, will be a new patio area. I might actually be able to get some lawn furniture and lounge in the sun with pretty flowers and birds and squirrels and .......oooh...skunks. We found a dead skunk yesterday in the garden-yard while my son was burning brush. We put the carcass in the fire and the smell soon went away. And I saw a baby snake in my flower bed by the house the week before. I've bought a few flowers to put in, but haven't had the time or energy to follow through. Or it's been raining. Lookin' good today though!

Happy Valentine's Day!

If you wondered what the heart looked like on Christina's Heart, a link I got from Bellaonline, which is overseen now by Georgia Seitz, this is it! I used the shaft of a crochet hook as the picot guage and since the picots are only 1 ds apart, I just left it in place and made continous picots which keeps them all the same size and creates this sort of figure 8 in the picot when you slide the hook out. Blocking it would take care of that but I kind of like it. I was tempted to crochet around the edge but kept forgetting and cutting off the thread. Maybe another time.

Crazy Mom posted the link to this heart yesterday but I'd already tatted it from a printout I had from last year. It was only when I went to block it last night that I found my mistake. Do you see it?

Hint: It's leaning to the left because it's a bit heavy on that side.

I have a binder full of heart patterns from the Internet. I've tatted most of them but there are still a few I want to tat. Nell's Old Glory Heart is one. I even bought red, white and blue sewing thread for it. I have no clue why sewing thread unless that was the fastest way I could get the right colored thread in 2001. Martha Ess's Two Hearts as One pattern is the other one. This is the link to one of the hearts. You'll need to visit the 2nd link to make the complete heart. Both patterns have been around since at least 2001 and I wanted to tat them from the get-go but I haven't. Why? Because I will have to really concentrate and sit still! LOL! And I'm making them for ME so it's like...no hurry...I'll get around to it! So if someone would please send me a Round TUIT, I'll tat them! It's been TEN years, for cryin' out loud!

I only need to hear from two more winners from the Blogaversary celebration with their mailing address and I'll be wrapping up the OWOH tour on Thursday/Friday so then I can get back to the 25 motif challenge. I've been eyeballing it but not too closely or I won't get everything sent out in a reasonable time! I already started knitting something last night to get my hands busy for a bit. It might turn into someone's birthday gift so I don't want to post it. But you all know how SLOWLY I knit so maybe it'll turn into a Christmas gift instead.

Take some time today to tell those you love that you LOVE them and for those you wouldn't feel comfortable saying "I Love You", then tell them something nice about themselves that you like or admire or deeply respect. We should let people know we care about them. It makes them blossom!