Mousy Brown's House-Creating, crafting and collecting. Enjoying Life.

Gratitude.

"Despite the sadness I feel blessed this week...the support of family, good friends, caring neighbours, the kindness of strangers, sunlight and hints of Spring. There have been ups and downs and I know that will continue for some time to come but most of all I feel reminded that there is so much good in this world."

I wanted to re-post here the words and image from my flickr set today as a thank you for all the kind words and messages that have made it my way.  I appreciate each and every one of them, we all do...

With Love...

...to my Mother, who passed away quietly at home yesterday.  It was too soon and she will be missed everyday...

Update on January's projects and a new list for February...

My January project list seemed to do the trick and this first month of the year has been full of creativity and some finished projects. 

Knitting - My tea-leaves cardi is slowly growing.  After an initial blip where I ended up with twice the number of stitches than I needed, I have been much more careful in my pattern reading and things are moving on.  I passed the sleeve separation stage earlier this week and am happy with the progress it has made. (Trying hard not think about how far I would be if I hadn't had to frog two whole skeins worth of knitting!)

I also have to admit to stepping away from my list and signing up for the Follow Your Arrow mystery KAL but so far the clues have been fairly managable and haven't encroached too much on tea-leaves time (plus I think it was actually just the change I needed from time to time...all that peace fleece stocking stitch get rather boring after a while!)

Oh and I also cast on a pair of socks... (insert guilty face here!)

Crochet - I didn't feel like doing any and so I didn't!

Sewing - Two pairs of PJ's all completed and in use...(mine are the rather lovely soft velvet pink pair above)

Easy/On the go - Sashiko all finished and ready to turn into...maybe a wrap for my double points?

Long -term - Still very long term, as no quilting took place at all...I blame my machine, which is waiting for a service but as it doesn't have legs I guess it may be my fault really?

Wildcard - Pyrography tried, spoons decorated, a tiny house drawing done...may try leather next?

Now for February!

My plans are to...   #Knit some more of my Tea-leaves cardi.

#Crochet with my Natural dye studio yarn.

#Sew a "Susanne" tunic, pattern from here .  

#Easy/on the go...Finish my socks.

#Long term project is still those quilt-as-you-go quilts.

and finally this months #Wildcard project is to start the needle holder kit I bought from The Running Chicken at last years Festival of Quilts.

This planning and listing seems to be working well for me at the moment...a bit of inspiration and planning and a feeling of satisfaction at getting some WIPs finished by the end of the month...let's see how I do in February...

The end of another year...

 

 On the first of February I completed another year of photo's...three years in a row...1096 days without a pause.  This feels like enough...time to stop.  It's been fun and I have enjoyed it right up until the last couple of weeks, where a combination of dark days, lots of work and not going anywhere have resulted in (for the first time) some days where it has been a struggle to find something I want to capture.  Can't stop completely though and have already started a new project...here.