My two favorites collide

I love the chevron pattern.  I was delighted to find this fallish chevron patterned fabric at Hobby Lobby and BONUS ~ it was on sale!!!  I had some leftover "blow money" soooo I bought a little over a yard of fabric. 

I opted for an extra 9 inches because the fabric is 100% cotton and I wanted to make sure I allowed for the cottons inability to stretch. 

Here's the finished scarf....

My second infinity scarf project....

Clearanced gray striped fabric got transformed into a fabulous infinity scarf!!!

Ramblings...weather, scarves, hot chocolate, Sunday school, and the upcoming week

We've had a very weird/winterish spring.  March came in like a lion and out like a lamb...and then there has been ridiculously cold April.  April 19th - we saw snow!  It was mostly flurries but add to the flurries a blustery Artic wind.  Brrrr...I'm cold just thinking about it.

We've, also, experienced several (SEV-ER-AL) rainy, gray, overcast, Eyeore-ish days.  [Eyeore from Winnie the Pooh.  Whenever I think of Eyeore, I picture the vintage-looking Eyeore.  Purple-grayish.  Cuddly.  I love Eyeore.  Most of the time, A.A. Milne gave Eyeore a pessimistic attitude...but every once in a while, Eyeore took on a cup-half-full attitude and it always, ALWAYS cracked me up!]

Random?  Yes.  You know you love my randomness.

I have three infinity scarves to work on. 
The 1st is black with white polkadots;
the 2nd is solid black with the other side a black-white-&-pink print
and the 3rd is a mystery to even me, the sewer.  I've not purchased the fabric for the third.  You see, it's a birthday present...and every time I go meandering through the fabric store, I've not found a yard of fabric that screams/hollers/shouts the birthday girl's name.  The other two scarves -- the fabric seemed perfect.  This third scarf...(sigh)...I'm not sure what to do...so I am waiting.  A little bird (i.e. another sewer in the Rockford JoAnn Fabric's store) told me to take a roadtrip to Janesville or Algonquin - as both of those stores have larger selections.  Hmmmm...  I'd be all-over the Algonquin roadtrip, except...I learned this week that my beloved Caribou Coffee on Randall Road closed up shop on the 14th of this month.  Closed.  Gone.  Bye-bye gluten-free dark chocolate hot chocolate. 

Speaking of hot chocolate - yesterday I made some deeeelish hot chocolate using my Penzey's Dutch-Pressed Cocoa, almond milk, sugar in the raw, and gf vanilla.  Now that I think about it - I might make myself another mugful.

Yesterday I realized this week is the last full week of April...  Wow - this month has flown by!  Ridiculous!  I said it like this, "Reeeeeeee-dic-uuuuuuu-lus!" 

Today was my second Sunday in grown-up Sunday school.  Our class is studying Bible prophesy.  If I could go back in time to my 20-year old-self, I would say, "Angie Good, take the Bible Prophesy class!!!"  I didn't.  Instead I took Romans and Life of David and General Epistles.  All excellent Bible courses at P Double C.  This Sunday school class has been sooooo interesting.  For example, never did I know that Israel is only 65 years old.  I guess I always thought the country existed for forever...  It hasn't. 

This upcoming week, I have several FUNNISH events...
1. Monday night - thrifting with Rhonda
2. Tuesday night - my last sewing class (Sniffle.)
3. Wednesday night - Bible study
4. Thursday night - hit the gym...and hope it doesn't hit me back!
5. Friday night - decorate for the ladies banquet...which will also include laughter and fruit skewers.  It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye!
6 Saturday - Spring banquet

The new ab work-out and some randomness

Sometimes I compose blog posts in my head...and now that I am without a computer at the cottage, I find myself posting imaginary blog posts MORE now than ever before.  Scary, the thoughts that go through my pretty, little head.  :)  Yet, you keep coming back for more.  Who's the crazy one now?  (Laughing.)

Well, my friend and I started a new ab work-out and let me tell you...as weird as it's going to sound...I kinda enjoy it.  Not in a weird, deranged sort-of way...I don't need my head examined.  I like it mostly because I think it's going to work.  I love this piece of equipment at the gym that I refer to as "The Twister" -- it does what it says.  Twists and works your oh-bleaks.  Phonetics.  I heart them.  Well...we've given "The Twister" a break and we now use weighted exercise balls.  We do three reps of several different motions.  I love the 2nd set because I tell myself, "Angie Good" (yes, I use my first and last name when I chat with myself in my head!), "Angie Good, you are 2/3 of the way done."  Can you imagine what my blog would be like if I wrote every single thought that was going through my head?  I will save that for another day...maybe in the winter when I am snowed-in...and have consumed my body weight in Dark Hot Chocolate...and maybe some of those gluten-free muffins that I love ever so much.  I digress.  I digress often.  :)

I feel like I have so much to tell you and share...but now that I am sitting here at a computer, I cannot remember and it makes me sad.  Let me think...

Last night I put together a care package for my friend who's currently residing "Over the pond."  I would blog about what I put in it - but then when she stalks my blog, she will know before it arrives.  I'm really excited about sending her this package.  Oh - and this Friday, she's going to join us for coffee...via Facetime.  Yahoooo!  I miss her.

I'm getting in the mood to start knitting Christmas presents.  I have the yarn to make 3 cowl-scarfy things.  Gray, black, brown and purple.  Oops - I guess that's 4.  My mistake.  I forgot about the purple yarn until I mentally pictured my yarn basket and realized the 4th.  I will post pictures of them.  I'm going to use the simple pattern that I found last winter.

Well, I think shall publish this post and call it a day.  Not really a day...it's only 3:20 Central Standard Time.

Hope you had a fabulous sort of Wednesday!!!

Scarves! Scarves! Scarves!

One of my co-workers is having a birthday at the end of this month.  A week and a half ago, I was in JoAnn's perusing the fru-fru yarn when I saw a variegated yarn that screamed my co-worker's name.  It was grays and browns.  My first inclination was to pass that off as such a ________'s kinda scarf...but honestly, the more I knitted it and the more the yarn twirled, the more smitten I fell.  (It's pictured below.)

This variegated yarn got me thinking...this scarf would work with black, gray, khakis and browns.  It's sooo versatile!!!!  


I love color!  Infact if you were to come to the cottage and throw open my closet door, you would see a sea of fabulous summery colors...which is why I was surprised when I realized that I was smitten with a neutral colored scarf.  Who would've thunk???

And lastly, I made her two "sensible" scarves.  Shouldn't every girl have a black scarf AND a gray scarf?  I mean...REALLY...think about it.