Hemp 'n Cotton

Our most recent shipment of Bare Naked yarn club arrived ! ! ! 

The club involves yarn from nature.

We receive bare yarn,

not dyed.

It is spun directly from the animal or plant.

This month's treasure trove

is Hemp yarn [brown] 

and 

Cotton yarn [white].

The hemp is grown and spun in Romania

The cotton yarn is a special cotton grown on Peruvian trees that produce naturally pigmented cotton colors.

That's what the label reads. 

This month's designs are spa related

Face cloths from the cotton

Back scrubber from the hemp

I'm ready to cast on a face cloth or two

I'll show ya when I complete the first one.

RAIN ! ! ! !

Mercy, did the heavens open up yesterday evening.

For a solid fifteen minutes there was a downpour like I've seen only a few times.

I'm sure we received at least two-and-a-half inches.

The gutters were flooded to the middle of the street.

Lucky for us that we live in a hilly area and that we're not at the bottom of any hill.

Things drained fairly fast.

Well, I must cast on a face cloth and then a back scrubber.

Ta,

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What's New ! !

Our  Quilt Shop Hop last week proved to be just as wonderful as we thought.

Deb and I shopped from our lists.  .  . mostly.

Gloria went a long ways to build a Stash.

One item on my Wanted List

was to build my stash re:  Modern Quilts, more-or-less

This Riley Blake Layer Cakes [ a pack of 24 pieces of 10" squares ]

Small Cheverons

I plan on cutting 10" squares of this

Moda 'Sew Stitchy' by Aneela Hoey

with all those glass-headed straight pins scattered throughout the grey

to be used as alternate  blocks with the cheverons

A quilt top along the lines of a summer throw ?  ?  ?  ?

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Malka Dubrawsky

has been one of my fav designers

so when I spied this Charm Pack of   forty-two 5" squares

I COULD NOT RESIST

Will I be pairing it with this background fabric ???

I can not say.

All I can tell you is that it did call my name as I approached it

:  ^  )

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Deb brought this over the other day

saying we had purchased this on our quilt shop visit some months ago.

???? She insisted I helped pick this so I guess I did.

Hmmmm, maybe something I can include in my potholder making stash.

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Some Accomplishments

Last week both daughters and I went on the local Quilt Shop Hop.

There were four shops in this hop

(or hop-ette)

all located to the north of us.

We visited all four

plus one other quilt shop

for a total of five quilt shops in a day.

Each of us had our own shopping list

and we pretty much stuck to them.

I'll have pics up later this week.

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HOWEVER,

there was another shop along the way

that I could not resist. 

It was a new-to-me shop.

Just happened to be a yarn shop

The girls and I were drawn to some pretty niffty sox and yarn.

As it turn out 

we each picked a fav color combo

for some handknit sox.

Just so the daughters won't think one of them is favorite,

mom decided to knit both girls sox at the same time

So here a pic of their sox

Deb's pick on the left

Gloria's on the right

Cast these on Friday evening and plan to have these two finished tomorrow.

If there an opportunity for me to knit during our Quilt Guild Meeting this evening, that is.

The second two will be cast on immediately after that/

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For my finished project

Here are the most current Cookie A sock pattern: TIBERIUS

and club yarn in the BLOOD ORANGE colorway

Yep, you guessed right!

This pair is for ME ! ! ! ! 

These are as bright as our mid-Missouri Summer Sun

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