Blessings

Hello everyone.  Last week I was amazed and delighted to learn I was to be the proud recipient of Deb G's giveway...her blog, Bee Creative, is a place I often visit for tips and reassurance about living sustainably and harmoniously on this planet.  This week the wonderful package arrived!  A beautiful indigo hand-dyed and hand-knit cowl...it is perfect because our Bay Area air often feels chilly on my neck and ears.  This is how I love to wear it, walking down the street into the wind:

She also included this bit of soft blue roving, also hand-dyed...this is inspiring me to start a new felting project:

Thank you, Deb!

Here are a couple of updates on the last projects I posted about...I took out the stitched words on the pony picture because they seemed too dominant, but some of them are still there, under the kantha...I like it better this way.

...an exercise in Piecing:

AND!  the family has an addition...She's 3 months old and so far her name is Gilly...it started out to be Golly, but now it is Gilly...it might continue to change, but it's been Gilly for a whole day now.  She was found wandering around the streets of Madera, but now she's home.

Right now she's sleeping on my lap. It's awfully nice to have a dog.  What a week!