First Doodles 2024 and Another Potholder

 I've done a little doodling, read several chapters in my book, made 5-6 potholders, joined a junk journaling group on FB, and this is my third post in week one of 2024, so I'm happy! It's a step in the right creative direction! :)

First warm up doodles of the year! These are currently sitting on the fireplace hearth across the room from my recliner. A decorative weathervane, a fan blade snowman, and a fish bowl snowman. The snowmen were made and gifted to me by one of my best friends, and were the only Christmas decorations I had up this year, aside from a few Christmas cards on the fridge. Loosely sketched with a brush pen and ink.

The 2nd page of doodles with the inky brush pen from my imagination. Just playing. I'm a bit rusty!

The bag of blue loops I had ordered came Friday, and I couldn't wait to try them, so I mixed them with the colors in both the other bags. It's my new favorite!

This an old journal that I made several years ago to record my diet and exercise journey. When I quit recording my progress after a couple of traumatic events, I took the used pages out and burned them. It has mostly red and yellow-green pages left in it and it's the size of half a sheet of printer paper. It has a lot of pages still left, and I made it so I could take pages out or add more. I dug it out, because I'm thinking I might make it into a junk journal, and I will use rings instead of the wire ribbon to bind it. I will also exchange some of the pages for other colors and textured papers to add ephemera and interest to it. The cover needs to be made sturdier too. I am feeling really inspired by the junk journaling group. We'll see what I can get done with it!

It's a cold gloomy day here, and I woke up really early, so I'm about ready for a nap, unless my friend stops by shortly. That will be okay. I haven't seen her in over a month; she stays so busy!

Anyway, it's been a good first week for us, so far. Every little bit of creativity makes me happy! So I feel I've been productive, even if I can write my name on the furniture and floors! :) 

More New Loops=Two More Potholders

 The other bag of 10" loops I ordered from Harrisville Designs on Amazon arrived yesterday. They are a different color palette from the bag I got last week, but they will work together for different designs, plus I ordered a small bag of dark blue loops to mix in with them, which I think will look great.

I woke up with a sore elbow this morning though, so I'm going to have to let my arm rest a couple of days before making anymore. I have a small tear in my right rotator cuff, plus a bit of arthritis and bursitis, and pulling on the loops when weaving, especially the last two, and then crocheting them off the loom makes my arm muscles hurt. I've never had my elbow to get this sore though. It is possible that the way I slept on it made it sore, but I can also feel it in my shoulder and bicep, so I'm going to get the one I made last night off the loom and rest for a couple of days before making anymore. The metal loom and the wire hook also make my fingers sore. It is fun stuff though!

Enough multicolored  loops came with the loom to make two potholders. Then I ordered a bag of bright party colored loops, enough for six and made them up. I got the earth tones bag last week and have made three, then the floral tones came yesterday and I made one last night and today. Some bags have seven colors of loops, or you can order bags of three colors. They have enough for six potholders. Single colors have enough for two. You can also get much larger bags, but they are expensive. I ordered mine off Amazon from Harrisville loops. The six inch loops are much less expensive, but these larger ones are much more protective. Hubby does most of the cooking since he retired and he loves them.

I think the last one I made, on the right, is my favorite so far. More to come, but for the next few days I'll focus on something else.

https://scribblesfromrabbithop.blogspot.com is my writing blog, which I haven't posted to in years, but I was reading some on it looking for a poem to put in my Storyworth memory book, and I wound up reading most of my posts. They resonated as much, if not more, with me now than they did when I wrote them. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, and it made me want to write again, so maybe I'll do that for a while. I had forgotten how much I loved writing short stories and poems. 

I took short story and novel writing courses through correspondence courses with the Long Story Short writing school. Yep, I did the required three first chapters of a novel, and discovered that I much preferred short stories! 

I read a few more chapters in my Kindle book, "Where Lost Girls Go", last night. There are at least three mysteries going on at once, but I'm thinking they may all tie together at the end. Keeping me on my toes!

Anyway, right now it's keeping us busy trying to stay warm and cozy. It didn't get above forty degrees here today. I know that's warm to many of you, but it's cold for us! :)

Thanks for visiting! Try to do something fun for yourself! 

First Day of New Year 2024

Well, we were still up at midnight, not because we were ringing in the new year, but because we were watching TV. Went to bed at midnight! No celebration. No fanfare. Just grateful to have made it, by the grace of God, through another year together.

I woke up really early and couldn't go back to sleep, so I got up to discover that I had an email from Blog2Print that everything is half off for the next week. I got busy and had all my blog posts for this year printed into book form, as I do every year, and got it ordered. Should be here in a couple of weeks!

There was also an email with another question for my Storyworth memory book. Now I'm 38 memories behind. The question now is, do I want to get busy and answer all the questions for my niece, because she gets a copy of all my answers per email, or do I just let it go and apologize to her for not finishing the book. A printed book comes with the subscription she gifted me last Christmas. Decisions decisions!

No plans for today, so we will see how it unfolds. Grateful for the holidays, but anxious for the days to get back on track! 

Update: I changed the bed sheets, got some laundry caught up, had a long nap, and made another potholder. It's been a good day! I count it a good day when I do any little thing creative.

Many projects have been waiting to be finished, as in a few below. I know, my workspace is ultra messy, but that's another huge project...

The potholder I made today, on the right. It matches the one I made a couple of days ago. Probably a practical gift set for someone!

My first cage doll, whose cage skirt came apart because the hot glue turned loose. I took it completely apart, sanded the wood, re-painted her dress, bought some better glue, and she's been patiently waiting for months now for her skirt to be re-attached.

The scrapbook I started for all the ephemera I collected on hubby,s and my month long road trip through sixteen states around the west in 2019, still waiting to be finished. The photos are still also waiting to be labeled and used to help with the scrapbook. It was an amazing trip! Glad I made lots of notes!

A little paper clay figure inspired by a class with Jeanne Marie Webb has been waiting for months to be sanded and painted, and the mussel shell encased in clay is waiting for a figure to be sculpted and attached.

A few more paper clay sculpted figures waiting to be sanded and painted. I want to finish all these. I just got sidetracked onto something else. 

Hoping to get back to it in the new year! These half-finished projects are just the tip of the iceberg. Yikes! For now I want to read a couple of chapters in the book, "Where the Lost Girls Go" by B.R. Spangler, before TV time. It's getting good! I always have to have several projects and books going at the same time. I get bored with just one at a time. Anyone else like that?

It's been a good start to a new year. Hope you've had a good day and start as well!

Two More Potholders

 So I got one bag of the  10" loops I had ordered, in earth tones. The colors weren't the same as the potholder on the loom that lacked one loop being finished (made from leftover loops), but I found one that didn't stand out too much and finished it (top one), then made another potholder with the new colors (bottom one). I'm not fond of the colors, but hubby loves them. I will use them up anyway. Cost too much not to! 😲 I can always use them for gifts...

The corners of the bottom one are actually a forest green , not blackish. 

This is probably the last project for this year, as we will have company tomorrow, and I've started another Kindle book thriller, "Where Lost Girls Go" by B. R. Spangler, which is getting very interesting. I love mysteries! 

Have a safe and happy holiday weekend!

One Loop Shy of a Potholder

So I decided this morning to use up the loops I had left over from making the eight 8" potholders, sort of a "scrap" potholder. I counted out the loops by color and tried to scatter them out among the purple and red loops, which I had the most of. Problem is, I'm one loop shy of finishing it. 😏

I knew I lacked one having enough before I started weaving, but I was hoping I'd mis-counted, or that I'd find one I hadn't counted. No such luck! I looked everywhere that I had worked with or had the loops. Now here it sits, lacking one loop of being able to take it off the loom. 

I was trying to decide whether to order another bag of loops (they are pretty expensive) to finish this potholder, or figure out how to take it off the loom without it being too loose, when hubby informed me that he was telling our nephew's wife about me making them and how much we liked them, and she told him she'd love to have some, because she couldn't find any large ones and she's always burning her hands. He basically volunteered me to make her some, which means I'll need to make our niece some, as well. But they are worth it!

Anyway, I've wound up ordering two bags of loops today, which will make twelve potholders total. They are different colors to what's in this potholder, but I'm hoping one will blend in to fill it out, and we'll keep this one for our use. 

Hubby wanted me to make everyone potholders for Christmas, but I only made enough for my two best friends, whom I've had since grade school. I've gotten faster at it, so it doesn't take that long, but if I do more than a couple at a time my shoulder with a torn rotator cuff starts bothering me, and I have to rest it for a couple of days.

The loops won't be here until January 3, so potholdering will have to wait until then. Meanwhile, I need to do some cleaning and working on my memory book. I'm only 36 memories behind, and the subscription is out in a couple of weeks. I've also got to get my blog book for the year ready to print. Yikes! 

Not sure what we'll do Christmas Day yet, but we'll think of something! 

Potholder Gifts

 Believe it or not, I've made four large 10" potholders this weekend! Yay, me!

Made from cotton loops, these are probably going to be Christmas gifts. I made two, months ago, when I first got the loom, and we love them. So much better than the thin smaller ones you buy. 

I hadn't made one in a while, but took a notion to make one yesterday and wound up making three, plus the green one today. I'm just happy that I created something! 😊

Busy week ahead! Take care when you're out and about during all the holiday madness!

Two More Large Potholders

 So, I used up the loops that came with the Pro Potholder Loom to make the two potholders I shared before and the struggles I had with them because it had been so long since I made a potholder. The loom still hurts my hands, and pulling the loops through with the wire hook takes some strength and makes my hand and arm hurt a little, so I have to weave in spurts. It might be easier if I wasn't sitting in my recliner holding the loom in one hand while pulling loops over and under with a hook in the other, but for now that's how it is.

I bought a separate bag of loops, because I thought hubby might enjoy doing them while he watched TV. He has to be busy at something. However, he doesn't think he can handle it because he was electrocuted on his job several years ago. The voltage went in through his hand and blew a hole out in his neck, requiring skin grafts on both. He doesn't have a lot of use in that hand now, so, so far, he hasn't tried the potholder thing.

The refill loop bag has enough to make six large potholders, and I have used enough to make two. Hubby loves using the first two I made. Now he's wanting me to make enough for Christmas presents for everybody. Yikes! I mean, I enjoy making them, but I have other stuff that I want, and need, to do...

These two went much faster and smoother than the first two, especially the last one, because I remembered the trick, above, about raising the warp loops up, and I learned a new trick about taking the loops off the loom when I'm through weaving. When I get the loops off one edge, I take the center of that edge and loop on back over the loom peg to hold it taunt. Doing this on three edges keeps the last edge on the pegs so the whole edge doesn't fall off and get tangled.

The blue and orange one took less than two hours, and I stopped a couple of times. I was in no hurry to get it done. The top half looks off key because I made a couple of mistakes and decided to just go with it. The first booboo was when I added the dark blue loop across, meaning to make a cross with that color, I had failed to put one up the center vertically to make a cross. The second booboo was I wove three or four blue loops through before noticing that I had two loops through the same warp loop right over the dark blue loop. I didn't want to pull out and re-weave that many, so I just repeated the pattern to finish it out. If I was going to gift or sell it I would have re-woven them, but it doesn't bother me, and I was lazy, so we'll use it as is. Besides it's kind of unique and quirky!

Fun Stuff!

Another Woven Potholder Attempt

Last week I ordered and received a Harrisburg Potholder Pro, because I needed bigger potholders than what we've been using, which were too small for our aging hands. If you saw my previous post, you read what happened when I tried to weave one on my Martha Stewart plastic loom with cotton yarn. It was big enough, but very flimsy, and the little pegs kept coming out while I was trying to weave. So I gave in and ordered this metal one.

It makes an 8" x 8" potholder, which is plenty big enough. The loom came with enough cotton loops to make two potholders, a metal hook for pulling the loops through, and a metal crochet hook.

I know it looks rectangle here, but it's just the angle I made the photo from. It's square. I'm a little rusty, and I didn't get the first rows pushed down enough, which caused me problems getting the last five or six rows pulled through, especially the last three. The warp was so tight I had to really work to get the hook through, let alone pull a loop back through. I had to poke the last loop through using the crochet hook. My arm and hand were sore and hurting by the time I got them through, not to mention the fingers on my other hand were sore from trying to hold the loom by those little flat metal pegs.

Nevertheless, I got all 27 loops of the weft pulled through all 27 loops of the warp. Then I thought getting it off the loom would be easy, and it was, using a slip stitch, on three sides, but when I started the last side all of the loops came off the pegs and in handling them the warp loops came undone and slipped back through the last weft loop. I didn't have too much of a problem with that, until about half way across, the last loop got twisted. I didn't notice it until a few loops later, and had to go back, untangle, figure out, and re-hook the last several stitches about four times before I could live with it. The one corner still doesn't look exactly right, but I got er done and we're already using it! Hubby loves it!

I don't plan on selling or gifting these, so a wonky corner is ok for us!

I thought I might make one, just to try it out, and let hubby do the other while he's watching TV, but last night I picked it up and started the second one while I was watching TV and he was on his computer. This time I made sure I pulled the first weft loops down good and tight so maybe the last loops won't be so difficult to get through. I also ran a wooden dowel over and under the top warp loops before I began to hold them up, making it easier to pull the weft loops through. It's kind of an expensive potholder, but way better than the bought ones, and besides that, they're fun to make, especially if you don't have other things you want to create, which is why I'm hoping hubby will enjoy making them. I ordered an extra bag of loops, so we will see!

The second one went much better and easier, except for the last edge when I was taking it off the loom, when the whole edge came off the pegs and half of the loops came undone two or three rows down again. I had to unhook and re-hook the loops at least four times before I got them all woven again, and I still didn't get the corner loop right, so I took some embroidery thread and re-enforced the fourth corners on both potholders, because I didn't trust them to stay put. The dowel at the top really helped, plus I pulled every row of the weft loops tight after I pulled them through, and the metal pegs didn't make my fingers sore from holding the loom while I wove this time. I didn't make a picture after it was off the loom, but it looks very much like the first one.

These are also good to set hot stuff on, or they can be stitched together to make place mats, rugs, pouches, etc., kind of like crocheted granny squares!

The potholder adventure continues, as well as all the other projects that I have started...

Woven Potholder Fiasco

 So we need some new potholders that are bigger and thicker than the ones we have, which are old and in bad shape, but they are expensive, so I decided to make some. I have a regular potholder loom, but the potholders are small. I didn't want to sew or crochet any, so I remembered my Martha Stewart loom, which can be arranged in many shapes and sizes, and arranged it into a ten by ten loom. I thought I would just order cotton loops for it, but the loops for a ten inch loom are also expensive.

I have some leftover cotton yarn, so I thought I would try weaving a trial potholder with it. I couldn't find the wire hook to pull the yarn through, so I used a long crochet hook. I assembled the loom to make an eight by eight inch finished potholder and pushed all the little plastic pegs into the holes and set about wrapping the yarn around them.

It's been several years since I did any weaving, so I am really rusty. Nevertheless I wrapped the yarn around each post twice, for thickness, to make the warp. It was aggravating trying to keep the yarn straight and somewhere along the line some got twisted, but I thought it's only a trial run, so I proceeded to do the weft using only one strand of yarn. Doing the weft was really a pain in the butt. 

I got off to a bad start within the first two or three lines. Of course, I didn't notice until a few lines later, but I kept going even though the lines were one peg off across. The crochet hook was a bit big around to get between the pegs, and I had to twist it some, which loosened some of the pegs and caused them to fall out, turning the yarn loose. I had to drag the yarn back and re-peg it. Also, the hook was very shallow, so after I worked it over and under the warp and hooked the yarn strand to pull it across to the other side, it would slide off the hook or get tangled, and I had to re-do it. This happened several times. The further I went the tighter and harder it got to weave. By the end, I could barely get the hook through, let alone pull yarn back with it. I was so happy to weave the last line, even though it's not straight, and I have several missed stitches. A couple of times I ran out of yarn strands and had to tie more on.

Below is what it looked like before I took it off the loom, very tightly woven. I could already tell it wasn't thick enough.

I used a slip knot to take the potholder off the loom. It was so tight around the pegs that I had to take part of them out to get the stitches off to finish. Only after I finished did I notice that a couple of the stitches had dropped that I failed to get hooked, so I had to tie them up with a short piece of yarn.

Anyway, I got it off, skipped stitches, dropped stitches, loose threads, knots, crooked lines and all. It's messy looking, but hubby tried it out. He loves the bigger size, but informed me that I need to make another one to sew onto this one to make it thick enough.

I said, "No way!" I told him I would show him how and he could make one, but he doesn't want to, so this is how it'll stay.

This one is too light in color and flimsy for us anyway. We are messy in the kitchen and they get stained and sometimes scorched.

So, I'm either going to have to buy some thick cotton rug yarn or give in and pay the price for the thick cotton loops and maybe a new bigger potholder loom with permanent pegs for looping. 

And next time, if I use yarn, I'll try to remember not to make the warp so tight that it's a struggle to get the weft through it! I made a mess, but I was reminded of how I should do it if I do try weaving another one.

You learn, or are reminded of, something new or forgotten every day if you pay attention! Keep on keeping on!

Another New Class! The Magpie's Nest

 I have so many things started, including journal courses, and I haven't finished my paper clay class yet either, but I couldn't resist adding another to my list, The Magpie's Nest with Aimee Bishop. jeanneoliver.com has been running a 40% off her courses for a few days (sale ends Oct 16, and I had been seeing such wonderful journals from the people already taking this mixed media course, that I took the plunge as a birthday gift to myself. 

I've watched, and downloaded, all of the videos, which are wonderful, plus I've been on a field trip and gathered up nature "treasures" to add to my stash! I don't know when I'll actually start work on it, because I'd like to at least finish painting the clay characters I have almost done first, but I'll be gathering together what I need to jump in. So excited!

Star Quilt Mama Made

The last hand quilted quilt that mama made for me, before she passed away in 2017, fits my queen sized bed. I recently wanted a change from the Dutch Doll quilt that I had been sleeping under for many years, so I pulled this one out and put it on my bed. It doesn't show in the pictures, but the bed ruffle is the same color as the curtains. Also my original artwork on the walls, which is also about to be replaced, except for the large one over the bed.

My mom also made the crochet doily over the lampshade on the night stand.

My large weaving loom waiting between the bed and the window for me to finish the piece started on it...

I have many beautiful quilts given to me by my grandmothers, aunts, and several by mama over the years, plus I inherited what she left behind, plus a few from hubby's mom and aunt. I love quilts, and quilted some as a teenager, when one neighbor would hang quilting frames from the ceiling and other neighbors would come and they would all sit around and work on the quilt while they visited. I never really took to quilting myself, although I did piece together and sew one on my sewing machine once when I was younger. Takes a lot of patience, even on a machine!

My mom lived alone the last fourteen years of her life and spent many hours at night quilting on frames that could be held on her lap, or crocheting doilies, while listening to the TV. Most of them were given as gifts to people she loved.

Why do we not realize how special the people in our lives are until they're gone? It's so sad how we take them for granted when we have them, and can not begin to even imagine how hard the loss will be when they're gone.

Yesterday would have been mama's 87th birthday. Happy Birthday, Mama! RIP 💔

4 Projects On My Table Right Now

On my small Cricket loom- a scarf using Bamboo crochet thread in coral and plain stitch with a row of the Brooks Bouquet stitch for interest...

A large king sized headboard canvas in mixed media...

The second step of a mixed media "Loose and Raw Painting" online class on canvas that I'm taking from Sue Pelletier...

Images and canvases for another mixed media memory portrait, which I learned from Heather Murray...



Plus several other things laying around. :o

 

Sometimes, I think I should just focus on one thing at a time and get really good at that one thing, but then, I think how bored I would get. I love jumping around from one thing to the other, depending on how much time I have or what else is going on at the time. Life happens, and I have to squeeze in creative time on something or I can't cope. So thankful for creative stuff to take my mind off things I can do nothing about. :)

Second Rug on the Kromski Harp

Not nearly as much trouble, weaving OR wrestling, on this rug! It was sheer pleasure!

 

In the first place, I ordered an 8 dent reed to use, and I used cotton warp thread. The sett is 8, and the rug is 24" wide and 45" long in a plain weave. No pattern/draft. The weft is Lion Brand Homespun Stripe. The Kromski Harp stand is also a big plus, as far as the wrestling goes! Much better than the TV trays! And I paid close attention to the tension, so I didn't have to separate the warp threads in the sheds every time. Yay! 

 

 

The finished rug beside my bed. My furniture isn't actually black. It's hunter green with light coral walls. I found out that I should have packed the weft harder than I did on the rug, but it's not in a heavy traffic area and usually only bare feet touch it, so I think it'll be ok. I LOVE the look and feel of it, so I'm happy. :)

 

Next project is a coral and sage green cotton rug for the bathroom in front of the shower! Just waiting to get the yarn!

First Woven Rug On A Kromski Harp

So I still love my Schacht Cricket for smaller projects, but I wanted to weave larger things, like rugs and blankies without having to stitch them together in blocks or panels. Hence the Kromski Harp 32" loom (I was warned that one loom is never enough) situated on two side by side TV trays (above), which was not working out at all for me. A lot of wrestling and intimidation going on here! :/

 

Hence the stand was also purchased, along with an 8 dent reed, because the loom came with a 10 dent reed, which didn't exactly cater to the Peaches and Cream cotton yarn I had planned to use for my first rug warp...

 



 

I had one heck of a time getting used to the larger rigid heddle loom, mainly because I didn't know what I was doing and couldn't hold it in my lap. Pulling the cotton thread through the too small holes and slots, which I re-started about 3x, was frustrating. I didn't know to skip slots and holes, so I put a thread in every one for almost the width of the loom. Above is what the warp looked liked when I got done. Waaaay too dense! But I couldn't bare to unravel it. :(

 

I wove a header (turquoise), then started weaving with the Lions Brand Homespun yarn that I REALLY wanted the rug made of. This is as far as I got. It didn't look right, plus the cotton warp was sticking and I was having to separate every shed with my pick up stick.

 

I didn't want to waste the Homespun, so I unraveled it and picked out some navy, denim blue, and red cotton yarn from my stash and decided to make this adventure a learning experience. I made up the pattern stripes and started weaving. I still had to separate every shed, which made it take a lot longer, and there are two unintentional stripes lengthways where I skipped one hole and forced two threads through another hole. The other side has some different yarn in the warp because I ran out of the solid, plus there are a few skipped threads. It's all good! I learned a lot about rugs and wrestling. Besides, it has character, I think! lol

 

 

Here it is finished! Not happy that it looks "netted", but I can live with it, and we've already thought of several uses for it. Chalking it up to a great, but frustrating, first experience with rug weaving!

 

Now on to the rug I intended to weave in the first place! I already have it warped and ready to go! :)

Woven Towels

Okay, sometimes it pays to have a draft/pattern to go by. I decided to make some dish towels to practice making stripes, checks, etc. I just guessed at the size and for some reason thought a 12" length would be enough for a drying towel. NOT! 

So what I have is four dish cloths, but that's okay! They will be used and next time I'll remember to make them longer! Mistakes are the best teachers! :)

 

I used Sugar and Cream cotton yarn in both warp and weave on a Schacht Cricket rigid heddle loom with an 8 dent reed, except for the gold stripes. They are rug warp cotton. I would have sworn that I made one of them denim blue. Guess not! They are all on the same warp in a plain weave and haven't been cut apart in this picture. I also practiced hem stitching on them.

 

Someone mentioned that I could use them for gifts as bath cloths with bars of soap. Good idea, but I think I'll chalk these up to learning practice and use them myself. What fun!

 

Maybe I'll get some more done for Christmas gifts!

Pinwheel Scarf in Turq

It took a while, but I finally figured out how to do a pinwheel pattern, thanks to Joyce Brisebois's youtube video on same. She is also the administrator of the Facebook group "Rigid Heddle Weaving" that I belong to. It's a wonderful group, full of very generous and helpful weavers.

 It was a lot of fun to do, once I got the hang of it! I used Peaches and Crème cotton yarn for both warp and weft in turquoise and off white with little bits of color on my Schacht Cricket 15" loom with an 8 dent reed and a sett of 8.

Below is the warped loom and the beginning weaving....

 

 

The finished scarf, before the fringe is trimmed and the header yarn (hot pink)  removed...

 

 

 Finished! I like it, and I don't think I did too bad a job for a beginner! :)

Clasped and Other Weaves- More Samples For Learning

I found out that the rubber webbing that you use under area rugs is also good to help keep my cricket loom from sliding on my TV tray!

I learned to do the clasp weave and the hemstitch to finish the ends off! Above is a close up, still on the loom, and below is all the samples right after I took them off the loom and before I cut them apart. This was fun!

More close ups of the samples and patterns after they were hemstitched and cut apart below...



I tried to make a sitting up bunny pattern on this one. Not very successful, but I learned! Well, maybe it was a little successful, since I didn't use a pattern...

I decided to try using a pick up stick to make a new pattern on both of these. I loved the way it looked on the front until I turned it over and saw all the threads I had missed that were hanging loose on the back. I stopped on it, moved up on the warp, and started another sample! :o Again, I learned!

Back to plain stitch for this one!

All seven from one warp! I used all Peaches and Crème cotton yarn and no patterns, only imagination (I HATE math). Now, they can be used for mug rugs, dish cloths, stitched together to make something bigger, or any number of other things my imagination can conjure up! I had fun making them and look forward to making more!