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I have come home from blog reading to post that Joanna Jenkins is having a contest over at the Fifty Factor . She is offering a generous $100 gift certificate to  CSNStores  on-line shopping. Very generous giveaway, Joanna. I think I know what I'll get if I win. I have been listening to The Widower's Tale , and the last two times I fell asleep, so I have been re-hearing it a lot. Silly me. I have also started on that Heirloom afghan featuring 63 different stitches. Square 1 is single crochet in a variegated  yarn with two shades of red, and yellow and orange; It's gorgeous. The afghan will be in red, two shades of pink, two variegated shades, and a dark lavender. So it will look very different from the pattern, but more pleasing to my eye. I have also gotten my Zentangles book Totally Tangled , and I've looked through it, but I haven't made any more Zentangles yet. Though I do get their tangle of the day in my e-mail and I practice that one and put it in my b...

First of all let me wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day! Last Thursday, the 10th, I went to Michael's (arts/crafts supply) to get some yarn to start on an afghan project a friend gave me the pattern for, and to get a small notebook for Zentangles(r). Naturally, the yarn was in the furthest corner of the store from the entrance, and the fine art papers were in the back also. I knew it was going to be tiring, so I didn't allow myself to stop and browse through all of the many different things that I love to find at these stores. No. I was on a mission: yarn and a smooth art paper notebook and maybe a Sakura pigma micron .05 pen. Unfortunately, Michael's didn't have enough of any of my color choices in yarn, which shouldn't have surprised me if past experience was any indication. Since the throw is meant to be a sampler of 69 different crochet stitches, it doesn't really matter which colors I use, just so long as they go together. So I decided on a red...