I've been reading a few posts from themaskmaker about ravelry.

Can someone educate me, here, please? Because this seems like a 'good' thing (as opposed to eBay, where people offer you $5 for an item that took $7 and 2 hours to make).

Any comments regarding 'etsy' are also welcomed.

Thanks!

To say that it has been an eventful week is an understatement. 19 inches of rain in 72 hours, and 2 tornadoes later....

We fared okay. Lost an ornamental pear tree, but we'll cope. My daughter's boyfriend's family lost their entire home; it is sitting in a creek somewhere. I think this is Mother Nature going, "Can you hear me now?"

On a much more positive note, Yarn Lady called me back to her house to give me another carload of yarn. Yes, you read that right. Car load. It was packed in copier paper sized boxes and I must have collected at least 13 of them. I shared some of it with other friends who enjoy needlework. Most of it was 'red heart' type acrylic yarn, but at least two of the boxes were different cottons. There was single embroidery cotton, double embroidery cotton, and craft cotton. I've started a cardigan for my friend in the craft cotton. It was mostly yellow and / or white, and her favorite color is yellow. There was also a bit of needlepoint and embroidery. I'm never going to have to buy yarn again, unless it is just an odd color to 'fill out' something. I'm a happy camper. Okay then, I'm a happy knitter.

I also have been given some old blue jeans with which to make a fray quilt. Yarn Lady gave me a smaller, oval quilting frame and has a full sized one for me to collect on Tuesday. And she said she had a lot of craft and needlework books, too. Freecycle is awesome.

I've been too busy playing with my new toys to spend much time on the computer......