Gatherings

Summer is addictive!! Not only is it just plain fun to be outside and to be able to swim and have cookouts and such it is great to be able get things done. Summer vacation reminds me how much of my day and energy gets devoted to homeschooling. Throughout the school year there [...]

Here are some photos from the Titus 2 Christian Homekeepers Quilt Swap. It is the 9 Patch. It was fun and relaxing!! As you can see, I chose to strip quilt my 11 blocks:

Ta-Daaaaaa!!

I couldn’t resist taking a picture of this peaceful moment with them all reading their “daily chapter.” Even more fun was listening to them share interesting parts of their read with each other.
Summer is in full swing. We have all adjusted to our summer schedule and settled into the lazy [...]

Rachel has been wanting to try a dishcloth pattern but wanted a smaller version. So, I decided to try to create a pattern for her where she would cast as close as possible to 20 stitches and a simple heart design with a simple border. My first one looked like an apple and was too [...]

Well now, if I had more experience I would have noticed that in my first try with this dishcloth my purls were on the knit side…OY! It turns out the pattern had an error. So after much deliberation within my own brain, I pulled it out and started over. Oh well, it [...]

Happy Sunday! I have been working on the mid month June Dishcloth Knit Along. My pics represent the first two days worth of rows. Boy I hope I am doing them correctly! It had two new stitches to me: the SSK (slip, slip, knit) and the knit 2 p tog-b. [...]

The Steeple of The Old North Church in Boston, MA
This poem, by Amy Carmichael, is one of my favorites and inspired the title of my blog “Gatherings.”
Wandering Thoughts
Gather my thoughts, good Lord, they fitful roam,
Like children bent on foolish wandering,
Or vanity of fruitless wayfaring;
O call them home.
See, then, they drift like the wind-scattered foarm;
Like [...]

Rachel has been learning to knit over the past year. Her first project was a blanket for her dolls. We cast on 20 stitches and she knit until it looked square. We did the same with four different colors. Then we sewed the four squares together and we were done! [...]

The children and I worked a bit on the yard yesterday. You’ll notice my yard is quite “rustic”. I would love it to look manicured, but the combination of living in the woods, poor soil and the cost hinders me. So, we are doing our best with what we have! Rachel [...]

Pretty bloom right?? Well, I have lived in this house for over 5 years. When I came there were these two rhododendron plants. They have never had as much as ONE bloom. So this year I decided I to yank them out and plant flowers there. Well guess what [...]