Happy Easter 2026

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He’s Risen!!

I love General Conference Weekend. General Conference is generally the 1st weekend in April and Oct every year. It’s listening to wonderful spiritual talks by our Prophet and Apostles and other leaders of our Church. The peace and council help ground us and remind us of how much our Heavenly Father and his Son Jesus Christ love us all. We are all brothers and sisters and knowing that helps in a chaotic world. We are here learning lessons of forgiving and serving others like our Savior did so that we can learn to be like him, not always an easy task, but necessary.

Hope you will join in listening to this General Conference. If you miss any of talks and want to go back and listen they will be on the Church’s website.  https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org  Saturday they are central time 11am to 1pm and 3pm to 5pm, the same times tomorrow (Sunday.)

Hope everyone has a Happy Easter as we think about the Savior.

FO (Finished Object for My Non Knitting Friends)

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This is the pattern for the Messy Bun Hat I chose. I probably got it on Etsy, but I’m sure you can find it on Ravelry as well, I will probably choose a different one next time. It was easy to knit but not quite what I wanted, tho what I wanted would not have shown up well with the very dark chocolate brown (almost black) color. If I knit this again I would chose a 2X2 rib, so it would pull in a little more to be a little bit more snug around the head, (this is a 2X1 rib) and maybe go down a needle size on the head. the red kinda looks like fireflies, except instead of yellow their lights are red :P. Maybe re-dye this with a yellow tied off under the black or dark brown and call the color Fireflies. Sorry, you can’t see where the bun would come out because my mannequin’s head has no hair :P.

Special Order Yarn

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I special ordered this yarn from Awenydd Yarn and Fiber who also has a YouTube channel. I got it in the mail today and she sent with it a very cute little strawberry progress keeper :). She does some awesome yarn dying and I love her Wild Card Wednesday on her YouTube channel, where she has a random picker program that picks 3 colors at random and she will dye a skein of yarn using those 3 colors. It’s so fun to watch her decide how to use them together. :). I wanted black with the red random dots but her new black dye had issues and it ended up as a deep chocolate brown. She offered to redye a new skein, but I told her to send it anyway because honestly this is beautiful so I told her I wanted to keep it, 🙂 and if my daughter insisted on black yarn I would reorder another skein. She is very easy to work with, I told her she should put that color in her shop!

The hat I am making with it (I will put a picture in when I start the hat) is for my daughter who really wanted just a plain black yarn but I know she loves red so I wanted to have those random red dots in there for a pop of color (you know as a knitter plain black yarn is not as fun to knit :P). If she insists on the black instead of the brown, I will reorder it for her, then I’m keeping the brown for me :). I would just make it for her and say oops, but she wants a messy bun hat for a pony tail for her long hair and I want just a regular closed crown on a hat so I will ask her before knitting the hat for her. Crossing my fingers :).

Storm headed our way this week end, it’s gonna a be a bad one for those above us at first then for those below us and as it heads east. Everyone in it’s path please keep an eye on your local weather, it is covering a wide path with lots of snow above us and some snow for us (about 4 inches they said) and tornados for those east of us, be safe.

Spring Snow

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Well I woke up this morning to a little Spring snow storm. We didn’t get much of the storm part, that was well below us, but we did manage to get a dusting of snow from it. :). That was after a day with a temp at up 70F (quite warm for this time of year) before the cold front from the north came in bringing this. Some of the trees are getting ready to bud out, hope we don’t get a freeze, it’s a little early for this by a few weeks weather wise. Hope everyone that was in the way of this storm, which was quite severe in some states, are ok.

Comfort Shawl for a Friend WIP

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A friend of mine lost her mom last month so I thought I would knit her a comfort shawl. Her mom loved blue so I thought I would make it in blue that has some green to give it depth. I used Homespun by Lion brand, which is a bulky yarn, in the color Lagoon. I am not a big fan of the Lion brand Homespun yarn because it’s splitty, but it makes a nice soft thicker blanket type of fabric. I cast on 68 stitches and knit it in a garter stitch with a size 10 needle. It will take 3 skeins to finish the length. If you need it wider just add extra stitches when you cast on and grab another skein :P.

A thunder storm will be blowing in about 9pm tonight and then more rain mid week next week. Spring weather!! Sure wish they would quit doing the spring forward with the time thing, it sure messes up my sleep for a month or so.

Monday Funny!!

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Ok, last poke at the south and our crazy weather this winter :). I’m laughing because this is true :P, we were at 36F today and I went to church wearing a sweater instead of a coat, it’s Spring!!