Erica’s Blog

That’s probably not a good thing to do in class.  Shouldn’t you be paying attention?

Hunh?

Exactly.

No, I don’t want salad.  I just want plain lettuce and tomatoes, mixed up with salad dressing.

OK.

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again.  Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month starts next weekend. 

I was very upset to lose my button with Paul’s picture on it in Florida this summer.  At least I had it last year.  I might order a new one, and I might not; we’ll see.  When we were at Jo-Ann today, though, I found some inexpensive organdy ribbon in baby blue and baby pink so I could make a bunch of awareness ribbon pins.  I figured since those are smaller they would be easy for people to wear more often.  I forgot to get fray-chek, though.  I’ll have to pick some up tomorrow or Tuesday.  I’ll be sending some to the SAND gang and probably one or two other people.  I should be able to make quite a lot of them with the amount of ribbon I got.  If you want one, let me know.  (LS, I know you probably do, since you “wore a virtual ribbon” last year; WT, do you want one?  I thought of you, but I won’t send you one if it’s not something you’d want.)

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Here’s where it stands currently.  I decided just to make the largest box of the Very Special Things.  Everything’s been felted.  Today, Thing One and I hit Jo-Ann to get the fabric and thread for the lining.  I managed not to force my opinion on her and let her buy the fabric she wanted.  There were others that would have been much better but hey, it’s not my box.

I was really surprised at the way the Peace Fleece felted.  Knitting it up, it was very rough and scratchy.  Felted, it’s SO soft and incredibly fuzzy.  Normally, I don’t shave my felted items, but this time I’m absolutely going to have to.  I’ll probably do the shaving and embellishing tonight.