In case you missed it on my main blog page, I just found out a few weeks ago that Blogger/Google stopped sending me any comment notifications about two years ago. I happened to click on the comments tab to adjust something and found around 25 or 30 comments just waiting, some since last January. Please accept my apologies. Some of those were questions, and I am working to answer those notes first. I will try to answer all of them, however. Also, I'm trying to get them to actually send me my notifications from now on - Google actually turned it off and removed my e-mail address, even though that is the address I use to log in and I asked for notification (and used to get them for each and every one without ever turning it off myself). I just found another comment of which I wasn't notified.

We have had an incredibly busy two months, and took several days to go up and down the Oregon coast and the I-5 corridor, visiting friends and family. While it was a bit of a whirlwind, we really needed it, and it was wonderful. We had to take a little bit of a rest last week to make up for it, but it was worth it. Since my birthday was this past Saturday, Rich gave me some excellent gifts. One has already arrived, Traditional Costumes of Saudi Arabia and the other should be here by Friday, Crafts of the Kingdom: Culture and Creativity in Saudi Arabia (for free shipping, get the gift wrapping for $5, which will save you about $7 from the shipping costs). I am so excited about both of these books, not just because they explore the traditional dress and crafts of my heritage, but because they are a treasure for ideas for my knitting, as well.

I have finished a few projects. One will have no publicly modeled photos, except for one on Edith Headless up there. I had enough yarn leftover from making the shorts, that I jokingly said something about making this halter top and Rich told me to get on it. So, this was his birthday/Father's Day gift from me. This would have been completed much earlier, except the pattern had you simply cross stitch the elastic on to the band, so the cross stitches were the only casing it had. I thought that was sloppy, and would get hung up and caught on fingers and shredded in the laundry. So, I simply switched to a smaller width of elastic, and sewed up a casing around the thinner elastic. It's not like Rich will complain if there is less of this garment. The socks were half finished for far too long, and I took them on as my weekend knitting after I finished Alexander's convertible mittens.

I have done almost no serious reading. We have had such a hard two months, and I just haven't been up to it. So, while Desert Queen and X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking have been neglected, I read a few happy, little murders (you can see the titles and links in my sidebar). However, the kids and I finished Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea and are enjoying the Anne-girl again as a family. We began Anne of the Island today. When we finish that and Anne of Windy Poplars, I will play the second Anne movie from Kevin Sullivan.

If you have read this far, I want you to know about a sale I have going on through the end of the month. I have a bundle on PayHip and one on Ravelry which include the eligible patterns. If you use the coupon code Top10, you will receive 45% off any of those patterns through the end of the day, PDT, July 31, 2021. Don't miss out on this sale! Usually I don't share the big sales like this with folks who don't subscribe to my newsletter.

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Labels: Books, Design, FOs, Governor Inslee Needs a Frozen Fish to the Forehead, Homemaking, Knitting, Romance and Relationship, So Does Google, Yarn Along

// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 5:31 AM