Easily Bind Magazines Together - wikiHow

Easily Bind Magazines Together - wikiHow I want to try this for my knitting magazines! It will help me keep track of them, not losing one, but keeping a year's worth together.

"Lords of the Earth"

A great book that I read long ago, that has impacted my thought patterns about missions was by Don Richardson: "Lords of the Earth". It's about New Guinea, and cannibals coming to know Christ. Richardson spoke in one of my missions classes at Calvary Bible College back in the '70's. I'll never forget how excited he was to have discovered that in every culture God has left some inkling of their need for Him. Every culture has some link that when the missionary discovers their beliefs, can be used to "oil" their understanding of the Truth. This is also true in Richardson's book, "Peace Child", and I'm eager to read a third book, "Eternity in Their Hearts".

Preparing for Papua New Guinea!!!

A year ago I was awarded a trip to visit a missionary. I chose Melanie Shustack in Papua New Guinea, since I'd heard she has a use for me stash of excess yarn!! Good reason, huh? Well I heard on Friday that Stan and I will indeed be able to get into Simbai where Melanie lives, and she is planning to be our hostess for 5 days! This involves not only the plane ride to the US, West Coast, to Australia, to Port Moresby, PNG, to Goroka, But then also a missionary bush plane ride into Simbai, with some hiking and 4-wheeler riding to boot!

We got our immunizations in August, then our flu shots. Malaria medicine in hand. Fred S is leading a work team to PNG with whom we are tagging along. He saw to buying our tickets and his wife, Jennifer delivered our Visa applications to DC a couple of weeks ago. Trusting all works out! I'm looking forward to getting to know Melanie, taking lots of pictures, so that I can tell her story and help other people get to know her, too. I hope to make Melanie's name well known at the ABWE Home Office, her sending agency and my workplace.

Raveling. . .

New idea: since I am eager to sell my knits at The Hodge Podgery, where they encourage recycled and re-purposed items, I decided to shop at a second-hand store for some sweaters to Ravel in order to reuse the yarn.

Shopped at the Community Aid store on Carlisle Pike in Camp Hill.

Bought a 100% Lambswool Anderson-Little sweater with 10 stitches per inch. It's a light tan, saddle-shoulder, raglan sleeve sweater. The seams are chain-sewn, so very easy to undo (Rrrip-it!). The sweater is new enough not to be too felted except in the armpits, so it's raveling quite nicely. There are the occasional breaks, so I just tie a knot and continue to wind the ball. A small amount in the armpits is unsalvageable because of felting.

The V-Neck was steeked, so rather than tie a knot for every row, I just cut down to the the bottom of the V and didn't try to salvage the yarn above that.

It's just the right color for the Capitol Dome hat I designed last year if the yarn isn't too fine.

Cool thought - The care label from the sweater could be sewn into a hat knit with the same yarn. But I probably ought not put the Anderson-Little label into my hat; that might offend their brand.

Had a great discovery today - www.thehodgepodgery.com - The Hodge Podgery in Harrisburg! It's a great local craft shop where all sorts of handmade and recycled items can be bought and sold. Now I need to develop my Brand (Miriam's going to help me design a business card) and knit some Harrisburg Themed hats - such as the Rachel Carson Falcons and The Capitol Dome that I knit before. And I'm excited to walk around the neighborhood again with my camera and get some more inspiration for some new designs. The Soldiers' Grove, the Fountain, the darling Garden with gazebo on the waterfront at Verbeke, Pub signs and all sorts of architectural elements around the city are getting my "juices flowing"!! There's the Pride of the Susquehanna and Strawberry Square that have inspired me in the past. I may need to be mindful of using Other People's brands. . .

It has been my passion over the winter to knit hats using my stash yarns. Given my stash, most of the hats are FairIsle Tams using fingering weight yarns, explorations in color and design. But now I'm also beginning to use some of my heavier yarns as well.

The hat in this picture was inspired by the dome on our capitol building. I did it in accurate colors first, then changed them out for these colors in the second hat. So fun!