Sunday Scribblings #102 — Smorgasbord

Looking over the topics from this past year that are offered again this week, one in particular stood out — superstition!!!

One of the ladies that I work with has a superstition for just about any action you can name. She says it’s because she had an Irish mother and grandmother coupled with her Catholic school upbringing. Quite an arsenal they used to keep their children in line with fear.

If she is to be believed, this is just a short list of her do’s or don’t’s.

• It’s very bad luck to put your shoes on a table — or a bed — or a chair — or anywhere other than the floor, apparently.
• It’s very bad luck to lay down on your bed with the bedspread on — double the bad luck if you wear above mentioned shoes while laying down on the bed.
• If a girl whistles, she will make the Virgin Mother cry. (Guess who drummed that one into her head!!) But if you’re a boy, it’s okay. Gotta love that double standard.
• A good Catholic girl never wears black patent leather shoes with a skirt. That’s according to the nuns. Apparently if you are a Catholic girl, it’s possible for people to see your underwear reflected in the shine of your shoes.
• If your right hand itches you will be meeting someone new. If your left hand itches you will be getting money.
• If you suddenly shiver, it means someone has walked over your grave. (What the heck does that mean, anyway?)
• If a bird flies into a window, someone who lives in the house will die soon.
• If you go to church without a hat, you have to wear a tissue (???) on your head. (Honest, I couldn’t make that one up if I tried!!)
• It’s bad luck to turn the page for the next month of a calendar before the current month has ended.
• It’s also bad luck to rock a rocking chair without anybody in it.

Not being Catholic or Irish, I live to torment this poor woman — whistling is usually my weapon of choice, although I have stooped to taking off my shoes and putting them on the counter at work. Someday I’m going to show up at work with black patent leather shoes and a skirt!!!!

A Little Breathing Room

I’ve been having a lot of discomfort in my thumbs while knitting my oh-so-loved socks with my oh-so-loved yarn, so decided to put it aside for awhile.

I found this really great yarn on line — at a website called that is called Just Our Yarn — and bought a couple skeins to make a scarf that hopefully won’t make me itch. This is the colorway that I bought — it is Indulgence in magenta, deep forest green and electric blue. Contents are75% Merino/15% Angora/10% Silk. The pattern that I am using is Diagonal Lace Scarf designed by Helena Frank. I found it on Midnight Purls while surfing in the wee hours of the morning a couple weeks ago. Check out her site if you have a few minutes. Lots of great reading and other stuff, like great patterns!!

But anyway…..

I’ve knitted and felted a couple of bags but I don’t like them for carrying my knitting around. They’re great for other things, but not my knitting. Decided to make a drawstring bag from the literally hundreds of pounds of fabric that I have stashed in my closet. It didn’t do much to reduce my stash, but it turned out pretty well. It’s about 9 1/2″ tall with a 6″ x 6″ square bottom. Just big enough for a small project. Now Darling Daughter wants one for her makeup, except she doesn’t want it as tall. I really need to retire so I can stay home and knit and sew all of the projects that I have rattling around in my head.

Small signs of spring

It’s not much, but it certainly gives one hope. It’s cool how they speared up right through the leaves, eh?

March 15th Photo Hunt I Spy

I took this on a road from Alamogordo to Las Cruces, NM a few years ago. I got a few comments that the rock climber couldn’t be seen, even after clicking the picture to enlarge it. I’ve put another pic down below this one so they can be seen.