My Third Tie Shawl Finished

I just finished my Noro Silk Garden tie shawl. I cast off my shawl with an applies i-cord edge. I then continued to add the icord ties. I love wearing this type of shawl. It is similar to a vest that crosses across your chest. It provides added warmth. You can move freely while wearing it and it looks good too.
I plan to put the shawl in the fashion show at the Pittsburgh Knit and Crochet Festival. If I get a picture of it on I will post it.

Sunrise on a New Day Jan 20 2009 Yes We Did!

Today is Inauguration Day I have been watching C-Span since 7AM. I took this picture out my front door looking across the street on my neighbors house as the sun rises on a new world.

I am so happy. I was part of the 13 million people in the grass roots movement. I did not do much but when millions of people each help a little it is truly amazing how they can change the world. I am hoping to continue to be part of the grass roots movement to change America. I am not sure what I can do here in Mercer PA. But if each of us changes our lives and helps each other thru these hard times we will change the world.

After all I am an old lady now. I was in high school when President Kennedy first inspired me to become involved in my country. President Kennedy said to Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. I was so inspired by Kennedy. I was involved in the civil rights movement and anti war movement. After the Kent students were killed I dropped out of political activity. I lived in the woods for 25 years and had given up on my government. This has been the first time I have been inspired to become involved in politics since the 1960s.

I feel like We Have Overcome! and we have finally taken our country back. Living here in Mercer PA I really had my doubts. We liberals are in the miniority here. Not many people were willing to speak out for Barack Obama. People would come by and steal the Obama campaign signs out of your yard at night. The email war was fierce.

When I started to go to grass roots meetings there would be a hand full of folks and by the week of the election there were hundreds of people coming out to get involved. It was so inspiring to watch folks become involved and to speak out. After years of being polite to our conservative republican friends we were finally standing up and telling everyone how we really feel about our present government. People coming together with hope and working for change. Wow!

The pictures I am seeing on the TV are amazing it is 10:24 AM and I am seeing millions of people waiting in the cold to here Obama take the oath of office. I would love to be there.

National Day of Service

I joined members of the Mercer Garden Club today for lunch.

We are a small service organization dedicated to planting and maintaining the flower beds around our Community Library and Courthouse Square. We do some fundraising to pay for the flowers and mulch.

In the summer we visit each others gardens and go on field trips to tour gardens. We learn from each other and exchange plants and seeds. It is amazing how everyone can pull together and get a big job done. Our next meeting will be about growing African Violets. I will try to remember to post some pictures after the meeting.

There is over a foot of snow outside and it has been bitter cold. Spring will be here in a couple months and the planning has begun. Check out the new widget on the right. There are a few slides of flowers from 2008 and the meeting agenda for our February meeting. I will attempt to keep this information current so members can check this site to see time, place and meeting agenda for future meetings.

We welcome visitors to our meetings and encourage anyone join us in maintaining the gardens in Mercer. In other words if you are walking around the Square and see a weed, feel free to pull it out or dump a gallon or two of water on a wilted pot of flowers. These are your gardens too! Enjoy!

Danish Tie Shawl

It is a very cold snowy winter day outside. A good day for knitting. This is another Danish Tie Shawl inspired by a traditional pattern that was in Spin Off Magazine . The first one I knit on #2 needles. The secon was knit on #9 and this one is on #7. I am knitting with Noro Silk garden. I am about half done and I am on my third ball of yarn.