Crochet - Red Fairy Glass Cardigan

 

Fairy Glass Cardigan - Begun May 25, 2025

DROPS Design Free Pattern

I don't usually make things when I crochet. 

I like to crochet simple stitches to 

relax and disconnect my brain, 

but I've been hankering for a bit of a challenge. 

This pattern has diagrams which I've never used before.

I'm beginning to post about my projects

in the middle, but you've got to start from

where you are. This project is 3/4 of the way done.

I'll update this post as I go along with links to

videos I make or any other links about it.

FYI - I rarely follow instructions as written.

I'm making the XXXL size.

I like using natural fibers, but since this is 

a first, I'm using acrylic to keep the cost down.

I'm using Caron Simply Soft in Harvest Red.

It is very soft yarn. I think I'll need at least 10 skeins of 

Medium #4, 6 oz., 315 yards each.

The pattern calls for a #2 wool.

I'm using a 5mm / H8 crochet hook. 

The pattern calls for a 3.5 mm/E4.

I'm not going to do detailed instruction videos 

because someone else already did.

Check out Kiwi's Crochet Corner for 7 videos. 

Following along with her made this so much easier.

Some other things:

Use stitch markers. They really make life easier. 

You can use all kinds of things, 

like safety pins, yarn, or find your favorites. 

These are mine. They are everywhere and in all kinds of colors.

I compartmentalize everything. 

Each type of project I work on has a different type of home.

Crochet lives in the white laundry basket.

Yarn bowls are so pretty 

but I haven't found one I consider practical. 

They are usually too small and too heavy.

I like a small trash can with handle holes.

And finally, the tool kit. 

This little metal tin came in some sort of kit 

but I no longer know exactly which, 

but they are all over, too, 

as a google reverse image search showed me. 

Winter Wonder Tale - a novella

 

Winter Wonder Tale (Pinevale Valley Book 6)

a novella

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Rage Alexander Ledford, an alpha werewolf, has lost his pack. His only clue is an email confirming reservations at the Kisselton Inn in Pinevale Valley, NC, and a witch’s amulet stinking of black magic. In pain from the severed connections to his found family and filled with anger, he goes in search of the one responsible for the destruction of his world.

Evangeline Crowe, a lone witch, has been hiding in the mountains above Pinevale Valley, NC for centuries after the slaughter of her family and friends by a band of hunters. She trusts no one, especially not the Cherokee man storming her warded land, a man she knew long ago, a man who survived the destruction of their village, a man who doesn’t seem to remember her.

Can Rage and Evangeline overcome their fury and hatred to solve the mysteries of the missing pack, missing memories, and missing trust and fix their broken hearts?

Winning the Game in 2025

I'm great at creating goals. 

I'm horrible at following through on personal ones. 

2025 is about changing that.

My writing life will be my main focus.

Improving my health will be an on-going 

rest-of-my-life goal.

The best system I've found for goal setting

is called SMART goals.

Here's a detailed How-To Paper on SMART Goals

Here are my writing goals for 2025

I'll be putting this graphic up on the wall above my desk.

It seems like a lot but I've done a similar list 

of activities before, so I know I can do it, 

if I follow through.

Follow-through is the missing element.

I'll be adding GAMIFICATION to my 

techniques list to help me.

I found this app, HABITICA that I'll check out and

review at a later time.

For now, I developed a Daily Word Count

progress spreadsheet in google docs.

Sign up for Nessa's News and I'll share it with you.

If you already get Nessa's News, 

the link will be in this month's edition or 

email me if you can't wait. 

It's Tuesday, So We Must Talk Tarot - 2024310 Episode 1

 

The Ultimate Guide to Tarot:

A Beginners’ Guide to Cards, Spreads and Revealing

the Mystery of the Tarot by Liz Dean Wonderful reference guide.

Vanessa Tarot by Lynyrd-Jym Narciso

My newest deck because they named it after me.

The Sacred Rose Tarot by Johanna Gargiulo Sherman

My favorite deck. I've had these cards for over 20 years.

Topics to be covered in future segments include:

specific cards and their meanings

relationships between cards

intuition

spreads

audience questions

weekly readings

Decks are divided into two groups: 

Major Arcana and Minor Arcana. 

Arcana, from the Latin, of course, means secrets or mysteries

 and that's what Tarot means to explore.

Minor Arcana, in four suits of 14 cards, each deals with the mundane, everyday life.

Major Arcana, with 22 cards, gives us Archetypes and Universal forces.

Each deck has a total of 78 cards.

In November, we will learn three simple YES / NO spreads.

If you have any specific Tarot questions, leave them in the comments.

If you'd like to be in the running to be chosen as the focus for next weeks reading, put a YES / NO question in the comments, beginning your question with a question mark. I will randomly select someone from all submitted questions.

Each week's video will be published first on my TikTok page, 

but will also end up on my FaceBook page and YouTube channel.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

 

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Do you know what book this first line is from without looking it up?

Have you read the book?

The title of this post is also a quote from this book.

Highlight the line below for the answer.

A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens