Revisiting a childhood activity.

This week was busy with an assortment of things, including a professional organization mixer on Tuesday, which happened to be Cinco de Mayo.  So the food was a taco bar (tasty, but not worth photographing) and we made paper flowers to contribute to an artist's work:

I made this type of flower as a child, and it was very quick to remember how.  Of course the artist showed people how to do it, had the pieces of paper precut (you can see a pile of deep blue at the top of the lower photograph), and even some of the flowers ready to fluff.  I did several from start to finish, and we look forward to the finished image.

Most of my yarning this week was making Warm Up, America! pieces, using up leftovers of acrylic, because any pattern I wanted to do needed more focus than I could manage.

Three in various garter stitch patterns, lower right is crocheted.

Currently OTN is one from their 30th Anniversary Pattern Bundle, a block in bamboo stitch which I hadn't heard of before and looked intriguing.  I have some speckled yarn that I wanted to work into a pattern stitch, and so far it's going well.  I'll probably take it and some other balls of yarn on my business travel this week, something easy that doesn't need much focus.

I also had my book club at the library on Wednesday, and errands plus all the trip laundry, and time with my mother after being away for a week.  Today is Mother's Day and my brother and his wife and I went to my mother's house for brunch.  Going out on Mother's Day is too crowded and noisy for us.

This weekend I started a more complicated item, the "Winter Sapphire" pattern using yarn that I purchased in Iceland.  Because the yarn is a bit "sticky" I realized I will need to pull from the outside, so went on a hunt for one of my Lemonwood mini-minders.  I think it's not officially the two-ball size, but it works for me: