One Place Mat Done

It always feels good to be started on a new project even if it's a small one like these place mats.  I prepared them over a month ago and even took them to Florida to work on but brought them back home untouched.

Yesterday Faye, Donna, and I started back to our Tuesday afternoon Swedish weaving get-together and I got back in the game.  I'm only doing an easy design on these place mats because they'll be for sale at a craft show so I don't want to put too much time into them.

The fabric was cut to size from some of my ecru remnants (always save your remnants!) and I used a pretty variegated yarn in soft pinks, blues, greens, and creams.  I finished one yesterday and now have 3 more to go.  No rush, though!

When we were in Florida, I cleaned my trailer out of a few more things and one of them was a stash of monks cloth.  There were 2 large pieces of red so I think that will be my next project...Christmas runners.  I'm not ready to get back into doing a full afghan yet but probably will do a few smaller lap afghans once I've had my fill of Christmas runners.

Speaking of Florida, I was sad to learn that no-one carried on with our Thursday morning Swedish weaving get-togethers because I wasn't there.  I guess I was the catalyst that drew the weavers together and that's too bad.  I never thought of myself as the leader, just showed up at the clubhouse at 9 A.M. and did some weaving until the rest of the group arrived.  Maybe it just takes one person to start but not necessarily to lead...everyone in the group was just as good or better than me at the craft.  I'm hoping my health issues will allow me to spend next winter in Florida and it will be interesting to see if we can form our group again.

Now I'm just happy to have a project on the go, one I can pick up at will and work on for as long as I wish.