Showing posts with label sweater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweater. Show all posts
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Friday, November 26, 2010
FREE SHIPPING!
For the first time ever, Judy is offering FREE SHIPPING on purchases made on November 26 ~ 29!
This applies to all items in her art shop; www.JudyAGoddard.Etsy.com
and...
her Knitting/Crochet supplies Shop; www.finishthis.etsy.com!
Come and take a peek!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Empathy is two edged sword
My daughter turned 20 today. When she was a wee might I could knit sweaters for her and she wore them and loved them. Then adolescence came along and she told me not to knit for her anymore. Last year she asked me to knit her a sweater she saw in one of my knitting books. I was overjoyed! But after I was finished she never wore it. There it sits up in her closet. Oh well, I think she'll wear the wrist warmers I made her for Christmas.
She's a little slip of a girl, barely 100 pounds and as tough as nails. To look at her you'd think she was a gangbanger. She's "into" black and chains and doc martin high top boots. She wears a black bandana on her head like a gang member. But she's not in a gang. At least not in the usual sense. She calls her friends her "pack". They're all kind of scary looking too.
She goes to college now and her father and I hope she'll find a new catagory of friends. But she still seems pretty stuck on her old crowd.
They are all a needy bunch. Such problems! But that's why she likes them. She can mother them and worry about them to her heart's content. But she doesn't take good care of herself. She worries so! And she tries to fix them. They won't listen to her, so she worries some more.
She doesn't understand that it's possible to love and nurture others while still taking good care of herself. I was much the same when I was her age, although my friends were not as massively needy as hers. My "projects" were fewer in number and spaced apart, not all in one "pack".
We continue to pray for her and her friends. We hope she grows up soon. And maybe I'll live long enough to see it! ( If it doesn't take too long.)
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She's a little slip of a girl, barely 100 pounds and as tough as nails. To look at her you'd think she was a gangbanger. She's "into" black and chains and doc martin high top boots. She wears a black bandana on her head like a gang member. But she's not in a gang. At least not in the usual sense. She calls her friends her "pack". They're all kind of scary looking too.
She goes to college now and her father and I hope she'll find a new catagory of friends. But she still seems pretty stuck on her old crowd.
They are all a needy bunch. Such problems! But that's why she likes them. She can mother them and worry about them to her heart's content. But she doesn't take good care of herself. She worries so! And she tries to fix them. They won't listen to her, so she worries some more.
She doesn't understand that it's possible to love and nurture others while still taking good care of herself. I was much the same when I was her age, although my friends were not as massively needy as hers. My "projects" were fewer in number and spaced apart, not all in one "pack".
We continue to pray for her and her friends. We hope she grows up soon. And maybe I'll live long enough to see it! ( If it doesn't take too long.)
http://www.judyagoddard.etsy.com/
http://www.measureformeasuregrothcharts.com/
http://www.judyagoddard.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
A New Beginning
I love yarn! I love natural fiber! I love cotton and wool and rayon and linen and all natural fabrics!
I've been knitting since I was 21 years old. I started knitting for 2 reasons:
My mom told me I could never learn becasue I was left handed. (She obviously never did two color knitting!)
And,
When I was a little girl my cousin in Scotland sent me a beautiful handknit sweater of wonderful golden yellow wool. It had cables and I loved it! And the first thing my mom did was throw it in the washer and dryer! I never got to wear it.
So now I knit my own beautiful cabled wool sweaters.
I have to knit every day. I just have to!
But!
I have learned to love felting! I make some pretty awesome stuff by shrinking things I have knit.
here's a couple of examples:
I've been knitting since I was 21 years old. I started knitting for 2 reasons:
My mom told me I could never learn becasue I was left handed. (She obviously never did two color knitting!)
And,
When I was a little girl my cousin in Scotland sent me a beautiful handknit sweater of wonderful golden yellow wool. It had cables and I loved it! And the first thing my mom did was throw it in the washer and dryer! I never got to wear it.
So now I knit my own beautiful cabled wool sweaters.
I have to knit every day. I just have to!
But!
I have learned to love felting! I make some pretty awesome stuff by shrinking things I have knit.
here's a couple of examples:
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- Judy Goddard
- Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States
- My nane is Judy and I've been a christian for more than 3/4 of my life. I believe in redemption through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, that God, the Spirit lives in me and gives me the power to do His will and to live a joyful life. I have a Godly husband, a grown son and daughter. I live on a farm with 3 goats, 2 chickens, 2 horses, a cat, a dog and a python. I am an artist and a singer. I was a full time stay at home mom, the hardest job you'll ever love! I have two handmade shops on Etsy. Leaning on the Promises www.leaningonthepromises.etsy.com (Hand Painted Walking Canes) and Beaver Creek Pottery www.beavercreekpottery.etsy.com and an Etsy shop for selling Vintage and Antiques. Jersey Pine Pickers www.jerseypinepickers.etsy.com I post about my relationship with God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, about the things He teaches me, delights me with and how He uses me.