He fights our battles

I've been busy pulling apart sweaters to recycle the yarn.  I need to get through the backlog of sweaters I have because Goodwill is having another 50% off sale this weekend.  I hope to get more sweaters for yarn then.  I'm really loving the sherbet color of this ribbon yarn.  I ended up with 450 grams of the yarn. 

Blessings by Erica Michaels Designs is finished.  I have no idea of how I'm going to finish it. 

I started a new cross stitch design.  It is Christmas Angel by MarBek.  I'm stitching it on a 14 count aida with the called for DMC colors.  I have several MarBek patterns and all the pictures of the stitched pieces are rather washed out.  And, the coverage of the floss over the fabric is rather poor. 

I have also been crocheting dishcloths.  I'm using the pattern Clean Sweep which can be found on Ravelry.  The first one I crocheted was done per the pattern.  For the other ones I then made, I changed from doing double crochets to half double crochets.  I don't like a dishcloth with holes in it. 

Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine

Ingrid, my older daughter, and I went to Goodwill today.  They were having their 50% off sale.  I got some wonderful goodies.

This is some incredibly soft Baby Alpaca yarn.  There is a total of 200 grams.

I don't know what type of yarn this is but it feels like a wool.

I didn't get this Mandala yarn at Goodwill.  Afterwards, we went to Walmart and there is no way I'm walking out of that store without yarn.

I got a couple of sweaters.  I recycle the yarn to knit and crochet with.  This orangey colored sweater is an unknown fiber.  The label was removed but it feels like a wool.

This one is a cotton/linen blend.

This mustard colored one is a wool/acrylic/rayon blend.

 

I got these placemats to make project bags.

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I like to do paper crafting.  I thought this kit would be fun.

I love House Mouse designs and this stamp is so cute.

This is a really cute book of labels I can use in my paper crafting.  Below is a page from inside the book.  

I ordered two items from Stash Unload.  I've been wanting this pattern of Norman Rockwell's for quite some time.  So, I was very happy to get this one.

I thought this one was so beautiful!  I can't wait to start it!