Sew Let It Be Written, Sew Let It Be Done!: Trip to Fort Worth with the Prayer Shawl Group

These two pictures I added at the last minute so they are out of order from the rest. This is the pink scarf I made while on the trip yesterday. I'm using 17 needles (big) so the stitches are a lot larger. When I'm done, I'll donate it to the "stash" the church has to give out to the graduating high school seniors.

These are my purchases from the yarn shop. A pattern booklet (it was half-price), some jumbo needle holders, a shawl pin (I didn't know there was such a thing) and some yummy yarn. I love colorful yarn and this was really soft. It was the only skein they had so I'll either incorporate it as a section in one of my striped shawls or I'm going to make a headband with it. There is a pattern in the booklet below.

Our group at the Norman Train Depot before take-off. I'm on the far left with the red capris on and look like I'm going to explode. Just kidding, the over-sized shirt makes me look bigger than I am.

Looking toward the front of our car into the next car from my seat. Our group had to break up because 120 "gifted and talented" middle-schoolers were going to Fort Worth for the day too. Oh joy. I ended up sitting next to an 83-year old man wearing a straw cowboy hat. He was very sweet, and sad. His wife (second one) of 37 years had died about a month ago and he was having a hard time with his grief. I almost called Jane, the head of our Stephen Ministry at church to trade places with me on the train. I think she would have been better equipped to talk with him. I didn't want to be rude to him but I wanted to sit and knit or read in peace and quiet.

Inside the train station in Fort Worth (very nice). It is also the bus station. It's called the Intermodal Transportaton Center of Fort Worth. You can rent cars here, grab a taxi here, ride the Greyhound bus or ride the Amtrak trains.

Lunch at Mi Cocina, right outside of Sundance Square.

Jerome in the middle of one of the displays of yarn in the shop. Lots of beautiful yarn inside. I saw one skein that was like $65.00. Yikes! I'd be too afraid to use it. I saw a recent show on the Animal Planet channel that was about long-haired cats. A lady who groomed the cats took the hair and spun it into yarn, then knitted (felted) purses with it. She then sent the purse to the owner of the cat as a keepsake. The purses were really cute. It made me want to lean how to spin yarn. I would love to own a spinning wheel and learn how to do that. The lady in the show on TV was spinning the yarn by hand somehow, without a wheel.

A view from the shop of the Fort Worth skyline.

Across the street was a beautiful church. The parking lot you see that has razor wire across the top of it was a parking lot for the Dickies factory across the street from the yarn shop. Yes, the Dickies factory that makes clothing.