Naomi’s Sunshiny Day

Blanket made using Kim Guzman’s pattern, Personalized Baby Afghan. I used Caron Simply Soft and an I hook. The blanket measures approximately 31″ x 33.5″.

Booties were made with leftover yarn for the upper parts of the booties and Red Heart Soft for the soles. I used 11 mm buttons. The pattern was designed by Sylvia Schuchardt from Sylver Designs.

Houndstooth Tunisian Baby Blanket

Some friends of ours at church are expecting a baby girl in August. I had in mind to make a certain blanket that I saw in a pattern book I had, Tunisian Baby Blankets by Kim Guzman. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the book.

After doing a search online, I found that I could download the book (the BEST option IMHO since the pattern is now on my computer!). So I was able to download the pattern and get started on it.

I’m using a size K afghan hook and Bernat Baby Sport in lilac and white.

Sun and Sand Tote

I’m working up a tote bag made with yarn doilies crocheted around plastic rings. The pattern is found in Crochet Today! July/August 2009, page 40. It is designed by Mary Jane Hall.

Since I was unable to find plastic ring, my awesome husband took me to Home Depot. We picked up some Vinyl tubing and poly tubing and I made my own plastic rings.

I’m interested in seeing how this is going to turn out.

I’m using Premier Yarns Deborah Norville Sport in Kiwi and a G hook.

6/22/09 – I finished the tote today. I found the pattern simple enough with just enough work to keep me focused. It’s a perfect tote for my W.I.P.s. This is probably a pattern I won’t mind working up again. It measures approx. 14.5″ w x 9.5″ l (not including handles) x 6.5″ d at the bottom.

Swirling Winds

This is a piece of prophetic worship art that I saw during a song sung by New Dawn Community Church worship team on Friday, April 17, 2009. I started crocheting the pinwheels on Tuesday, April 21 and finished the next day. On Thursday, April 23, I purchased the frame, mat and letters and put everything together.

Swirling Winds – prophetic worship art based on “Swirling Winds” written by Jacob Beechler and performed by New Dawn Community Church worship team.

Project completed 4/23/09

Doilies crocheted from size 5 metallic yarn and size 2 hook using pattern, “Whirlwind Courtship” in Magic Crochet, August 1992.

Here’s part of the song:

Swirling Winds Swirling Winds
Tiny funnels of power begin
The rain will come the wind will blow
Spinning colors of silver and gold

She lets loose the balloon and it’s lost in the sky
Something left her she stares at the balloon
Now it’s free, free from it’s tomb
Her hair whips in the winds of change
She feels death’s clutches let loose from her veins

She spins and spins with freedom and joy
spinning pictures of colors like ponds filled with koi
She sparks others who stare hypnotized
by the pastels and hues glittering in the skies

Swirling Winds

Prayer against suicide

Last night at our intercessory prayer meeting, I had on the agenda to pray against suicide. Too many occurrences showed themselves to me to dismiss this.

This morning I see a news headline from Drudge Report, “Suicide Victim Jumps, Lands On NYC Shopper”. Just shows me that I need to stay on the wall for this.

Prayer points 3/20/09

Pray that the Spirit of Truth come to our leaders in this nation.

Pray that the members of Congress do not sign laws that will hurt our basic liberties. Pray that they are able to read through that which they are signing, that those who are entrusted with reading through these things will be filled with integrity and notify the congressmen of things that will hurt our liberties.

Difficulty writing

I don’t know if it’s the new administration or what, but I’m finding it very difficult to write anything as of late.

I don’t worry about offending anyone. I’m conservative in my political beliefs, mourned for our country when I saw that so many Christians voted for Obama and I’m head over heels in love with my Savior.

I believe in the supernatural and try to live my life for my Lord.

But I’m also of the thinking that if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.

What’s going on in the US today? Economic upheaval, the current administration is doing all they can to kill all unborn life and it’s depressing if you don’t have your focus on the Lord.

I have strong opinions on what is going on, but I’ve been focusing more on prayer. I’ve been praying that the Church will wake up and place God on His throne again. The things that are going on in the world today is because the Church has forgotten to pray, she has forgotten she has power to make a difference in the world.

Sydney Victoria’s Australian Dream

I finally finished the blanket I made for my friends’ baby who is due the beginning of March.

Matt & Eileen went to Australian on their honeymoon. They loved it there and when they got pregnant and found out they were having a girl, they named her Sydney Victoria.

I already had a design in my head of a blanket I wanted to make for them. I would take the pattern from the Butterfly Garden afghan and then cross stitch her name in the center. I had also wanted to see if I could get a sketch of the Sydney Opera House in there.

I had some colors picked out in my head and those were confirmed when Eileen showed me a picture of the bedding they wanted to get for Sydney’s room. The opera house was confirmed when they told me that they had a view of the opera house everyday from their hotel room.

I used Caron Simply Soft in Raspberry and Off-White. I used Bernat Satin in a dark, forest green and white. I used a J Afghan hook to crochet the blanket.

I found a neat sketch of the Opera House that I graphed using knitpro.

The blanket was finally finished on Saturday, Jan 31 and I took it over to their house. They seemed very pleased with it and when we took it up to her room, we saw it was a great match to the paint.

The blanket measures 44″ x 57″.

Sound of Heaven, Symphony of Earth

Sound of Heaven

I had a dream last night.

There was a group of us who were on a military base. We were stuck there and were waiting on rescue. I remember needing to run to the outside perimeter of the base because they were going to let loose these monkeys they had caged up. It was said that if the monkeys smelled us inside where they had been caged up, they would attack us. If we were outside the perimeter, they wouldn’t associate us with the base where they had been held captive. There was quite a mad rush for the people to get to the outside of the base.

We were all given motorcycles and were told to stay together but we would be riding on the right side of the highway, where the water was. There was less chance of those who were after us to get us.

But, we started getting shot at anyway. I thought that it was strange that we were all bundled up together, all riding motorcycles and, for the most part, all wearing black leather jackets and black leather pants and black helmets. Not too hard to miss. There were a few who discarded the jacket and wore jeans instead.

We were led to hide out in a room, but I was still nervous as all of the survivors were together in one room. It just didn’t seem to make sense for all of us to be hiding out in one room. Again, an easy target for those who wished us dead.

I discussed this dream with a friend of mine. I didn’t particularly like it since we were on the defensive instead of the offensive. She encouraged me that the Lord was telling me to seek strategy in the way I pray and when I lead the intercessory group. It made sense to me.

When I came home this afternoon, I searched for a book on intercession written by C. Peter Wagner. I cannot remember the name of the book right now and I cannot seem to find it. However, I found Sound of Heaven, Symphony Earth by Ray Hughes. I had also wanted to read that book since Randy, my pastor, mentioned in his sermon on Sunday a dream he had had a few years ago with Ray Hughes where Ray stated that the sound of the waters is about to become the sound of the earth.

In the first chapter, I read, “Through boldness and impartation, the lord will bring victories and cause us to be effective against our enemies. These victories will assure us of our spiritual authority in Christ, so we don’t waste our days in a defensive mode.” That right there showed me I was on the right path in regards to applying the interpretation of my dream.

Unity

As an intercessor, one of the things I pray regularly about is that the Church be unified. My desire is to see us all in one accord, all of us desiring the same thing – God’s Kingdom to manifest on earth; to see the blind receive sight, to see the deaf hear, to see those afflicted with cancer and other sicknesses and diseases completely healed.

I often get frustrated because I know that there are churches out there who simply do not believe that God moves in that way today.

Tonight I read an article written by Rick Joyner dated 1/26/09. He speaks of the power of unity and essentially says that the reason we don’t see unification is because we try to “unify around too much. The nation of Israel was only required to be in unity on two basic matters—worship and warfare. They were to worship Jehovah together in the manner and place He had prescribed, and they were to always be ready to mobilize and defend any of the other tribes that were attacked.

If the church would live by this same wisdom, her power, authority, size, wealth, and impact would multiply quickly. When we discuss being in unity about worship, we need to steer clear of the nuances that the Lord has given us liberty in, such as the style of music. However, we do need to be in unity about Who we worship and how complying with the biblical standards and teachings on morality, integrity, and other basics that should be common to all Christians. The Moravians stated the following: ‘In the basics there must be unity. In the other matters there must be liberty, and in all things there must be charity.’”

You can read the rest of the article here. It’s a good read, I encourage you to take the time.

God bless you.