@Diane Found it!now be aware, the terminology here is US terms. I used to know it by all the British but so many amigs use US that I now know most of those as well. I do find I'm double checking myself on the not so oft used stitches... it's the grey hairs I tell ya.
the stitches are still the same, they just call them by different names.
Oh I'm with you, absolutely a 'mood' maker. I do have to be careful though with the knitting. If I don't break it up every once in a while with crochet, I'll get terrible swelling on the start of the arm, right next to the wrist. So that's another bonus to being able to do more than one thing.
I know I will probably struggle with making 2 more cloaks and 2 more beanies, I rarely do repeats, and if I do, not back to back. So they will be a challenge and I'll definitely be relying on the colour changes to keep me going.
You have a couple of crafts I've not tried, patchwork with a sewing machine and needle felting(DD gave me a small kit because I was talking about it..but I was meaning for her sister
..oh well) Haven't dabbled with water colour but did have a fun night at one of dad's oil painting classes. That was spesh.