Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

It's a beautiful time of year here in Prescott AZ.  The trees are changing colors and we are having an 'Indian Summer'.  I wonder why my mother called it that.  It's the time when fall should be here but the day temperatures are warm and summer-like.  Morning walks are especially pretty!  The deer were enjoying the walk also! How many deer? In silhouette

Some of you may have noticed I skipped last week's blogs.   Sometimes I just don’t know what part of my days I want to write about and sometimes I just can’t focus on writing.   If you have been following my posts, you know that my love, Peter, has two benign (the joy of hearing that word) growths on salivary glands.    One of the glands decided to cause a problem.   We ended up going to Tucson to the University Medical Center and having the surgeon, Dr. Gernon, look at the problem.   Peter was admitted to the hospital with a staph infection.   It is cleared up now and surgery will be in June. While Peter was in the hospital, I made Viking Knit chain by his bedside.   As you can see, I was there quite a while!   But I’ve wanted to try combining wires for a striped or segmented effect.   I used copper, brass and steel wire. It was interesting to work with 3 metals of the same gauge and see the differences.   The steel was definitely the harder and the brass was the easiest to w