Photo Friday

Here are a few photos for today. I did receive a sock yarn club yarn this week that is worthy of being shown. I love everything that Roxanne from Zen Yarn Garden dyes and I love the yarn for the first shipment of the Sumptuous Yarn Club. The first yarn is a silk yarn [...]

Wash Day

Last night was wash day for my socks. I had several pairs that needed to be washed. So I set about washing the socks before I made dinner. There was a grand total of 6 pairs of socks that needed to be washed. I still had 3 pairs of socks in the sock drawer [...]

Still Here

I am still here but I am busy knitting. There is a certain gift day coming up faster than I would like. So I am busy knitting. Okay, the one hat is for me but it just means that I am making myself a present that I know I will like. But no photos yet. [...]

A Sweater for Me? Maybe

The red Carie sweater is now going to be my mother’s Christmas present. My model, aka my niece modeled it for me over the weekend before I frogged the sleeves. She decided that it wasn’t really my color. She wanted to know if I could get more of the same yarn but in a different [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone has a nice Thanksgiving for those celebrating it in the US. Here are some photos of what I have had to cook to take to my brother’s house yesterday. We did Thanksgiving yesterday because my SIL is going to her sister’s house today. . And Mimi says thank you for making sure [...]

Actual Knitting Content

I have actually been busy knitting not just hats but working on a sweater for myself. Well, hopefully me since both my niece and my mom want the sweater too.
In an attempt to use up my stash, I decided to make the Carie Cropped Cardi for myself. I have exactly 8 balls of Rowan [...]

Call for Help

Okay, I have been silent this past week and for a good reason. My mother has a history of pneumonia and two weeks ago yesterday she went down to the Naval Hospital at Bethesda because she didn’t feel good. The x-rays showed pneumonia in the early stages but they went ahead and admitted her to [...]

Busy Busy Busy

I am just super busy right now. I finished my niece’s sweater and started two more sweaters. I did finish the knitting on one UFO sweater but it still needs to be seamed. Hopefully, I will be able to seam it this weekend. It is getting pretty cold and a nice new sweater will be [...]

Busy Knitting

My niece’s birthday is today and I decided last week to knit her a sweater for her birthday. Yes, a sweater in less than a week. Luckily, the still right now for middle school girls is cropped sweaters. I picked the Carie Cropped Cardi from Fitted Knits. The trick was finding a nice chunky yarn [...]