Thursday is my day to work at the store. Typically, I work alone on Thursday and I like it that way although when one of my coworker friends does come to work with me, I love that too. Anyway, last week we had a surprise Nor’Easter and the store remained closed for the day so I had a snow day!!!
AND since a snow day meant bonus time for me, I decided to do some frivolous knitting and cast on a new project … an Emotional Support Chicken. The pattern is by Annette Corsino and is wildly popular right now. In fact, there are over 2400 projects recorded on Ravlery. That’s a lot for a pattern that’s not quite a year old. So, I went over to my worsted weight wool leftovers bin and chose three different colorways of Ella Rae wool and got to work. By the end of the day Thursday I had completed most of the body of the chicken. People tell me I knit fast but I’m not sure about that. Regardless, these are the first two photos of her. The knitting is very simple and starts at the tail feathers. Everything is knitted in garter stitch and once you knit the tail, you pick up stitches and start your way up the body to the head.
By Friday afternoon at my knitting class I had gotten this far…
I was all ready to stuff her. So, after work I went to our local JoAnne’s to pick up some fiberfill for her stuffing and today I finally got around to filling her up and seaming in the belly and took her outside for her first photo shoot.
It was a glorious morning this morning and I got to spend an hour or more on the porch with my knitting and coffee. I really (really!) needed that. We had a wonderful visit with my son and his fiancee this week and then three days of work and I was really tired when I got home from work last night. This morning I was hoping to see the sun and I did.
I’ve been working toward completing the Fiddlehead Mittens that have been on my needles. Rather than put them away and wait until fall when I will need them again, I am going to finish them, knit their lining and block them and THEN put them away. I am really enjoying this pattern. The chart isn’t too difficult and the yarns that I am using are working up really well together.
Fiddlehead Mittens – ready for the thumbs!
I’m knitting with Patagonia Organic Merino for the main color. This is a ball of yarn that I had left over from another project. It’s an oatmeal-y colorway and it’s a perfect background color for fiddlehead ferns. The foreground color or contrasting color is a handspun yarn that my daughter gifted to me from Ithaca, New York (if memory serves). It’s a really great collections of colors that reflect nature to me. Greens, yellows, blues and reds. Although they’re a bit more fall than spring when the fiddleheads are found here in Maine. Regardless, the colors work up beautifully together and they’re making me really happy.
I’m wearing my Norwegian sweater today. I had been so concerned that it wouldn’t fit me when I started the project. Fortunately, I love the fit and love the sweater. In fact, I love the fit so much that I am considering another less boxy sweater in the future. I bought some pink Remix Light by Berroco to knit another Lane’s Island Pullover. I love the way this yarn feels and wears and I think I’ll make this one a size smaller than the white one I made a while back.
I have finished my daughter’s Christmas socks and cast on another pair for my bonus daughter. I am trying to get handknit socks on everyone’s feet in our family. AND I have a ton of sock yarn to knit with so why not share the wealth? Gone are the days when I buy a lone skein of fingering/sock weight yarn when I travel to a yarn shop. I still have a bunch to knit up but I am working my way through the stash one pair of socks at a time. I also made my daughter, a while back, a pair of fingerless mittens that are convertible to mittens that cover your fingertips. I may make some more of these, too.
With the grace of Mother Nature this week, my friend and co-worker, Glenda, hope to get together to reinforce and steek our little Oorik Tank Tops. Once we get together it won’t take long or be difficult but we’ve agreed to do it together and we hear that we’re getting a nor’easter this week. Time will tell. But I have to admit that even I am ready to move on toward spring and leave this horrible excuse for a winter in Maine behind. Sitting on the porch this morning just cemented that sentiment.
It finally happened! We got a good snowstorm yesterday and it closed a lot of businesses and kept a lot of people home. We were happy to be home for the day and took the day to relax and rejuvenate. I spent the best part of the day in my atelier knitting and making some sense of the messiness (again)!
The snow yesterday was blowing a drifting but we were nice and warm in our house. I finished my daughter’s Christmas socks (they’re not FOR Christmas, but she wanted a pair to wear at Christmas time). These are made with the Urth yarn sock kit “Christmas”. I’m sad to sat that I didn’t love knitting with this yarn. It was split-y and a little bit sticky on my needles. The socks LOOK wonderfu, though. I love the colorway and the kit was wonderful because it made is so easy to have a perfectly matched pair. She’ll be very happy with these, I think.
I spent a good while working on my Fiddlehead Mittens and have gotten quite a way up the second mitten. I am still wondering what to use to line these mittens because the pattern calls for a lining and I want it to be soft but wear really well, too. There are almost 4,000 of these mittens made and some of the other colorways are so pretty … betcha can’t knit just one comes to mind. I may have to knit more of these just for fun. *AFTER I finish some more WIPs and work down some more stash!
I was watching the new season of Call the Midwife and the gorgeous orange Norwegian (?) sweater came on the TV. It’s a beauty for sure. I loved the colors and it reminded me of some of Jenn Steingass’ designs. I’ve never knitted one of her garments but I can feel a Jenn Steingass coming on! I loved her little kid’s rainbow sweater. Perhaps Sylvie will want one in the future.
The last photo above was my photo of the day this morning. It’s Maine Maple Sunday today and the water is thickening again. Poor lake must be confused – and the poor ducks and Mergansers and other water birds must be completely confused. I scared a pair of ducks out of our boat house this morning. Our boat’s not in so I am happy that they can find refuge in there just as long as they don’t move in! The boat will be coming soon and this year we may even use it! But until then, I’ll enjoy my snowy day!
While I was sleeping this morning my dear husband took this beautiful photograph of the sunrise. I, obviously, missed it but can still share it with you. A week ago we had ice from shore to shore. We are watching the water birds return to the lake. I’ve been told that the loons are already here, too. I’ve not heard nor seen them but I am watching for them.
Tomorrow I am heading to the store for work, our long winter yarn sale is over and I’m back to working by myself. Today I’ve been busy vacuuming my studio and cleaning up, washing our bedroom sheets and towels, cleaning up the kitchen and I baked bread.
I’ve been busy knitting, too!
I finished my Sunset Highway sweater by Caitlin Hunter back in 2019 but I’ve only worn it a couple of times. When I put it on to help me decide what to do with it, I saw the problem (I think) … it’s too long. So, I’ve spent the last couple of days unknitting the bottom of the sweater and stopping 13 inches from the underarm. I’ve got it on a cord now and I will try it on when I get undressed tonight and then I’ll decide if 13″ is the best length or if it needs to be a little longer or shorter. I will complete the ribbing again and then I hope I will wear it.
I’m also reassessing the sleeves which I feel look heavy compared to the rest of the sweater. I now have a bunch of the body yarn and I may change the burgundy out for the white speckled. Time will tell.
Ruby Ray the Mega RayRuby’s belly
I did a crochet thing! My daughter, as I mentioned before, sent me a photograph of this ray with some little fishies on it’s back … a big hint. Ha! Ha! BUT it looked simple enough and I have been saying that I have to do more crochet to get better at it so I went off to Michael’s to get the jumbo chenille yarn and the size L crochet hook. During a long meeting last week I crocheted the blue back piece and earlier this week the white belly. Yesterday I got some 25mm eyes (they’re HUGE!) and finished it up. It’s very cute. I’m not sure how it’ll hold up to the abuse of an 18 month old but time will tell. My son and his fiancee are coming for a visit this weekend and I’ll send the ray back for Sylvie for Easter.
I’ve been working on my second Fiddlehead mitten and Jelly Roll blanket. AND the Christmas socks for my daughter. All three are coming along. I love the Jelly Roll blanket a lot – it’s so potato chippy – I have trouble putting it down. The socks are down to the foot so they should be finished soon. Maybe by Friday. I am itching to cast on Susan B. Anderson’s Christopher Bunny but I’m “making” myself finish up a couple of projects first.
On Saturday my friend and co-worker, Glenda, is coming over and we are going to reinforce and steek our Oorick vests. We both participated in the Year of Techniques ages ago, before we really knew each other well, before we worked together. But we’ve both finished the little vest (wee slipover?) and we’re ready for next steps. It’ll be fun. Just a bit of ribbing after that and one more project will be completed.
I slept late this morning. I was up late, if I’m being honest, catching up on the Bachelor episodes that I missed last week. I know, I know …. it’s a guilty pleasure. Anyway, I was up late and missed the sunrise this morning if there was one. Ha! Ha! I know there was one but it wasn’t visible but it was bright at 8 o’clock this morning and there were some patches of fog around the lake. The ice is thinning (we know by the darker gray color of the ice) and it won’t be long until the water is back. We look forward to ice in and ice out. All of the changes on the lake are beautiful in my mind’s eye.
Today was catch up and clean up day at our house. My hubby was outside feeding the birds and cleaning up the yard. I was inside washing laundry and putting everything away from our trip. This afternoon I decided to cast on another Love and Light which I’ll be sending to Colorado. Before we left a friend from high school days reached out to me. She had seen the last Love and Light that I made for my nephew and his bride as a wedding gift and wondered if I’d donate one to her non-profit called 3 Hopeful Hearts, a place that provides grief support for those who have lost a baby or child. How do I NOT send her a little hand-knit light-up heart?
I buy my lights on Amazon (link here). The pattern calls for a 200 light, 66 foot string of fairy lights. I like this set because I have a lot of the little USB plugs around the house that I can plug into. I’ve also bought another brand that comes with a standard electric plug (link here). These are a little bit more expensive and take more room to package up because of the plug, but they’re both good to use for the Love and Light pattern. This package comes with the string of lights and USB plug and a remote control that offers you an option for 8 or so different blinking/fade settings and powers on/off the lights.
I use a US 10 1/2 double pointed needle set even though the pattern calls for a (little) larger needle. I had a 10 1/2 and that works for me. I typically have a little bit of wire/yarn left over from the string which helps when it’s getting plugged in.
The pattern is by Laura Nelkin and is available on Ravelry and on her website. I have knitted her Starry Light pattern and the saw this one and have knitted multiples and in several different colors. They’re fun, take a couple of hours and everyone loves them. I have one hanging in our living room window and we turn it on to send love and light out into the world at night. At least metaphorically.
When you begin knitting, you need to be mindful that wire kinks and the fairy lights will break if you knit too tightly. I try to keep a very light tension on the wire both to keep the wire from breaking and to make it easier to knit with. It’s a good idea to pull several arms lengths from the “spool” of wire at a time and make sure it’s not kinking as you go. Taking the time in advance will make it much less stressful in the end. Also, be sure to plug in the lights to make sure they work before you start knitting. It would be heartbreaking to knit the entire project only to have the lights stay dark!
Cast onMinding the kinksMore kinky twists to unwind.. and even moreprogress
I cast on as the pattern suggests and follow the pattern and even being mindful of the wire, I have to stop and untwist kinks several times during the knitting. I used to worry about the stitches being imperfect and squinched together but don’t worry. At the end of the knitting you can massage the shape into the perfect heart. The wire is pretty stretchy when knitted and you can really work on getting the heart shaped to your liking. AND don’t forget to plug it in again to make sure the lights still work! (Knock on wood, mine have always been ok despite some aggressive “blocking”!)
Love and Light by Laura Nelkin
The end result is so pretty and makes me smile every single time. I’ll get these packed up and sent out later this week. Literally sending Love and Light out into the world!
I’m hoping that now that the full moon has passed that I can sleep a little better and a little longer. Living close to the land, we seem to go to bed and wake up with the sun. We don’t have a lot of curtains and blinds and those that we do have aren’t usually closed. So … the sunrise is at around 6:30am and we are almost always up before that. The moon last night and tonight was absolutely gorgeous, though.
I have another FO! I finished my Hermione’s Everyday Socks tonight. I stayed up late (it’s after 9pm, all!) I loved this pattern. I loved knitting a different sock pattern (but I do still adore the Yankee Knitter pattern) and I loved knitting a different heel pattern. I did make a little mistake on the first heel – I lost my rhythm for a few rows but I let it go – but the second sock has a perfect heel. I think I’m going to have to wear these socks tomorrow and see how my feet like the texture of the socks.
The first picture is the textured leg. This is a simple four round pattern that you can memorize without any issues. I promise. The heel is a slip stitch heel but the slipped stitches aren’t stacked and so there’s some extra thickness where you need it BUT it’s not as visible as the more traditional slip stitch heel flap.
A year or so ago, I realized that I had filled my sock drawer with hand knit socks. But most of my socks were patterned and there were no plain ones. (Ha! Ha! Plain! There’s nothing plain about even a solid color pair of hand knit socks.) I have now made three pairs of solid color socks for myself and two of them are in this yarn. I really like the CoopKnits Sock Yeah! yarn. It’s a 75/35 merino/nylon blend in a fingering weight. I bought this yarn in a collection when I invested in learning more about knitting with A Year of Techniques. I’ve written about it here before. It was a great investment and I loved trying yarns that I wouldn’t have easy access to here in Maine. Since the yarns all came from the UK, they were different than most that we have at MY LYS.
These socks will be a good addition to my sock drawer and I hope that I love them as much as I love the vanilla socks that I made in the light gray colorway. I’m going to cast on another pair of socks tomorrow to take with us on our travels to my nephew’s wedding this week. They’re so easy to travel with. I just have to decide which pattern I am going to try. Maybe the Crazy Sock Lady’s pattern? Not sure which one … yet!
It’s late so I’m signing off but no more knitting tonight!
It’s been a beautiful but cold day today in Maine. I took off this morning to North Whitefield to have a look at some SL sheepskins that I’ve been wondering about for a while now. I really want one for my desk chair and/or my knitting chair. It just so happened that they were having a special sale and I could save $10 if I picked it up. So, today I drove over to Swallowtail Farm and I can’t wait to go back. I have a gorgeous creamy white XL sheepskin and ran a couple of errands and then came home to knit.
I’ve been watching some new podcasts lately and I knew that I had to knit up a gift for my nephew and his soon-to-be wife. I’ve bought the supplies and they’ve been sitting in my atelier for several months now. It’s a sweet pattern and I love to give it as gifts. I think they’ll appreciate it.
I sat down at my desk and cast on the first “lobe” of the heart at around 3pm. The heart pattern is called “Love and Light” by Laura Nelkin. I chose to knit the larger one which requires a 200 light/ 66 foot strand of fairy lights. I bought mine here. If you want to try this, buy more than one set of lights because it’s addictive. I think I’ve knit half a dozen or more. They also look wonderful in colors, too. We have one hanging in our living room window and it’s a beacon of light in the evenings after the sun goes down. They make me extremely happy.
The pictures above show you the progress from 3pm until the heart was finished and “massaged” into it’s final shape. One more plug-in to make sure I didn’t break the connections as I was knitting and I was done. It was 4:00pm. That’s right, it took an hour and a half of my time to make even though it’s tough on my hands, it’s totally worth it. I love the way these turn out!
Leftovers tonight for dinner and the bread I baked yesterday is perfect yet again. This bread baking gig is pretty cool and the house smells so good when I bake bread! What a glorious life!
Today is the start of Maine’s Free Fishing weekend apparently. Our lake is covered in people ice fishing. There’s one group that was out in front of our boat house last night when I got home from work and they were back at 5:45 this morning. Typically, I’d welcome people to enjoy our lake but this morning I was upset at being awakened by their noisy vehicles and augers so early. The lake is nearly 2 miles wide where we are and 7-ish miles long … dontcha think you could find a special spot that isn’t right smack dab in my front yard? They’ve got traps, at least a dozen, on the ice in front of our house when the next mile plus of shoreline is occupied by summer-only residents.
But I haven’t come here to gripe (much) and I wanted to share with you a couple of knitting projects that I’m enjoying today – and share a yarn shop story, too.
I’m half-way through the Hermione’s Everyday Socks that I’m knitting. I am loving this pattern and can’t believe it’s taken me so long to try something new. It truly has been a while that I’ve been stuck in a rut of knitting my favorite sock pattern, Yankee Knitter’s Classic Sock #29. BUT this one was pointed out to me by my friend/co-worker/knitting conspirator friend, Glenda. She was wearing a pair with her Nancy’s vest a week ago and I thought I’d give it a try. Just so happens I had finished a pair of socks and needed to cast on another. (Needed. See that?!) Anywho … I love the Hermione’s sock and will wind and cast on the second sock today.
Meanwhile, my other friend/co-worker/knitting conspirator, Carol, showed me a pattern on Thursday that she was going to try and I couldn’t resist. The pattern is called Luggage Finders and it’s a free pattern on Ravelry by Skacel. Designed by Kathy Sasser, this is a collection of four little tags that you can add to your suitcase to make it more easy to identify when you’re traveling. I’m traveling later this month and I can’t wait to put my Maine Lobstah yarn name tag on my suitcase.
These two women get me into so much trouble! I really should be finishing older projects from their spots in time out but instead I’m casting on new projects, too. Ha! Ha! The rest will wait a day or two while I play, right? (Kind of like the dust in my house.)
Some of my Friday afternoon class is knitting a Maine Mitten project in class to try something new. They’re using the pattern that we all got from the Maine Yarn Cruise this past year from Jagger Spun, the Original Maine Flag Mittens. I had knitted a pair and gifted them in our Christmas Yankee Swap and that started a family squabble and quite a competition. So, I suggested we try a KAL with the pattern. It’s a fun pattern for a basic mitten and a charted duplicate stitch pattern to add the original Maine flag pine tree and star.
I have several items that I’ve knitted and worn once or not at all (these were one of them) and I really need to send them all off to good homes where they’ll be appreciated. I’m going to get some photos and put them out there with a price on Facebook, I guess, and see what happens. I sold one pair of Malabrigo Rasta mittens to a sweet friend in Ohio. That feels good. I just need to take the time. BUT for now, I’m going to get dressed, throw in a load of laundry and mix up some bread dough so I can bake tomorrow. The hubby and I are heading to town to see the new exhibits at Colby’s Art Museum and maybe we’ll stop somewhere for a bite to eat after that.
Gone knitting … well, you know what I mean. Thanks for being here, friends.
I was up early this morning and wanted to be sure to write a post about having finished my Norwegian pullover. Did you read that? Read it again, please. I am finished with my Norwegian pullover! It’s been nearly a year since I cast on but I have finally finished it … and it fits! I wore it yesterday despite the fact that it was still a little bit damp in the colorwork areas.
I started on this journey by taking a class with Knitography Farm. The first class turned into a couple more classes and culminated in knitting this sweater. I had to purchase the book Norwegian Knitting Designs 90 Years Later on Amazon to get the pattern as it appears it’s nowhere else. This book is a coffee table book of traditional Norwegian knitwear designs. The original book is in a pocket at the back of my book. (Since I have some leftover yarn, I’ll likely find another small project to knit up with the yarn.) I loved the Favorite Pullover for Women immediately and knew this was the “genser” I wanted to make.
I ordered the yarn from Patricia at the farm. It is a Norwegian wool, Ask Norsk ullgarn, and it’s a bit sticky but squishy, too. Perfect for colorwork. The yarn is a sport weight that looks like fingering, frankly. I purchased 5 hanks of the main colorway and one each of the remaining colors. I chose to make it in the traditional colors as shown in the purple colorway in the middle of the photo above. I didn’t love the yellow color and have a sweater’s worth of a brick red-ish color but had nothing in purple which helped me make the choice. (I have one hank of the main color leftover and quite a bit of the darker grays, just a little of the light gray.)
Knitting the yoke was the most fun, of course! Once the sleeves were divided, the stockinette stitch down the body and sleeves was tedious at best. It had been set aside for my Arne & Carlos Advent Mini Jumpers, and a 1-year-old’s bikini and a mermaid tail and sea shell top, among others but I brought it with us when we went to the beach in September and worked away in bits and pieces when I found a few minutes. I got most of the first sleeve finished in early October and then hit a “snag” because I had a wrong number of stitches for a colorwork pattern with an 8-stitch repeat. While I pondered the predicament, I knit a couple of pairs of Christmas socks, designed and knit a 1-year-old’s Christmas sweater and hat, and I may have started knitting a pair of pink mittens among others (again! See the theme developing here? Hit a snag, cast on another new project.)
I chewed on the adjustments that I needed to make for quite a while, consulted a few knitting friends and then I knit, re-knit and re-knit again the first sleeve to get the decreases spread down the sleeve correctly and so I had 64 stitches at just the right spot to start the colorwork at the bottom of the sleeve. I knit the second sleeve first with the same adjustments and when they were both the same length with the same number of stitches, I tried it on to make sure the sleeves would be the right length and knitted the colorwork and ribbing. Success sure felt good when it had all worked and I could move forward again.
The colorwork at the cuff was very simple and quick as was the ribbing and before I knew it, I had a finished sweater. Finally! I blocked it Monday night and wore it yesterday … it fits! I’m delighted.
Favorite Pullover For Women blocking Sunday night 2/12/24
Today I’m changing up my first photograph. This is the second loaf of bread that I’ve baked since the New Year. The bread store that we’ve been enjoying for as long as we’ve lived here full time has closed. The city is building an affordable housing complex and will demolish the Universal Bread Bakers building. We have missed Adrian’s bread and had to figure something out to replace it and I decided to try the NY Times “No-Knead Bread” recipe. It’s simple ingredients and quick to mix but it takes a lot of time to let it do its thing until you can bake it: 12-18 hours of rising time, 2 hours and 15 minutes of resting and rising time after that and then you can bake it in 45 minutes. BUT it’s really good!
I also baked Hermits today (while I was waiting for the bread to complete its second rise. The recipe is a really old one and I love having it and using it. It came from my paternal grandmother’s recipe box which I have since passed on to my cousin. Granny Rockwell was a Cordon Bleu- trained cook. I’m not sure how she did that but her family was privileged even way back when. Granny was born in the late 1800s and was a student at Smith College in 1911 when her father took her on a “world tour”. I assume that’s when she took classes in France, but I’m not sure. A side note: when she died and we were cleaning out her house, we found a mint green satin cape from Paris in the attic. What I would give to have that today. I also found a drawer full of glass eyes. I never knew she had one and still don’t know how she lost her eye.
I’ve had a couple of FOs in knitting and sewing, too. Last week I sewed four linen dish towels. It doesn’t sound like a lot but it’s a start digging into the fabric and projects that I’ve accumulated over the years. I also washed, dried and ironed some fabric for a baby quilt and a tunic for me.
I loved (loved!) knitting the Double Thick Hat pattern. A customer told me about it and I really enjoyed it and the yarn, Juniper Moon Farm’s Herriot Fine, is sooooo wonderful to work with. I have the equivalent of another hat left over and will cast on another one soon.
I also finished my second pair of socks for 2024. I used deeply stashed yarn from the Maine Fiber Frolic that I have to have been carrying around with me for 10 or more years. It feels so good to be knocking down the stash. I default to the Yankee Knitter sock pattern and love it so much and I did that again for these socks. They’re simple, plain socks so the busy colorful yarn can take center stage. The yarn is from Maine Woods Yarn in superwash sock colorway is Maine Lobstah. I think it looks like a cooked lobstah!
I’m still working my way down the sleeve of my traditional Norwegian sweater. I’ve put the one sleeve on hold and am working down the second one. I hope that I can then do both sleeves’ colorwork and cuff. I’m not sure why this is such a challenge to knit but I am going to believe that the old pattern from another country where knitting is a part of the fabric of the culture assumes that the knitter knows certain traditional techniques. I will master this bit but it sure does intimidate me. I don’t want to get it wrong after all this knitting … and I sure hope I’m not allergic to this wool yarn! (I put on my “Patsy’s Traveling Sweater” the other day and had to take it off because it made me cough and my eyes were running. It’s made in Plymouth’s Gina, now discontinued. I’ll try to wear it once more and will give it away if I can’t wear it.)
My friend and co-worker, Glenda, and I were twins at work last Friday. We both wore our Nancy’s Vest that we knitted together in a self-proclaimed KAL. We both loved the pattern because it taught us a few new techniques without being too difficult and we love the Manos of Uruguay Milo yarn.
On my needles: a new pair of socks using another deeply stashed sock yarn by Socks Yeah! by CoopKnits In a peachy colorway. I am using Hermione’s Everyday Socks pattern by Erica Lueder which is a free pattern on Ravelry. It’s a simple 4-round repeat pattern and I find it seriously potato-chippy. I can’t seem to stop knitting them. I love the yarn. LOVE it! I originally got this yarn with a collection from the UK from Arnall-Culliford Knitwear for a series of lessons called A Year of Techniques (which went on for three years with three different books, all different yarns and patterns. It was wonderful!) If my memory serves, the peachy colorway was to have been one of three colors for a knitted animal. I didn’t want to knit the animal and so here we are.
And as I mentioned earlier, I’m working down the second sleeve of my Norwegian pullover. Progress is being made. I’ll be casting on a new project with Glenda soon for our new spring KAL project. It’s fun knitting with a friend! We will be knitting Susan B. Anderson’s Christopher Bunny. Something fun and a little bit different for heading into spring. I have to finish my sweater soon so I can start knitting another new project. AND I will be pulling my pink mittens out again – the first one needs to be embroidered and finished and the second mitten, too. So many projects, so little time. Ha! Ha!
This is my weekend to work again so I won’t be knitting on Saturday but Sunday I will give myself the day to relax and knit. I’ll need it after three days at work. For now I’m signing off and heading over to my knitting chair. It was a beautiful day on the lake.
Queen Bee Knits 