Ice Palace

 Morning Dear Blog Readers...

It is like an ice palace outside this morning.  We had a lot of freezing rain in the night and a bigbig branch fell off a tree in the front yard.  

I have spent this week at the hospital with dad again.   

Started a little shawlette....it's written so I can use all of the yarn which I love.  Yardage is 463.  Dancing Leaf Shimmy yarn. 

I started socks with it but it is too pretty to be socks. And, I didn't really want to make another sock.  LOL

Free pattern on Ravelry - Easy Goes it.   The pictures are a little dark. It's very easy to memorize until I get to the lacey part.  Great hospital knitting.

 

On the rare evening that I was home I knit a few rows on the toe of the current sock. 

Ruth is working on an adorable hat!  Colorwork!   Pattern is Roadside Beanie. It’s Oliver Henry’s pattern for Shetland Wool Week 2019. The yarn is Jamiesons leftovers from other projects

 

 Martha has been sick all week so I suspect she did not  knit much.

 

No other news this week...I'm off to the hospital for the day.

 

Non Post This week. :)

 Hi Dear Blog Readers.

A non picture post this week.  We never did go on vacation....Joe's BIL died unexpectedly.

This week my dad ended up in the hospital with severe pneumonia which is bad for a 91 year old.  I'm heading there this morning for the day.  I'm supposed to start back to work tomorrow...we'll see.

Knitting news:

I ripped my sweater. My numbers were off and I need to go up a size.  When I start it over, after dad is better, I will use a notebook for each row to get the count right.

Ruth finished up her sweater - it's a beauty!

Martha is looking for a new sweater to knit.

Have a good week dear blog readers. 

 

Spring Ahead

 Hi Dear Blog Readers....in the middle of the night we "sprung ahead" the clocks in New York.  I know this week I will not feel very springy...the time change wipes me out for a bit.  

A little knitting news:

I worked on the sock a bit. Just past the afterthought heel. I decided I  needed to get these done..Totally sick of them.  Luckily Hermione's  sock pattern is easy to remember so easy to pick up and put down.

 

The sweater is coming along, or was coming along. Three rows back I knit the wrong pattern and did not do YO row to replace K2Tog row...oopppssss... no wonder count was off.  Rows are very long since sleeve stitches are on there...hope to be back on track tomorrow.

 Ruth got a big (giantly big) cone of yarn from Brooklyn Tweed imbue. color is Mosto. She wound it off the cone with her niddy noddy and washed it up.  This kind of yarn needs a good wash before use. Look how beautiful it is!!! 

Here is her sweater.  Sweater pattern is Perfect Polo by Hinterm Stein. Yarn is Bartlett DK. The color is lilac heather.  There is long patterning on the sleeves that she is about to start.

Beautiful colors....just stunning!

Here are the mittens Martha made for her son.  Trigger finger mittens. She put holes inside the thumb and first fingers for texting. 

In other news:

Tiffany's kids got out to play outside this week.  So nice to get some fresh air.

 Have a good week dear blog readers....come on spring!

There will BE NO BLOG NEXT WEEK.  Joe and I are off for a long weekend.

 

March came like a lion!

 Hi Dear Blog Readers.

March came in like a lion here in Western NY yesterday.  Today it was 9 when I got up.  Tomorrow it will be 50. Welcome March!  LOL

I did not have a lot of time to knit this week.  I did take the Alhambra  sweater and put it on a string and soaked it to see how it will size up before I go any further. It does not look like much, but it is a lot of knitting.  

Ruth is going round and round on her beautiful Perfect Polo sweater.  Love the color. Love the pattern.  Her sweaters always have a great fit.

 Martha had a horrible week at work so no knitting news from her.  70ish more days till she retires.

In other news:

I went to see the little boys today. Clearly I was not paying enough attention!

Jack dressed in blue....those eyes!

I had grammy snuggles with him Saturday.  Rather than put him down when he fell asleep, I  chose to hold him.

Lots of fun with Charlotte and Jack.

 Have a good week dear blog readers...It's snowing like crazy here now. Ugh.