Happy Father's Day

FO: Last Teacher Sets

I have managed to finish all of the washcloth sets for Clark's teachers. I finished the last cloth yesterday just in time for the last day tomorrow.

This colorway is called Moondance and I think it is my favorite.

This color is Daisy Ombre

Here they all are packaged and ready to go.

I am so glad to have these done for another year. Until next time ....

WIP: Hitchin' a Ride

I have been looking for some easy knit prjoects lately. Work has been insane for the past 3 months and shows no signs of slowing down. I now have a laptop so I have been working from home at night and on the weekends. In the last week I have worked 15 hours of overtime which to me is insane. So when it comes time to knit I am exhausted and need something fairly mindless to work on. The Hitchhiker suits this need wonderfully. So here is my Hitchin' a Ride.

There are 10 teeth in this picture. I have knit several more since this was taken but I am to lazy to go get the project and count them. The yarn is FiveMoons Luna Plus 4-ply in the Marmalade Chutney colorway. The yarn is fairly nice to knit with and the shawl is very squooshy. I won the yarn in the Squares for Comfort KAL with the Knitting Brooklyn podcast group. I am now using it to knit for the Wolfe Farms/LEMknitCrochet Behm-along and the Orange-along with The Fat Squirrel Speaks group. These both finish at the end of the month so I better get knitting. Until next time ....

FOs: Last of the Remembering Remy Hats

The Remembering Remy KAL ended on May 29th. I managed to knit 16 hats for the KAL. There is one preemie hat that I knit last year that is sitting in my charity bag that I will also be mailing to them so 17 hats to warm these precious little heads. Here are the last of my knits.

English Diamond Block version of Textured Baby Hats by Heather Tucker

Swirl Hat by Mandie Harrington

Baby Cables Preemie Hat by Lauren Estes

Jeanne’s Baby Hat by Karen Mortensen

Squares version of the Simple Lines Baby Hat by Heather Tucker

While I enjoyed knitting these up it will be nice to move onto something else. Until next time ....

Books Read - May 2013

I had a goal of reading 5 books for the month and I managed to succeed. I am still 1 book behind on my 52 in 52 goal but I am hopeful I will be able to make it up. So here are the 5 books completed in May.

1) 74 Seaside Avenue: A Cedar Cove book by Debbie Macomber - in this installment we follow Teri Polgar and her chess champion husband Bobby as they are stalked by one of Bobby's competitors.

2) Just Down the Road: A Harmony Novel by Jodi Thomas - Tinch Turner, who lost his beloved wife several years ago, has spent the last few years in a stupor. Now he is brought to life by the young nephew he never knew he had and the pretty new doctor in town.

3) 8 Sandpiper Way: A Cedar Cove book by Debbie Macomber - Pastor Dave Flemming's wife is concerned. Is her husband having an affair? Could he be a thief as well?

4) The Red Queen: The Cousins' War Book Two by Philippa Gregory - the story of Margaret Beaufort who fought for her son Henry to win the crown of England.

5) The Mummy Case: An Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters - in this installment Amelia, her husband Emerson and son Ramses are trying to solve the murder of a Cairo antiquities dealer while still performing their archeological dig.

Until next time ....

FO: Teacher Sets

The end of the school year is coming up quickly and it is time to think of teacher gifts. I have decided again to knit some washcloths and pair them with a nice soap. I may either buy some nice soap from the local farmer's market or I may take some of the roving from my Knit-topia goodie bag and make felted soap. I am leaning toward the second option because Clark can help me with that and be involved. Well he did help pick out the yarn. So far I have completed three sets: 

#1: Psychedelic (this one turned my needles and fingers green)

 

#2: Batik 

 

#3: Summer Splash

I have a few more to make before school lets out the middle of June. Until next time ....

Spring Fiber Day 2013

FO: More Preemie Hats

First of all I had a great Mother's Day. The hubby made French toast for breakfast and he cleaned the house. I took a nap with Clark and we had Chinese for dinner with DQ Blizzards for dessert. To top it off the Red Wings won their game 7 against the Ducks to move onto the western conference semi-finals.

Now onto the knitting. These preemie hats are becoming quite addictive. I have met my goal of 10 so my new goal is to make 15 hats. I think 4 hats by the 29th of the month is manageable. So here are:

Baby Bowties
 

Little Check version of the Three Textured Baby Hats pattern.

King Charles Brocade version of the Three Textured Baby Hats pattern.

Until next time ....