As promised

I said a few days ago I would have pictures of the recently finished product and here they are.

I began knitting the Febuary Lady Sweater before Don and I got married. I finished the yoke and had two or three inches of the lace pattern done when I realized that I had done the shoulder increases wrong. I hooked it up to my ball winder, looked away and started unwinding the sweater. I started it again in October and finished it just after Christmas.

As I said in the last post, while I was in Minnesota visiting my mom she mentioned she wanted a hat, something to keep the snow out of her glasses. I hopped onto Ravelry and began browsing the hat patterns and found the Better Bucket Hat pattern.  I got yarn when I returned to North Carolina in colors to match her coat and knit this up in a matter of a couple days.

Next came Mom’s mittens. She wanted a pair of the convertable type mittens. I’ve never made mittens, or gloves, much less convertable mittens. After navigating a couple confusing area’s of the pattern I have one completed mitten and the next one is cast on. This is the Frankenmitts pattern, with out the color work. Mom just wanted plain black, which was fine with me!

In the mix has also been a bit of spinning, I’m still working on the blue hand dyed BFL that I have been making headway on it. That and I have some new fiber which I’ll get to in a moment. Here is the BFL fiber and the bobbin, which is the second bobbin.  I’m debating trying some Andean plying with this but we’ll see. I’ll have to do some You-tube research.

A gal on Plurk was looking for a skiens of Noro yarn with which to make a blanket. I happened to have to skeins of that particular yarn and we worked out a trade and she let me pick out a batt of fiber from her etsy site!!! A few days later I recieved the most beautiful fiber!!! It’s called Ice Princes and it’s wonderful. Along in the package with the wool was a little sachet of lavender which smells absolutley wonderful! Her etsy site is called Uniquely Yours Design and  can be found at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5545256. I really suggest you take a look. I can’t wait to get my hands in this stuff, but being a monogomous spinner I have finish the BFL I have started first!!!

My Mom is doing better, there are some big road blocks at the moment, but I don’t want to go into to much detail because she reads this and I’m not sure how much she wants me telling the world! Her surgeon is planning on going back in soon than previously thought which would be good because it would remove the biggest road block but is a bit scary seeing as what happened with the last operation. So thank you all for all the thoughts and prayers, and please keep them coming she still needs them, and I must admit so do I.  This is the situation I was very afraid of when Don and I moved to North Carolina. It is the worst feeling knowing a family member needs you and you are basically powerless to do anything. I’ve been home a few times but it really doesn’t seem like enough. Unfortunatly my wallet demands I work so the option of just staying up there for a longer period of time just isn’t there. She’s by no means alone don’t get me wrong, it’s just daughter’s guilt maybe.