Done!

Honey is out of surgery and the boy is drugged.  We started our day at 5:30 AM.  He was out of surgery at 10:30 AM, but almost had to buy his way out of the recovery room.  He didn’t think it was necessary to breathe. The surgeon said his bicep muscle was rolled up in a little ball.  It’s now reattached and honey will have to keep his elbow bent for 4 weeks so the muscle can heal.

It’s now 6 PM and I’m taking a little break at the hotel, and then I’m going back to tuck him in.  This is what I worked on for 12 stinkin’ long hours today!  (I don’t know how people sit and wait like that without knitting.  I would have run screaming down the hall!)

Actually, this photo is from January of this year.  It’s about 4 times longer now.  I may finish the back yet tonight.  Actually, I probably won’t because my eyes don’t want to stay open.

More later.  Must go tuck Honey in.

I Love Saturday!

Do you want to know why I have so much time to knit?  Because I have staff.  These two mow my lawn.

I have the most handsome lawn guys in the neighborhood.  And they do a fabulous job.  They even clean their bedroom occasionally!

While they were mowing the lawn today, I worked on a test knit for Susan.  This is Pumpkin Patch, named after the little pumpkin shapes the cables make.  I’m calling mine Sangria Twist.

The yarn is HandMaiden Casbah, colorway Sangria, purchased at Knitty Noddy.  The yarn is heaven and the deep saturated color is amazing.  Evelyn ships extremely quickly and she has something else that you may want.  She’s taking preorders for Addi Turbo interchangeable needles!!!  Why yes, I do have them on order.

It may be a little quiet around this blog next week.  Don’t worry!  It’s not serious, but Honey and I are heading for Mayo Clinic tomorrow night.  (We only live 3 hours from there, so why not head for the best!!!)  Honey ripped a bicep muscle this summer and he’s having it reattached.  I’d show you a photo but he objected.  When he holds his arm out, the muscle rolls up like a window shade.  It’s really nasty and has been quite painful for him. Please keep him in your prayers on Tuesday.  His arm has to be kept immobilized for 4 weeks and my guy is right handed and guess which arm he hurt?  Yep!

I’m sure I’ll have lots of knitting to show you next week.  It’s going to be lots of sitting and waiting for me.

Oh, and say a prayer for Nana too.  She gets to homeschool a 4th grader!?!

Sanity Has Returned

My knitting is finally cooperating.  Look what showed up yesterday.  (Well, actually at 1:38 this morning.)

Yesterday was piano lesson day.  I sit for 30 minutes with the first kid, and later 45 minutes with another.  At the end of the second lesson, I had the heel flap finished.  Last night I kinda watched the Twins game, but mostly knit.  And I kitchener stitched the toe for the first time.  Usually I just do a three needle bind off.  The yarn is Socks that Rock Heavyweight, color Oregon Red Clover Honey.  The pattern is Brigid by Goddess Knits.  And it’s a free pattern!  It’s amazing how quickly a sock goes with Heavyweight yarn.

The reason I pulled out the sock yarn was because I wanted to see the colorway knit up.  I’m still looking for yarn for Anne Hanson’s Autumn Arbor Stole.  And I have some Laci in the same colorway.

I’ll be honest.  When I first got this yarn, I wasn’t impressed with the colorway at all!!!  Yesterday, when I wound the sock yarn, I still wasn’t thrilled.  Then I started knitting.  I absolutely love the color.  So, this morning while the homeschool kid was acing her math test, I wound 1,750 yards of gorgeous gold laceweight.

Too bad I can’t start the stole until I finish the other sock.  I need the needles.

Swear??? Who, me?

It has been brought to my attention by my stupid &!* moron beloved brother that my use of punctuation instead of words may be construed as swearing.  For the record I almost never swear.  Actually, there was a word that was ringing in my head, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as the one ringing through my lovely brother’s!

For the record:  That you-know-what shawl has been put in a time out.  And so has the project I worked on today.  Here’s the pattern I purchased this morning.  Isn’t it fabulous?

And isn’t this yarn fabulous?  It’s Sundara Yarn, colorway Pine over Gold.  It’s 100% silk.  I’ve been looking forward to knitting this forever.  But it’s not fun.  It’s slippery, and I need stressless knitting right now.  I love the pattern and I love the yarn.  Just not now.  I’m going to find some yarn that sticks to itself and try that.  I love that pattern!

And now I’m going to bed and I’m going to dream sweet dreams about my little brother and how I used to change his diapers!  (He’s about 6′4″ now!)