Keeping Busy

  

Thank you so much for all your kind words about my Mother passing away.  It feels strange that she is no longer here, but I still feel her near.  I remember when my first son was born and we were driving him home from the hospital, I remember thinking how can all these people be driving around not knowing we have a new precious little one here in our car?  I feel that way a bit about my Mother and my MIL, how can life keep moving on just as before?  But it does, the earth keeps spinning, the sun comes up each day, the flowers grow and we keep moving.  Every day there are things to do, and we have to do them, we have no choice but to keep moving and keep busy.  It is the best medicine.

I made blueberry muffins.  They are sweetened with agave and I think they are very yummy.  Let me know if you want the recipe.

I also finally finished the Miette sweater by Andi Satterlund.  This is a free pattern on Ravelry and I think you need to scoot right over there and print it off.

I have been knitting this sweater for months, or it seems like it anyway.  With Little Buddy, work and my Mom keeping me busy there has been little time to knit.  Finally this weekend I made myself sit down and get some work done on it.  I was a bit distracted as you can imagine, I had to knit one cuff twice because I screwed it up,  but I persevered and finally got it finished this afternoon.  The pattern is very straight forward and easy to follow.  I made mine a bit longer in the torso and arms because I am tall, there is even a place to make this adjustment, no guessing involved. 

I think it fits Caroline the Dress Form perfectly, and it actually fits me too.  Wow, a sweater I have knit that fits!  Amazing!   I was a bit worried about the bust darts, you see my flat chest is not my finest quality, but it works and actually makes me look a tiny bit buxom!

 I used Classic Elite Yarns Chesapeake Yarn that I bought on sale when my LYS went out of business.  So actually I made this sweater for $12.50, as this yarn was 75% off, seriously that is a steal.  It took about 600 yards, on size 7 and 8 needles.  Thank you to my friend Ryan who worked in the store and gave me this wonderful deal on this gorgeous yarn.  I would make this again in a heartbeat, but I have other projects in mind right now.

It feels like a million years ago, but I made these penguins for my Mom way back when.  She loved penguins, I am not sure why but she did.  I went through a whole toy making stage maybe 14 or 15 years ago, lots of bears, a few dancing bunnies with ballet shoes and tutu's and even a gorilla.  She always had these penguins in her bedroom, and then next to her bed in the nursing home.

I brought them home with me when I picked up her things.  I gave them a good washing, years of dust and cat hair had left them a little dull.  The large one is now missing her eyes, I will have to fix that soon.  It is nice to have them on my worktable reminding me of my Mom.  

I am off to pick up my son from the airport, he is going to be with us for 11 whole days!  That is the longest he has been able to visit since he left home two years ago.  I can't wait to see his beautiful face and have all four of my boys under one roof, yes that includes Max, too.

Thank you again for your kindness, your friendship means the world to me.