So Excited

My dearest friend who has been trying for a baby for years is expecting. Last ditch try
at IVF has worked. Evidently I haven't given up knitting baby stuff yet. Think a really nice blanket will be first up.

So no Wicked or Owls.

Working on Meret for my daughter at the moment should be pretty quick - better get back it

Finished and worn today

Love It......is "Wicked" or "Owls" next ??????

Life's been getting in the Way

With about 10 days off work and only a right front side band of rib to go on CPH. life took over and that's where it has been for about that 10 days.

Mum who turned 80 yesterday and Dad who is 89 caught a virus and got a chest infection , meanwhile Dad also fell over and with what we thought was a sprained ankle , was actually a fracture and he also developed pneumonia. So he had to spend 8 days in hospital and Mum is only just getting over the infection herself, so it has has meant a lot of running around to and fro from the hospital and running errands and just generally stressing. Thrown in the middle was a full weekend of Schipperke Club shows, and the judge and husband staying for a few days. Better guests I could not have hoped for which made things a lot easier.

Anyway it has all been for the positive for Mum and Dad, as Dad is now enrolled in a transitional care program, including physios, occup therapist and a social worker to get Dad hopefully more mobile than he has been for a while and now knowing what help can be provided for them in the future. Mum's 80th birthday went off just fine. So now I can relax a bit just in time to go back to work (yay - NOT).

Think I really do need to knit to help relax a bit more, housework is already 2 weeks behind, I'm sure it can wait till Monday.

CPH progress

Progressing well , just about to armholes. Picked up another two skeins of JET at The Wool Inn, same dyelot, considering this has yard has been in my stash for about two years and bought a at clearance, they had to be just waiting for me. So we may get sleeves yet

Finally...

..pictures of Twist & Shout (colour still way off)




...spring is coming

.... I've cast on CPH, using Patons Jet, going sleeveless and seamless at this point

.. and I finally finished the Twilight series

Mostly Reading

Having a bit of a break from Knitting , still doing a few rows a day of Adia at work, but decided to read the first of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series, as I'd heard people say they like it better Twilight. Well I have to say no and that it's probably not fair to even compare. Sure there is the vampire - romance angle, but it's written for adult audience, and a bit of murder mystery thrown in, a good quick read but not the epic the Twilight series is. So now have picked up Breaking Dawn again and 400 pages in so will finish this time as enjoying it, and appears Jacob hasn't done so badly after all.

Hippie Vest Completed

YAY