From what I’m hearing from the weather people it’s not spring yet and may not be even after the first day of spring officially gets here. How can that be? Now, I remember hearing some silly talk of this winter being warmer and wetter than usual. Has anyone experienced that in the upper US?

They were messing with us, I just know it.

There is a sock under construction here today. One sock has been idle in the plastic box that is under my desk since December. Don’t you think it’s time that I hooked it up with a mate? That’s what’s going on. Since I have two feet it’s a good idea to have two socks – at least two that look like they go with each other. This pair is black and white using the same Lana Grossa that I used to knit the Antler pullover, a pair of gloves, a hat, and a cowl. All that were left were my feet.

Like it matters when you don’t need to go anywhere for the rest of the week. We’ve been out on one dog walk so far today and, if they’re right about the impending doom of a Weather Bomb, that might be the last walk for a couple days. I saw this stripe of blue sky so decided to play with it. No, it wasn’t a hill. The stripe of blue was at an angle so, turning my camera to make it flat made it appear as if I’m near some water. I am, but not that close. Where I live there’s water here and there and over there. It is the Mitten State.

I’m knitting baby things and am not sure how safe it is to share photos since friends of mine are also friends of my daughter and her husband. So, Ravelry will be the only place where baby knits are documented until after the babies arrive. Yesterday I finished to Leafy Washcloths and can say that there won’t be any more of those. Last night I knitted a bib and have a second one in progress right now.

Once this bib is done then I need to move on over to my Wave Ripples KAL so I don’t get behind on that one. At least it’s mainly stockinette for this portion which will have moments of fast knitting before the ripples appear again which slow me down with all that stitch crossing and passing here and there and having to keep track of my cable needle.

2019 Temperature Table Runner

Yesterday I finished January but took the photo too soon. After this was taken the ends were all woven in so it looks better than this now. Sometime in March I’ll knit all of February since it only takes one day to get through an entire month doing it this way. Last year with my temperature blanket it took me almost an hour to knit two days since I had almost 300 stitches per row. I like this way better.

I’m also knitting away on another KAL – two actually. One is the Sunshower Shawl KAL and the other is Wave Ripples. Have you heard of them? Sunshower goes on all year as Jimmy Bean’s Wool sends out each month’s yarn selection along with the instructions. Wave Ripples is a much shorter KAL with each new addition being released every other Friday for 8 weeks. Sunshower is designed by Ambah O’Brien and Wave Ripples by Carol Feller.

I’m thinking I might have mentioned both of those before. When you don’t stop by your own blog very often you can forget what you were blogging about.

Both KALs have information on Ravelry.

Ice Cloud MKAL

This was the first time that I have participated in one of those mysterious knit-a-longs and it wasn’t too stressful. The designer of this one is Carol Feller of Stolen Stitches. Yesterday I received an e-mail from her about the next KAL that I had signed up for with her for a sweater. Uh oh. I forgot about that one. I’m not sure there’s any yarn around here for that project so I might have to opt out. I know I’m going to opt out.

I am on the 2019 Yarn Diet. Have you heard of that one? It’s where you cut down on a whole lot of fiber. Lot’s of fiber. You don’t buy any cotton, wool, alpaca, linen, silk, or that ever popular acrylic or anything else that comes in the shape of really long strings. No hand dyed sock yarns, no gorgeous sweater yarns – none of that.

Why? I have a whole lot of it already so I’m forcing myself to use some first. I’ve also got a Diet Buddy. She’s over in Canada. She told me in an e-mail last night that, yes, buying a kit just to get the pattern is cheating. Ok. So, I won’t do that, either.

I’m knitting shawls right now to give away to my mom and sisters. We’re going to a book signing later this week in Ann Arbor. After a little more internet searching I might knit one for the author as well. Turns out, my mom has known the author for a while even before she became a chapter in the book – my mom, that is. She was interviewed in 2015 for a book about how technology has changed. I’ll share more about that later this week or after the signing.

As you can see, I’m still extremely negligent about blogging. My fingers are just too busy knitting.