It looks like spring but for those of us who live here or are very familiar with how Mother Nature treats our Mitten, it could be winter any moment.

Yes, I’m still here. I’ve been knitting and actually sold a couple items. Neither one was a recent finished object. They were both holdovers from an Arts & Crafts show that I participated in several years ago. It’s encouraging if I do say so myself.

This year hasn’t been a year of sweaters so far. Most of my finished objects are socks, doll clothes, hats, and reworking a cardigan that I knitted a decade ago and never wore. There is one sweater that I made for my mom. She had shoulder surgery and wanted something to wear like a poncho but what she and my youngest sister described was not a poncho. Then, one day while I was at her house as her Support Person of the Day we were watching a show where twin sisters who are real estate agents in Oregon or Washington were showing the owners of a house around their newly renovated house. One was wearing a short sleeve sorta jacket with elbow length wide sleeves. More like a kimono.

So, when I went home I did another pattern search and found one called Not Quite a Cape on Ravelry for $7.50 and bought it and started over for the second time. The sweater is almost done. I just need to knit some loops for the buttons and sew them and the buttons on and it’s done.

Mom and L’il Sis seem to think that I could whip up that sweater in a weekend. They called me on a Friday with the request and I was there on Sunday as my turn. Mom wanted to know if the sweater was done yet.

Huh? Seriously Mom? You’re the one who taught me how to knit when I was 8 years old.

Time for a walk with my doggo. It’s a sorta nice and warm day here so we should take advantage of it. I’ll even take my cute little JBL speaker and entertain the birds and squirrels in our woods.

Take care all of you out there and come back soon!