I should be thinking happy thoughts about spring knitting projects, but instead I am worrying about my dear friend and ex-husband who is in North Carolina and is suffering badly from cancer. I have his Health Care Power of Attorney and I’m in a dilemma about what to do. He needs a lot of help these days, but I’m here, and his friends there have their own lives, are busy, and are our age. He of course doesn’t want to leave his apartment and I don’t know where he should go if I can talk him into it. There, that’s all I’m going to say about it; it will get resolved one way or another and now I can think about knitting for a bit.
Last time, I showed you this simple-to-make top-down tee, made from a soft washable blend of cotton and soy.
Here are all the colors,
available in limited quantities. Cute colors for kids and nice if you want a bright summery vibe for your next project.
After I finished this pretty thing,
which will be a class this spring, I was at loose ends as far as knitting was concerned. I tried a couple ideas which didn’t pan out, so I made a pair of socks
which is always my I-don’t-know-what-to-knit solution. These are for my brother-in-law and will get mailed off today, I hope, and now I have one fewer ball of sock yarn in my stash, leaving only 44 to go! Stashbusting at its slowest.
So, now, what to do? Well, I’ve decided to do a mystery knit-along called Twenty-Four Birds, by Helen Stewart. I know nothing about it except it takes 4 colors of fingering-weight yarn and will eventually be a shawl of some size and shape. That’s it, that’s all I know. She makes some yarn suggestions, once you sign up, (which by the way you can do for about $6.50 through March 20, after that the price goes up but I don’t know how far) about this and that but I didn’t think they were particularly helpful. So I put together a few suggestions from our vast amount of fingering, but please don’t think I know what I’m going to get at the end of it.
Of course, there a million other combinations you can make, and if you have a favorite single skein of something, bring it in and see what might spark with it. The first clue comes out on March 21. If you decide you want to participate, sign up at the link above, and if you send me photos of your progress, I’ll post them here as we go along. Let me know if you’re participating, and if there are more than one or two adventurous types out there, we’ll have a little get-together to see each other’s progress. Sound like fun??
Tomorrow I start getting the spring class schedule together – stay tuned!
