Done during Chemo

After just 5 hours of Chemo with the hubby, I finished the baby sweater and it went home with the baby tonight. 


I passed on the ribbon around the neckline. Ribbons around a babies neck? Please! 
So, I am off to the next project.  A summer shell for the daughter. It is in bright turquoise with bright pink and black. I have a feeling she isn't going to like it. But what can you do. 
Not too much other knitting to speak of. To much thinking is too heavy a task right now.  Simple and fast is the new game plan.
Back to what I love.........Knitting

Quick and Easy

It is finally MAY! I have never wanted to see a year pass as quickly as I do this one. And Its only for one reason. So my family can have their life back.

I want to be able to go places and not worry about my husband. That my kids can laugh a little harder and worry a little less. I just want to be normal and boring again.

Knitting has been hard. Hard to concentrate on a difficult pattern. So I decided just to give in and do something mindless.

The baby sweater was a KAL from Carol's Needleworks. I don't plan on going to the KAL, but I thought it was a cute spring, summer, fall sweater for the newest baby. It is going to be fast and fun. I really like the yarn. I think it will be easy on the mom for care.

Well, the soon to be 16 year old is reading this and making fun. So I think I will get back to what I need to do.........Knit

Rip it Rip it....FROG

I made this, goodness, 5 maybe 6 years ago. Big Wool from Rowan. Made it for my 95lb daughter. When she put it on she looked....well lets just say it was lost till today. I found it in the very back of my closet. I had completely forgotten about it.

So I it pulled out, brushed it off and considered showing it to my 95lb soon to be twenty one year old. But then thought, nah she'll remember it and how it looked. This bulky sweater on her tiny frame. Just laughable.

That's when I decided, it was time to do what needed to be done...

RIPPPPP ITTTT OUT!!!!! I sat down as some good TV started. I ripped through two hours of television. And now I have these lovely pink balls of yummy Big Wool.

It wasn't hard to rip out this project. I don't remember knitting it. It didn't hold any good memories. I think I just needed something to do and probably got the yarn on sale.

I can't remember. So it didn't hurt.

At all. Not even a little bit.

What to make with this new yarn? I made this lovely green scarf and mitten set for the Hubby's Chemo Nurse. She is a old friend and very Irish. She will get it this coming Friday for St.Patrick's Day. Appropiate I think. So the daughter sees this set and makes the comment, "I love this scarf. I love the yarn." HA! Well it will look good on you, in pink! And, so that is how the bulky sweater became a frog and turned into.....A scarf!!!!

That is where I am. The orange vest is staring at me. It's halfway done. But I am too scared to continue.

And the hubby is doing good. We are halfway through Chemo and radiation. He is feeling really good. He has a sore bum. BUT, his spirits are good. And my knitting has helped me through a lot of this. Glad I have it.

Happy knitting! Peace out my peeps....till next time

Crash and Burn

Yes this is our Gold medalist, crashing. Just like me...

The orange sweater.... So cute, right? Well I am 2 skeins short!!! And the yarn shop had 1 Skein!!! So that project will not see gold.

The two opening ceremonies hat....Well has anyone looked at the pattern? The chart did not match up! Did anyone else have this problem with the chart? Please tell me yes... After going back to Ravelry I did notice many of the knitters modified the hat pattern and they look GREAT! So I am going to copy one knitter and follow her pattern. Going to duplicate stitch the trees and reindeer, and carry the bottom pattern all the way around.

So that's why I never get myself into a contest. It takes me right back to being 7 and racing my bike against other kids from other playgrounds. Watching some fly right by and me doing the same.....till I looked back. And it was all over....

Week one of the Olympics

Wooohoo, yeah that's a good feeling. First week in of the Olympic games and , my back is done!!! Love it. The pattern is (ahummm) a bit to easy for my skill level maybe. But it is fun... And even better that its going as fast as it is.

I am adding to the mix. I found the opening

ceremonies hat pattern and started that this evening. So I added to my challenge. 2 Hats and a vest before next Sunday! We will see.... stay tuned....

SNOW IS EVERYWHERE!!!

I cannot remember a winter storm like this one. It just seems to be going on forever! It is so pretty. It has been a week since we were hit and people are still without electric! We lost our electric for three days. Oh how fun! We went from, my friends to my sisters and finally to my mom and dads. This really makes you see, how important some things are! We put all our frozen food outside, took what we could to the various homes where we were staying. Our biggest challenge was our daughters 15 year old frog and 2 large fish. We wrapped the tank in a sleeping bag, but when came home for clean clothes, and to check, the fish were swimming slowly and the tank had dropped in temperature by 20 degrees. Thankfully, we were able to transport all three to my sisters and all survived! They are home and looking good.

I am not really in any Ravelry Olympic knitting contests. I'm too nervous for that. And I am not able to knit anytime I want....SOOO, I decided to do my own. I did take the pattern from knitty's challenge. I love it! Found the perfect orange yesterday, at Yarns Unlimited.

I thought I would be knitting all day today, but, hubby had other plans. The oil needed changed. And the only Olympic games I would be able to see, was this magazine cover. The shop TV only had one station (lol) and it wasn't NBC!

But the good news, I am home, the electric is on. The House is nice and warm. The Olympics are

on. The hubby is doing GREAT with his chemo and radiation! AND I am knitting!

So enjoy your own knittinglympics. Knit alot and love what you are knitting.

Stay warm.

Oh yeah, we are looking at 6 more inches of snow tonight! Ah, whoever is praying for snow.....STOP praying!!!

Fun Projects

Baby A is making out like a bandit! I can't stop. I love knitting baby stuff.... It is so much fun.

This little cardi barely fits. I have more of the yarn and just may whip up another one. His mommy loves it. Says its perfect to throw on over sleepers.

The pattern is a freebie on Ravelry.

And these EVER SO CUTE Monster feet are the cutest easiest greatest little things to make. They get a huge laugh and lots of smiles from everyone who sees them on. Not the greatest of pictures, but you get the idea. This is a free pattern as well. You can find it here. If you have a baby or know a baby, or see a baby you MUST make them!!!!

And, finally. I picked up the Interweave "Knitted Gifts", because of the "Texting Gloves". I HATED, Hated the way the pattern was written, but LOVED,LOVED the idea. My 15 year is addicted to his Iphone. He loves to text. SOOOO, I really wanted

to make them for him, sooo I went to my second most favorite knitting site Knitty. And converted the cigar to meet my needs.

And it did with flying colors. The result are extremely warm gloves that the 15 year old loves!

The hands are my husbands. The phone is mine. You can only get 15 year olds to do so much. PLEASEEEEE!

Speaking of the hubby... He had a port put in 2 weeks ago, a super port to be exact. And he got his first round of chemo. He is taking off work, because of the nature of his job. BUT he feels and Looks GREAT! He is not having any side effects. The doc said he is likely NOT to have any because of the way it is being administered. I think its because of all the wonderful people in our lives, praying and sending healing thoughts. Thank YOU all, please don't stop!!!! Peace out knittin peeps. Keep your needles clicken!