Lovely Day

We had a lovely day here in Central Arkansas yesterday. Jill was able to sit out on the back deck for a while. She had to come in the house to get ready for her chiropractor visit but was wanting to stay out. Toby came around to get a treat. The trees are still bare, but you can see how sunny the day was.

New Knitting Book Arrived Today

Received February's book from Zooba.com today. It makes for a
good day when I get a knitting book or magazine in the mail.
The cover describes this book as " tucked away in a valley surrounded by a luscious landscape and rolling hills, Morehouse Farm is home to two former Manhattanites-Margrit Lohrer and Albrecht Pichler-who sought refuge from city life to raise Merino sheep and create the plushest wool of them all. "Morehouse Farms Knits" opens the gates of this magical farmland with a true city-to-country fairy tale and a fresh crop of patterns for merino handknits." I may not knit any of the patterns from this book, but I will enjoy reading the story of Morehouse Farm and looking at the knitted items.

February Weather

It is cold here today and the wind is really blowing. Even though the sun is peeking out, the cold temps and wind chill is going to keep us in the house today.
Ann called last night with the news that central Missouri is getting snow yet again.
She has seen more snow and bitterly cold weather this winter at college than she experienced her whole life here in central Arkansas. I'm so glad she loves her college or she might be wanting to come back home! Here is a picture she sent after the first snow they got in Fulton.

Bennett Hall

The last weekend of January one of Jill's caregivers stayed overnight and helped James with Jill while I made a visit to Corinth to be with my Dad and sisters. The church my parents attended and at one time pastored had a dedication of Bennett Hall as a memorial to Mom. Story and pictures can be found here.

More Dishcloths

One more dishcloth to show. This one has been in my knitting bag for a few months. The pattern was published in Mason Dixon Knitting and it is also known as the ball band dishcloth.

Heart Dishcloth

I found this interesting heart dishcloth at http://smariek.blogspot.com/.

There is one more dishcloth I want to try to make at http://criminyjickets.blogspot.com/2006/07/garterlac-dishcloth.html, then back to knitting socks.

Horse Dishcloth

I had to tweak the pattern a bit for it to come out correct, but I knitted Ann a dishcloth/facecloth with a horse!! Very appropriate for an equestrian science major!

More Knitting

I finished another cap. This one for Jill to wear. I don't like it as well as the other two because it wasn't knitted with wool yarn. The others were softer and probably warmer. I also knitted a heart dishcloth to send to Ann at college for Valentine's. I have a couple of dishclothes I want to knit and then back to socks! My fave!

Dishcloths

I have joined a group at Yahoo! Groups for knitted dishcloths. They are great fun to make and better to use for washing dishes than store-bought ones! The group has two knit-a-longs a month. This is the first one I participated in. The dishcloths turned out to have heart motifs. The yellow one doesn't show the pattern well, but it looks like sunshine to me. You can see the hearts knitted in the red cloth a bit better. It changes to a different color because I was trying to use up left over cotton yarn.

Knitting caps

I came across the Cold Weather Hat on www.headhuggers.org and have made several caps using this pattern. I couldn't find anyone to model so Jill's white bear was drafted. These caps were made out of Muskoka yarn, 100% merino wool in Denim Marl. I'm going to make one more, but out of Berella "4", color Wine Mist. All were made using size 9 needles.