Time Flies

Boy, does it ever!! It surely doesn't seem like it's been 3 weeks since I made a post.....but evidently it has! It has been a relatively eventful 3 weeks. My older daughter turned 33, the Guild met, my dear, dear friend Susan Barrington lost her valiant battle with breast cancer, a new grand-daughter was born, we went on our first rv trip of the season, I went to my first-ever knitting retreat.....so lot's going on.

In case you missed the post on the yahoo group, Susan's service/celebration of life is going to be held May 17th, 1:00 pm at Lakeside Assembly of God, 6810 NW 122nd. We will miss you, Susan.

Another thing....I finally got a confirmation of something I suspected....I have osteo-arthritis in my hands.....really sucky when you love to knit as much as I do :-( . I figured as much since they have been hurting so much lately, but it still sucks to have it confirmed. He put me on naproxene twice a day and told me to take it whether I'm hurting or not....that by doing that I will ultimately hurt less in the long run by managing the pain before it escalates. It does seem to be helping somewhat, but I'm having minor little dizzy spells off and on. Not sure if it's the meds or some inner-ear thing going on.

The knitting has just been weird lately. Oh, I am knitting.....and knitting, but it seems like nothing ever gets done..lol! I put the mogul scarf down for a while.....tooooo boring! Have finished the back of the cable lace tee and started the front.....started the Bob Blankie.....it is a Mission Falls pattern written for Mission Falls Cotton but I'm doing it out of the Plymouth Jeannee.

I guess I have sort of become obsessed with this yarn. It wasn't an intentional thought...just sort of happened, but I have ended up with a lot of it. The cable tee, this blankie and I have enough to do another cardi from it out of Creative Knitting spring issue.

I also started another pair of socks out of some Cherry Tree Hill I had in the stash. They are a pattern out of Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush.

And last but not least I finished my Baby Alpaca Grande house socks!! It's starting to get too warm to get much wear out of them this year, but I'll be ready for next fall. They are so warm!

We took our first trip of the season in the motor home a couple of weekends ago. It was our "test trip" with everyone going and staying overnight in it! We weren't sure how Dax would do at bed-time or if it would seem too crowded and cramped with all of us in there, but it worked out great!!! Dax went right down when it was nap or bed time without much problem. It was a little bit cramped but not bad at all!!! One of those situations that could have been awful with different people, but worked out great this trip. We get along so well with David & Amanda it was just no problem....not sure we could stand it with just anyone though :-) Dax & David took the twin beds in back, Amanda & Savy slept in the fold down dinette bed and DH & I took the fold down sofa bed. We all had a great time! The kids really enjoyed the lake.

We were surprised that Savy took to fishing like she did and couldn't believe how long Dax sat still in one spot throwing rocks into the lake!

Then came The Gourmet Yarn Company Retreat.......OH MY!!!! I can't remember the last time I had such a good time, laughed so hard, ate so much and had days and days of "guilt-free" knitting time!!! You know what I mean! I do sit and knit a lot here at the house, but I'm always thinking that I need to be picking weeds, planting flowers, doing laundry, cleaning house....all sorts of other things...so I feel guilty for just sitting there knitting. Not so on Retreat. It was just fantastic....from beginning to end and all in between! A great group, great projects, great location...I could go on and on.....in short MG and crew know how to put together a great, great time for everyone. It was my first time to attend something like that and it will NOT be the last...lol!

Here are the goodie bags we all got! Great little tapestry project bags stuffed with 2 skeins of Jo Sharp wool that we learned the double knitting technique with, 2 skeins of Mission Falls wool that we did the cutest fair isle headbands with (Savy got the one I did, so no pic of mine), some dpns and point protectors plus a notebook of patterns and tips on technique....too awesome! There were so many funny things that happened I couldn't begin to tell them all so let it just suffice to say......... I can't wait for the Fall Retreat!

On the first night there I got a call and our 7th grandbaby had arrived! Welcome to the world Kiley Dawn!! She was 5 lb, 12 oz, 18 inches long.

Not much else going on....just a tiny bit of "stash enhancement"! Part of it was "free", so to speak....an early Mother's Day in the form of a gift card to Michael's which converted itself into.....what else?....Yarn...lol!

Paton's Soy Wool Stripes. I saw several people in Ravelry doing the Lady Eleanor out of this. I had intended to do it out of Silk Garden....but hey....free is good anytime and the ones I saw out of this worked up really pretty.

The other thing I got was the first shipment of the Wool Girl Sock Club. I had been getting the Chameleon Colorworks sock club up until it died when the owner sold out to someone else and I really missed getting suprises in the mail so decided to do another one. I heard/read so much about this one that I decided to give it a try. It wasn't a disappointment! Great package!!! Mama Llama sock yarn in a colorway inspired by a Georgia O'Keefe painting, a great pattern, cute little color coordinated stitch marker, a packet of knitting notecards with a pen and a niftly project bag to hold it all!

Only thing is, the sock stash is getting "out of control"....lol.....I REALLY need to start doing more socks......LOTS more socks ;-)

On the less than fun end of things......don't ask me where, when or how I got it, but I woke up this morning with Pink Eye! Great.....just great!