I'm Back for the Moment!!!!

Well, I am back for the moment!!!! I have been thru all sorts of things going on in my life, so my knitting and blogging have suffered.
The biggest thing is that my place of work consolidated, and I am unemployed for the first time in many years. At least I got a severence package, which means that I can't collect unemployment till September, but now I have lots of time to knit.

I have started knitting on my mom's afghan again, I am on strip #5 of nine.

It is a repeat of strip #1, and it seems to be getting easier as long as I don't have Star Wars on TV...(I get too interested in it and last night made several mistakes that I had to frog.)

I finally got the circular needles I needed to start on the caplet I want to make myself. I have had the yarn, Cascade Heathers, for at least a year and a half, but needed at least 36 -40 inch circs. I found 32inch here ar my LYS and bought 3 different sizes... now I have to get up the nerve to start because I am afraid I will goof up.

Fun Fur Scarf Finished

Tonight, I finished Fun Fur Scarf.... I found it easy to make and I was surprised as how easy I found the yarn to knit with. I have more of this yarn, that was given to me by the lady I made the scarf for,so I might try to make a hat later on.

2 Color Scarf

This is another scarf I am working on. Very simple K2P2. I liked the 1st scarf that I knittted for Special Olympics, which was the Coats and Clark pattern, so I just changed colors. I still have alot of the white left, and the claret was another project that I frogged. It was just practice knitting stockinette stitch that I started to get back into knitting with.

I have so many different colors of Red Heart Super Saver yarn, that I thought I could put each color with white and make more scarves for different charties next winter. I will probably use different patterns, but I think this ribbed scarf looks striking. I used size 9 needles and the color is Claret and White.

Lion Fun Fur Scarf

This is a scarf I started out of Lion Brand Fun Fur in colors Tropical and Lava. A lady who has a booth at Traders Depot, where my friends and I spend every Sunday Knitting and Crocheting, and drinking coffee, gave us a few skeins in different colors, because she didn't have time to do anything with it. She had gotten it because she thought it would make a nice scarf, so I am making one for her. It is pretty easy to work with, using 2 strands. I am using size 13 needles and a garter stitch, 20 stitches cast on. I am about 50% finished.

My cat Slinky has recently become my scarf tester, at least while I am trying to take a picture of it. He usually doesn't bother my knitting, but lately he has been feeling his oats, and has to once again show me why he is King of all he surveys!

He is lucky that I love him so much, or he thinks I am lucky he lets me live with him.

Special Olympics Opening Ceremony

I finally have time to write again.

Last Saturday(7Feb), I watched the Opening Ceremony for the Special Olympic Games In Idaho, on Ktvb.com.

I was really impressed that most of the teams, and officials wore the scarves we all made. I saw mine at least 100 times, given the fact that my first scarf was made from the Coats and Clark Pattern!!!!!

I loved the smiles all the olympians had, I wished I was there in person. but at least I got to see all 3h20m of it. My friends and I are happy to have taken part in this project, and hopefully will carry on with different charity projects in this new Knitting and Crocheting era that we now seem to be in. Knitters and Crocheters are a force to be reckoned with.

Finally Finished #3

Yay!! I finally finished with Special Olympic scarf #3.

It took me awhile due to holodays and to the baking of 50 dozen cookies for christmas presents. Now I probably will wash it and send it to Connecticut, to their Regional Winter Games.

My friends and I are happy to have played a small part in these Special Olympics, and I will probably contimue with my charity knitting as well as mom's afghan and some projects for me. My goal this year is to be continually creative with my knitting, and maybe finally learn to crochet.

Knitting Blues

Here it is, December 27th, and I should be knitting, but I am not.
I don't know why, but I am very depressed now, and don't know quite what to do about it.
I think it has to do with the new to me med that I am taking for my diabetes, metformin. I just started it in October, and am also taking glipizide, and it doesn't seem to be working too well except to make me depressed. So I have knitted 8 rows this week but that is all.
I want and need to finish SO scarf # 3 soon, if I could just find the energy to do so.
Also need to start on my Mom's afghan again, because I want to finish it this year, instead of 2010, which is what I told her it would be finished by.
I am sure that I will be ok, Just have to get thru this period, maybe after new years, I will feel better.