T-SHIRTS arrived today!

DH came home from work with my package that I was waiting for from UPS. I tracked it and it read that it had been delivered...WHERE THE HECK IS IT!! Not at my house. Damn that UPS again. Well, DH saw the guy and he gave DH my package! LOL I am glad he let me open it today..not make me wait for my birthday in a couple of weeks. LOL




I ordered them from CafePress.com last week. I asked if he would get me one for my birthday and he said to order two if I wanted...and I did! I opened them and then went outside and draped them over the seat in the truck so daylight would show the pink color. I have wanted a Knitster shirt for ages and now I have one. I think I will ask for the baseball cap for Mother's Day in May. They have a lot of really neat clothing at their site. A few years ago I bought a couple of bumper stickers that are knit related too!

Well, the two fronts are just 15 rows from completion. I should be in the living room knitting on them and watching Medium, but here I am on the computer blogging and watching Medium. As soon as the dishwasher stops I will be heading to bed. Decided to go for a walk today. My poor back just isn't up to a long walk yet. I had told DH that I would be walking the route he takes on his drive home and to keep an eye out for me. He saved me!! My hero again! I thought my left knee was going to explode! The injection is wearing off. So bone on bone again. Knee replacement for the left side is on the horizon. I am going to be the 6 million dollar grammy! ha ha It was very windy today and not very warm...only 35 F with wind-chill in the 20's. I had to keep my eyes covered so I didn't get sand and dirt in them while walking. I am very glad I decided to wear my winter coat and the hood and my mittens. The wind will make the snow melt faster so keep them blowing Mother Nature. I am in a hurry to move to the lake in April. Want to be there before May and get to enjoy birds and little critters. The hummers will be heading in then too.

Well, time for me to shut of the water to the dishwasher and go work on the sweater...night all!

KNIT ON!!

Aran fronts are working up fast!

After a few blunders along the way, I have the two pockets in the fronts. I knit some more at my cousins house last night while she is still knitting away on her short rib socks for herself. I took these two pictures of my progress. I am on ball 6 of the 13 I purchased...hope there is enough. If there is any left over, I want to make some socks out of this cascade 220. Color # is 2401. Used a flash this time as it was around 9 pm causing the color to look light again. Oh well, I am a knitter not an expert in photography. Though I have been paid a few times for some of the photos I have taken when I worked at the local newspaper. And I have a few of baby pictures I have taken of our granddaughter hanging around too!

My husband had a patch of skin taken off at the doctors last week...and the thought was it was cancer. Yesterday his nurse called to say it was cancer and wanted to know what we wanted to do next. Told her she had to get him in to the surgeon ASAP as I would be having back surgery the first week in May..do not have the exact date yet. So she said they would get him in to the specialist and call me today or tomorrow. So now to wait for that. No one was in a hurry to do this, but I need him to be healed before my surgery. LOL As I won't be driving for a while and will need help with a lot of things as I will not be able to do anything but stand up and walk or lay down. What a wonderful pair we make! lol....37 years of wedded bliss this June and want at least that many more again with this wonderful man. So keep him in your prayers my dear friends and family...because it will be God that has the final say in all this.





Here is a photo of the inside of my work with the pockets.






Hopefully we will be heading to our sons this weekend for a visit...Grand baby is now screeching at the top of her lungs..she is 7 months old now. She found her voice and she will be heard...ha ha!!! My son said she wants to be standing up now by the coffee table..so she rolls until she gets to it and then pulls herself up with a look of triumph and be big squeal from her to boot. We can't wait to see her..been a month since the last visit so it's time. And I need to stop at Unicel and get my cell phone replaced...it keeps shutting itself off all the time...pisses me off when I'm talking to someone and this happens...time to replace it.

Well, I have supper done and time to go watch the local evening news and knit on the Joat! NCIS is on this evening and I will be able to watch it and knit.

God Bless You All.

Take care all and..........

KNIT ON!!

Another day and another bad knitting day too

Here is a picture of one of my cats...Samantha. She will be 16 years old the end of April. I came downstairs this morning and caught her on the couch. HD doesn't want them on the furniture, but when he's not looking they all do. I have 4 cats. DH was at work so Samantha just decided to sleep there all day. When he got home at 3 and caught her, she couldn't get down fast enough. LOL And they say you can't teach cats. BS They know when DH is not home. I let them lay with me but they do not get on him unless he calls them over. Hubby doesn't hit them but is firm with his voice and they mind. Me, just like having my son at home again...in one
ear and out the other...haha I have two innies and two outies as I call them. Two that go outside and two that stay in all the time. The two innies, Samantha and Feather, were injured when they were weeks old. Tonto and Penny were older when I found them and do not want to be in. The innies girls were found at the horse hovel we have here outside of our town. Feather was stepped on by a horse and had a broken leg and pelvis. She couldn't eat she was so little. Had to teach her how to from a saucer...her belly dragged in the food for weeks until she grew. She will be 12 in May. Penny is 10 and Tonto is 14. Getting old my babies are.

Got up and starting knitting on my Aran sweater today. I have the two fronts going and thought I was getting a good start..then I noticed I forgot to add the 3 stitches just like on the back! Talk about a Senior Moment !!!!! I need a new and younger brain! tee hee hee Was on row 33 so had to go back to row 14. Hate being so old and stupid at times...haha Oh well. While reading the directions for the fronts, I made note of what row to put the pockets in. HA HA Now to remember to do it on that row! Dang, it sucks to be old... I will be a speed limit on April 14. So I think that is a hint for me to slow down a bit and enjoy life. To me that means more knitting and less of everything else..including eating.

Back to the fronts. Hubby and I watch Pirates of the Carribean Dead Mans Chest this evening. It was a good one again. Enjoyed the first one more. Now to see what Disney does for the next one. Back to knitting...knit while I watched...when the scenes were exciting, I knit faster and faster. HD wanted to know if I thought I was helping them going that fast. tee hee What a guy!

Well, time for bed...need my beauty sleep tonight! Have a lot to do tomorrow if we do get all the snow they are predicting...up to 22"!! Just what we need...more snow to plow! Oh well...Hubby will be getting called in tomorrow morning..overtime!!

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY to one and all!!

Aran Jacket back is done!

Yesterday I finished knitting the back of the jacket. I then knit the two pockets and put them on stitch holders. Today I have the ribbing done on the two fronts. I will knit them together...that way if I make a mistake on them it will look like it's part of the pattern. lol

Had a wonderful day with DC and DA. We took her to Walmart and looked around. She enjoyed herself tremendously. It was a very pleasant day and only wore the blue cabled hooded sweater I made for DH.

I got a new memory stick for my camera. What a difference a few years make. I bought the last one with 256 MB for about $135.00. The new one is 512 MB and it was $34.95! What a change in price! This one will let me take more pictures without changing the stick.

Time to go knit...had an early supper and this is almost done...so off I go to the couch and TV to relax and add some more rows to my jacket. KNIT ON!

Aran Jacket Progress II

Hubby and I took a ride into camp today to get some more firewood. We have gone through so much this year. We ran out a few weeks ago and had to take the seasoned stuff from the camp to use at our home in town. I got to knit some while he threw wood into the truck bed. I got a few pictures too. I have about 27" so far. I really want to make the coat (33"+ shoulder shaping) but do not know if I will have enough with 13 skeins. When I made the first one for Laura http://picturetrail.com/mainelywoolyns.com I used coned yarn..and I had 4 of them. I didn't have to worry about running out for that one. I think I will finish the back and then do the arms. I always knit them together on the same needle so I will be able to determine how many skeins I will have left to do the two fronts, the hood and the bands...if I remember correctly, that bands took almost a skein of yarn to do.

The more I knit on this the better I like my color. Loved it when I bought it, but wasn't too crazy about it when I started winding it. Now I am in a hurry to get it done, as Spring is just around the corner. Today was the official first day of MUD season for our area. All the rain we got last night and the wonderful warm winds too helped to melt a lot of the snow yesterday. Today it is 43F and cloudy, a little breeze that is heaven after the winds last week. Wore the cabled hooded sweater I knit for DH last summer. It can be seen at www.picturetrail.com/mainelywoolyns...just look for the bright blue one hanging from a tree. lol We had to use 4 wheel drive to get to the camp because of all the mud there where we had snow a few days ago. Hope this means we will have the roads ready to let us move in some time in April. I love being up there, so it will be a good place for me to recoup from the next round of surgery I will have in May on my back. I hope I will be healed enough to go fishing in August...that is my favorite time to go...white perch are jumping and plentiful. I do catch and release unless it is a super size one...and I will keep it alive in water while I fish. If I don't catch a few more to make a nice big meal of them, I release what I have. They are tough fish, not like trout or salmon, so they usually revive and take off quickly when they hit the open water.

Well, I am going to go watch Matlock on Hallmark and knit some more on the aran jacket. Want to get the back done tonight.






Here is a picture I took today of the lake. You can see all the snowmobile tracks in our yard on to the lake. Still enough ice for a while. People were out ice fishing today on the other end of the lake. Here you can see sticks where they had drilled holes. This lets people know where they are so they won't hit them with their sleds. They freeze up quickly at night and the sticks stay until spring thaw.

Aran Jacket Progress

I have about 22" knitted today. I had to go to DC to help her with her socks, so I used her floor again for the backdrop. My couch is the same color Burgundy, so it doesn't show.

DC had noticed a dropped stitch way back on the gusset. So I took it all out and got the needles back in their right places. So now she has to knit it again..then she can start decreasing for the toe.

Weather is horrible again today. wind chills have been bad...making us in the -11F all day. Didn't go out yesterday at all because it was cold, cold, cold! The winds are the worst of it. It has been brutal out there the last couple of days. Tomorrow is supposed to be the worst! The temps will be below zero without wind chills. Sure is making everyone use up their oil! Come on SPRING! Where are you!!!! lol

Well, off to watch Reba and knit. KNIT ON!

Aran book pattern

I had a comment asking what pattern I used to knit my jacket from. I was having a senior moment when I didn't include that with the original post.

It is from Sirdar #295 - Relax in Aran- Design H. I purchased the book 3/4 years ago and I an not sure from where. It sold for $9.95 at that time. I want to say I got it from City Side Yarn in Bangor Me. They have a web site, so you can check with them or go online and check or check with your own local yarn shop.

Hubby just called from work..told me to stay in today. It is -8F right now...with the windchill it is -32F. The wind is so bad today. The cats do not want to go out either. It has to be cold for them to not go out. With the wind blowing, the snow we got last night is getting beat down so it is slippery out. And I don't need to fall again. Last time I fell, I had to have my right knee replaced. (Sept of 2006)
So I am off to the couch to knit and watch Y&R at 12:30.

KNIT ON!

Aran book pattern

One of the comments I had today on my blog was asking me what the pattern was. Sorry...having a senior moment again and didn't' add that to the post with it. I will include it now.

It is Sirdar #295 - Relax in Aran. It is design H. I paid $9.95 for it a few years ago. I think I got it at City Side yarn shop (http://www.citysideyarn.com) don't know if it's still available...you will have to check that out at your local yarn shop or online.

Staying in today! 32 below zero right now with the windchill. -8F is the temp. DH called from work and said not to go out today. Too cold and a lot of ice and blowing show. He doesn't want me to fall and get hurt again. Last time I fell I had to have my right knee replaced. Did that in Sept. 2006. Still recovering from that. Knee is still not 100% but I keep working at it. All I want to do is bend it like I could before the fall.

Well, back to reading email and then to knitting ... and watching Y&R at 12:30.

KNIT ON!!

Aran Jacket

Today I went to Lincoln with my cousin to visit her mother. We had a wonderful time and it was so good to see Auntie. Since she moved to Lincoln I haven't seen her in a while...only when she's at one of her kids visiting and I would bump into her somewhere. I brought my knitting and got a lot done at the visit. DC got a lot done on her third pair of wool socks today too! Great knitting day for all.

The jacket is now on ball 3 as of tonight. I am so pleased that it is finally starting to come together and I am remembering the directions for the rows now so I don't have to look at the pattern all the time. I still have those senior moments and I depend on the pattern, but it is working up at a good pace right now. I hope to have another picture to post tomorrow.

Got a little snow tonight and there have been a ton of accidents on the roads here. No one has been hurt, but the wrecker services are making a mint on pulling people out of the snow and back onto the road.

Well, time for some well needed sleep. Traveling makes me tired and I didn't even drive. All in all I had a marvelous day! Relatives and knitting...always a good combo! Night all and KNIT ON!

March knitting is going good so far!

We got snow again on Thursday. Plowed our yard and then went to camp. The road wasn't plowed to our camp, so did that. Thought I would be a nice person and go to the end...well I got STUCK!!! Had to call someone to come and pull me out. I called my cousin and she and her husband came up to the lake and pulled me out. I was really stuck good too!!!!! It took a couple of tries, but he got me out. So happy to see them!! So glad he had a nice one ton Ford! I love Ford.

Today I finally got to my DC (darling cousin) to help her finish her second pair of socks. She is using Bartlettyarns wool 2 ply to knit this pair. It is yarn I had from my shop. I took a picture of them..one is finished and the other one is almost done...just had a stitch not psso...so she had one stitch too many. Found it and got she finished it. Great Job LAJ!!!



As you can see, her socks are really nice...she did a great job! I waited for her to cast on the next stocking, yes she is going for pair 3, and didn't get the yarn twisted. She is going to make them with a short cuff, about 30 rows. She has written down the pattern so she understands it. Says she can't read a pattern, but is able to follow her own way of writing it down.



Finally got a couple of photos of the yarn and pattern I started a little bit ago. Bought this at City Side Yarn Shop in Bangor. It is Cascade 220. It's a reddish brown...or should be. I had a doctors appointment on Feb 28. I went to the shop to get a couple more skeins and they were gone...so will have to keep a close eye on how much I use on the back and fronts. Want to put the hood on it. I need to make some more of the skeins into balls. Used one and almost done with the second one tonight.



This photo shows my knitting and the book photos. I have made it before and it should be easy! DUH my old brain won't work! I almost took my knitting bag with me when I went to camp yesterday. But I didn't. I was close to the camp when I got stuck, so had to walk back to get a signal on my cell. I went in the camp and started a fire..it was colder inside then out. Could see my breathe. I decided to watch TV and knit. Found a skein of sugar and cream and a pair of size 8 needles. I started a dishcloth, but was way too cold so I wrapped up in a blanket, but not enough heat from the woodstove and my feet were getting cold. (didn't have my wool socks on). I walked back to the truck to warm up. I had some water and my Shania Twain CD so I got the knitting started. I was almost done with it when my hero's came to rescue me. lol I promise I will not go to camp alone again to plow!!!!!! I can not believe that not one person came by on a snow sled...nice day and no one out sledding. Oh well. More sledders here in town then out in the woods right now.

Well, time for bed. Been a long day and I need my beauty sleep...hahaha. KNIT ON!!