Wow, it's been a busy week...

Tuesday night was "Knitting Night" at The Yarn Corner in Aberdeen. By the time I made a couple of quick stops, it was after 9:30pm when I got home. It was soooooo worth it! Not only did I get to meet some wonder ladies, but I learned about the box under the table in the back. I think I had seen the box and didn't know what it was. I know, you're dyeing to know what was in the box! Kids sweaters!! Guideposts' Knit for Kids. The pattern seems to be quite simple (good things for me) this is my first sweater ever. The sweaters are sent to Oxfam Knitting Project. They have been collecting and donating these sweaters since the mid-1990's. It feels good to do something like this. The colors I decided to use are lime green and navy. I can't wait to get done. Wednesday night was another get home late night... very little time for knitting! But I did manage to get about 3 inches done on the sweater. My sweet little Cassie is NOT a night owl. She keeps asking when is it time to go to bed. Thursday - all was calm at home and I used the time to do laundry and knit. Laundry is the perfect "house keeping" thing to do while knitting. It requires little effort and when my sweetie-pie asks "are you just going to knit all night?" I can say "No, I'm doing the laundry too!" At work today I recruited another two people to make French Market Bags (This makes 4 people so far). I can't even tell you how much I love my French Market BagS!! I have made 4 now and each one I love more than the one before it. My first one is red, navy and light denim. It now has a special place in my car (Red Honda Element), it holds my books on CD. By the way this was also my first knitting project - I purchased the yarn on March 15, 2006, a special day now on my calendar. It is from here forward known as my Knitting Anniversary day! The second FMB was a gift for my mom and I made it a little taller and stitched the dark part of the handles together to make them thick like an I-cord. (now my mom is hooked on felting too! Mom is an awesome crocheter. She's even making my Wedding jacket - no, it's not felted! It's called a Lacy Leaf Cacoon.) My mom also made this cute felted coin purse, not only is it felted, it's lined too! I am a special daughter.

This is the coin purse my mom made for me, it goes perfect with the Openwork Triangle Tote I made. Pattern from Two Old Bags.

The third was a retirement gift... Red with Ink Blue bottom and handles. It was hard to part with, but last I heard it is touring with her in Texas right now, and it is very loved. Don't you love it when you make something for someone and you hate to part with it because you love it so much, and then you find out the person you gave it to loves it just as much. (feeling warm and fuzzy now!) Ok- now we are on to the 4th FMB - My favorite to date... I use this one as my knitting bag and I have it filled with everything... books, current projects, my RIO, and other assorted must haves. I knitted it about 17 or 18 inches tall. and added about 5 extra rows to the handles and once again made the I-cord type handle grips.

This is my current knitting bag - #4

For some reason on Friday I found myself with knitting time during the day and I decided to start working on Noni bag again for a few minutes. It's not really very exciting to just knit, knit, knit, knit, knit in a circle - forever! But it is over half way now and I think I'll take a stab at making those cute little bobbles on Sunday. Here it is Saturday... sun was shining and I just had to do laundry and knit in the sunshine! My very favorite thing to do. This is part of the view from where I sit and knit on my back deck.

I finished the front side of the kid sweater! I'll make a good effort tonight to get as much done on side two so that I can be making bobbles tomorrow.

Rick is on duty all night (OSPD) so I say "Knit On!"

I think those warshrags are a calling my name... this is part of my collection so far!