My second dishcloth is done was finished a few days ago! It’s called Diamonds on Lace. Yarn was Peaches n Creme Fiesta Ombre and was knit with size 7 needles.

I’m also on my way, with my second sock! After a few false starts, I got the “join” right and I got an inch done, at the knit-night tonight! I’m past the awkwardness of getting started, with the double-pointed needles and knitting has gotten easier. It was fun to show off my completed sock, to the knitting group, at Bahr Creek tonight!

My market bag, Elisa’s Nest Tote, is all finished with the knitting part. I need to get my crochet hook and the instructions ready, to start seaming up the sides. I haven’t had a chance to get that done yet.

Last week, I made a Baby Genius burp cloth, from the Mason-Dixon book, but I already gave it to my cousin, last Saturday, without taking a picture! Argh! I used Peaches and Creme Sea Mist which is blue, green and white. It was pretty. Now, I’m working on the Mason-Dixon bib! I’ll get a picture of that, before I send it off.

At the knit-night tonight, I was skimming through Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee Casts Off. I was laughing so hard I was crying! Emily and I will have to see if it’s at the library tomorrow!

We missed the last 2 knit-nights, due to bad weather, that only seemed to be occurring on Thursday nights! Two weeks ago, we had snow and last Thursday, the snow happened more during the day, but it had been warm and was supposed to be much colder in the evening, leading to all the wet spots freezing up. Well, that seemed a little too scary to be driving in, so Emily and I stayed home. We love going, so it was hard to just stay home, although, we did knit at home, but sure missed the social aspect of going to the yarn store! All those women are great company!

Amy, one of the usual women who come, is going to Mexico this weekend on a mission trip! Our group knit over 50 hats, for her to take with her, for the orphans! Emily and I knit 2 of those 50-some hats! We can’t wait to get started on new hats, for the next need that comes along.

Tomorrow is supposed to be in the 20’s. I almost don’t remember what that feels like. After the single digits and sub-zero temps of the past week, 20’s will feel like a heatwave. Then we get 30’s to possibly 40, over the weekend! Woohoo!

From Weather Underground:

Thursday

Blustery. Snow in the morning…then light snow likely in the afternoon. Areas of blowing snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 2 to 3 inches. Highs around 30. South winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of snow 80 percent.

My 15yo daughter and I like to go to our LYS (local yarn store), about 15 minutes away, to knit with a wonderful group of women and share our projects and see what they are knitting, etc. It’s a lovely social outlet and a chance to share the hobby with other like-minded women. We couldn’t go last week, to Bahr Creek, because it snowed in the evening. Now there’s a potential for our Thursday night to be all messed-up again! There is a winter storm watch for the southwestern part of the state tomorrow and the storm has the potential to go far enough east, to bother us, too!

So, why on Thursdays? Why not any other day of the week? Whine! If Thursday gets messed up again, Emily will NOT be happy!

It seemed appropriate to me. It seems all we hear about is football, in January, especially since the Green Bay Packers get to play the Championship game at HOME! DH and I watched the last 2 minutes of the Giants/Cowboys game last night, because the suspense was killing us. I wanted the Cowboys to lose, so the Packers could play at home! I’m staying far away from Green Bay next Sunday. Sounds like it could be a crazy place!

Recess duty for my lunch job, wasn’t too bad today. I think we are going to be inside, later in the week, though, especially with kindergarten kids, because it’s supposed to be good and cold! I’m not looking forward to that!

I finished my first sock tonight! Woohoo! Now, to cast on for the second one! It’s Sisu Fantasy yarn (6457) and it’s 80% wool and 20% nylon.

My first sock is finally getting there. I had already turned the heel, but need to pick up stitches to start working the gusset and there it sat for a month or two! Argh. Anyway, I picked it up tonight and my sock is on its way to getting a foot. My 15yo daughter, Emily, who has knit 2 pairs of socks for herself and one pair for a baby, plus lots of wee socks, helped me through the instructions, so that I didn’t have to keep stopping to see what was next!

I also fixed the center of the snowflake I just did. It had a funny row of purl stitches in the middle, because that’s what the pattern called for, even though the picture on the pattern page, doesn’t have purls in the middle. Anyway, I wanted it more like the picture, so I unseamed the seam and ripped the last two rows out and did: k1, k2tog, to last stitch, k1, and then purled the last row (ws). It looks so much better now.

I’m off to bed now. We got letters this past week, that our pastor is resigning in February, so I need to get to church tomorrow, to find out how others feel about this! I was kind of shocked by the news!