I am so sorry. I had intended to post almost every day in November, but life didn't let me. I got sick. I was sick for a week, got better for a couple days, than got sick for another week. I even missed Thanksgiving. I caught some virus first. It's been awhile since a virus has been able to make me feel that miserable! I get the flue shot every September so it was unexpected. Symptoms were nausea, every joint in my body ached-badly, and my skin hurt, along with a nasty goopy cough. While I was down the cold germs pounced, and I was so stinking busy the whole time too. Ugh! Fortunately, the cough part is finally going away. I'll be very happy not to go through that month again.
I did manage to post updates on my Facebook page every day on the things I knitted during the Facebook fundraiser for the American Cancer Society I blogged about previously. I had a goal of $250. I got $139. Not the goal, but not a complete failure either.
During November I finished the dog sweater I was making, or rather, re-making for Zoey.
Made For: Zoey
Size: Customized Large
Yarn: Cascade Yarns ® Pacific® Solids
Color: Lagoon
Needles: Circular size 5 and 7
Started: August 23, 2024
Finished: November 30, 2024
Comment: I shortened it about 2 inches. I don't like it that way, though, so I will not do it again. It also took me a long time to finish it. It was a struggle knitting while I was sick.
I worked on the first Chicken mitten too. This pattern is very challenging. Every row is different so I can't get a rhythm going. So much counting too.
That's as far as I got. I needed to put it aside for awhile to work on a 3rd Christmas present project that came to mind, which I can't post pics until after Christmas. I was browsing Pinterest for funs and ran across a stitch pattern that made me think "I know someone who needs this in a pair of fingerless mitts." I wrote up a quick outline of a design and knitted them. I'm really happy with how they turned out.
I took a couple days off from knitting because stress, then started a Clapotis, which is a scarf/shawl pattern from the online magazine Knitty.com. It was once extremely popular on Ravelry, back when Ravelry was still fairly small. I think practically everyone had made it except me. I don't wear shawls. The pattern is now 20 years old, so Knitty started a knit-a-long in honor of it. It's about time I knit it.
In the last two weeks, while I was working on the knitting, my husband was going to a cardiologist about his heart, getting lots of tests. He has an arrhythmia that is starting to be a real problem. He had a Cardioversion, which worked for about 2 days, and the arrhythmia came back. So he's going in for surgery on January 2 to have an Ablation. It's supposed to cure the problem permanently. This is the added stress that pushed me over the edge. I've not seen my husband feeling this bad in a long time. Since his stroke almost 10 years ago. He's usually so strong, energetic, and sure. I tried working on the chicken mitten to finish it but I kept making so many mistakes. I couldn't do it this stressed out. The brain was not cooperating. The Clapotis has been perfect! Easy enough for the brain to grasp it, but with an easy yet interesting stitch pattern.
Somehow I managed to get the Christmas shopping done, the tree up, and the house decorated. My daughter, Ruth, has been a tremendous help too. Couldn't have done it without her. We also made a few dozen gluten free cookies to send to my daughter and daughter-in-law in Rhode Island, and I made some Cranberry Freezer Jelly for the next years worth of chicken and turkey sandwiches.
Dang! No wonder I didn't blog. I've been busy.
In December we had a bit of snow which has almost all melted this past week, but mostly rain. It's going to be a snowless Christmas this year. We've been getting quite a lot of rain this past week. It's been in the 40's during the day, which I've been enjoying. It will change. We've crossed the solstice line and the weather usually gets very wintery past that.
The day before yesterday I managed to plug up the kitchen sink drain while I was making dinner. Ugh! It took awhile, and all three of us, but we got it unplugged and I am no longer putting potato skins down the garbage disposal. It can handle all kinds of stuff, including bones! But potato skins make it drop to its knees in defeat.
I've bought a knit afghan kit from Mary Maxim. I've wanted a ripple afghan for decades and never made myself one. I've made them for lots of other people though. Anyway, they were having a good sale so I took advantage of it. It will be purple and white, of course. I plan to start it after Clapotis is done. I will work on it for awhile. Maybe put it down for a bit, then pick it back up, whenever I need to knit something easy. In the meantime, somehow I've got to get myself to get back to the chicken mittens.
Live long and prosper. \\//
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