Kitty Kisses, Kitty Sneezes

Not a lot of knitting done today, although some progress has been done on the Lilac Cardigan. The first sleeve is almost finished. And I have been dabbling with some of my other knitting projects of course.

My biggest obstacle is shown above. Lewie loves to lay on my shoulder when I knit or play on my tablet. It is not a problem for a few minutes, but he doesn't stay up there. He slides. Just far enough that he gets in the way of knitting or reading as shown in the picture

I could put up with it, but he apparently has allergies. And sneezes. Usually while on my shoulder.

Ewwww.

But he is a purring machine. That gives him a lot of leeway.

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Stop the Insanity

Once again we see panic all over the news. Another Snowmedegon is descending upon the East coast and the South. Now granted, that area doesn't do snow well. An inch of snow already this afternoon had commuters in a deadlock going home in Washington DC. Relax people! Where you live, it will all be melted in a couple days. Stay home and knit. Or something. It's the weekend, just hunker down and enjoy yourself. (Ok, in their defense, Washington DC is projected to get between one to two feet.)

I think the weather reports and storm warnings have gotten a bit ridiculous recently. Before this weekend's south and east disaster-in-the-making crept into my awareness, I saw a weather advisory for northern Michigan, in the Petoskey and Emmet County area a couple days ago. But it was a warning for 1-3 inches! Really? In Northwest Michigan? That is just normal winter weather for Michigan. And when they build this normal weather as a huge storm, you tend to treat it as crying wolf when a real storm comes. I wish they would save the advisories for the truly bad weather, not normal seasonal weather.

Ok, rant over. So for putting up with my raving lunacy, I will treat you to Little Farmer with his "buddy" Snowflake. He loves the kitty. Snowflake does not reciprocate the feeling.

Nice kitty.

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A Last Look

I shared a couple photos yesterday of my Gertrude modeling my Stonehenge Hitchhiker that was finished yesterday. At Knit Night this evening I had the opportunity to have pictures taken while I modeled it.

I really love the drape of this. And it has plenty of warmth for me. Wool will do that. I especially like the crescent or boomerang shaping of the Hitchhicker too.

It goes well with my gray and silver hair too. Ha!

The more I look at this, the more I think I will be making another before long. Or at least sometime this year, after catching up on some of my other projects..

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Another Project Off The Needles

The Stonehenge Hitchhicker is done. I really like it. I may try it out for a while to be sure, but I think the reddish metallic rayon may become one of these, with the additions of eyelet rows.

First, after finishing the seven pattern rows, I had to play a game of yarn chicken.

As you can see above, I didn't have much left for casting off.

But I made it. Just a few inches lefty or weaving in.

It looks pretty good on Gertrude too. (I may need to replace the old girl this year, she has developed a definite lean.). Front...

...and back.

The pattern is Hitchiker and I purchased it as part of a four pattern set. The yarn is two skeins of Stonehenge Mills, natural colored, mill ends. It was purchased several years ago from their stall at the Charlevoix Fiber Show. And, as you can see, I knit until the yarn ran out.

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Technology, Isn't It Great?

I discovered my technical problems and finally have them resolved. I had downloaded a news reader. When signing in, it asked for my e-mail address and password. Well, silly me, I thought it wanted the password I had established for that program previously. It kept rejecting it so it wanted me to set a new one. Unfortunately it was my e-mail password that got changed. That meant my google apps weren't talking to my tablet and vice-versa. I think everything is updated and functioning now.

Which means I have pictures available now.

The back section went much quicker after I ended with the lace.

I have the left front well on its way, then the right front and sleeves, seaming and neck. I may have it finished before she gets to size 12 months.

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