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12
Feb
10

Update: Heather

By LoriSeeger | Filed in 11 Minutes a Day

While I know that many of our readers are also on Facebook, I know that  many are not.  Please keep both Heather and her family in your prayers.

Lori

From Lea-Ann McGregor

Heather Thompson

Dear knitting friends, just wanted you to know that Heather’s sister asked me to pass on her love to us. She is highly medicated and very tired and the next step is near at hand. I pray for her, her family and each of us. I’m thankful for the time we’ve been able to spend with her and the influence she’s been to the knitting world. She will be missed.

 

 

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8
Feb
2

Still Here

By LoriSeeger | Filed in Hand Knitting, Just For Fun

No we have not fallen off the face of the earth, but instead I have actually been taking is easy and letting my hand heal.  Thanks to new meds from the doc and about 23 hours a day in the brace, I think it’s actually starting to heal. Doc said he didn’t know why it was taking so long.  Smart a.. that I am I said something along the lines of “48 year old joints don’t heal like they used to.”  He said that he would never tell me that as he is older than I am.  Tactful isn’t he. :-)

I had a dreadful case of startitis in January, but sucked it up and held off except for this, the Rams and Yowes blanket from Kate Davies.  Yes you can get it as a Ravelry download or directly from her site.  The pattern is knit from 9 shades of naturally colored wool.  But natural, I mean the color as it comes off the sheeps back.  No dyes involved.  This was one of the attractions because I knew that in my stash there was a large amount of DK weight naturally colored Romney yarn that literally followed me home from New Zealand about 10 years ago.  DK just mean that I get a bigger blanket.  Turns out I had more than the 9 shades needed, so I got to play around until I got a combination that I liked.   I’m having fun.  I’m about 3/4 through the first batch of ewes (the recognizable sheep shapes.  The rams have horns.)

My sister remarked last night that she thought it would make a cute baby blanket if it were re-colored.  Maybe so, but it would definitely need to go on the machine for that.  No way would I try steeks in acrylic.  I keep picturing pastel colored ewes and rams on a white or cream ground.  I think the ewes would be ok, but I don’t know about the rams.

What do you think?

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