Lap robe for the Elders

I finished the sampler lap robe/afghan last weekend, but just photographed it this morning. I'll box it up this weekend and get it mailed to the Cheyenne River Elderly Nutrition Services on Monday. And I'll also box up all of my leftover red heart to mail to my sister in CO.

At the moment I have a total of ZERO on-the-needle projects! That won't last long, because I just finished the first Horcrux sock and it needs a mate. Also need to do the second Almeara glove. After the lap robe, these will seem like very quick projects.

Then... Sport has asked for a pair of socks - from yarn "just like my blanket" (this blanket.) I could buy more acrylic yarn, but I told him that we'd look for "real" sock yarn and he could pick out what he wants. Of course, I'll lead him to H. L.'s better than it used to be collection of Heart & Sole or whatever else they have of machine washable sock yarn.

Also told Buster that when Sport's socks are finished, he will get to shop for his sock yarn. :-)

Egads! Yes, I'm still knitting!

I'm on block 10 (of 12) for the lap robe for the CRR Elders. I'm using blue, dark green, burgundy (or is it cranberry?), and off white. It's one of those projects that I can't put aside...

*partially because I want to get it done & on its way to South Dakota

*partially because doing 12 different patterns is loads of fun and makes the process seem to go quickly

*partially because when I'm finished, the left over Red Heart will be shipped to my sister in Colorado (she doesn't like wool & I've decided I don't like Red Heart - it feels so rough)

So, I'm driven. Photos eventually.

August Updates 4

A. CIC Socks
I had leftover yarn from the Dune Twist socks (see previous post), but I didn't think there was enough for a pair of smaller kids' socks, so I ordered a ball of Chocolate Wool of the Andes. As it turned out there was enough of the Dune Twist added to the Chocolate to get two more pairs of socks for CIC. The earlier "Magic 36" socks have a 7" foot, these two smaller pairs have a 5" and a 6" foot. And yes that's the end of the Dune Twist and Chocolate.

B. Stash busting for a good cause
CIC knitters are encouraged to Go Local (sort of.) I have a bin of red heart worsted on the shelf in my closet and keep thinking, "I really ought to do something with this." In the past I've knit a bunch of hats, but this time decided on something for the Cheyenne River Rez Elders. I found a Red Heart pattern: Knit Sampler Afghan and it will work wonderfully. Smallish squares, variety of patterns, etc. The yarn is in dark (forest) green, off white, blue, and burgundy.

Felted Slippers for CRR

I mailed these off several days ago to The Main - Youth Project at Cheyenne River Res. Kool Aid Dyed last year, finally finishing that batch. These are basic, cuffless, felted slippers.

The yellow ones are not as "done" as the others, but still felty-fluffy and thick-ish.

7+1=8 Caps

I finished eight caps for the Cheyenne River project for CIC. Seven were finished in June and the other last evening. In the photo of the seven, there are two tweedy hats. They were knit with white worsted and a strand of [fingering weight] sock yarn - one with leftover KnitPicks Essentials "Dusk" [used for Mother's Embossed Leaves] and the other with leftover Opal Feelings #1703 - the blue stripes [used for the pair for my sister in SC.]

Various sizes - children through "small adult."

Two of the caps were knit using the rolled brim cap pattern from Knitting for Peace, and the rest are Seaman's Caps - several inches of K2, P2 rib for the cuff and then st st.

I tried to get Annie to model the 8th cap, but she said that it's too hot & humid today, but if I can wait till November....
She's going to spend the day on the shelf - watching Wimbledon.

Happy 4th!

Other than going to fireworks tonight with DD2 and the boys, I'm planning a stay-at-home day. The grass needs a mow, the carpets need a vacuum, a book needs to be finished [I'm only half through and it's due on Friday...I could finish it, IF I didn't do anything else.] Title? The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest by Alec R. Gilpin, published in 1958. I told you I was/am a history major, right?

Have I been knitting, you ask? Yes, some. I'm on the 7th cap for the Cheyenne River project [CIC] When I finish this one, I'll do photos of all the caps. I probably will do one or two more to use up the yarn I bought specifically for this project.

Buster stayed all last weekend while his important people went camping across The River with the daddy's extended/extensive family. Buster and I had a a good time. I was even able to knit a bit on the cap. I put it away, tho., after he grabbed it from me and pulled out the circ needle. ARGH~ Being worsted weight, the stitches were easily recovered, so no real damage done. But, I'll wait a few more months before knitting in his presence again!

What else have I been up to since last post? Besides working: a little napping [I'm still so tired after work...], and a little data entry on my genealogy project -- manually adding data to my new software from the old. [After a Big Mess when I tried an export/import, I decided to do it the Slow-but-accurate way.]

After sharing a computer with DD1 for the past term in which she had an online class with mandatory real-time online seminars in the evenings, I've 'bought' her a computer. Now don't go thinking what a wonderful mom I am. She's paying me back for it. AND it was at the IT department's garage sale at work. They were selling oldish Pentium 4 Dells for $100. Loaded with XPpro and an anti-virus product, but nothing else. Monitor, keyboard, mouse, cables came with. She's happy, and can transfer her music download subscription and files to her computer. :-) It came without speakers, but she's getting rid of an old, non-working, cd player and salvaged the speakers from it.

The Grandsons - 2 yr old Buster on the left and nearly 4 yr old Sport on the right:

Caps and Harry Potter 5

Finished the audio book - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I knew I'd never get through it before the movie was released. No brain power left after work these days. So I got the audio book from the public library & knit caps for the CIC-Cheyenne River project [and finished the June socks.] I'm nearly finished with cap #4. Here's a sneak peak at one of them.

Updated previous post

With a photo & a few links. :-)

Buster stayed overnight. He was absolutely distraught this morning when he realized his mama wasn't here. Hopefully he will take it better when he wakes up from his nap - probably shortly. I left my knitting bag in my bedroom, so now I don't have anything to do that won't wake him up...besides dust.

That doesn't sound like fun, but since I'm having visitors this afternoon, I suppose I'd better do it.

OTN: small adult (teen?) sized Seaman's cap for the Cheyenne River project. In black. I have 6 rows on the "cuff" so far. One more row & I'll do two red, two white, and two more red rows before I go back to black.