Okay, you know what I had to do today? Fix the oil burner and hot water heater. Seriously. With George out of town, of course the system gets screwed up, and with it being 20 degrees outside, I couldn’t exactly wait until tomorrow till someone could come fix it. So George walked me through it on the phone and I did it. Yay. Big thrill.
The real thrill was when a mouse (or rat, who knows – all I know is that it looked really well fed) shot out from under some rubble next to me (twice), causing me to shriek loudly (twice) into the phone, probably bursting George’s ear drums in the process. What a girl.
The real bummer was that I couldn’t even de-stress afterward by knitting because my hands smell so strongly of oil.
Here’s my latest scarf – Berroco Tutu in Coolsville #5795 and Lion Brand Fun Fur in #741 Rainbow. I knit them together in garter stitch on size 17 needles. I made it long (5′) and skinny (3″) with 5″ long fringe. It took a little over a skein of each of the Tutu and the Fun Fur.
I finished the scarf for Lawrence’s speech therapist, Lynne, tothank her for helping him the past year. I used Berroco’s Quest in Platinum and Louisa Harding Sari Ribbon in #02. I knitted the two together on each end, and the middle was just the Berroco Quest. I used a stockinette stitch on size 17 needles. To prevent the edges from curling too much, especially since blocking would probably be a bad idea with the fuzziness of the Quest, I used K1, P1 on the beginning of each row and P1, K1 on the end of each row.
I recently finished a nice warm pair of knitted gauntlets. I modified a pattern from 
, a book I absolutely love. I used Plymouth’s Baby Alpaca Grande in #3317 and Gedifra’s Poesie color #2017 (1 skein of each). The Baby Alpaca Grande is very soft, but knits up somewhat stiffly. I modified the pattern by knitting the yarns together instead of alternating colors, and I made the gauntlets shorter. The ribbing holds them on snugly.
