"mini-stripes"

home-crafty

The kitchen is finished! Some of you know that it has been a much longer project than originally planned, but it is finished! I'm pretty glad with the color choice, etc., but more than anything, glad to be able to make coffee again! Back to the knitting...

"lattice"

"ribby"

My first block!

yes, more hand warmers...

I decided Mary needed some nice shiny red hand warmers, so I made them! I like making the hand warmers. They don't take so long to make (like the baby blanket I'm working on), and yet they are a challenge as far as adjusting the pattern to the particular person's hands.

Another thing I'm working on lately is an afghan that will probably take a million years to finish, and that's alright. I'm working out of a book that I found a few months ago.

It has, as the title suggests, 200 knitted block patterns, ranging in skill from easy to hard. I'm working my way through the easy patterns with the hopes that I will learn more and eventually be able to do cables. (Which will probably be easy once I get the nerve up to try them.)

So that's what I'm up to as of late. Nothing earth-shattering, and really just kind of plugging along, but that's what it takes sometimes, right? I thought so.

kids

Here's some pics of the kids...

In PA right now

Howdy, y'all! Greeting from Pennsylvania! Last week I was talking to my sister about maybe visiting in June, and I jokingly said that I could come next week. And here I am. I flew into Philly and made my way to Lancaster by subway and train all by myself. Those of you who are privy to my issues with heavily populated places will understand the significance of that.

Even so, I did it, and I even made some friends along the way. Will, who came down from Seattle to Fresno by train, and was then flying to Denver to visit family. The woman on the plane whose brother was recently deceased, who was on her way to visit her brother's wife in Oklahoma City. The couple who took a picture with me at the start of the flight from Denver to Philly, then promptly fell asleep for the rest of the flight. Sue, who was on her way to visit her daughter in Philly. And the man at the train station who was mad at me because I didn't know my PA geography. He laid off once I told him I was from California, admitting that he knew nothing about California geography, so we were even. He was gruff, but also helped me in his own way.

So now I'm here and helping (a little) with the renovation of Kate and Adam's new house in Landisville. Here's Kate hanging out Sarah's window: