Time to Finish My Shawl

 The tinking is finally done.  It looks like I will have 3 or 4 rows to knit before I do my bind off.  The pattern is Grandma’s Summer Shawl available on Ravelry or your local yarn store.  The yarn is by the French dyer la Bien Aimee in Paris. The yarn is a DK four skein gradient in super wash Merino. I am using a U.S. 5 or a 3.75mm ChiaGoo SWIVEL Interchangeable needles. Near the end you will need to attach a 50 inch and an 8 inch cord together. It is quite wide at the bottom.  

The shawl is no longer a problem project. The shawl is now just a regular UFO.  Today I knit 2 additional rows and still not have passed the tinking mark in the final skein of the shawl.  I might be off on my final estimate of how many rows that I need to knit before I cast off. 

Below is a picture of a form problem project.  I brought it to Bruggers Bagles to work on it with friends. 

I Completed My Yearly Knitting Goal

 This has been a very rough year health wise for me.  There are still some days when I don’t have the energy to move let alone knit or even just listen to an audiobook book without falling asleep.  Yet today I managed to log my last 4 knitting projects for the year, charity hats 6-9 which brought me up to 24 completed projects for 2025.  Mostly charity projects.

In January this goal was a stretch for me.  I was dealing with my second bout of Pericarditis in less than a year.  I am on a new medication that seems to be helping.  However, this being said I never heal as fast as I want. The older I get, it also seems to take longer.  This go-go girl is not used to living life in the slow lane at all.  Don’t get me wrong, I am very happy to be alive and to be able to create things for kids whose families normally could not afford the prices for my work.  This beats customers who say that they can get a bespoke hat, scarf or shawl for less money than I pay for my yarn.  Then try to get the item for a loss for me. No way in he double toothpicks. From feed back I get from the Flowing Wells School District staff, all the kids and staff are very happy to get my mostly one of a kind hats and scarfs.  That makes me so happy.  That amount of happiness that I create is better than money.  

So without further ado, here are charity hats #6-9-2025.  

Today’s Hat

May I present hat 13 - 2020.  I am almost out of this grouping of purple yarn.  More colors to come.  Also don’t worry about the knitting needles or stitch markers, hat 14 - 2020 has been cast on and is 2 1/2 inches in.  I go to 7 inches before my decrease begins.

Projects 129 to 134

This weeks projects include 6 hats for the Flowing Wells School District Clothing Bank. Two are super wash wool and four are a soft cotton.