It's amazing how, when the thyroid medicine is right, things are so much better. I finally feel like I have energy again and my brain-fog is gone. Thank goodness!
I haven't been as busy as I wanted to be while in the thyroid fog, but I'm making up for it!
I just finished a baby blanket for one of the partners at my firm (and the man who hired me 14 years ago). I just did my standby blanket, the
Diagonal Comfort Blanket from Lion Brand. It's super simple and makes such a nice blanket for the kidlet. I always make my baby stuff out of washable yarn, because really, the parents don't need handwash items at this time! I stashdove and found
Cotton-Ease in Seaspray and had enough to make a nice sized blanket! I love this yarn, once it's been washed and through the dryer it's so snuggly.
Vacation is coming up so I'm doing the most important thing...which projects are my travel projects?? I've decided on my first pair of socks, vanilla socks, made with
Gnomeacres To Be Jolly holiday sock yarn. I have lots of pairs of cartoon Holiday socks and figured a handknit pair for Christmas morning would be ideal.
Amanda from Gnomeacres does the best work. I have WAY too many skeins of yarn from her. Plus, she responds super quick to questions. Great indie dyer!
I also started the
Viajante by Martina Behm. I've already knitted her Trillian and Hitchhiker and really enjoy her patterns. I had purchased a skein of Gnomey Nights with sparkle from Gnomeacres and was trying to find a pattern for it. This was it, except I only purchased 1 skein of yarn! Oh darn, must buy more....
It's knitting up beautifully! But such fine yarn and such small needles, I think this will take me awhile!
Next up is my
Iced cardigan. I might have found the yarn I want, it's just not in the proper weight. So I need to knit a swatch (I'm thinking double knitting with 2 strands to get the right weight but need to see how heavy it will be). Stay tuned.....
Finally, a basic prayer shawl for the
Firewalker Project. Plus some materials for some chemo caps. I think those will be the car knitting, with the others being the evening knitting.
Onward to the domestic side......
My rescue dog is doing really well now. We've pretty much bonded and are good partners. She is an older dog, approx 9-10 years old, so she's a sleeper and lay around type of pooch. Right up my alley! She's the sweetest dang dog ever and I can't imagine who would have given her up. But she has a home now and I love her to pieces :)
And lastly for today, a good standby recipe for
banana bread. I keep it on hand because I rarely finish my bunch of bananas in time....
More in the future...I learned to can! And actually made strawberry preserves!
