knitting conditions

With a daughter home on Spring Break, a sick cat, tons of rehearsals and concerts, not to mention temperatures in the mid-80°'s, there's not much knitting going on around here. I still have about 4 or 5 projects on the needles and yarn for at least 10 others, but no knitting time.

I must finish a pair of tip-less gloves, though. I knit quite a few fingerless versions (at least 10 pairs) this winter because they became quite the 'rage' with Molly's friends, and I still owe a pair to Arthur who wants tip-less gloves. I knit the fingerless gloves with two needles because I really wanted the stripes to match up, but I think it'd be best to knit the tip-less in the round. (I'm using the pattern from Ann Budd's the knitter's handy book of Patterns. I did a google search for jogless stripes in the round and came up with a few solutions, none of which really do it for me. Do any of you have tips for this?

With our weather conditions here in the desert I'm glad that I'm not knitting anything larger than gloves. ;)

Current projects

I am just now finishing a project that is kind of a sad story. My friends daughter went into the hospital to have a bone marrow transplant and asked me to get some yarn for he so she could work on a sweater for her sister-in-law, who was expecting a baby. Unfortunately, she became so sick and was unable to make the blanket. She asked me to do it for her. So I am about to finish the baby blanket and unfortunately Dawn will never see it. She passed away on the 5th of January. So working on the blanket had a very special meaning for me as well.