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.

News to me

This is probably old news for anyone currently on the knitting lists, but since I'm not, it was news to me.

Political protest turns to the radical art of knitting

(via Dave Barry's blog. Honest! and DRAT! If I'd known about this, I'd probably have postponed my trip to London to March...maybe.)

Little knitting re-visited

I've injured my left hand. Possibly from knitting, but more than likely from playing the violin. Unfortunately, for a professional violinist, this is not a good thing. In any case, knitting is suspended for while, as I MUST continue to play.

Until this occurance, I've only been able to knit in the car while David drives us to rehearsals and performances, and therefore, I can only knit little projects that don't require much space. Considering all this, in the past few weeks I've knitted several scarves, hats and fingerless gloves, but now, I'm anxious to finish David's sweater (yup, four years on the needles) and I have yarn for at least 5 or 6 projects (most of which will never be knitted).

I have been knitting chemo caps - sadly, quite a few of my friends are going through chemo - and have found that Crystal Palace Merino Frappe knits up into the softest cloud. I order it from Fuzzy Galore. The last chemo cap I made was inspired by the Kittyville hat. Sorry for the terrible picture - the hat is actually a lot cuter in real life. ;)

I've also been working through these short row tutorials, which I've enjoyed and hope to complete. Now, if only my hand would heal so I can resume my happy knitting.