A New Hip

My mom is getting a new hip tomorrow... this will be her second one, so hopefully she'll be out of pain.  If you're reading this - I'd appreciate all of your good thoughts and prayers for her - and for her doctor and medical staff tomorrow.

I'll be taking a lot of knitting for the stay at the hospital.  I finished a cowl on Tuesday night as part of the Mega KAL on Ravelry - the Code: Armonika Cowl - it was really lots of fun and easy to do.  I did tend to drift off at times and have to tink back, but I would do it again.  Definitely with another yarn, this yarn was a little on the difficult side to deal with.  If you had any small piece of fingernail or dry skin, it picked at the yarn the entire time.  Then when I did the Kitchener stitch (my first time!) to make the cowl into a loop, the yarn had untwisted and looked like it was about to break.  But - the cowl is great.  And - the first of February it will be time for the next installment of the KAL (knit along).  It's a shawl this time.  I've not made a shawl before - so this will be something new.  Yeah!



Last night I started a new cowl with some of my stash - the Concerto Cowl.  I don't think the pink and white are the best colors to do this with, since the pattern is hard to see - but it's easy, and my first time to "carry" the yarn up the backside.  Again - something I was dreading because I thought it would be hard??? 



I'm also going to be working on a baby blanket for my friend, Fran's great-niece.  I'm going to make it in the colors for the North Dakota State University Bison - green and gold.  I did get a little white to break up the colors. 

So - those are my crafting (knitting!) adventures for today.

Thanks for thinking of my mom tomorrow.

Lisa