Thank Goodness for the Wifi of Others

When I began writing this post, I was at out because we had no power.  My husband just called to say that the power is back on.  I am so happy I'm giddy.

What follows is a bit after the fact, I planned on blogging over the weekend.

This is an adorable sweater knit by Jane, in Spud Chloe sweater yarn.  I'll add the pattern information another time as Michelle and I have decided to knit it in Minnow Merino Cotton Tail yarn.

When Linda's mother passed away, she left a legacy of 5 large garbage bags of yarn.  Most of the Wallaby sweaters she knit for her grandchildren were knit with yarn from her mother's stash.  Kind of a cool circle of life thing.  In the stash was a sweater almost totally finished.  One sleeve was partially knit.  I'm going to see if I can decipher the sweater shaping so that she can finish the sweater.  I think this is so great, that she'll have this sweater that her mother started.

When Linda arrived she was wearing an Winter Olympics Jacket.  Mary asked if she'd been in the Olympics.  Linda told Mary she had, if watching twin 7 y.o. boys for 2 weeks while their parents were AT the Olympics counts as an event.  It could've been worse.  She could've gotten a T-shirt that said, "My children went to the Olympics and all I got was this lousy T-shirt".

Elizabeth has been working on the Citron pattern by Hilary Smith Callis on Knitty.  She's knitting it in Kid Silk Haze and will probably only use part of the second skein.  She read on Ravelry where most people put in an extra pattern repeat so she put the live stitches on string and I tried it on for her.  It's so light.

Mary was wearing a necklace with this on it.  It's called "right angle beading".  Just another thing to add to the list to learn.  It was really cute.

Mary knit this scarf in Tilli Tomas yarn, it's a basketweave stitch.

In the ongoing saga of Elizabeth's Noro Ribbed Jacket, after pinning it last week because the armholes were huge, she decided to cut out the offending extra fabric.  That's right, she cut her knitting, with scissors and everything. 

This is the horizontal strip she cut out.  I do admire her for her brave action.

And that my friends, is that.  I am going to sit contentedly in my house that is now warming up and well lit.  Deep sigh of relief.  

The only downside (yes, really) to the power back is that now everyone in my house is off in their own corners with their internet.  With no power we were our own captive audience.  I'm going to have to see if I can them to unplug more often.  That will go over like a proverbial lead balloon. Maybe if I promise them dessert. :)