More CIC Knitting Fun

Saturday October 1,2005

I finally found another pattern to try, since I like doing sweaters from the neck down. I am sort of adapting a couple of patterns to try to come up with something that I can live with. I want fast because I am a slow knitter. the pattern has to compensate for my lack of speed. I started this this morning, I have since added several rounds. It doesn't look like much right now. I think from what I have seen with all the top-down baby cardigans that I have knit, that this is going to work out for me. I'm certainly hoping, anyway. This is Lopi in a nice rich deep golden color. I have a lot of Lopi, so this will be great if I can work out the pattern.

Here is a picture of the batch of things that I sent to Univ. Med. Center in Lubbock last month. They are all preemie size. The hats are mostly from various baby sport wt. yarns. 1 or 2 are Caron Simply Soft. I think the little booties are Bernat Softee Baby or something like that/baby spt. wt. These little things are so much fun to knit. Easy Peasy! I am working on a little preemie hat right now as my computer time project. It is Bernat Baby/fingering wt. But I am using 2 strand at once and size 5 needles. It is a little more firm than I like, so next time I will use size 6.

Here is a picture of dd Kim and dgs Anthony. Kimie caught this northern pike in the Black River in South Haven, MI; upstream from where it empties into Lake Michigan. they had a great time and Kimie loves beating the guys at "their" game. hee-hee-hee! I just wish that I had thought to have him turn the fish sideways, so it would show up better. But, this is proof that a fish was caught that day, and we all know that even tho Kimie let Ant'ny hold it, she was the champ that day!
Time to call it good and get some e-mail read(if the puter let's me) and got to get back to the knitting for CIC.
Happy knitting all,
DJ