I've gone through a number of life changes in the past 4 years including staying in Virginia to care for my 92-year-old mother.  I have had no time to keep up with my blogs, but things have settled down and I am back in Florida and intend to start a couple of my blogs up again.

This site is under construction, so please be patient.2016

UFO:
Jane Eyre Shawl - might have to take out the flame pattern and make a leaf.  Difficult directions.
Infloresense I decided to make another repeat of the lace.
Black & Pink Cowl
Green Cowl
Red/Yellow baby sweater
Mary Hoyer doll clothes
Preemie dresses
Reader's scarf
Rasta hat
Eli's Sweater
Kids Aran sweater
Oddments vest
LolliePop hat
DNA hat
DNA scarf
Oliver Twist scarf
Pastel blanket
Super Hero Hat
Tilden Hat
Felted purse
Felted vase
Felted bowl
Terry baby sweater
(Some of these are not actually UFOs, but things I have kitted and in the bag and they need to be done by Christmas.)

New:
Black or Red sweater
White Aran sweater: Aidez
12 Cowls
20 Hats - done! I still have several more I want to try, so I'll change this to one a month.
12 Mitts
Knit-a-long shawl To be decided

Oddments - 16 Patterns to be used with a "bag of 1 skein oddments of yarn  We found we needed to use more patterns because several were for wool and my group Amelia Knits is from Florida.

YIKES!  I'D BETTER GET GOING!

Slytherin Socks

Scrap Yarn Sock Advent Calendar pattern by Anna Johanna - lace or Fair Isle.

Green graded yarn from BJ (shawl) ???  Which, I don't know.

Happy New Year!!!

Boy am I behind on this blog! I wasn't able to do it in Virginia this summer and since I was there 4 months, I really got behind on everything. My internet is so limited there and I only do the necessary things...like play games. Well, that isn't all, I don't even get them done without help.

So, I am going to try to catch up with some pictures and statistics and start a new list of goals for this year. Even if don't get all of them done, I find I do better with a list than without one :>)

To tell the truth, I got a LOT of knitting done. I look back and can see that I more than met my goals and while I didn't get all the things on my list done, I did a lot of things, mostly charity, that were not on the list. I turned in 40+ items to my sister's knitting guild and emptied 2 1/2 storage bins of stash. If I have another year like the last, I will have made significant progress on making my sewing room more livable.

I should say that it is still a big task. I moved from a great big house to an nice converted garage and I have less than 1/5 of the space I started with and very little attic space. Of course, my daughter and family live in the original house that is only about 10 feet away, so I still have some things in the old attic, but my goal this year is to get all the yarn down and at least go through it and plan projects.

This is complicated by the fact that I am a quilter and my sewing room is full of fabric stash also, but that is also getting whittled away.

I did it!

I set a goal of knitting 23 hats and finishing 23 UFOs for Christmas and I made it! I'll be grinning for a week over this! Of course, I have added more hats now. I had my granddaughter try on a hat for my grandniece and it looked so cute on her and she loved it, so she now has that one and I am making another for my other granddaughter and I still have the one for my grandniece to do. I should get them done by Tuesday. I am going to post a photo on Ravelry on as soon as I can download them. The hat looks like a Russian hat with some Plymouth Jelli Beenz yarn at the top and Flutter Fiber eyelash yarn for the main part of the hat. I did these in purple, but I am going to try some other colors. They are so cute!

I also knit another earflap hat and have a request for another. I might have to be a lot more careful in choosing the people I get to try on these hats...so many of them end up with my sample! Not really:) It's nice to know that they love the hats and want them for themselves. That's music to a knitter's ear. This Christmas I ended up making 3 more earflap hats and 3 more Russian hats along with another scarf as requests.

Now I am going to have to make up some more goals, but I think I am going to just let these counters stay for a while to remind me of how good it feels to achieve my goal:)