Life intervenes

On Sunday, August 3, my mother had a car accident. She totalled her Honda but fortunately she will be okay. She is in the hospital and eventually will have to have surgery on her heel. We are all thankful that she will be fine. Needless to say, my projects including my blog have taken a backseat for the last few days. We have been blessed.

I have been working on my dog sweaters. I realized the bazaar is only 10 weeks away and once the countdown begins, time seems to fly by. I am going to start a log of everything I have knitted and track the sales. I just hope everything sells!

Jacksonville yarn shop

Saturday afternoon I drove out to Jacksonville to visit the yarn shop, Llamas and Llambs. Orginally, they had specialized in Amish quilts and llama products but after Mimi's closed they began carrying yarn. They have some very nice yarn, a lot of hand spun and hand dyed. I bought some Fibranatura called Mermaid that is a very pretty multi-shade sea green. I am going to make a shawlette with it. The pattern (Clementine Shawlette, Interweave Knits, spring 2007) says the finished product will be 57 1/2 inches by 10 1/4 inches. I think it will be nice as a shawl and, when it is really cold, I can wrap it around my neck several time as a scarf.

I think I mentioned in the post for the dog sweaters that the only one finished is the blue one. I wouldn't want you to think I am just going to leave holes for the legs on the striped sweaters! They will have leg bands the same color as the collar.

Blue dog sweater

 

 

 

 

Dog Sweaters - finished and not

Here are the dog sweaters I have been knitting for the past few days. The blue and black one is the only one that is completed, the green stripe one is the same pattern but I wanted to show the underside before it was sewn together. I like this pattern because of the ribbing, I think it will help keep the sweater from being too loose.

The second pattern has a wonderful band that gives it a very complete finished look. I like these patterns, but don't know if I am very happy with my color choices on these two sweaters. We will see when--and if--they sell.

Needless to say, all of the sweaters (except the blue one) are machine wash and dry. I will probably keep the blue one for a demo since it is a wool blend and has to be handwashed.