Teddy's new bed

A bed for Teddy. Made out of Paton's Classic Wool. The pattern is this one on Ravelry.














Testing it out prefelted.



















Felted and then blocked over my big blue canning kettle. It's the biggest round thing I could find in the house!

















Checking it out.














It'll do.

Saturday Sky, some flowers & more finished knitting

Saturday sky. Yes, our trees are just budding out. Hard even for me to believe.

Pretty flowers in a pot. The geranium was a Mother's Day gift from 1st DS and his family. I added a couple others to fill in the pot. Hopefully I didn't overdo it like last year. When I went to take the dead flowers out of the pot all the soil came with. It was totally rootbound from too many plants. Live and learn!

Baby set for Great niece's upcoming baby. I used Lion Brand Baby Soft. 3 reasons. I had it on hand. The color was right. And if she uses it at all and has to wash it, it couldn't be wool. Trust me. I know her. I didn't like the knitting with it though....it really did squeak when I used bamboo needles. Freaky.

Real name is Hospital Hat but I call it an Umbilical Cord Hat. Don't study on it too hard though. The decreases are a terrible mess.

Seamless Yoke Baby Sweater. This is the 4th time I've knit it. I left off the decorative stitches and did the stripes instead to make it more manly. Little boy manly. Whatever.

Scrambling

Why is it that you can go for months....yes literally months...without anything going on and then blam! everything happens at once. Augh!

I have

• a baby/bridal shower to attend [yes, one of those....teenager (great niece) with an unplanned baby]
• a bridesmaid dress to alter....wedding is the 1st weekend in June. Another great niece in another wedding.
• a wedding gown to alter for the expectant niece....wedding is 4th weekend in June
• plan the lunch for a funeral at our church
• work in the kitchen at the funeral next week

A diverse set of things, no? Some of these things are the same....some of them are different. (What is that from?? Sesame Street?)

It is spread out over a bit of time but it all piled on at once this morning. I'll be able to handle it but I just had to rant for a bit. Thanks for listening.

/I read this over and it is a bit spastic. Kind of like I feel right now. o.0

I'm tickled pink!

The Haruni Shawl is finished. Happy Dance! Shown here with Teddy checking it out. He loved this yarn. Dream in Color Smooshy. He wanted to be under it all the time. He was a lot of help while I was knitting it. ;) ;)

I know blocking pictures are pretty dull but I was so excited about this I had to post. I blocked it in less than an hour with one hand tied behind my back. Well, not really. But I was talking on the phone to my sister so I did most of it one handed and 1/2 brained. Of course that is nothing new...

I just love this lacy edging. sigh.

I'll try to do fancier pictures another time. Today is cloudy, windy and drippy.

I'll also try to remember to show you the tiny crochet hook that I ended up using for the bindoff. Plus all of my mom's tiny crochet hooks. But that is a story for another time.....